Hezekiah

While I was praying with a friend and as we drew to a close and waited on the Lord I felt His spirit saying to me "Hezekiah". Well, my mind raced through the Bible...there is no book of Hezekiah. However, the name seemed familiar. My friend pointed out to me Hezekiah was a king. So, I have been researching him and reading his story in Chronicles & Kings, asking God to show me what He wants to tell me.
What I found and am stirred up with is overwhelming and I think even I haven't absorbed it all.

Well, first of all Hezekiah was a king of Judah

In the crisis, Hezekiah proved to be a man of opportunity. No sooner had he ascended the throne than he began to plan and to execute. He first turned his attention to the restoration of the temple services, so long neglected; and in this work he earnestly solicited the co-operation of a band of priests and Levites who had remained true to their sacred calling. Confident of their loyal support, he spoke with them freely concerning his desire to institute immediate and far-reaching reforms. "Our fathers have trespassed," he confessed, "and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken Him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord." "Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us."
2 Chronicles 29:6, 10.

The people had turned their backs on God, they were not worshiping Him anymore. They were just doing their own thing. They had fallen into worshiping idols.

I feel in my spirit that God is telling us how urgent it is to restore our land! He is calling us back to Him. Many of us have felt the spirit of god speaking to us about the importance of being seperate from the world. There are difficult times ahead! We must be staying in the Word of God and praying. Staying close to God's heart! We must NOT be like the world. We MUST keep our eyes on Jesus and not on our situations or circumstances. We must truly walk by faith and not by sight. We must be praying for one another. We must be fully surrendered to God..every part..nothing held back.

2 Timothy 3 (The Message)
Don't be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals. Stay clear of these people.
But don't let it faze you. Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers—why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother's milk! There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God's way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

"If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
As we spend time, immersed in God's presence, we know His will. . .we know His Word. . .we know His heart. When we fail to spend time with Him by reading His Word and praying with Him, His presence becomes faint. . .we don't follow His ways, instead we follow our own plans. I don't know about you, but I want to stay close to Him. I want to experience His presence on a moment by moment basis.

How's your relationship with God? Are you experiencing His love, His grace, and His presence? Or are you more in tune with listening to others and moving toward your own destination? Why not re-connect today? Ask God to give you the desire to seek Him.


Deuteronomy 4:29-31 (Message)
But even there, if you seek God, your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul. When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to God, your God, and listen obediently to what he says. God, your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won't bring you to ruin, he won't forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them.