Turning a Hopeless Situation Around

If you’re facing a situation today that you believe is hopeless, I want you to know that God can turn it around! It doesn’t matter if it’s a chronic illness, a financial need, or a diagnosis that says you only have a short time to live. None of these is more powerful than the power of God!

You see, with God all things are possible to them that believe! There are many stories of hopeless situations in the Bible that were turned around through faith in God. I want to share some stories today, both from the Bible and personally, to help build your faith for your own situation.

The story of the epileptic boy:

Then one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.” He answered him and said, “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me.”  Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”  Mark 9:17-23

In that day and age, there was no medicine or medical help to relieve symptoms of seizures. Can you imagine how devastating it would be for a parent to live through episodes of seizures in their beloved child, ongoing for many years? This would have been classified as a hopeless situation for this father.

But Jesus came along and changed everything! Initially, this man had his eyes on what Jesus could do. He asked, “Jesus, is there anything You can do to help us?” But Jesus turned it around and asked, “Can you believe?”

The question that remains for us today is, “What can you believe?” According to Jesus, all things are possible to him who believes! How many things? Some things? No—all things!

The most serious situation you can face can be changed if you will only believe! Many people look at situations and say, “That’s impossible!” But with God, there is no such thing as an impossibility.

There was a time when King Hezekiah faced an impossible situation. Here is the story:

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, and said, “Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years.”’   Isaiah 38:1-5

There is nothing more impossible than finding out you will die and not live! The Lord was not pronouncing judgment on Hezekiah; He was simply giving him a picture of the future without supernatural intervention.

I want you to notice Hezekiah’s response to this news. He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. Hezekiah could only pray according to the revelation he had under the Old Covenant. But he was earnest, and his tears revealed that he was repentant. He wasn’t perfect by any means, but he humbled himself before the Lord. He reminded the Lord of his merits. He did not focus on his faults.

If you’re facing a diagnosis or report that says you have to die, I want you to know it can be turned around! But you will have to bring God’s Word before Him and remind Him and yourself of what He has said regarding your healing. If you have sin in your life, you will have to repent of it. Then focus on who you are and what you have in Christ.

James 5:16 says,

The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

In the desperate situations of life, we cannot afford to be passive. We must diligently and fervently pray and seek the Lord. That is how we turn a hopeless situation around!

I have faced a few hopeless situations in my life. The most prominent was many years ago when my oldest daughter was five months old. She fell in her day cradle, hitting the side of her head very hard. Her head began to swell and she would not stop crying. So we took her to the hospital to be examined. After testing, she was diagnosed with a depressed fractured skull and a subdural hematoma—that means she was bleeding between her brain and skull.

The doctors told us she could either die or have brain damage, and they planned on emergency surgery by morning. My husband and I stood on God’s Word with a violent faith. Mattew 11:12 says, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” We refused to say anything contrary to the Word of God and prayed in the spirit all night long. By morning, the testing was repeated and every trace of bleeding had disappeared. The neurosurgeon himself told us we had received a miracle!

God is no respecter of persons. What God did for the epileptic boy, and for Hezekiah, and for me, He will do for you, if you will only believe!

I highly encourage you to get a copy of my new daily devotional, Healing Nuggets: 31 Days of God's Word for Health, Wholeness, and Peace, to help you meditate day and night. I believe it will be a blessing to your life.

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