Asking Others to Pray Too...

Isaiah 37:1 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

In this study we have looked before at how God heard the prayers offered to God by Hezekiah during his reign.  Today we take another look and see that he asked others to pray for him: his assistant, secretary, the priests, and especially Isaiah. He knew people who prayed better than he and whom he had heard God had heard.  Notice their plea as well: perhaps God would hear the mocking words of Rabshakeh toward God and do something about it. There is something higher than our pain and problems: the glory of God. If we believe in a God Who hears and answers, and who is worthy of glory, we are beginning to understand the God to Whom we call and what He can do.