An old man looking for salvation and an old woman looking to serve.


An old man looking for salvation and an old woman looking to serve.


Simeon and Anna were both present when Jesus was eight days old and brought into the temple to be given to God and named. Simeon had been told by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he saw The Savior. No doubt he knew of people who claimed to be that. But in walks a young girl and her husband with an eight-day-old baby and the Holy Spirit speaks to his heart to tell him this is The Savior.


Anna was a prophetess who had been living as a widow in the temple since her husband died 84 years ago. And she served God with her prayers and fastings. She too came up to Mary and Joseph and began glorifying God for what she heard in her spirit.


We often look to the saints in the church with great respect and hope someday that we too can be like them when we get up in years like they are. But here is their secret. They started when they were young! Look at Anna if she was 18 when she got married then she would have been 25 when he died. She moved out of her home and started serving God in the temple for the next 84 years till she was 109. Most of us will not be serving God for 84 years if we continue in the age we live now. But come a time people will live as long as trees and then we will live to serve God our whole life. 


”In her, a nursing infant will no longer live only a few days, or an old man not live out his days. Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years, and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed. People will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For My people’s lives will be like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.“

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭65‬:‭20‬-‭22‬ ‭HCSB‬‬


But now is our time to start serving God so that when we become an elder in the church we would have served the Lord with our lives. We must start looking for salvation and looking to serve

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