Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kanan recording this teaching on Saturday, March 22nd, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We pray that your word does not return void. We pray that your word penetrates our hearts and that we can walk in this belief knowing that you are there. We can have a relationship with you and that when we cry unto you, you hear us. and you intervene. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining me today. I'm calling today's message when Hezekiah turned his face to the wall. Let's look at our opening scripture here in Isaiah 38:2 that Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the Lord. Now when you look at the scripture on the screen here, I just want to explain how I teach. When the word is bolded, like the word turned is here, that's the original word in the translation from King James version. The words in parenthesis are other words that could have the the translators could have used to translate the word. So in this case to revolve, surround or border. So uh basically Hezekiah buried his face in the wall is what he did here. So why am I teaching especially on a very specific moment and I've been trying to teach in 30 minute increments. So we're going to try to keep this in 30 minutes but I want to focus on that moment because that moment had things that led up to it and things that came after it. And that moment was a very, it was such a huge change for Hezekiah. So, let's delve into the scripture. We're going to be across Isaiah, 2 Chronicles, and 2 Kings, and it's talking about the same event. And I'm going to show you each part so that you get a full complete clear picture. Let's talk about who Hezekiah is first. Let's start there. 2 Chronicles 29:es 1-5. Hezekiah began to reign when he was 5 and 20 years old. And he reigned 9 and 20 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abjah, the daughter of Zachchariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord according to all that David his father had done. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, and said unto them, "Hear me, ye Levites. Sanctify yourself clean now yourselves, and sanctify to be clean. Clean the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place." So Hezekiah is a king that did good in the sight of the Lord. He took some projects on where he brought the temple back into service for the Lord, back to uh practicing um killing uh the doing the sacrifices, the daily sacrifices. He brought all of that back into the house. He brought the the temple back into order. He repaired what needed to be repaired. He did what was good in his sight. You can continue to read that and find out what else he did. I just wanted to show you that he did something right in the presence of the Lord. He was a righteous man. So, my goal with this teaching is to show you what happens to a righteous person who ends up in a situation that happened and how you can change the course of it. I've taught a lot of this and I've showed you scripture throughout uh the New Testament and how, you know, Paul talks about uh we can change our hearts, change our lives, have faith. Jesus showed us that we can be healed by our faith. I want to show you an Old Testament way of how Hezekiah came to be with the Lord. And this had to do with he was right. He did right in the sight of the Lord. So now let's look at the situation of what happened because this is going to this is going to be the crux of the whole teaching. I want you to get this. So we're going to go to Isaiah 38 1 and 2. In those days was Hezekiah sick. That word sick there means to be rubbed, worn, weak, afflicted to grief. It doesn't say how he got sick. It just says that he was sick. Now, we'll see later that it was figs, a pus of figs that was placed on the boil. He had a a physical ailment, a boil on his body, and that pus went on there and he was healed uh through the figs. So, don't know what the sickness was, but he was sick unto death. Um and this word sick simply means it's to be worn out w weak afflicted grief. So he had to have been under a lot of stress. And if you look at our history, kings that are under a lot of stress don't live very long. Uh we see that in the UK with Queen Elizabeth's um uncle he and father who didn't live very long. So, and part of it was the stress of being a king. Okay, they, you know, they they this happened. So, he's sick and it's unto death. So, he's going to die. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, came unto him and said unto him, "Thus sayith the Lord, set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live."

So, you just heard a word from the Lord. Hezekiah just heard a word from the Lord. And usually you hear the word from the Lord, anything that is founded in scripture, you hear a word from the Lord, you take it as, okay, this is what's going to happen. But something Hezekiah did here that I want to focus on which changes the whole outcome of everything. And this is what's so exciting about this. Thus Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed unto the Lord. He said, "Okay." And he's going to talk to the Lord and he's going to let's let's read what he says to the Lord because this is critical here. He says and said, this is Hezekiah talking to the Lord. Remember now, oh Lord, I beseech you. That that word beseech means oh now, oh Lord, I need you now. I beseech you now. And then he goes on to say, how have I how I have walked before thee in truth. That word truth there is stability, certainty, trustworthiness, and with a perfect or complete heart of feelings, the will, and have done that which is good in thy sight. He's telling God to remember these things. And then he says, and Hezekiah wept. That word wept there means to bewail, complain, make lamentations, mourn, and then soar. He did it greatly. He did it out loud. He did it overflowingly. He turned his face to the wall and he says to God, now you know God is our creator. He is our everything. And so if he says something, we're going to believe it. Hezekiah did something a little bit different. He went to the Lord directly. By the way, he didn't go through a prophet. He didn't go to the temple or an altar. He went well and he couldn't. So, he did what he could do best. He burrowed his face into the wall and says to the Lord and very bold, very confidently he says remember what I have done for you and I did it with the hearts and the thought through the heart of the thoughts and the feelings that are appropriate. Remember that.

And then he he cries. So this is what I want to focus on in this moment. You see, we take the word of God literally. I believe it literally. There are probably some things in there that are written uh um in that language of metaphors and what have you. But I do take the word of God and everything it prophesies and everything it's talking about. I take it very serious and I take it very literally. And I go to the Lord and I try to understand the scriptures because I try to be a teacher of the word of God. You know, I'm not trying to justify anything because all of us have fallen short of the glory of God. Me included. So, there's things I don't know. But I love it when the Lord gives me a revelation about something. And there's a revelation here about what Hezekiah did that you and I can do as believers in Christ. Hezekiah said, "I want you to remember everything I did, and I did it with a complete heart. My thoughts and feelings, that's what the heart is. We're done with the purpose of I want to do this for you. I am going to do this for you." You see, there's something about the scriptures that tells us that when we're faced with adversity, affliction, sickness, when we face that, we do not have to accept death as a result of it. You know, we're all eventually going to die. Whether it's through the rapture or whether we just live out old age and natural causes, eventually we're all going to end up on the other side. Whether that's heaven the other side or hell the other side, that's between you and God. But as we walk with God and anyone who decides to choose Jesus as the son of God, as our Lord and Savior, the moment we accept that, take that, we have this right to live justifiably correct. We can live doing things we think is right in our minds. Whether it actually is or not is a whole different story. Keep this in mind. If you're going before the Lord, you've been and you think you're doing right. You chastised people to get them back into church. I disagree with that kind of chastisement. I kind of disagree with a little bit of the iron sharpens iron. I mean, it's okay. That's the things. I just there's feelings involved that hurt people that causes them to go away. But see, that has to deal with the Holy Spirit. But if you're in your mind and your heart and you know you have done right and like for me teaching the word of God, I can stand here boldly and confidently and say, "I have done right." Now analyze yourself. Say, "Have I been reading my Bible every day? Have I been praying? Have I been putting you first in my life?" Matthew 6:33, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you." So Hezekiah gets this bad word. By the way, it's not from the devil. It's not from the enemy. It's not a curse sent to him, a bow and arrow kind of thing. No, it's a word from the Lord. And he went to the Lord and says, "Remember what I've done." And he wept. when you're going before the Lord, you know, and I've said this before in past teachings, uh it's been quite a few teachings now, but I've always felt that after I became a believer or after I put God first in my life, I think I've been a believer since I was six because I called on his name when I was a six-year-old. But living my life for him has been different and it ages different and it it goes back differently. And when I did that, there was an emotional aspect. It was like everything inside of me broke and fell apart. It's like the rocks just came tumbling down inside of me. The hardness broke. So, I get very weepy and crying. You guys can testify to that because I tend to weep and cry. And this is why I always bring a trusty box of tissues with me to every teaching because I can feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit moving through me. That's what happened to Hezekiah. You see, you have to ask yourself when a word comes to you and now it doesn't matter who the word comes from, whether it's from God or whether it's from the devil. I love what one preacher said. He he uh was laying in bed one night, woke up in the middle of the night, heard voice, heard voices or someone talking and he leaned in. And by the way, this happened to me, although I didn't have the same reaction he did. But he leaned in, realized it was the devil cursing him out, and he says, "Oh, it's just you." And turned over and went to sleep. In my case, I said, "Get out of here." And then I turned over and went to sleep. But as a believer in Christ, this is the reaction that we have the right to. We have the right to go to God and say, "I've done the best I can. I've stood here and did this." It doesn't matter how anyone else judges us. when you have that right and that emotional factor with it because you know you've been broken. You know that God has put you back together the way he wants you put back together. And it it can be hard at times. But the moment you recognize that in the situation you're facing, it can change the entire outcome. And we're going to see that here. So it and it says here, "And it came to pass before Isaiah was gone out of the middle court." What that means is so Isaiah came in, he told Hezekiah the news and Isaiah turned around and started walking out of the temple or um the home of the king's house there. And Hezekiah is weeping to the Lord and he's crying which is that point where I think that every believer we should be able to come in. You know the other day I think it was um last Sunday morning. I forget what day it was but I had an issue that was going on. Uh yeah it would be Monday morning and I remember Sunday. It was it happened on Sunday and I I left it inside of me all Sunday and all Sunday evening and Monday morning. See, Monday mornings is my time where I pray for the body of Christ, the church, kingdom of God. I pray for my church that I'm going to. I pray for the leadership and all that. Monday mornings is my time for that. I held what I had going on inside of me. And I held that in and I waited till that moment because I know that's my I don't know it it was a moment of I'm going to meet God. And because of that it built up an anticipation. So when I got there Monday morning I just start balling my eyes out. Said Lord this situation I have to give it to you. And that weeping moment that Hezekiah had was his moment but he did it out of shock. Isaiah just told him the this news. So he does it out of shock. So while he's in this moment, so understand God heard him and decides to move immediately. So Isaiah hadn't even left the courtyard yet. And this is what he says. It came up pass came to pass before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court that the word of the Lord came to him saying turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people. Thus sayeth the Lord the God of David thy father I have heard a word heard also could be attentively. You can get that out of the I've heard thy prayer your intercession supplication. You see that moment that you're weeping, God already heard everything. You're the human. You're still pouring it out of you. You're still getting it all out. And he's already moving things for you. Watch what he says to Hezekiah. Tells Isaiah to tell Hezekiah, "I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will heal thee. On the third day, thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. That's incredible. Here is a moment that Hezekiah is experiencing. And before Isaiah even gets out to the courtyard, he tells him, "Go back and tell him, I'm going to heal him." This is what he says he's going to do in 2 Kings 26 and 7. And he says, "And I will add into thy days 15 years, and I will deliver or snatch away thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend or hedge about this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake." All right, I got to pause here. There's a fact that we have to think about. Does God want to heal you or does he not want to heal you? How many times have we heard the saying, "If it be your will." Here, God is saying, "I'm going to do this for my own sake and for my servant David's sake." David is a righteous man who had a heart after God. And here's Hezekiah emulating that. That tells me that if you have that relationship with God like David did, God is going to answer your prayer like he did with David and like he did with Hezekiah for his own sake. Because see, he spoke these words over all of us. And he's given us blessings and benefits. Honor thy mother and father for long life. Go read Psalm 103. The benefits that we have. Psalm 91. There are so many promises that God has given us, but all of them are predicated on the relationship factor with the Lord. And I'm trying to show you here in scripture that when you have that res that relationship with God and God decides he's going to move for his own sake. He's going to move and he's going to make the situation right. And that's how God does this. He he he's focused on this. Says, "I will defend the city for my own sake and for my servant David say and here he says and Isaiah said take a lump of figs." And they took and laid it on the boil and he recovered. So uh now there's there's an interesting concept of knowing now you got 15 years left to live. You know how do you take that what what do you take that to be? Do you now be more brave, more bold? You think you can jump a few steps down extra without breaking anything? He didn't say he wouldn't break anything. He just said that you've got another 15 years. And then I have to wonder that when he got to that 15 year, how did Hezekiah behave? What did what happened at that point? So now there's more. There's a conversation that takes place here. Let's go to second Kings. I want you to see the other part of the 2 Kings 20:es 8-11. And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord third day?" So remember I was telling you through Isaiah, 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, this event uh takes place and each set of scriptures explains it a little bit more. So we saw in Isaiah now how God had healed him. Now there's conversation. So now Hezekiah is like, "Okay, what's the sign?" So we're coming back to that moment. He just finished crying. Here's Isaiah coming back telling him this is what's going to happen. And Isaiah asked him a question. Says, "And in verse 9, and and Isaiah said, "This sign shalt thou have of the Lord that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken." And he goes, "Shall the shadow go forward 10 degrees or go back 10 degrees?" We're talking 10 minutes in time. Now, I want you to understand the 10 minutes here because this is this is that a little extra golden nugget we get out of this teaching. How long did it take Isaiah to walk in and tell Hezekiah his situation? Put your house in order. You're going to die. And how long did it take him to walk out of that chamber, get to that inner court before God told him turn around? So now Isaiah asks Hezekiah, you want the shadow on the degrees of uh the time to go forward or backwards. So Isaiah answers here in verse 10. And and Hezek, excuse me, Hezekiah answered, "And it is a light thing for the shadow to go down 10 degrees." Because see that happens every day. time is moving forward all the time. So that's normal. So then he says, "But let the shadow return backward 10 degrees." And Isaiah the prophet cried or to call he called out to God unto the Lord and he brought the shadow 10 degrees backwards by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

Wait a second. Why?

God's word spoke to Isaiah and to Hezekiah that he's going to die. God spoke the word. God keeps his promises. Hezekiah was supposed to die. God decides to undo his spoken word by repeating that 10 minutes of time. And by repeating that 10 minutes of time, a new spoken word came in where now he's going to bring Israel out of Assyria. He's going to uh save them from the attack. There's a a war going on in between all of this and Hezekiah because of what he did. God says, "I'm going to save the city and I'm going to save you." And he goes to do this. So, it's interesting. Let's read a little further because I want to get more into this. 2 Chronicles now in verse in chapter 32. We start here in verse 24 and this is now from and let me make sure that we understand how this works and how I'm putting all these scriptures together. So Isaiah is the prophet. Isaiah is the one who was used. So he wrote it in his book as to what God used him for. C uh second Kings is the books that were kept uh written by recorders of the kingdom at that time. Whoever was recording everything, they recorded everything the king did and what the king was. And that was written by a recorder. Chronicles is written by the Holy Spirit. This is God's perspective because there's things in Chronicles that the recorders had no idea to even record it. So you'll find elements in chronicles that is definitely not going to be in the kings. So we're going to elaborate a little further and let's look at it now all together. Now that especially now that we got a good chunk and idea of the story uh event. It's not a story. This is a true event that took place. So we're in 2 Chronicles 32. We're going to start here in verse 24. In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death and prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him and he gave him a sign. But Hezekiah rendered not. So what you're now seeing, we know Hezekiah got healed. So now we're seeing the outcome because God saved the the saved Israel, saved Hezekiah, and now we're seeing what God says about all of that. It's very interesting. But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him. For his heart was lifted up. Therefore, there was wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Did Hezekiah go back and say, "Thank you, Lord." That's what I get out of that. And so, God is now going to judge him. But watch, look what he says next. Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself. So, initially, Hezekiah didn't. But somewhere along the road of life here, the Holy Spirit talking to Hezekiah, maybe through Isaiah, I don't know. But he says, "Notwithstanding, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem." So he also had Jerusalem do it, not just himself, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. Now what you'll find out is what he did is he ended up showing some strangers Babylon all that he had in his kingdom and Isaiah told him okay you're the whole thing is going to come away from you it's going to be taken away from you in your son's life and Hezekiah I it's here we'll see this uh we'll get into that scripture so um notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart both he and the inhabitants of Jerusale So that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor. And he made himself treasuries for silver and for gold and for precious stones and for spices and for shields and for all manner of pleasant jewels. You know what? When you put God first in your life and you have a relationship, you are going to be blessed. You will have you will not want for anything. That's that's what you're seeing here with Hezekiah. And Hezekiah purposely humbled himself because he didn't want the wrath of God on him. Let's continue on. The storehouse is also for the increase of corn and wine and oil and all and stalls for all manner of beast and coats for flocks. Moreover, he provided him cities and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance. For God had given him substance very much. Why? Because he did what was right in the sight of God. He did and emulated like David. You and I have the opportunity to be rich beyond and not want or lack for anything because we put God first. We have a relationship and we can take all of our actions and do the actions for God. You know what Hezekiah did even above and beyond that. He didn't do it just for himself. Although there was self-preservation going on here. You kind of get that hint as you read these scriptures. I recommend you go and read them. But as he got uh he did all this rightfully, he had the claim when he turned his face to the wall to say, "I've done what you wanted me to do. I did what was right." And because he was doing what was right, he was blessed beyond measure. God never says that we have to be poor or that we have to be stupid or that we have to um live one way or another. But he will bless you because that's a promise because you put him first. You have a relationship with him first. That is your right to have that if you choose you want that. Let's continue on and read more about this verse 30. Then uh this same Hezekiah also stopped the other upper water course of Guehon and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works because he put God first. He had a He did right. He took rightable actions on behalf of the Lord. He says, "This is my God. I'm gonna fix that temple. This is his house. I'm gonna fix it." He did what David wanted done and he followed him. By the way, David is his great great great great great great there. He's several generations later. Now verse 31. How be it in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon. This is what I was referring to earlier where he showed the strangers princes of Babylon. Watch this. Who sent in him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land. Because see, he was prospering so much and doing so well that these princes from Babylon show up, which you're going to find out that Israel, as you read about Israel, you probably already know it. Babylon took Israel captive, but not in Hezekiah's days. Even the the prophesied capture of Israel being scattered to the four winds didn't happen in Hezekiah's time because of having that relationship and he is the leader and he got Jerusalem all lined up with him and did what was right in the sight of the Lord and that gave him the ability that when the attack came not and it came and God healed him because of the humbleness and the crying out and reminding the Lord what he had done. But he also healed him because when all this was supposed to happen, he kept God kept the attack of Israel going into captivity from Hezekiah and Israel because they turned around. In other words, if Israel had stayed going right with God, they would not have ever gone scattered. And the prophecies, well, in this case, God prophesied because he knew it was going to happen and it did happen. But they could have turned around and there could have been I I believe in my heart that Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah would have written different things had there been the ability for them to turn around and come back from that edge. They just didn't do it. Look what it says here. Uh finishing at Babylon who sent him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land. God left him. I mean, God left Hezekiah to try or test him that he might know all that was in his heart. Now, there's a price to pay when you have this type of relationship with the Lord. That price is God is going to test your heart. And that's exactly what happened here with Hezekiah. And so, when Isaiah came I, you know, I didn't bring all that scripture in here, but Isaiah comes later and says, "What did you show him?" And Hezekiah says, "I showed him everything." Oh, well, all that's going to go away now. And that's because he was testing his heart. And I don't know what he was expecting from there, but God was looking at his heart. Now, the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his goodness, behold, they're written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. And that is what happened to Hezekiah. And he had the right to turn his face to the wall and burrow himself in the chest of God in that moment and say, "Remember what I did." And God says, "Okay, I remember you. I'm going to heal you and I'm going to heal the city." And that's what God did because he stood up for God as a righteous man and did what was right in the sight of the Lord. Question I have for you is, do you want to do what's right for the Lord in your life, whatever that may be? Let's close in a word prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Thank you. We pray that your word never leaves our hearts and never leaves our minds, but that it uh impacts us so much that it reverberates our bones and that we remember and the Holy Spirit reminds us all the time so that every decision we make in life is so that we do it right unto you, Lord. Thank you for showing us how you move, how you move through Hezekiah and how you can move through us. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Thank you, Lord. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye.