Hezekiah

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I agree the problem is that the main line christian thought is a lot of
time mixed with traditional values and idea created from man
himself...God ask.s us to run this race his way! What happens out in
non-One God beliefs is they'll gather there ideas from selected
scripture to mean what their trying to project..that is there free-style
easy believism idea's but when you continue to read where they leave off
at in the Word of God it seems to always point back to the Acts 2:38 ,
Holiness, surrendering of your whole life to God ACTIONS. They call us
legalist but were only living the Word of God as it was spoken  God
Bless Brother Polley
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:39:51 -0500 CDSTERRE@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU writes:
>Hezekiah's prayer
>
>In Isaiah 38, Hezekiah is told by the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, 
>that the Lord says for
>him to put his house in order, because he was going to die. Hezekiah 
>turned his face to a
>wall and prayed to the Lord..
>
>"Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with
>wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." 
>
>Hezekiah went on to weep bitterly.  Then the Lord came to Isaiah 
>telling him to tell
>Hezekiah that He had heard his prayers and seen his tears, that He 
>will add 15 years to his
>life.  To prove that He would keep his words, the Lord casted a shadow 
>on the steps of
>the stairway of Ahaz and made it go back the ten steps that it had 
>gone down.
>
>After Hezekiah's illness and recovery, he wrote these words...
>
>"In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be 
>robbed of the
>rest of my years?  I will not again see the Lord, the Lord, in the 
>land of the living; no
>longer will I look on mankind, or be with those who dwell on this 
>world.  Like a
>sheperd's tent my house had been pulled down and taken from me.  Like 
>a weaver I
>have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom;  day and 
>night you made
>and end to me.  I waited patiently until dawn, but like a lion he 
>broke all of my
>bones;  day and night you made an end to me.  I cried like a swift or 
>thrush, I
>moaned like a mourning dove,  My eyes grew weak as I looked to the 
>heavens.  I am
>troubled; O Lord, come to my aid!
>
>After all of Isaiah's words, Hezekiah prayed to the Lord and the Lord 
>answered him by
>adding years to his life.  What faith Hezekiah had to have in order to 
>receive such a
>blessing.  He could of easily gave up on his life and sat down and 
>died.  Hezekiah did just
>the opposite though..being that he was following the Lord's command, 
>Hezekiah knew
>that the Lord would listen to him.
>
>In today's world it is easy to hear all those around us talking.  They 
>say many things about
>how we are crazy people, followers of a cult, liars and  false 
>prophets.  What we as
>followers of the Lord need to do is remind ourselves that we are God's 
>people and He will
>hear our cry.  If we pray to the Lord, he will answer!  It is time 
>like these that we don't
>give up!  We have an awesome power on our side and nothing of this 
>carnal world will
>stop us! Philippians 4:13 says.."I can do all things through Christ 
>which strengthens me." 
>Oh how very true that is today!  With God on our side, who can be 
>against us?
>
>If something has you down, whether it be someone telling you it can't 
>be done or maybe
>even a life threatening illness like Hezekiah had, you need to go to 
>the Lord and pray
>with all your heart and sincerity, then and only then will the Lord 
>listen to you and
>answer your prayers!
>
>******************************************************
>I hope you all enjoyed this!!  It came to me last night while I was
>flipping through the Bible.  4-15-96
>
>Chris Sterrett
>cdsterre@indyvax.iupui.edu
>http://cord.iupui.edu/~cdsterre/chris.htm
>