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

And the title of today's post is,

Realigning with God's Purposes.

God often uses or used places in the Old Testament

to give us pictures of spiritual truths. A picture, as they say,

is worth a thousand words. Shechem is one of those places. It actually pictures several spiritual

truths. First, Shechem speaks of promised inheritance. This was where God initially

spoke to Abraham in Canaan, promising the land as an inheritance for him and his descendants,

Genesis 12, verse 7.

Figuratively, God is calling America back to Shechem,

asking us to reclaim our inheritance.

I gave you this land to steward and partnered with you in the establishing of it.

Now reclaim it, he's saying.

All of the earth belongs to God.

He has the right to assign stewardship of it to whomever he sees fit.

And as those to whom he assigned this land, we must not allow its destiny to be stolen.

Just as Israel had to fight for their inheritance, so must we.

This inheritance applies to all Americans.

Regardless of our backgrounds or ethnicities, evil people want to divide Americans based on class and ethnicity.

In order to further their own evil agendas. God hates this, calling it an abomination,

Proverbs 6. The word used for abomination in this passage means disgusting, abhorrent,

repulsive. Those who work to divide us for political and

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