Brothers and Sisters,
In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 “Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
7 “‘This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: 8 I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down. (Is. 38)
I mainly think of one verse when I read the account of Hezekiah’s Illness, Psalms 50:15 "and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” We can give God a call.
You may be wondering, what is God's phone number? Is it 911, 311? A few decades ago if you have said to someone that one day he will be able to talk to another person in any country of the world at any time using a cellphone, he would not be able believe you. But, now we can talk to anyone in the world.
Faith is the cellphone that we use to give God a call.
Please read Isaiah 26-38.
May the Lord richly bless you!