The idea of building a Headquarters as a base for our ministry's mission sounded exciting - and very overwhelming. An architect drew the blueprint for what we needed the Headquarters to be, and that was great. But there I stood with this very big and detailed drawing - having no idea of where to start with what was on that paper.
I didn't know what to do with what was in front of me - but the contractor did! So, I put that blueprint in the hands of someone who knew exactly what to do with what looked totally overwhelming to me. That kind of handoff was what literally saved King Hezekiah and the Jewish people centuries ago.
Hezekiah receives a letter calling for his surrender, reminding him that no other people have been able to stop this army. The Bible says, "Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: 'O Lord Almighty...enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth...Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand so that all the kingdoms on earth may know that You alone, O Lord, are God."
The next morning, where yesterday the Jews had seen an overwhelming army, today all they saw was dead bodies.
There is a powerful blueprint here for how to handle what looks like it's going to overwhelm you. You do what I did with a building project that was way beyond anything I could do - you put it in the hands of Someone who does know what to do with it. You "spread it out before the Lord."
What you couldn't do in 50 years, your God can do in a day!