Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"I have heard your prayer"
Text: Isaiah 38:5
GOD’S GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO HEZEKIAH
The LORD had heard the plaintive cry of King Hezekiah. He sent a special word of reply through Isaiah to Hezekiah.
“And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
‘Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father:
‘I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears;
surely I will add to your days fifteen years.
I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria,
and I will defend this city.”
And this is the sign to you from the LORD,
that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken:
Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial,
which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.’
So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.”
Isaiah 38:4-8
1. The prayer of Hezekiah.
a) His prayer was heard.
b) His tears were noted.
c) God will add 15 years to his life.
2. Concerning the Assyrian threat.
a) The LORD Himself will defend the city.
b) Sennacherib may have been assassinated but the threat remained.
c) But God had given a personal promise to protect and defend Jerusalem.
3. A special sign was given by the LORD.
a) This sign would be seen on the sundial of Ahaz.
b) The shadow on the sundial would go back ten degrees.
c) This sign was fulfilled.
d) This would be a tremendous confirmation of the veracity of God’s promise to defend the city of Jerusalem.