Take Your Burdens to the Lord

Isaiah 37:14
And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

When Hezekiah heard the threatenings of Sennacherib’s servants, he rent his clothes and went into the house of the Lord, and sent to Isaiah entreating his prayers. When he received the menacing letter, his faith was greater, having been heartened by Isaiah’s assurances. So he then himself appealed to Jehovah, spreading the letter before Him, and himself prayed God to honour, and answer the challenge flung down by the insolent Assyrian.…
We have here an example of what to do with troubles and difficulties. We are to lay them out before God, as we can do by praying about them.… Little troubles as well as great ones are best dealt with by being “spread before the Lord.” Whatever is important enough to disturb me is important enough to speak to God about it.
How much more real and fervid our prayers would be, if we habitually turned all our affairs into materials for petition! That is a very empty dispute as to whether we ought to pray for deliverance from outward sorrows. If we are living in touch with God, we cannot but take Him into our confidence, if we may say so, as to everything that affects us. And we should as soon think of hiding any matter from our dearest friend on earth as from our Friend in heaven.

Alexander Maclaren, Exposition of Holy Scripture