Good News For Saints of God

Muttering: Some good news is that bad news is not what Jesus Christ has for me.

In times of blessing, you lend. In times of curse, you borrow. The USA is borrowing and borrowing and borrowing. We are operating as a cursed nation. A visiting pastor of incredible anointing and blessing spoke to our fellowship yesterday. He tried to help conceptualize the worth of one trillion dollars. One trillion dollars equals 37,800 years of seconds. Another comparison is if from the time of the birth of Jesus until now equaled one billion a year, we would still owe 737 more years to equal one trillion. Mind boggling!

This pastor encouraged us to be in the ABM mode. Owe "all but mortgage." His church will have all seven campuses paid off in the next year. Two of them were given to them free. He believes we do not need to owe the bank. If we owe, owe to a financial king that God has positioned to lend. If churches owe banks, the notes could be called due overnight by nationalized banks. He also said we should have 30 days worth of food and water in our house. He does not feel we will run out of food, but there well may be food panics in the near future. We should be in a place to help others instead of needing help. I have been buying extra food for some time now. My kids have joked about it. I could not explain why my cupboards are extra full. Now I know. My plan is to write expiration dates on the tops of the canned foods so the food can easily be rotated. I have water delivered here because we have well water that is not water that I drink. There are Christian groups on Yahoo lists that are helping each other know how to prepare for emergency situations. Christians need to be prepared.

The visiting pastor said that the Jews became slaves to Egypt because they traded with the Egyptians until they used all of their gold. The Egyptians gave them wooden money pieces when they made business exchanges. When the Jews ran out of gold, the Egyptians would not trade with them.They had them over the barrel. The Jews became slaves to the Egyptians. Will American citizens become slaves, too? We need to take hold of God's outstretched hand and pull ourselves up.

Christians should rise above the curse mentality and get in a position to lend. We need to work diligently to be as debt free as possible. My debt is shaved down to a car payment and a mortgage. The only other debt I have is my monthly utility bills. God can move and they could be paid off in one day, one hour or one minute. The just live by faith and act on faith.

Is if it is wise to save money in the bank or in the mattress, or to transfer savings to gold? The old timers are operating in "mattress time." That is they are holding money and not investing it. They may be onto something. I am praying about that. Wisdom is needed right now when even the financial experts do not know. God knows and He will tell me.

God is seeking those who are willing to be financial kings for the Kingdom of God. We need to be financial kings so we can be in a position to bless the people and Kingdom of God. Everything belongs to God and He can do what he wills. He knows I have never asked to be rich, but I would be willing to be in that purposed position IF He can trust me to do things for His Kingdom.

The other question I am asking God is His will on proper burial versus cremation. Most of my hospice patients are opting for cremation. Cremation is dramatically less expensive than burial, but it seems so heathen. I can not find any record of a saint whose body was burned unless they were martyred.

Jesus is not tired of my petitions for proper preparedness. He wants us to be in His will in all things. It is the little foxes that spoil the vine. It is easy to ignore the little things. Sometimes I ignore the big things. God help us be wise stewards of our gifts and finances for Your Kingdom so we can lend and not borrow.
Blessings,
Elinda RN