Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15. I appreciate it.

And the title of today's post is Finding the Old Road. The great Winston Churchill seemed to have a

prophetic sense regarding his destiny from a young age,

though he would not likely have referred to it as prophetic.

At 16 years of age, he told a friend, quote,

I have dreams about it, seeing into the future, end quote.

Though he acknowledged that the dreams were, quote, blurry,

end quote, he nonetheless insisted, quote, this country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous

invasion by what means I do not know.

But I tell you, I shall be in command of the defenses of London,

and I shall save London and England from disaster.

End quote.

16 years of age.

No doubt orchestrated by God's sovereign hand, Churchill would indeed fulfill those words. Amazing.

Though Churchill was not what most would think of as religious, he was nevertheless a man of deep faith and biblical knowledge,

which many, like biographer Stephen Mansfield, believe was instilled in him by his childhood nanny.

Churchill often referenced Christian civilization as one of the causes for which the allies were fighting Hitler, Christian civilization, which the following partial list of quotes illustrates.

In other words, the list could be much longer.

There were many.

Here are just a few.

As early as 1931, way before the war,

in the Strand magazine, Churchill wrote about, quote,

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