WHAT CAN YOU BELIEVE !

WHAT CAN YOU BELIEVE ? TURNING HOPELESS SITUATIONS AROUND ! The Lord said to me, "I wasn't looking at you on the outside. You're looking at where you missed it from purely a physical, human, natural standpoint. But I was looking at your heart all the time. Your spirit is your heart. I saw the intent of your heart. Even though you had done wrong and had missed it, I wrote down, "This man's heart is perfect toward me." Nearly the whole human race looks at themselves from a natural standpoint. Many think that the body is the real person. That is only the house in which that person lives in; you are created in the image and likeness of God. God is spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. This is why Jesus told Nicodemus you must be born again. That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit ! Too often times many people do not know what they are worshiping, but they say they worshiping God. Real worship is when you present your body and all the faculties of your mind as a living sacrifice holy consecrated dedicated to God which is your reasonable rational service (Romans 12:1-2). When the Lord said that to me, it was so real I begin to weep in His presence. It did something on the inside of me. We read where Hezekiah was reminding the Lord that his heart was perfect towards the Lord; he didn't say he always were perfect. But Hezekiah wanted to do the right thing, whether he did it or not. That's what the Lord is looking for. Then the Bible says that Hezekiah "wept sore." That means he was weeping or crying. (Isaiah 38:4-5). "Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days 15 years. Notice He didn't just say, "I heard your prayer." He also said, "I've seen your tears." To summarize, it says in the first verse that Hezekiah was "sick unto death." That means he was dying. Isaiah the prophet came and gave him a message from the Lord, saying, "Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live." Not only was King Hezekiah incurably ill, but God Himself had pronounced a death sentence on him ! What is amazing is that Hezekiah did not die. Furthermore, he did not set his house in order. What did he do ? Thank God, the Bible tells us exactly what he did: "Then Hezekiah TURNED HIS FACE TOWARD THE WALL, and prayed unto the Lord" (v.2). We know that Hezekiah also cried and prayed. All of us have cried and prayed at times, and it didn't get us results, so we know there has to be more to it than that. The other important fact is that Hezekiah turned his face to the wall. There's great significance to that. What does it mean ? It means he turned away from man or the way he was looking at his situation. The reason many people haven't gotten results yet is because the're looking to man for results or they're looking at their situation or circumstances from a carnal perspective. Perhaps they're looking for some Prophet to deliver them. But Hezekiah not only turned away from man; he even turned his face from Isaiah, who was the greatest of the prophets ! He turned his face away from his own situations. He turned his face away from his own symptoms. He turned his face away from his own sufferings. He turned his face away from sympathizing relatives. He turned his face away from medical skill. He turned his face to the wall. And with his face to the wall, Hezekiah could only see one thing: God !