Look at Hezekiah when…?…and the prophet went up and said, “All right, Hezekiah, you’re not coming off the bed. God’s done said you was going to die right there where you’re at.” And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer…Now remember, you’ve got to give God a cause, a reason. Now, he didn’t say, “Just because I can get out there and ride around in a chariot, and show the people I’m a king.” No, he wanted to rebuild the altars of the God; and a few things had to be done to get the kingdom in order right. And he prayed that God would give him fifteen years longer, and he wept bitterly, just wept to God. He said, “God, I beseech You to consider me. I’ve walked before You with a perfect heart.” How many of us can say that tonight, we’ve walked before Him with a perfect heart? “I’ve walked before Thee, Lord, with a perfect heart. And I ask You to consider me. Now, I want…” And God Almighty, Jehovah, reconsidered that man’s case, because he prayed. Think of that. Almighty God, that had pronounced death upon the man, reconsidered His case. My, that’s too much for me. Great Jehovah, to a mortal, to one of the earth, would reconsider His Word that He’d said to him.

Thou Knowest All Things, 1952-07-16, Hammond, IN, §15