Depth of words, that is the important part. Not in how long you take to talk, but how much you have to say. Not how flowery and eloquent you sound but sincerely you speak, or how flowery the words are. It is what you say, in the first two minutes, that is the part that is remembered. Two minutes not a marathon.

The year is 1863, the month is July, the place is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. At that time this place was a battleground, a scene more horrible that what can be imagined.

In the first days of that month, 51,000 were killed, wounded, or missing, in what proved to be a decisive Union victory of the Civil War. Wailing and cries of anguish could be heard from the maimed and dying, as patients were hurried to improvised operating tables. In a nurses journal are recorded the words, “For seven days the tables literally ran with blood.” Wagons of amputated arms and legs were dumped and buried. Preachers quoted the Twenty-third Psalms as fast as they could to soldiers breathing their last breaths.

The aftermath of battle is always grim. A national cemetery was proposed. A consecration ceremony was planned for November 19.

October President Lincoln announced his intentions to attend. The commissioners who were caught off guard never expected the President to leave the Capitol in wartime. The President would have to preempt, the already picked speaker who was Edward Everett. Just to be courteous, the commission wrote to Mr. Lincoln on November 2 to deliver “a few appropriate remarks.” Mr. Lincoln being a man of faith, prayed, and ever the more so the day the battle of Gettysburg began, Mr. Lincoln pleaded with God not to let the nation perish.

Lincoln had been very nervous about his speech, how could he not be, following the 57 minute speech by Mr. Everett. When President Lincoln was introduced he said to Secretary Seward, “They won't like it.” The world won't remember the gaffs from Mr. Lincoln or that he started with a squeaky voice, but he finished in a strong and clear voice. People listened on tiptoe.

Suddenly, he was finished, no more than two minutes after he begun he stopped. Most of us know that the Gettysburg address is one of the most remembered speeches.

Two minutes, are we nudged by our heavenly Father to pray, are you convinced you don't have time? You know yourself, you not a spiritual giant, what could you accomplish in the little time you have to pray? Ten minutes, or two. Your Father wants to hear from you.

Hebrews 10: 19-25 says this:
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by rthe new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Have that confidence to enter in, He tells us to in His word to do so.