Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15. I hope you had a great holiday season,

a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you a happy new year. The title of today's post is

2026, Turbulent, but fruitful, Part 1. Bob Dylan said, come gather around people wherever you roam and admit that the water is around

you have grown and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you

is worth saving, then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone

for the times they are a change.

Secular prophet Bob Dylan prophesied these words in 1963.

He went on to accurately prophesied to writers and critics,

senators and congressmen, mothers and fathers. Read the rest of the song using the above link.

At that turbulent time in history, the changes Dylan spoke of did not bode well for our nation. In all honesty, change was needed, just not those that moved us further from

God and his ways. History has proven that many of the changes over the last 60 years were unhealthy,

and millions of Americans have now awakened to this reality. We became a nation divided,

violent, conscienceless, immoral, mooringless, and confused.

Like the ancient King Belshazzar, America has been weighed in the balances and found wanting.

Dylan was right. The times were indeed changing. The good news, however, there is good news,

however. We have now come full circle. Another season ripe for change has emerged. Reformation is now possible. The coming year will be epical in this regard.

It will be challenging, but if the praying church stays the course, 2026 will be a tremendously

victorious year, turbulent but fruitful.

When praying about 2026, the Lord gave me Acts 27 and 28, the account of Paul

shipwrecked by a great storm while en route to Rome.

God, however, transformed the ordeal into tremendous victories.

As I read the passage, I heard Holy Spirit say,

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