BAD NEWS? WE DO NOT WELL? WE SERVE THE GOD THAT REIGNS EVEN OVER THE BAD NEWS
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
*DOUBT: a feeling of uncertainty, lack of conviction, fear, afraid, to question, wavering, no assurance, to cast shadows, human reasoning greater than faith, doubt, can God do this.
*DROUGHT: A long period without rain, thirst, difficulty, discouragement, dryness, weary, no passion, little giving,
complaining.
BAD NEWS? BATTLE GROUND.
2 Corinthians 13:4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Three months ago I thought I was well and doing well for my age. I went to my doctor for a routine visit to renew my prescriptions. I said “Doc, my right shoulder hurts. They ran an x-ray and said your clavicle is broke. Just wear a sling, it will get better. I went to presbyter’s meeting. At the meeting I said I think I am dying. I came home. I went to a bone specialist. He never looked at my shoulder. He just looked at his cell phone x-ray. He said some times the clavicle just break on their own, just wear a sling. I visited the ER, THE DOCTOR LOOKED AT MY RIGHT SHOULDER and said something is bad wrong, go to your doctor tomorrow. I returned to my doctor and they looked at my shoulder and said there is something wrong. While traveling home a nurse called and said go to the hospital direct admittance. The next day the doctor on call seemed concerned. I asked him to be honest and direct. The doctor told me it looked like cancer. After many test the doctor told me, with my family and they came in and said stage four cancer. I was in the local hospital 10 days, 8 days I could not get out of bed. My case looked helpless and hopeless. We cried a lot. Friends and family visited. We laughed and we cried.
From there has been many visits to Louisville, 2 surgeries to find CHRONDROSARCOMA on my right shoulder. CHRONDROSARCOMA is a bad cancer. The doctor discussed total removal of my right shoulder and my right arm. I have played music all my life. Removal? He later wanted to biopsy the spine. Our prayers and hopes were just the shoulder. I was at church praying when my son and my wife came in the War Room. They did not have to say one word. Tears were like a river. This was Wednesday my c5-c7 was ate up with cancer. Thursday we met a Neurologist specialist and he suggested surgery ASAP. He wants us to see an ENT DOCTOR before the surgery. SO WE ARE IN A BATTLE FOR OUR LIFE.
Please pray.
This battle with cancer has caused me to focus more clearly. The fire burns in my bones. The pain has been beyond anything I have ever known. Many nights my wife and I have cried all night. But I cry out: ITS OK GOD, GOD I TRUST YOU!
JEREMIAH THE WEEPING PROPHET HAD BEEN HURT. HE WAS FRUSTRATED… JEREMIAH WAS LOOKING AT PEOPLE AND NOT GOD. JEREMIAH WAS READY TO QUIT BROKEN AND SPILLED OUT… HE LEARNS: WE CAN’T AFFORD TO QUIT!
Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
WHO KNOWS? WHY SIT HERE? MAYBE GOD WILL VISIT AND HONOR OUR EFFORTS.
2 Kings 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
WE HAVE 2 OPTIONS… SIT HERE AND DIE? OR DO SOMETHING?
2 Kings 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
MAYBE GOD MIGHT HELP US… GET UP AND DO SOMETHING!
2 Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
WE MUST REMEMBER “BUT GOD!” ARE ABLE TO TAKE THE PROMISE?
2 Kings 7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
EXCUSES! LET SOMEONE ELSE DO IT. GOD COULD HAVE USED THE KING? GOD COULD HAVE USED 4 SOLDIERS? WE ARE ABLE TO TAKE THIS VICTORY. WE ARE ABLE BECAUSE OUR GOD HAS GIVEN US THE VICTORY. GOD HAS GIVEN US THE VICTORY. 4 NOBODYS TOOK THE PROMISE AND WALKED TO THE ENEMY’S CAMP.
2 Kings 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
IF GOD CAN USE 4 CRIPPLE, SICK LEPERS--- HE CAN USE US. THIS LESSON IS NOT ABOUT US THERE ARE PEOPLE STARVING TO DEATH AND WE HAVE IT ALL… WE HAVE A DUTY TO SHARE. LET US SHARE WHAT GOD HAS DONE.
2 Kings 7: 9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
CHECK IT OUT? DOUBT, THIS IS A TRAP… THERE WERE 5 HORSES, THEY HAD NOT ATE. THE PREACHER WAS RIGHT.
2 Kings 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
WE SERVE A “BUT GOD”, GOD CAN…THE DOUBTERS SAY: IF THERE WERE WINDOWS IN HEAVEN THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN --- LOOK AT THE SEEDS THE DOUBTING LIPS HAVE SOWN.
2 Kings 7: 17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. 18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
CONCLUSION: Our emotions and moods can play mental and emotional games in our minds. We often become what we habitually do. We can develop good daily habits. We can develop bad habits that hurt us and other people. It is not the storms and circumstances that define us. Life is about how we respond to the circumstances. SEEMS WE WANT TO MANIPULATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE PEOPLE AROUND US.
IT WILL BE WORTH IT ALL WHEN WE SEE JESUS. I was glad when they said unto me, LET US GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. Our trials will seem small and all sorrows will be erased.
Father, we do not know what tomorrow holds but we know you are already in tomorrow. When we are in a drought we must refuse to speak negative words that will build a dam on the flow of fresh water. Droughts come and go. God is able in droughts to love his people.
Amos 8:1 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
