By Andrew Williams
After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the Lord’s Temple and spread it out before the Lord.
2 Kings 19:14 NLT
Good morning fellow disciples.
Judah was being threatened by the Assyrian army that had surrounded the city. Hezekiah had sent to Isaiah the prophet and asked him to pray on behalf of the Kingdom. Isaiah had sent a message that God Himself would intervene on their behalf, but as soon as this was done, Hezekiah got another even more threatening letter from the Assyrians.
What did Hezekiah do? He interceded on behalf of his nation. He pleaded with God for his nations salvation! Listen to Hezekiah as he prays as recorded in 2 Kings 19:15-19 NLT:
Prayer: “O Lord, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth. Bend down, O Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, O Lord, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God.
“It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.
Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O Lord, are God.”
Amen.
GOD’S RESPONSE WAS SWIFT AND OVEWHELMING!
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer about King Sennacherib of Assyria.
That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.
2 Kings 19:20, 35-36 NLT
WILL YOU INTERCEDE ON BEHALF OF YOUR NATION TODAY AND SEE GOD DELIVER IT?