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An Excerpt from 15 Ways to Live Longer and Healthier

INTRODUCTION


After one of our services, I met a man who looked to be in his seventies. It came as a surprise when he told me he was over one hundred years old. It wasn’t just that he was as handsome or as healthy looking as could be that threw me off. It was that he was so full of joy, his mind was sharp, and he had been having such a good time with everyone around him. He stood in the line nearly forty minutes waiting to visit with me. I told him we could have pulled up a chair for him so he didn’t have to stand.

“I don’t need to sit down,” he said with a big grin. “When I get old, I’ll sit down.”

“I can’t believe you’re that old,” I said. “You don’t have a wrinkle on your face.”

“Joel,” he replied, “I just don’t crack.” Then he told two or three more jokes. We laughed and laughed. When he walked away, he turned around and said to everyone, “I’ll see you next year.”

I fully expect God will give him another year. I thought to myself that in his one hundred years, he’d had lots of troubles, had people hurt him, and made mistakes, but he was still young at heart, full of faith and energy. It was no wonder he seemed so healthy, so happy, so strong. He had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh. It made me think about all of God’s natural healing that had been released and flowing in him all those years.

God created us to live a healthy, abundant, joyful, faith-​filled life. He destined us to be confident, to be free, to be positive, and to be happy. He didn’t create us to drag through the day, to be worn out by problems, discouraged and depressed by disappointments, even sick physically because we’re living so stressed out, uptight, and worried. But it’s easy to get so focused on what’s wrong in our life, what we don’t have, and how big our obstacles are that we leak out our joy and passion for living.

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About the Author

JOEL OSTEEN is a New York Times bestselling author and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Millions connect daily with his inspirational messages through television, podcasts, Joel Osteen Radio on Sirius XM, and global digital platforms. 

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