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He Has Promised Us Long Life
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See, it’s not just mental assent that brings us up and gives us victory. There’s got to be that
reaction, that response from the human spirit. How can you tell if you really believe in
something? Every time you’ll get excited.
I saw a little spark. It wasn’t too big, but a little spark in Sister So-and-So’s eyes and her voice.
“Well, I do enjoy going to church. I do.”
I said, “And we enjoy having you. Is there anything else?”
“Well, you know, I don’t want to be greedy and selfish, but you know, there are some things that
I kind of wanted to do.”
I said, “It said right here He would satisfy you. Didn’t it say He’d satisfy you?”
She said, “Well, that’s what it said.”
I said, “It says it right there.” I read it again about three times. Long life.
And she pepped up.
The next day, I went in, and she was sitting up in bed. I read the same verse—I didn’t go
anywhere new at that point. I read the same verse, and we talked about it and got stirred up. She
got better and better and came home. Nobody expected that to happen. She came home, and a
couple of weeks later, she was standing up in church testifying, glory to God, and lived for a
good length of time after that. She eventually got satisfied and went on.
There’s power in these words to change our spirits and our minds and our bodies. It’s our right.
You only have two and a half hours. It’s our right. It belongs to us.
See, back then, people who were living almost a day would feel sorry for us, wouldn’t they?
“You only get to live two hours? We had the whole day in our time.” Yes, we know it, but you
messed it up, too. I mean, everyone was so mean that God said, “I’m not putting up with this.
You can’t live a whole day, you can only live two hours.”
Say this out loud:
“I want my two hours. I claim my two hours.”
You need to get stirred up about it because if you’re passive or open to something else, the devil
will talk you out of it. Symptoms, feelings, challenges, and attacks will wear you down. You’ll
get tired and you’ll quit, or you can say, “No, no, I’m only here for two hours, and I want my two
hours. I claim my two hours.”
With long life He will satisfy me and show me His salvation. Glory to God.
Parents should teach their little children this. The best time to get this is when they’re little, when
they’re young. It needs to be ingrained in them so that as they get older and have challenges,
tests, and attacks, they’re not in the middle of deciding what a long life is. That’s already been