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Thursday, July 19, 2012

In studying Hezekiah’s prayer life we’ve seen that at first he asked Isaiah the prophet to pray for a concern he had. Then he prayed himself about a threat against his nation. In both cases God answered the prayers in a dramatic way, preserving Hezekiah and his people. 

In Isaiah 38 we read that soon after these victories Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. Isaiah went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
 
When Hezekiah heard this he prayed to God, “Remember, O lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” He prayed earnestly, even weeping bitterly.
 
God again heard his prayer and told Isaiah to relay a message of grace: “I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria.” He even gave him a sign by causing the sun to go backward ten steps.
 
Hezekiah recounts his ordeal in a poem recorded in Isaiah 38:10-20. The main point in this poem is that it is the living who praise God and it is the living fathers who tell their children about God’s faithfulness. It all sounds so good. Everything sounds as though it will all turn out well. But the story doesn’t end here.
 
Hezekiah did live another 15 years. During that time he received a letter and a gift from the son of the king of Babylon. We’ll look into this in our next visit. He also had a son named Manasseh, who succeeded him after his death.

 

 

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