When We Step Out God Steps In // Having Faith that Moves Mountains, Part 2

<p>When the going starts getting tough in life – you know what we often do – we look to other people to help. People more experienced than us. But what if they’ve lost the plot too.  Then what?</p> <div id="transcript33320-2" class="" data-toggler="is-hidden" aria-expanded="false"> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;">A Hopeless King</span></h4> <p>Have you ever been in one of those places of real desperation – you know, nothing is going right – you’re wondering what, if anything, God is thinking and has He taken a holiday; has He taken leave of His senses? How can a faithful God allow this to happen to me… me, of all people?</p> <p>Today on the program, in this second in the series called "<em>Having Faith that Moves Mountains"</em>, we’re going to take a close look at such a time in the history of Israel. It was absolute desperation time, in fact, things were so bad; people were so hungry that mothers were cannibalising their children. Can you imagine? See, by and large, we don’t have to rely too much on faith when things are all going swimmingly well. We need faith when there are mountains that need moving; we need faith when we have something impossible to deal with. And those are precisely the times that we find ourselves at our weakest and most vulnerable. Those are precisely the times when the last thing we feel like we have is some mighty faith.</p> <p>So this story… this story takes place at a time in Israel’s history that can best be described as ‘rock bottom’. So let’s have a look – if you have a Bible, grab it. We are going to Second Kings chapter 6, beginning a verse 24:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>Sometime later, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, ‘Help me, my lord kin