BIBLICAL WARFARE PRAYERS: The Prayer of Hezekiah -- and the Lord’s Response!

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NOTE:  This prayer has been recorded TWICE, first for listening and agreeing, then again for repeating. 

 

Isaiah 37:14-29 

When Jerusalem was besieged by King Sennacherib of Assyria, his envoys conveyed a message of mockery and disdain against the God of Jacob. Hezekiah brought the matter before the Lord, and prayed for deliverance. The Lord answered Hezekiah's prayer and saved Israel from Sennacherib, even ultimately sending an angel to single-handedly slaughter 185,000 Assyrian troops. Not long after that, Sennacherib was assassinated by two of his own sons. 

This episode presents the prayer which Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, and also the Lord's response as it was communicated through the prophet Isaiah. The wording has been adapted for a more general spiritual warfare context, making this prayer a declaration of war against the reprobate mockers of the present time. 

Many of the major figures in the Old Testament prayed prayers -- some longer, some shorter -- which have been recorded in the scriptures both as examples for us and for our use directly. These powerful prayers bring both praise and supplication before the Lord, His holiness and His judgments against the wicked and the proud. It is well worth the time to learn and to pray these prayers, to speak against the kingdom of darkness that the Lord Jesus Christ is seated, victorious, upon His sovereign throne.