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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2022

TEXT: 2 Kings 19:29-37

29. “This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah:” This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

30. Once more a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.

31. For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant. And out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

32. “Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria:” He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.

33. By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declare the LORD.

34. I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.

35. That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning- there were all the dead bodies!

36. So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

37. One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

(New International Version Holy Biblec)

TOPIC: GOD ANSWERS KING HEZEKIAH’S PRAYERS

The text opens with the words “This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah” (v. 29).

First, God provided food for the entire land after long period of living under Assyrian fear and threats.

Second, God assured him that no matter what happens, there would always be remnants from Judah. This clearly indicated that no force or power can wipe the Jews from the face of the earth.

Third, King Sennacherib was barred from entering Jerusalem because the Lord Himself defended the city for His name’s sake and for David His servant.

Also, the angel of the Lord slaughtered 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night which forced Sennacherib to return home where he was killed by two of his sons.

God answered the prayers of King Hezekiah and Isaiah which demonstrated that whoever trusts in Him will never be put to shame.

QUESTION: Have you ever received answers to any specific prayers to God?

PRAYER: Thank You, my Lord Jesus Christ, for all of my prayers that You have answered, Amen.