2 Chronicles 32:1-23
Hezekiah encouraged his people, "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him. With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles."
Sennacherib king of Assyria says:" Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will you god deliver you from my hand!"
King Hezekiah and the prophet Isiah cried out in prayer to heaven about this. And the Lord sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the leaders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace.
Having wiped out the northern kingdom, the Assyrians make inroads into Judah, whose people have been showing signs of independence. But in is campaign of 701BC Sennacherib fails to take Jerusalem. The reason, says the Chronicler, is that in the crisis Judah's king put his trust wholly in God.
Why?
The God of Israel, the Lord Almighty is different as other gods, who is the true God and he is with us and help us and to fight our battles.
Put trust wholly in God is the strength, for God helps us.
How?
Put trust in God, no matter what I am facing! Even I am facing the problem of TerraSAR data.
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