II Kings 18:14 & 19:14 19 King Hezekiah was certainly not raised in the fear of the Lord. If anyone had an excuse to turn out bad, he did. His dad was Ahaz a wicked king of Judah and his Mother was the daughter of Zechariah one of the wicked kings of Israel. When he became king at the age of 25 he began to clean house. He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He even broke in pieces the bronze snake that Moses raised in the wilderness. The people had made an idol out of it. He trusted in the Lord and held fast to Him keeping His commandments. Israel, the Northern Kingdom had fallen, and Sennacherib of Assyria was hot on Hezekiah's trail also. Sennacherib wrote a threatening letter to Hezekiah telling him what he would do to his country. We should really take lessons from Hezekiah's response to the letter. The Scripture says that Hezekiah took the letter to the temple and spread it out before the Lord. Hezekiah was asking the Lord for a miracle, He was not naive about Assyria's ability to do just what he threatened to do. He said, "deliver us, let them know that you alone are God." Let us begin to spread out the letters served us by Satan, and say Lord, we need a miracle.

Obedience and Prayer