Hezekiah (Daily Devotional)

Hi everyone and welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to come together and minister God’s word and pray together. This week, we are talking about bible characters and today, we will talk about King Hezekiah. Let us read a portion from 2 Kings chapter 18, verses 5 to 7, ‘Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to the LORD and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses. And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.’ Describing the shoot that would come from the shoot of the stump of Jesse, Isaiah portrayed a good king, a true king, saying that the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness around his waist. If any king matched this description, perhaps it was King Hezekiah. In the long line of the kings of Israel and Judah, no one else, not even David was more righteous a king as Hezekiah. Why? Because Hezekiah trusted God and like a shield clenched to his chest, he held fast to the Lord. Even in perilous situations, like when the powerful Assyrian enemy seemed invincible, Hezekiah never doubted God’s ability to protect him and to save his people. In 2 Kings chapter 19, verse 19 it says, ‘our God, deliver us so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, LORD, are God.”’ The King of Assyria has threatened Jerusalem and warned that unless God’s people surrender, he will cut off the water supply to the city. In the faces of this serious threat to the people, King Hezekiah goes to the temple and prays. You might think that Hezekiah would pray for support for deliverance and then for water. But his prayer in the moment of crisis is for God’s glory and honor to prevail. Hezekiah’s prayer was not just for the rescue of Jerusalem but for the proclamation that the Lord is the one true God throughout the earth. Heroes of faith did not seek their own glory, they recognized that their life is an instrument used by the living God. From the Assyrians in Hezekiah’s time to the Romans in Jesus’ time, to the superpowers of the world today, no one is as powerful as our Lord Jesus Christ. All of the victories that God has provided point to one sure, certain victory, the final victory of our Lord Jesus Christ over principalities of this world. This is a victory that you and I celebrate today. We thank God that we are walking in this victory, that we are not fighting for victory, but we are fighting from a place of victory. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you, we thank you for you are a God who fights for us, push back every darkness. We thank you that you have overcome every principality and power of darkness. You said, greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. We pray that you will continue to empower us, no matter what season or situation that we see, no matter how bleak it may look, you are a God of impossibilities, you are a God who is able to do greater things in our lives, in our situations, we thank you Father and we pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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