2 Kings 20

Our life is in the hands of God and time is His to give or to take. God hears our earnest prayers. We can and should pray for His intervention in times of stress or illness. God can and does heal! All knowledge comes from the Lord and medical procedures can be used by Him to heal us. We had been given a death sentence but God in His mercy had His only Son take that sentence for us and He made us whole. Never take your salvation lightly it cost the Father more than you could ever repay. Don't be afraid to ask Him for the miraculous! The Lord is a rewarder of those who seek Him and put all their trust in Him. Praise God for His mercies are new each morning.

20 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord: 'Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.' "

2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, 3 "Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 5 "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord. 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David." ' "

7 Then Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord the third day?"

9 Then Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?"

10 And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees."

11 So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

The NKJV Study Bible says this: Hezekiah was a great man of prayer. Hezekiah's prayer recognized that although all of life is in God's hands, God is also a Rewarder of those who faithfully serve Him. The pattern of divine revelation to Hezekiah was through His prophet Isaiah. The practice of applying figs to an ulcerated sore is well attested in the records of the ancient Middle East. Once more the Lord provided a sign of His superintending intervention. Hezekiah welcomed it. Hezekiah's underlying trust in the Lord surfaced repeatedly throughout his reign.