2 Kings 18:6<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFor he held fast to the\u00a0Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments\u201d. This passage is talking about King Hezekiah, and says, \u201cHe trusted in the\u00a0Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him\u201d (2 Kings 18:5). Our verse today teaches us why there was none like him among all the kings of Judah. The word \u201cheld\u201d in our verse means to cleave to, follow close or be joined. Do any of those terms describe your relationship with God? Our verse also tells us that \u201che did not depart from following Him\u201d. That doesn\u2019t sound possible to us to depart from following Him, but many have turned from following Jesus because of something He said (John 6:66). For me, following Him is the only way to live. My wife and I have been through tough times, losing our house, being out of work with 6 kids and no income, my broken back, her breast cancer, and brain cancers. We held fast to the Lord, did not depart from following Him, and kept the Word. The Word was in us so when we needed it most it was right there working in our hearts. Hold fast to the Lord, do not depart from following Him, and Keep His Word! He\u2019s coming back to get us, that\u2019s a promise from the Word we can keep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2 Kings 18:6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFor he held fast to the\u00a0Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments\u201d. This passage is talking about King Hezekiah, and says, \u201cHe trusted in the\u00a0Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}