Fourteenth Mountain Peak

"And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. The angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." Isaiah 37:14. 35-36

HERE THE KING OF ASSYRIA is seen threatening and warning God's people. At the same time he sent a letter to Hezekiah. After reading it, Hezekiah went-up into the temple. (v. 15:17) He and his people were in extreme difficulty, but they knew that God would answer. Even though humanly speaking there was no hope of deliverance because the Assyrian king had come with a very strong army to threaten them with defeat as he had defeated other nations, Hezekiah was confident in the Lord, and went to the temple and the Lord answered and delivered him,

A few years ago when we were having a campaign in Nagercoil in the open field, a swarm of insects came like a storm upon us. There were about 7000 people gathered for the evening meeting. We had begun with songs and had sung about three songs when suddenly this happened. This swarm of insects came as a storm which is not usual in North India. Such storms conic up like a thick wall, and these insects came upon us like that, covering our hands, feet, head and neck and made us restless. We could not even give the Word as when doing so, the insects went into our mouths, We thought we could not go on with our meeting because nobody could withstand the insects, and many were going into our mouths and noses. The people were about to disperse, so I said: "Kindly wait, we will pray". We prayed: "Lord in thy Name we rebuke these insects, which the devil has brought to disturb our meeting", and as, by faith we took hold of the Lord, the insects fled.

Similarly, Hezekiah prayed, and though he did not know what was going to happen, God knew. See Isa. 37: 36. In the morning the great Assyrian army were all dead bodies. From this we learn that when the enemy attacks us in different ways we have a weapon, and that is. to go upon our knees. Alas! We often use our tongue and no; our knees. Knees are more helpful than the tongue. If only we knew how to use our knees sufficiently, we would find heaven opened, and the storms that come up against us from the enemy would be confounded.