TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD & BEAR FRUIT
UPWARD
Dear children of God take root downward and bear fruit
upward, this is the promise was given to the remnant people of Israel and King
Hezekiah. Let us believe this word of God and let us own this promise and this
promise will come to overtake us. Today we are going to see how King Hezekiah
take root downward and bear fruit upward. He was sick, and about to die, but
the word of God says that he will take root downward and will bear fruit
upward. The word of God never fails. Sure, God’s word came and fulfilled in his
life. King Hezekiah was like a dried tree, because he was so sick, and the
prophet of Isaiah brought God’s word that he won’t be alive, surely he shall
die. So he has to settle in order his households. But he prayed to God, and
said, “Please O Lord, remember me, how I walked before you in faithfulness and
with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight. Thus says the
Lord, the God of David your father; I have heard your prayer; I have seen your
tears. Behold I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of
the Lord, and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and
this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria.
Dear friends let us note down the good things found in King
Hezekiah ‘life. His father Ahaz shut down the gates of the temples and he
brought all abominations in the holy altar of God, and he broke down the altar
of God. But King Hezekiah did what is right in the sight of God with all his
whole heart and faithfulness. Here listed down his good service to the Lord his
God with whole heart
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In the first year of his reign, in the first
month, he opens the doors of the house of God and repaired them.2.
He brought in the priests and Levites and
assembled them and said, hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves and
consecrate the house of the Lord your God of fathers and carry out the filth
from the holy place. For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what
was evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him and have
turned away their faces from the habitations of the Lord and turned their
backs. They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have
not burnt incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of
Israel. Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has
made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with
your own eyes.3.
As the King had commanded, by the words of God
to cleanse it, the priests went into the inner part of court to cleanse it, and
they brought out all the uncleanness that the Levites found in the temple of
the Lord and carried out to the brook Kidron.4.
Then the
King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to
the house of God and restored the temple worship.5.
He stationed the Levites in the house of God
with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and Gad.
He commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the
burnt offering began, the songs to the lord began also, and trumpets
accompanied, the whole assembly worshiped, and they sang praises with gladness,
and they bowed and worshiped.6.
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote
letters also Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the
Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God Israel. For if you
return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with
their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and
merciful and will not turn away his from you, if you return to him. So the couriers went from city to city through
the country of Ephraim and Manasseh and as far as Zebulm, but they laughed them
to scorn and mocked them. However, the hand of the Lord was with Judah to give
them one heart to do what the King commanded by the word of the Lord. Many
people came together in Jerusalem to keep the unleavened bread, a great
assembly.
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Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah and he
did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. And every
work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance
with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart,
and prospered.
How King Hezekiah take root
downward and bear fruit upward? 1. God has heard his prayer.2.
God has seen his tears.3.
He healed him from sickness.4.
On the third day he went to the house God to
praise and worship the Lord who healed him.5.
He was added fifteen years in his life.6.
King Assyria was defeated and God sent his angel
and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians.7.
This shall be the sign for you; this year eats
what you grow of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then
in the third year you sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
And the surviving remnant of the house of the Israel shall again take root
downward and bear fruit upward.8.
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Dear brothers and sisters you may think that
your life is like a dried tree, but God can give life to the dried tree to take
root down ward to bear fruit upward. God did miracle in the Life of King
Hezekiah and he healed his sickness and added 15 years in his life. God can
make your life to take root down ward and bear fruit upward. May God bless this
message each one of you to take root and bear fruit. If you blessed by this
take root and bear fruit, share with your friends and relatives. Let me know
your wordings send to my email ID. revsjc@gmail.com,
revsjc12@hotmail.com, johnchelliah857@yahoo.com,
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