2 Chronicles 32:20 KJV
And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
I loved the partnership of this passage.
There wasn't a huge number of men crying to heaven, but there were two men; important ones, lifting up their voices to the Lord.
Just as Sennacherib taunted the Jews that their "gods" would not be able to protect them any better than the gods of other lands had protected them, even so our world taunts us that God will not be able to help us either. The world the flesh and the devil appear to be gaining ground right now. Evil men are waxing worse and worse and a Christian could despair of seeing victory again.
Assyria reminded the Jews that their king had convinced them to cast down the images of the false gods of the land. It was probable, they suggested, that those gods would now be angry and would help the Assyrians. Those of us who take stands against the many kinds of worship styles that are promoted in the world today and who see numbers of people heading to churches that are more progressive in those areas are taunted as well that it is our narrow mindedness that will be the undoing of us in these days.
But Hezekiah and Isaiah prayed and cried to heaven. That is what we need today.
We do not need new music
We do not need a better organized program
We do not need a more modern facility
We need people who will pray and cry to heaven.
God answered their prayers and Sennacherib went home ashamed and was slain by his own children in the temple of his false god.
God will answer if we will cry.
And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
I loved the partnership of this passage.
There wasn't a huge number of men crying to heaven, but there were two men; important ones, lifting up their voices to the Lord.
Just as Sennacherib taunted the Jews that their "gods" would not be able to protect them any better than the gods of other lands had protected them, even so our world taunts us that God will not be able to help us either. The world the flesh and the devil appear to be gaining ground right now. Evil men are waxing worse and worse and a Christian could despair of seeing victory again.
Assyria reminded the Jews that their king had convinced them to cast down the images of the false gods of the land. It was probable, they suggested, that those gods would now be angry and would help the Assyrians. Those of us who take stands against the many kinds of worship styles that are promoted in the world today and who see numbers of people heading to churches that are more progressive in those areas are taunted as well that it is our narrow mindedness that will be the undoing of us in these days.
But Hezekiah and Isaiah prayed and cried to heaven. That is what we need today.
We do not need new music
We do not need a better organized program
We do not need a more modern facility
We need people who will pray and cry to heaven.
God answered their prayers and Sennacherib went home ashamed and was slain by his own children in the temple of his false god.
God will answer if we will cry.
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