Correct Your Situation
Paul, writing to the churches in Galatia, said “Stand fast.” (Galatians 5:1) We need to realize there’s a God-ward side and a man-ward side to every battle, every victory. It isn’t all God, and it isn’t all you. You can see that in Hezekiaha’s case. God had His part to play. He said, “Isaiah, go tell King Hezekiah to set his house in order, for under the present circumstances he shall die and not live.”

Somebody will ask, “Did God change His mind?” No, God wanted to bless Hezekiah all the time, but He couldn’t do any more for him than what He was doing under the circumstances. Hezekiah had a part to play too. Notice even Isaiah couldn’t do it for him.

Often we’re looking for the prophet or the preacher to do it for us, but Isaiah did not change the situation. It was not Isaiah’s prayer that changed the situation – it was Hezekiah’s prayer!

Hezekiah was the only one who could do something about his situation. It was Hezekiah who turned his face to the wall. It was Hezekiah who prayed to God. It was Hezekiah who “wept sore.” It was Hezekiah who changed!

Now God could do something for him. Now God could answer his prayer. Isaiah hadn’t gotten out of the courtyard before God told him, “Go back and tell Hezekiah, “I’ve heard your prayers. I’ve seen your tears. And I’m going to add fifteen years to your life.”

You Can Change Your Situation
Study what Hezekiah did. What worked for him will work for you, because God is the same God! People who haven’t studied the Bible would read this story and say, “Look at the inconsistencies in the Bible. Here it says he’s going to die and here it says he’s going to live. So God lied. Didn’t He?”

Just picking out verses and reading them out of context doesn’t give you the whole picture. When you read this whole story, you understand what God is saying. It wasn’t’ the will of God for Hezekiah to die. God wanted the king to have His blessings. It was Hezekiah who stood in the way of God’s blessings. When he corrected that situation, God could bless him.
Very often God will tell you what’s going to happen under present circumstances, as He did with Hezekiah - and you can change it. YOU can change it, Hezekiah did!


Too often we’re looking for somebody else to do it for us. In teaching on faith, we bring out the fact that sometimes you can carry baby Christians on your faith. But you can only do that for a while. Usually people are going to have to receive help on their own, and no one will receive permanent help without developing his or her own faith and prayer life!

I’ve seen people healed, delivered, and even raise up from a deathbed through supernatural manifestations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in my own or other people’s ministries. But I’ve seen those same people one year, two year, or five years later, and the same disease, or something worse, had come back on them. And I’ve heard God say to me, “They’re going to die.” Under those circumstances, they were going to die.

They Turned Their Face To The Wall
Some of them didn’t do a thing about it. They went ahead and died. (That doesn’t mean they didn’t go to heaven if they were believers.) But others, thank God, did something about it. Medical science said they were going to die. Yet they turned their faces to the wall. They prayed!

I prayed for my mother. I could do this for her because she was a baby Christian. All she had ever heard preached is that Jesus saves. She had only heard me preach two or three times. Later on, she heard me quite a bit on the radio, her faith began to develop, and she began to get answers for herself.

But at the time she was so ill, I knew she was a baby Christian and wouldn’t be able to get healing for herself. That’s the reason I jumped right in the middle of it and got results. If she had been more knowledgeable in God’s Word, it would have been impossible for me to have done that for her.