Date: Friday, 26th April, 2024
Text: 2 Kings 19-14-19
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
When someone issues a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage on you; do not be afraid. Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered and none of them can fall to the ground without the permission of your heavenly father. Just do what King Hezekiah did and the case would be sorted.
When the mighty Assyrian emperor, Sennacherib, wrote a threat letter to King Hezekiah, king of Judah, he took the letter to the Temple of the Lord placed the letter there in the presence of the Lord, and prayed, “O Lord, the God of Israel, seated on your throne above the winged creatures, you alone are God, ruling all the kingdoms of the world. You created the earth and the sky. Now, Lord, look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God. We all know, Lord, that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate, and burned up their gods—which were no gods at all, only images of wood and stone made by human hands. Now, Lord our God, rescue us from the Assyrians, so that all the nations of the world will know that only you, O Lord, are God.” 2 Kings 19-14-19
Before this time he had also sent messengers to Isaiah the prophet to intercede on behalf of the land. In response, the Lord promised to defend his people and that night an angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead! – 2 Kings 19:35
Sennacherib, the Assyrian Emperor himself was struck down by two of his own sons. The Lord fought for his own people.
Are you under threat, fret not, just report the threat to the Lord of Hosts; he will fight for you and you will hold your peace in Jesus name.
Prayer Nugget: Lord of Hosts! Please, fight for me while I hold my peace in Jesus name.