Psalm 37:39,40
The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
The Lord helps them and delivers them.
He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
Hezekiah walked with faith and he had times he tore his clothes in despair and put himself apart in prayer. Hezekiah had plenty of times he was sure certain doom had arrived.
All of his worries did not appear. The fortifications worked for the good of those who love the Lord and worked according to His Purpose. Something like the Disciples were known to worry intently from time to time.
Walking or working with faith - in the opposition to the Might of the Assyrian Empire led Hezekiah and the Children of Israel to walk with faith. Not always a comfortable journey - yet living and moving and having their Being with Father God gave Hezekiah Life. Life to the Children of Israel.
Isaiah 14:1
For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place
2 Kings 18:3
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it
2 Kings 19 The Lord's Battle
35 And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh. 37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 29:30
King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
Matthew 13
31 Jesus put before them another parable:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. 32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
2 Chronicles 32:5 716 B.C.
To protect the large number of refugees who scrambled south after Assyria invaded the northern kingdom twenty years earlier, King Hezekiah built a wall around the western hill of the city of Jerusalem.
Abba,
We thank You for the Salvation of Jesus Christ, our righteousness.
The Glory of God continues forever. Thank You we will see Your Glory.
2 Chronicles 32:7-8
Be strong and courageous, do not fear or be dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor because of all the multitude which is with him; for the one with us is greater than the one with him. With him is only an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles
For more Heaven on earth.
For the Lord's Glory. For ourselves. For those we love. For the people God has given us. For our cares. For this Nation Trusting in Him. For the nations of the World who Love His Brightness. And all the Children of God - enfolding His Good Creation.
In Jesus Christ, because of His Love, His Joy, His Mercy - we will become eyewitnesses and partakers of His Home. Love and Kingdom. Our Salvation in Jesus.
Amen.
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