Prayer Play

Isaiah 38:1-5

What’s needed: A cot (army cot or camper’s cot), Time period clothing (if nothing else wear sandals with colored sheets as robs), a microphone for God to speak through.

The play: Open the play with Hezekiah groaning on the cot. Have Isaiah come in and follow the script out of the Bible.

Isaiah 38:1-5

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."

2Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3"Remember, O 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.

4Then 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.