Praying For The Impossible | Dangerous Prayers, Week 1 | McKenna Takach | New North Church

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Hey, welcome to the New North Church podcast. It's great to have you listening in with us. Our vision at our church is to be an authentic community of Jesus followers who love and serve people. So if we can help you in any way at all, just reach out to us. The email address is hello at new north.church. With that, let's go right to this week's message.

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Good morning, everyone. I'm McKenna, like Scott said. If you don't know me, I've been around New North for a long time. I was on staff here up until about a year ago. And since then, I've been a stay-at-home mom with my two daughters, who one of them just turned four yesterday, and the other one is two. So my life looks very different right now than it did a year and some change ago, but God is good. And I was very excited when Rob texted me and said, Hey, can you preach in July? And I was like, Yes. Thank you. I am so excited. So uh it is a blessing and a privilege to be here. What do you do when you are on your last breath? A movie came out last year documenting the true events in the life of a guy named Chris Lemons. Chris Lemons is what's known as a saturation diver. If you don't know what saturation diving is, I didn't either. It's a diving process where you adjust your body to the extreme pressure differences of being deep in the sea. Because it takes the human body so long to transition to both becoming accustomed to the pressure and then decompressing back to surface level pressure. Saturation divers actually live for weeks at a time in the deep sea doing things like building and mending oil rigs or pipeline repairs or restoring deep sea habitats, salvaging shipwrecks, things like that. On a routine dive one day, Lemons and his colleague were working on the seabed, and the dynamic positioning system of their support vessel suffered a catastrophic failure. So the ship that they were attached to started to drift, which pulled the umbilicals that they are attached to, which are basically the thick cables that would have given them air, hot water, and communication, until one of those umbilicals caught on a metal structure and snapped. Chris Lemons immediately was severed from the surface and he fell to the pitch black seabed, relying entirely on the small amount of gas in his emergency bailout tank, which was estimated to have lasted just five to ten minutes. Pitch black, no communication, no warmth, no air. He was on his last breaths in an entirely impossible situation. Now you're probably not a saturation diver, but you do live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Okay? Go with a metaphor here, all right? You live in a high-paced, high-pressure, high-intensity environment, and we all just have to grow accustomed to what it feels like to live here. But what do you do when the lights get turned off? Or when you get cut off from the things that you know give you oxygen or that feel like give you oxygen. When you've got nothing left, nowhere to turn, all the things that have felt like warmth and light in your life have been turned off. Your kids aren't getting better. The financial strain that you feel has reached panic levels. You've lost someone and your world collapses. The dream you had for yourself or your career or your family just dies. You see no roadmap out of the situation that you find yourself in. You are on your last breaths. All of us can relate to being in a situation like that. Today we're starting our last series in this year of prayer we've been in. And over the next few weeks, we're gonna be talking about dangerous prayers, just like Scott said. They're the kinds of prayers that aren't pretty or polished, they cost us something. And we're gonna be focusing today on the life of a king in Judah who knew what it was like to live in a high stakes, high-pressure environment, and have everything stripped away from him. King Hezekiah, his three prayers recorded in scripture are going to show us that when the Lord's people confront the impossible, they pray dangerous prayers. Now, the first dangerous prayer that Hezekiah prays is for an impossible people. Before I jump into this scripture, I need to give a little bit of context here because Hezekiah was king of the nation of Judah. Judah was the southern kingdom, what became the southern kingdom of Israel, which and the southern kingdom and the northern kingdom were divided because of a split that happened right after Solomon's reign. Okay, so there was Judah in the south, which was ruled by David's descendants, and then there was the north, who was ruled by all kinds of people. Hezekiah became king at 25, and he inherited a morally, spiritually, politically, financially bankrupt nation. His dad, King Ahaz, is recorded as the worst king in Judah's history. Ahaz threw the nation into idol worship to the point that he actually sacrificed his own children in the fires of idols like Molech. Okay? Now, if you think you have daddy issues, that, okay. He ended up making decisions, Ahaz, that led the country to basically being a vassal state for the neighboring bully Assyria. And ultimately, all of his military exploits were disastrous for his people. And step in Hezekiah. Somehow, I'm not sure how, Hezekiah was different from his dad. Who knows if it was because his grandfather, who was actually a good king, taught Hezekiah about the Lord, or maybe his mom was the one who spoke words of wisdom to him. But Hezekiah loved God. And as soon as he becomes king, he decided, I'm gonna set things right, and he did it in a way that no king before him had ever done. He purged and cleansed the temple, he destroyed all of the high places in Judah, so everyone not only had to worship God, but they had to worship God where God had instructed in his word, which was in Jerusalem. And then when he was through with that, he decided, you know what? We are going to celebrate Passover the way that it's dictated in Scripture, and it was gonna be with all of the tribes of Israel, which meant the northern kingdom as well, for the first time in what what is estimated to be about 200 years since the reign of Solomon. But this wasn't easy. You see, Assyria, that malicious bully, had just taken the northern kingdom, which meant Israel had fallen and there were only a remnant of people left. Hezekiah didn't care though. He sent his messengers up to the remnant and had them invite their brothers and sisters back to the celebration, telling them, if you turn your heart to the Lord, he will hear you and deliver you. Most of the people got the invite and scoffed. Scoffed came. This would have felt like a triumph. Hezekiah had done what every single leadership book would have told him not to do, which was take extreme measures when you first get into power. He took extreme measures and acted based on what he knew in Scripture relentlessly. But there was one problem. The people who came from the north were not ritually clean. And there were very strict regulations in Scripture regarding ritual cleanliness to celebrate the Passover. And what's heavily implied in 2 Chronicles is these people who were unclean got sick. Now, this would have taken a high, highly charged political situation and made it impossible. Hezekiah was out of moves, and these people had gone so sick that Hezekiah heard about it and figured out what was actually going on. What do you do when you're on your last breast? Now, Hezekiah in this moment could have been angry at God. God, I have been working so hard to consecrate and turn around this nation. Do you remember my dad and how awful he was? I told these people that you were good. These people come and you let them get sick. You must not be the God that I thought. You must, or did I do something wrong? Did I do something to deserve this? Or he could have thought, which is probably what I would have done, okay, fine, I'll fix it. I'm gonna be the one that course corrects it. Don't even worry about it, God. I'm gonna take this into my own hands and do something. I'll call some doctors, I'll make some arrangements, I'll come up with some political speech so that this can smooth out, people won't be angry at me. But instead, Hezekiah does none of those things. He prays and he intercedes for his brothers and sisters. In 2 Chronicles, it says 2 Chronicles chapter 30, it says, But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May the Lord, who is good, pardon everyone who sets their heart on seeking God, the Lord, the God of their fathers, even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary. And the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people. What does Hezekiah pray? He prays God's character. Even in an impossible situation, he trusts the character of God. He says, May the Lord who is what? Good. May the Lord who is good. It's important here to note Hezekiah wasn't saying, God, hey, um, you know, they've done good enough, right? Don't you see? Like this whole they've done good enough in the holiness department, and I think you should just let this one slide. Can you give them a pass, please? Hezekiah wasn't asking God to pass on his holiness. That would have been asking God to forsake himself. He was appealing to God's heart of mercy on behalf of others. Over and over and over again in Scripture, we see that God cares most about the posture of the worshipper's heart. And Hezekiah knew this. The prophet Micah says, He has shown you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Hezekiah, in praying this prayer, was embodying this. And when he was in a moment of desperation, he prayed according to what he knew to be true about the God he was praying to. When you are desperate for the people that you love, do you pray for God's mercy for them? Let me tell you, it is much easier to try to fix people's problems than it is to pray for God to move in their lives. It often requires more patience, it requires relinquishing control. It requires you to trust that God cares about the person that you're praying for more than you do and might have a better vantage point to what's going on in their life than you do. Some of you today need to hear that God's mercy is deeper than yours. God's help is more sufficient than yours. God's heart for the people that you love is actually bigger than yours. So intercede for them like Hezekiah, knowing the character of the one you are actually surrendering them to. That's what he prays. But how does he pray? He prays simply. His prayer is not full of fluff, okay? And why does this matter? Because all the pagan gods at that time would have been prayed to with all kinds of chants and incantations and buttering up to try to get the gods to do whatever the people wanted them to do. But Hezekiah knows that's not the way that our God listens. He wasn't trying to stroke God's ego, he just asked for what he needed. Hezekiah here prays much more like the child Jesus tells his disciples to model their faith after than a priest in some high flutant temple. There's no real pretense here, no show, just simple faith in a good God who loves his children and always has. It would have been easy for Hezekiah in this moment to think that he'd misinterpreted or thought something wrong about scripture, but instead he says, No, God was good. He was good then, he's gonna be good again now, and I'm gonna pray to him about this. Even though he was the king of Judah and had all the resources and power at his fingertips, Hezekiah did the dangerous thing instead, gave up whatever control he might have had, and instead asked God to move. What did he pray? He appealed to God's character. How did he pray? With the simplicity of a child, and God heard him and healed the people. We pray for the impossible because we know the character of God. But then the second impossible situation that Hezekiah uh gets himself gets into is with an impossible enemy. Remember how I mentioned the Assyrians? Well, they were what historians characterize as the first real world power. There were other nations that were big at the time and who'd been around a lot longer, say Egypt, right? But Assyria was the first nation that developed this brutal, merciless conquest. So when Assyria and the king at the time, King Sennacherib, turned their attention to Judah, it was not good news for Hezekiah. Remember, the northern kingdom had already been demolished. Judah was left isolated on its own in a sea of Assyria. Okay. So King Sennacherib actually attacked and captured all of the fortified cities in Judah. And then he ended up showing up outside of Jerusalem's walls with his armies. He sent a message to Hezekiah that was spoken in front of all of the people. Okay, so everyone would have heard this message, and I'm going to read part of it because it's not enough to just explain it. In in I in Isaiah it says, Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says. Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, The Lord will deliver us? Have the gods of any nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpod? Where are the gods of Sepharium? Have they rescued Samaria, which by the way was the capital of the northern kingdom, from my hand? Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand? Imagine being a person living in Jerusalem, hearing this spoken, and seeing a sea of an army right outside the gates. Now, the message that was read before the people does three things. It belittles Hezekiah, it mocks the Lord, and it tempts the people. That's what really impossible enemies do, don't they? They belittle you. You who do you all think you are? Do you think you actually can do that? No. No, you can't. They mock God's place in your life. You think your faith matters in this big, complicated world. Your little simple-minded trust in a God you can't see or prove, and then they tempt you away. There's something better for you. Compromise. Change. If you come and you do X, Y, and Z instead, then I will show you that you've been missing out all this time. The enemy that you might be facing might be someone who looks more like a Senacrib in your life, who wants to destroy you. Although remember, our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of an unseen world, just like Paul said. But your enemy might also be an addiction that you feel powerless to break, or a coping mechanism you know is the opposite of what you want, or anxiety that you can't seem to quell. It might be the work that's wearing you down into a different person than you want to be. Or it might be the kind of burnout that feels like death by a thousand paper cuts. And even though you can't pinpoint exactly what the enemy is, you know that voice in your head that belittles you, that makes God small, and that tempts you to do what you never thought you were capable of doing. That's a real enemy. Desperate here for Hezekiah would have been an understatement. He would have been powerless, exposed. Imagine how embarrassing this would have felt before his people, probably feeling like an imposter. I can imagine thoughts like, how could I have let things get like this? I'm the same as my dad, replaying over and over in his mind. He had nowhere to try. Every instinct inside of him would have been to negotiate, compromise, or surrender. And instead, what does he do with his last breaths? He prays. Open your Bible to Isaiah. Isaiah 30 38, 37, excuse me, and verse 15. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, O Lord, Almighty God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. Give ear, O Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see. Listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God. It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone fashioned by human hands. Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord our God. What does Hezekiah pray? He prays God's power. He says, God, you are enthroned over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made them. Imagine the king of God's people knowing who the real king was. Yet again, Hezekiah proves he the Hezekiah proves he knows who God is. Sure, Sennacherib has destroyed all of those other gods. He tells Yahweh all about it in his prayer, but those weren't real. And Hezekiah says, No, I know something that Sennacherib in all of his talk doesn't know, because there is one God who is maker of all of heaven and earth, and even the mightiest earthly king stands no chance against his purposes and his armies. He prays God's power. But how does he pray? He prays vulnerably. Have you ever noticed that when a trapped or injured animal actually is almost rescued by someone, it normally fights against the person trying to rescue it. There are very few animals that are like, oh, thank goodness you're here, right? Let them just take me. They all fight against the person trying to save them. We are exactly the same. When you are in a desperate situation or you are living in survival mode, your physiology tells you, don't trust, don't depend, do it yourself. Everyone's out to get you. Hezekiah in this moment could have very easily chosen a different path than depending on God at all. Because prayer would have required him, as it always requires of us, to surrender our panic. We always have to surrender our panic as we pray to the Lord. And even in prayer, he could have taken up pretenses, made up pretenses. Like he could have made himself into the hero. He could have asked God to reward him. God, do you see what I did here? Can you just reward me? He could have said, I was such a good king, I deserve this. But he doesn't. He runs to the temple, spreads out everything before God, doesn't say a word about himself, and instead says, God, do you see what he's saying? Not about me, which he could have because Senagher was saying things about Hezekiah. He says, Do you see what he's saying about you? Do you see what he's saying about you? I think so many of us in our prayer life end up keeping a little bit back from God when we're in desperate situations. A little bit back so that we can just hold a little bit of our pride. Spreading everything out feels scary, right? We're afraid of being disappointed. We're afraid of losing control. Maybe we're afraid of feeling. More ashamed or embarrassed of the situation we find ourselves in. We're afraid we're gonna have to change or stop our behavior when we really, really at the heart of it don't want to. We're afraid of fully trusting that God cares not just about our eternity and heaven, going to heaven or being with him forever, but that he cares about our moment by moment, day by day life with him now. Sometimes I feel like it's easier for me to believe that God part of the Red Sea than it is for me to believe that he cares about my marriage and my kids and the anxiety I feel and how hard it is to be a stay-at-home mom. Or, and for some of you, it might be anxiety or depression or the things that you're experiencing at work. God cares about the little things, the moment by moments, moments by moment experiences you have in your life where you feel desperate, even if they feel mundane. So often for me, the thing that keeps me from truly spreading it all out before the Lord is forgetting that the God who created the cosmos and who's the king over all is also the God who says that every single hair on my head is numbered and who knew my daughters before I did. Some of you need to hear that today because you are in survival mode and it is keeping you from trusting God. You need to pray his power, not because he needs to remember how powerful he is, but because you do. God ended up delivering Hezekiah in the most remarkable way. First, Isaiah actually delivers a message to the king telling him God's response. And he in uh the basically it sums up as I will defend this city and save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant. And in the middle of the night, the angel of the Lord went through the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. Sennacherib's forces withdrew, never to return again. We pray for the impossible because we know the power of God. That was the second of the three. The third impossible situation that Hezekiah confronts is an impossible diagnosis. You'd think that this would have been enough, right? But around the same time, Scripture tells us that Hezekiah got sick to the point where he was about to die. And Isaiah, the prophet, goes to him and says, Hey, this is what the Lord says. Put your house in order because you're going to die. You will not recover. Imagine delivering that message to the king. This is a really different kind of impossible, isn't it? The first impossible situation was because people messed up. The second was because of a brutal enemy. But this impossible was different because it was something that God spoke. A doctor didn't tell him he was going to die. A doc, someone, a seer didn't tell him, Oh, you aren't going to recover. God did. His God, the one he's walked faithfully with and had devoted himself to and had wanted to restore his nation to, that God had spoken his end. See, I want to have faith like Hezekiah. Because even then, with Isaiah standing over him in his room, as he is literally on his deathbed, his faith doesn't waver. His knowledge of who God is is so deeply ingrained in who he is, he doesn't get angry. He doesn't immediately call on someone else to get a second opinion, which I would have been like, Isaiah, you're awesome. Can I have another prophet, please? Another prophet, you think that there's a second opinion? I know you hear from God, but maybe someone else hears better than you. No, he doesn't even give up. Instead, he prays. It says, Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Notice what Hezekiah doesn't do here. He doesn't pray, God, you say I'm gonna die. I reject that. Heal me. You can do it. He doesn't rebuke Isaiah, he doesn't claim a promise, he doesn't try to bargain. He says, God, remember me. This moment is entirely relational. Remember me, God. You can't ask someone to do something like that unless there's a relationship to remember. The first thing he reaches for is his relationship with God. And what does he pray? He prays God's love. He does this because he both knows how much he loves God, but he also knows how much God loves him. You wouldn't appeal to a relationship like this in a desperate moment without knowing that the one you're appealing to cares about you. Hezekiah knew the love of the Lord. And how does he pray? He prays intimately. My favorite part of this passage is how he prays. Imagine him in his bedroom. Isaiah is still there. There's probably attendants and people waiting on him because you know he's the king and he's really sick. And what does he do? It says that he turns toward the wall. That's like a physical act of cutting all of the people in the room off. And it's just him and God. This is a picture of relational closeness where no one else matters. It's not about anyone else, it's about him and God. And then Hezekiah weeps. Weeping people make even the most empathetic of us uncomfortable. And yet Hezekiah is unconcerned about anyone else's presence but the Lord's. And God heard him. Before Isaiah had even completely left, God said, okay, go turn around and give a new message to Hezekiah. This is what the Lord says. The God of your father David says, I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add 15 years to your life. Yet again, Hezekiah is delivered because of his prayers. God's verdict on his life was shifted. If you want an example of prayer changing things, this is it. No follower of Jesus can ever say something like, All we can do now is pray. While desperation often fuels our prayer life, prayer is our actual power. Isaiah goes on to record what's known as Hezekiah's song, which is his response of praise to God after this redemption. But the whole crux of the song boils down not to look at what God did for me. Look how he gave me 15 more years. Yay, he fixed it. He made everything better. My life looks so much better now. I'm blessed. The heart of the entire song is this. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love, you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put all my sins behind your back. Hezekiah's conclusion isn't about the gift God gave him, it's about the relationship that he had being restored. And this, you guys, is the thing about praying impossible prayers. God's heart for us is not just that we would have smooth circumstances or that we would know his gifts. In fact, scripture is very clear that if you follow Jesus, your life will not be smooth. The end, okay? God's heart for us is to know him in all circumstances and to trust him no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in. And the greatest gift of praying for the impossible is that no matter how he answers those prayers, he always gives us more of himself as we lean into him. Always, always, always we get a deeper understanding of the love of God as we pray for what seems absolutely impossible in front of us. So a couple months ago, uh my family actually received a diagnosis and it was extremely brutal for me. Um and I can't really go into details about it, but uh essentially it felt like there was a verdict that was being put on my life, on the trajectory of my family, and the couple weeks that followed that diagnosis were extremely lonely for me. And yet, over and over and over again, I felt God call me to turn toward the wall and ask him for what I needed over and over and over again. God gave me what I needed as I turned toward him in my impossible situation. Now, has the diagnosis changed? No, and it's not going to. Yet I know that I know that I know that God is going to consistently meet me again and again in a life of prayer because that's who he is, right? The impossible things that we get to surrender to him, he always meets us in with more of himself. Now eventually, every single one of us arrives at the same place as Hezekiah, confronting ultimately the same impossible diagnosis, sin and death. And we can't solve that ourselves, no matter how hard we try, no matter what kind of, I don't know, Silicon Valley's got all kinds of things about living forever. We can't fix it, you guys. And we can't, and as followers of Jesus, though, our lives actually revolve around the divine solution to that problem. Jesus took our impossible situation upon himself so that we could receive his life. That is the message of the gospel. Throughout his life, we see Hezekiah continually turn toward God in his impossible situations. But the truth is, long before we ever turned toward God, he was turned toward us. We don't just get heaven later because we have a ticket to heaven, right? We get the fullness of God now. We get the Holy Spirit living and breathing and moving in us now. That love that Hezekiah had with God as he turned toward the wall, we have that because of Jesus. That power Hezekiah called on when he spread out Sennacherib's letter claims all of the temple. We have that power now because of Jesus and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that exists inside of every single person who calls him Lord. That character of God Hezekiah called on to intercede for his people, we have direct access to the God who created that person now because of Jesus. We pray for the impossible as the people of God because we know the God who loves us. We know him. So let me ask you one more time. What do you do when you're on your last breaths? Chris Lemons, remember the guy that I left at the bottom of the ocean at the beginning? Okay. Do you know that he survived for 40 minutes? 40 minutes and was rescued unconscious with no brain damage. Remember, his tank was supposed to have five to ten minutes of air in it. Scientists believe that the reason he survived is because of the special air that the divers get accustomed to, which had saturated his tissues with highly pressurized oxygen. Every person in this room is saturated in something. Our world is far too full of pressure and noisy and intense to avoid it. We're all being formed and saturated by something. And when the metaphorical oxygen gets cut off, what comes out of us proves what we've been soaking in. Hezekiah didn't get into impossible situations and suddenly become a man who prayed to and who turned to God. Hezekiah was a man who was steeped in prayer, in the presence of God, and trusted God in the little things. So when the big things came, responding and relying on God was as natural as breathing. He'd already moved and lived out and lived according to God's character and his word, his power and his love. So when the pressure came, he already knew who he had to depend on. He knew who was actually in charge. Impossible moments don't create a life of prayer, although they may catalyze them, they reveal a life of prayer. So here's the invitation this morning. Turn toward him. That's the long and short of it. Turn toward him. If you've been carrying something that feels impossible to carry alone, turn toward him. If you stopped praying or carrying hope for God to redeem or move in a situation or for a person, turn toward him and spread it all out before him. If you are exhausted from trying to hold everything together and to keep your life looking a certain way, turn toward him and surrender control to him. Some of you are in a position like me where we need to remember that the impossible situations we find ourselves in are nothing compared to the power of the living God that we serve. Bring him the impossible, knowing that he will meet you in your circumstances, not just to change them, but to be with you in them and supply you with the air and the oxygen that you need. Spread it out before him. Remember his character, trust his power, rest in his love. And let's continue to worship a God who has already turned toward us in Jesus. When the Lord's people confront the impossible, they pray dangerous prayers. Let's pray together. Father, would you just turn our hearts toward you? I pray, God, that you would turn us in worship to our own walls, God, where we would cut off what needs to be cut off. We want to be distracted by the things around us. God, would it just be us with you? And Lord, for those of us in here who are in a place where we feel burdened or isolated or like we just need more of you or we need people, God, would you compel us forward so that we can pray with our prayer partners? Lord, would you remind us that there is only more of you on the other side of surrender? Only more of you. Lord, we ask that you would remind us of your character this morning. Would you show us glimpses of your power? Would you help us to rest in your love as the faithful God who loves us? We put all of this in the hands of your son Jesus. And all of God's people said, Amen.

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