“Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover.” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, and said, “Remember now, O Lord, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.”
Excerpt, First Reading, Friday 19th July 2024 – ISAIAH 38:1-6.21-22.7-8.
So, today’s teaching is yet another clear testament that prayer is efficacious, because, prayer changes things.
There’s this is this common street rhetoric, “Have we prayed about it as much as we have talked it?”
When we pray faithfully and talk to God from the death of our heart, there’ always an answer to our prayer.
One of such answers could be a simple no. Possibly may be because we deserve something better or what we seek wouldn’t be appropriate for us.
Another answer we could possibly get may be for us to wait. We would be asked to wait because God’s timing is perfect. Just so that what we seek should happen at the most appropriate time. God’s time is the best.
Then, the answer that we all so cherish is a yes. Just as was with King Hezekiah in today’s teaching. God said ‘Yes’ to his prayer.
God heard and answered King Hezekiah’s request. God didn’t just grant him that prayer point, He also delivered the king from a ravaging Assyrian King who would have ordinarily levelled that city.
Now, that is what God does, and He’s really consistent at it.
When we pray and seek capabilities to get something like a laptop.
When God grants our petition, He gives us a higher capacity laptop than what we envisaged. He doesn’t stop there, He goes ahead to give us a laptop bag, an Internet router or other internet devices. He also gives us a computer table with chair as well as a mobile superior extension cable and several other accessories.
Dear friend, that is the ways of our Father.
So, my dear friend, we should pray in and out of season. We must and should pray for something as little as getting a laptop as well as priceless things like King Hezekiah prayed for his life. Truly, prayer changes things.
Folks, have a fantastic rainy day and a pleasant weekend.
#Blessed_Carlo_Acutis! #Pray_for_us!
– Akase F. Agabo.
19th July 2024.