Dealing with long term needs

Presented byPastor Alastair Campbell

“hope deferred makes the heart sick….” Proverbs 13:12

jehovah is strength

hope

faith

love

those those questionsquestions

• the truth shall make you free

• no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus…. who walk after the spirit

• pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations

Hezekiah’sHezekiah’s cage cage

Prism of Sennacherib

As for Hezekiah the Judahite, who did not submit to my yoke: forty-six of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small towns in their area, which were without number, by levelling with battering-rams and by bringing up seige-engines, and by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels, and breeches, I besieged and took them. 200,150 people, great and small, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep without number, I brought away from them and counted as spoil. (Hezekiah) himself, like a caged bird I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city….

Hezekiah• trusted in the Lord • clave (or held fast) to the Lord• departed not from following him

and the Lord was with him 2 Kings 18: 5-7

Hezekiah went into the Hezekiah went into the

HOUSEHOUSE

• the spirit helps us…. with groanings…. it makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God

Romans 8:26-27

• we are the temple

• keep those doors open, keep going in

• we can ask for help (we have princes and mighty men to talk to)

Hezekiah sent for andHezekiah sent for andtook counseltook counsel

• bring the word in, hide it in your heart…. let it live within you richly

• we are members one of another

HezekiahHezekiahspoke comfortablyspoke comfortably

• speak the word only

• big ships are turned with a very small helm

• a man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof

• confession is made to salvation

• speaking to ourselves in psalms and hymns….

The voices of fear, The voices of fear,

uncertainty and doubtuncertainty and doubtthe people held their peace and answered him not a word for the king's commandment was, saying,

answer him notanswer him not

Hezekiah brought Hezekiah brought waterwater into into the citythe city

The singers to sing The singers to sing

& the trumpets to & the trumpets to

blowblow• our names are written in heaven

• the mighty works we have seen

• the fruit of our lips: a continual sacrifice

Walls and Walls and

Towers Towers

Darts and Darts and

Shields in Shields in

AbundanceAbundance

• safe in his hiding place

• armed and protected

• having done all stand

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria,

he shall not come into this city, nor shoot

an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the Lord. For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses

2 Kings 19: 32-35

Better is the endBetter is the endof a thingof a thing than the beginning thereof: than the beginning thereof:

and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spiritand the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit

Ecclesiastes 7:8Ecclesiastes 7:8

Dealing with long term needs

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