In Second Kings, chapter nineteen, verse fifteen, Hezekiah took the defiant letter that demanded Jerusalem’s surrender, spread it out before the Lord, and prayed earnestly to Him. Hezekiah received the letter and went up into the house of the Lord. After reading it, he hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of faith, containing taunts deeply affecting the divine honor, and implored deliverance from this proud defier of God and man. The devout spirit of this prayer and the recognition of the Divine Being in the abundance of His majesty. So strikingly contrasted with the fancy of the Assyrians as to His merely local power, his acknowledgment of the conquests obtained over other lands, and the destruction of their wooden idols, which, according to the Assyrian practice, were committed to the flames.
However, because their tutelary deities were no gods, and the object for which he supplicated the divine interposition that all the kingdoms of the earth might know that the Lord was the only God, this was an attitude worthy to be assumed by a pious theocratic king of the chosen people.
When trouble comes to our lives and circumstances seem out of control, we must do just like Hezekiah did: draw near to God in fervent and trusting prayer. God had promised to deliver His people from the hands of their enemies and permit nothing to happen that is out of His will, as in Matthew six, verses twenty-five through thirty-four. By clinging to God in trust and faith, we will have peace to guard our hearts and minds, as in Philippians four, verses six through seven. Believers today must commit to God for everything and not just for needs and desires but seek Him for others who will need prayer for help for their situation.