{"id":72178,"date":"2025-03-26T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=72178"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:56:37","slug":"hezekiahs-prayer-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/hezekiahs-prayer-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezekiah\u2019s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 37:1-38, Isaiah 38:1-22, Isaiah 39:1-8, Psalm 2:1-12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad\u2019s sight suddenly disappeared during a weeknight spaghetti dinner while my brother and I rambled about our day. He played it off not wanting to cause concern, and his sight returned a few minutes later. This episode propelled him to seek medical attention, leading to the discovery of a tumor the size of a golf ball growing next to his visual cortex. Inoperable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad called Samuel Paul, the prayer warrior that led him to the faith, and Samuel Paul prayed over my dad, begging God for his life\u2014asking for at least fifteen more years like God gave King Hezekiah so dad could see his children grow up. The tumor miraculously stopped growing, every tendril cut off from the surrounding tissue, and his sight remained intact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifteen years later, Dad fell at work. The next day he woke up and couldn\u2019t move the right half of his body. Doctors discovered another inoperable brain tumor, and Dad died two weeks after my husband asked for my hand in marriage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God gave my father fifteen more years, as He did for King Hezekiah. How I praise God that He gave them to us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twice Hezekiah came before the Lord with a desperate petition: first, to save Jerusalem from the hand of the king of Assyria, who mocked the Lord (Isaiah 37:16\u201320). Hezekiah took the assault of the Lord\u2019s name before the throne of God and petitioned the Lord to save Israel for the sake of the name of the Lord (Isaiah 37:14\u201320). And again, when Hezekiah fell sick, the Lord told him through the prophet Isaiah that he would die. The king begged God for more time, and God added another fifteen years in response to Hezekiah\u2019s prayer (Isaiah 38). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hezekiah\u2019s strength was that he did not hesitate to take his needs to the Lord. I\u2019ve learned that I can approach prayer in the same way as Hezekiah. He heard Hezekiah; he heard Samuel Paul\u2014and He hears us too. When we seek the Lord, He hears us (Psalm 34:4). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the act of praying in itself is an act of hope, I have some unanswered prayers. We might hesitate to seek God in prayer, fearing our hope turning into disappointment at God\u2019s response, whatever it may be. How long, oh Lord?, we may cry (Psalm 13). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what we see in Hezekiah\u2019s story and in Jesus\u2019s instructions to His disciples is that God hears and responds to our prayers. His sovereignty is a mystery at times, but we know He moves when we pray. So let\u2019s continue to pray against all odds, like King Hezekiah, always for the glory of God to be made known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Seana Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 37:1-38, Isaiah 38:1-22, Isaiah 39:1-8, Psalm 2:1-12 Dad\u2019s sight suddenly disappeared during a weeknight spaghetti dinner while my brother and I rambled about our day. He played it off not wanting to cause concern, and his sight returned a few minutes later. This episode propelled him to seek medical attention, leading to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":71922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lent2025"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[71943],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"HEZEKIAH\u2019S PRAYER<\/b>

\r\nby Seana Scott<\/i>

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Dad\u2019s sight suddenly disappeared during a weeknight spaghetti dinner while my brother and I rambled about our day. He played it off not wanting to cause concern, and his sight returned a few minutes later. This episode propelled him to seek medical attention, leading to the discovery of a tumor the size of a golf ball growing next to his visual cortex. Inoperable.<\/p>
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Dad called Samuel Paul, the prayer warrior that led him to the faith, and Samuel Paul prayed over my dad, begging God for his life\u2014asking for at least fifteen more years like God gave King Hezekiah so dad could see his children grow up. The tumor miraculously stopped growing, every tendril cut off from the surrounding tissue, and his sight remained intact.<\/p>
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Fifteen years later, Dad fell at work. The next day he woke up and couldn\u2019t move the right half of his body. Doctors discovered another inoperable brain tumor, and Dad died two weeks after my husband asked for my hand in marriage.<\/p>
\r\n

God gave my father fifteen more years, as He did for King Hezekiah. How I praise God that He gave them to us!<\/p>
\r\n

Twice Hezekiah came before the Lord with a desperate petition: first, to save Jerusalem from the hand of the king of Assyria, who mocked the Lord (Isaiah 37:16\u201320). Hezekiah took the assault of the Lord\u2019s name before the throne of God and petitioned the Lord to save Israel for the sake of the name of the Lord (Isaiah 37:14\u201320). And again, when Hezekiah fell sick, the Lord told him through the prophet Isaiah that he would die. The king begged God for more time, and God added another fifteen years in response to Hezekiah\u2019s prayer (Isaiah 38).<\/p>
\r\n

Hezekiah\u2019s strength was that he did not hesitate to take his needs to the Lord. I\u2019ve learned that I can approach prayer in the same way as Hezekiah. He heard Hezekiah; he heard Samuel Paul\u2014and He hears us too. When we seek the Lord, He hears us (Psalm 34:4).<\/p>
\r\n

And while the act of praying in itself is an act of hope, I have some unanswered prayers. We might hesitate to seek God in prayer, fearing our hope turning into disappointment at God\u2019s response, whatever it may be. How long, oh Lord?, we may cry (Psalm 13).<\/p>
\r\n

But what we see in Hezekiah\u2019s story and in Jesus\u2019s instructions to His disciples is that God hears and responds to our prayers. His sovereignty is a mystery at times, but we know He moves when we pray. So let\u2019s continue to pray against all odds, like King Hezekiah, always for the glory of God to be made known.<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"24","scripture":"Isaiah 37:1-38, Isaiah 38:1-22, Isaiah 39:1-8, Psalm 2:1-12","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}