Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15, the title of today's post, The Hinge That Turns the Door of History.

Several years back, I was visiting with a pastor in his office after speaking for him in a conference.

I'm sure I spoke on some aspect of prayer, applying it

prophetically to the nation, and encouraging the people to intercede. I probably also led in some

passionate prayer. He said to me, you're called to the remnant, aren't you? I really didn't know what he was implying,

but he didn't seem critical when he said it, although I've never been invited back.

I strive never to adopt an elitist mindset, but I do believe God has raised up a praying element of the church

in America, of which I am part. It is true that God sometimes uses a smaller segment of the

body of Christ to accomplish things for the majority.

If you look throughout the word, you'll see that when darkness seems to be at its peak,

God often doesn't look for a massive, polished army to turn the tide.

He looks for a remnant, a small consecrated group of people who have refused to

bow their knee to the spirit of the age. In the economy of the kingdom, God is never intimidated

by numbers. In fact, he sometimes prefers the smaller number. Think about Gideon.

He started with 32,000 men. God whittled that number down to 300. Why? Because the heart of the

remnant was more valuable to God than the size of the army.

Historically, the remnant has at times been God's plan A.

Noah and his family were a remnant that preserved the human race.

Elijah felt alone, but God reminded him that there was a remnant of 7,000 who had not bowed

to bail.

The early church began.

The early church began as a small upper room remnant that eventually turned the world upside down. The remnant often

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