Welcome to the Thursday Quick Study. Today we’re in chapter 37 and its 38 verses are well worth reading, but we’re only going to study the first five. Know that God hears, God responds, God will solve it. In fact, this verse, from later in the chapter, in something God says to the Assyrian king, Verse 28 “But I know your sitting down / And your going out and your coming in [every detail of your life], / And your raging against Me.” Is accurate for every single person on earth at all times. He is that aware.
First, let’s Pray:
Lord Jesus, thank You for this chapter. The assurance that You know every single thing about our lives and You work for your people’s benefit. Draw us close, Lord, and lead us through this, help us see something we can apply to our lives today.
Please read Isaiah 37:1-5 AMP
Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Help
1 And when King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the [royal] household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and disgrace; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh [the commander], whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to taunt and defy the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant [of His people] that is left.’”
God Hears
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 Isaiah said to them, “You shall say the following to your master: ‘This is what the Lord says, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Listen carefully, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
Hezekiah went to the temple and sent his trusted people to Isaiah to hear from God. Later in this chapter there’s a fascinating story of how Hezekiah spreads a letter out for God to see and God answers him once again through Isaiah. That answer is much longer, well worth reading. But what can we learn here? Faithfulness matters. God is for us. God hears. God knows. Prayer is always necessary.