Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

Jim Hodges is a spiritual father to many, including Cece and me.

His wisdom and knowledge are extremely valuable.

His teachings have shaped my spiritual life.

I'm borrowing a meaty teaching from him for today's post.

His perspective is helpful during this challenging time. By the way, there are portions included

in the written version of today's post that I will not read due to time restraints. So if you're interested,

you might want to check that out as well. Jim's title, present perspectives and prayer points for

2024. We live in a time of global chaos, economic disasters, oppression from totalitarian tyrannies,

civil government failures through dysfunctional democracies,

large numbers of sleepy church members.

We must focus on King Jesus

and receive a fresh outpouring and empowering

of Holy Spirit in order to advance the will of God and the earth

and the agenda of the kingdom of God in history.

The ecclesia must refocus, re-engage, and redeploy as the army of God.

The following four perspectives will help us.

Number one, we must see the cultural war and political war as rooted in spiritual warfare.

Church father, Augustine, taught that the church was to be spiritually militant.

Yes, we're the family of Father God, but we're also the army of God.

Ephesians 1 speaks of us as the body of Christ.

Ephesians 2 refers to us as the temple of the spirit.

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