King Hezekiah

Now I don't want you to think I've figured all this out on my own cuz I am not that cool. I read this series of fiction books based on the Bible where the author took the history and added the story behind it. It was called Chronicles and Kings and it's based on… you guessed it, the books of Chronicles and Kings. I was amazed at how Hezekiah had enough faith in God to stop, wait and be patient. It says in 2 Kings, Hezekiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. The Assyrians have conquered all the land around Jerusalem. Part of their success is because they love mental warfare. Part is because they are incredible warriors. They take all the high ranking city officials and impale them alive and put them in the front of the line so the leaders of their next conquest will know what is in store for them. They die slow horrible painful deaths and not only suffer physical, but mental anguish.
God tells Isaiah that the King of Assyria will not enter the city, and Isaiah tells Hezekiah not to fight back, but to sit and wait. So Hezekiah is watching 185,000 warriors get ready to conquer his city, knowing he will be impaled and be put in the front of the line at the next city, impaled and dying a slow painful death. Instead of fighting, he did what God wanted him to do and he just waited. I can't even imagine how long that night was. I'm amazed that he could wait it out. 2 Kings 19:35-37. That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eight-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning there were all the dead bodies. So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
If Hezekiah hadn't just waited, the entire city would have been captured and he would have been killed in a way that is past imaginable. Sometimes God's answer is be still, and wait.
Sometimes God will take care of it for us if we just wait. God is amazing and has plans to prosper us not to harm us and sometimes all we have to do to experience it, is wait.
I'm praying for you today to just wait, be still, listen, know God will prosper us if we are patient.
God's love is amazing.