| America has faced tough times before and pulled through. In the great depression in the 1930′s, there was an unemployment rate of 23%, a home foreclosure rate of 50%, and the stock market crashed all the way down to almost zero. Are we headed on a similar course, or something even worse?? This economic turn around not only effects America, but the world market, and each one of us at different levels.
Our perspective as Christians is not how can we save ourselves during these times, but how can we advance the Kingdom. Peoples’ false gods are failing and falling. What a great time
to share about the one true and living God. If times are heading to tougher days, how can we practically prepare, and be a church ready to give and receive?
1. Make Jesus Lord of your finances (Matt. 6:33)
2. Get out of debt. (the average American is in $7,000 credit card debt. Do not be a slave to your lender, but be the one who has plenty to give to the needy
3. Do not stop your tithe, but keep giving your tithe, and start giving an offering as well.
4. Help those who are hurting. (If you give a cup of water to the least of my brethren, you have given it unto me.)
4. Watch and pray. ( Ask the Lord for dreams and visions, and begin to see things that are coming. Listen to reliable prophets)
5. Pray for an increase in Faith. ( Faith pleases God).
One of my favorite kingdom finance stories in a time of crisis is the story of Joseph. Joseph received supernatural revelation, and walked it out in natural application. The dreamer Joseph, who was able to interpret the Pharaoh’s dream by the supernatural, was then put in charge of the whole kingdoms’ feeding program in the natural. He went from the prison to the penthouse. I believe for those who are in tune with what the spirit of God is doing in the times ahead will receive similar supernatural promotions. My best fatherly advice is if you’re in some financial trouble now, or just want to have a plan for the days ahead, sit and ask God for a plan and be faithful to be obedient, and little by little victory will come.
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