YOUR STORY WILL CHANGE

TOPIC: YOUR STORY MUST CHANGE

TEXT:    2 Kings 25:27-30

INTRODUCTION

God is a changer of story. It does not matter how difficult a situation is, with God things change for better. Your story will change as you trust God and look to Him, who is the author and finisher of your faith.

I.  SEVEN IMPORTANT TRUTHS TO NOTE

1. There is no situation God cannot change. 

    - No sickness God cannot heal, No sinner God cannot save and No circumstance God cannot change.

2. In the Dictionary of God, there is nothing like impossibility. 

  

3. When God appears in your battle front, that will be the end of the battle.

    

4. No matter the strength of the opposition, one word from God can scatter your opposition.

     

5. There is no situation in life that God has not handle before.

    -  What you are going through is common and there is always a way of escape.

6. When you get to your wits end (a place of hopelessness) that is where God sets in.

7. God is a story changer.   

   

II. LESSONS DERIVED FROM THE BIBLE PASSAGE

2 Kings 25:27-30

This is a very wonderful and interesting story from the Bible and it shows that it is not over until it is over. I did not come for someone who thinks he/she has made it. But for someone who knows he is yet to arrive.

The good news I have for you in this month is that the story of your life is about to change, therefore be expectant. 

The background of the passage quoted above is in 2 Kings 24:10-16 which records the time Jechoiachin, King of Judah was taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar King of Judah. 2 Kings 25 vs. 27-30 now records the story of his release from captivity. 

A careful study of this passage will reveal several lessons for us.

1. The first lesson of this story is that there is a time for salvation, a time for liberty, and a time for freedom from bondage. The Bible was so careful to mention that Jehoiachin’s liberty occurred on the 27th day of the 12th month of the first year of the reign of Evil Merodach, King of Babylon. 

A.  There is a specific day, month and year your story will change and the good news is that Now is the time.

B.  The Israelites were meant to spend 430 years in captivity in Egypt before their deliverance, and it happened so. God is delivering you Now from every captivity in Jesus name

2. The second lesson from this passage is that God can use anybody for your liberty. No matter how wicked your Boss could be, he/she would be an instrument in the hands of God for your freedom in Jesus name. I assume the person God used to free Jehoiachin was not a good man, because Kings of Babylon were mean and wicked. 

A.  In this particular case, Merodach did not have any pretensions to be a kind King, and his first name is ‘Evil’. Yet the Evil king freed Jehoiachin from 37 years captivity. 

  -  A man bought refrigerator for a man of God he did not like.

   -  Mrs Joy Ifije was honored by Governor Adams Oshiomhole after he told her to go and die.

The message is for us to trust in God rather than man. Anyone can be used by God for your freedom

3. The third lesson is that it does not matter how long you have spent in captivity,  the important thing is that Jesus will intervene in your situation. Could you imagine that Jechoiachin spent 37 years in prison? You might have spent half of your life time in one form of affliction or the other, but divine help and intervention is coming now. The story of your life will be rewritten for good in Jesus name,

4. The fourth lesson from this story is that it shall come to pass. Please read the first few words of 2 Kings 25 vs. 27: ‘And it came to pass..”. Your dreams shall come to pass and become realities in Jesus name. Your imprisonments shall come to pass and turn to freedom in Jesus name. What have you believed God for?  A new Job, healing, a baby, Prosperity, new accommodation. What? It shall come to pass. 

-  The word "it came to pass" appears 452 times in the Bible.- -    -    Hannah's barrenness came to pass (1 Sam 1:21).

5. Another lesson from this passage is that it does not matter how long you have spent expecting a miracle. It does not matter how long you have been believing God for healing. What matters is that you should not lose hope but hold on to God  in faith. Jehoiachin spent 37 lonely years in the prison. During these years friends and relations must have deserted him. He must have passed through sufferings, but one day his story changed. 

6.  Yet another lesson. You know it was Nebuchadnezzar that captured King Jehoiachin, but it was another King- Evil Merodach that set him free in the first year he started to reign. A new King is coming to the throne that will set you free. A new Boss is coming to your office that will restore you to your rightful position. 

Every Nebuchadnezzar that has put you in any form of prison, the Lord will cause him to be removed suddenly and unexpectedly in Jesus name. The new King that will free you will come to the throne for your sake in Jesus name.

 - Gen. Sani Abacha a one time military head of state in Nigeria died and Obasanjo whom he imprisoned was released from Prison by the next President, General Abdulsalam Abubakar.

7. The seventh from this passage is that you must not lose hope. No matter your affliction, do not give up. Never think of committing suicide no matter the storms of life. Because Satan has not succeeded in killing you (and he will never succeed in Jesus name) you are still a dangerous person. Do you know that Jehoiachin could have died in prison before his liberty came if he had committed suicide or allowed his thoughts to weigh him down?  But he never gave up and stayed alive to experience his liberty.

8. The new lesson is that divine promotion is going to accompany your liberty.When Jehoiachin was freed from prison he was exalted into a position that was higher than his previous position. The Bible says in 2 Kings 25:28 that Evil Merodach  …’set his throne above the throne of the Kings that were with him in Babylon’. You are going  to a new level in Jesus name.

9. Let us consider the story of King Jehoiachin further. You know for 37 years he was wearing Prison garments? Imagine a King wearing Prison garments for 37 years? May be you are now in a lowly position compared to your past life, don’t worry, your story will soon change. One day, the story of King Jehoiachin changed and the Prison garments was changed by a royal order! See 2 Kings 25 vs 29. Every evil garment on your body and life will soon be replaced by the garments of Royalty in Jesus name.

10. The tenth fact about your forthcoming restoration is that it will bring comfort. When King Jehoiachin was brought out of prison, he was not living an ordinary life, but the Bible says he ate Bread continuously placed before him all  the days of his life.

You shall end your life in comfort.

11. Another related lesson is that when the story of your life changes soon, you will start living in abundance. When Jehoiachin was released from Prison,  a continual allowance was given him all remaining days of his life. You are not going back to affliction in Jesus name. The miracle God is about to do in your life shall be permanent in Jesus name. No form of affliction shall arise again in Jesus name.

12. The last point I like to make is that when the story of your life changes, you shall start feeding on the wealth of nations according to the word of God.

 Read this: 2 Kings 25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. 

Why not rejoice because you shall soon start to feed from the Kings palace. You will soon start to get International jobs and contracts in Jesus name. God is about to connect you and International doors and opportunities shall be opened unto you in Jesus name.

CONCLUSION

Do you believe this story and that the God of Jehoiachin will change you story even today? I believe that Jehoiachin had a relationship with God all through the 37 years he was imprisoned. If not God would not have intervened and perform a miracle in his life.

God will change your own story for good as you put your trust in Him.

PRAYER POINTS

1. Good things closed against me, open, in the name of Jesus.

2. Every yoke that holds me, break in the name of Jesus.

3. This year, my story shall change to glory in the name of Jesus.

4. This year, my God shall arise and permanently stop my tears in the name of Jesus.

5. If I must cry this year, it shall be a cry of joy in the name of Jesus.