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· We have faith in what we fear. If we fear for our finances, we are having faith in our finances, if we fear God, we have faith in God. We have faith in whatever things we fear
I am an investor, not very good at it. But it is my recreation if you could call it that. I love financial news and a recession is very close, I feel. I have created a plan to prepare for the recession financially speaking. But I have to go back through it and totally re do it all. See I went to church sunday and God revolutionized my entire way of seeing things. It really changed my perspective on how I see, perceive and react to lifes circumstances. It was a passage on abraham and sarah. There was a famine in the land and they didn't have food. They assumed God wanted them to go to egypt where all the food was. At this point they had hundreds if not thousands of servants and laborers in their fields etc. Thats a lot of mouths to feed. Genesis 12 btw. but God had already gave abraham a promise of provision. God never said to go to egypt. But He did and some issues happened. This spoke to my life in a variety of ways. Namely being concerned for the future. The coming recession etc. My technique is to use fear as a motivator to save and invest, to prepare for the future. But see, God does not need investments to provide for us. God never uses fear as a motivator. God never uses greed as a motivator. He uses faith and obedience to His will. The Bible says in isaiah 28:16 "He that believes does not make haste" or hurries. Jesus was never in a hurry. Fear does not accomplish God's will. As far a recession, or famine... He could simply provide a source of income that we know nothing about. So that we learn to trust Him. The Bible says that if the bird has food and a flower has clothing, better clothing actually that king solomon in all of His glory. How much more will God provide for us? Waiting on the Lord to provide strengthens our faith. And that way no man or woman would glory in their flesh. See if egypt provided for abraham, his needs and not God. Who would Abraham have aligned with, egypt. A pagan nation. Not God. yes they had provisions, yes they were blessed with plenty. But they are not our examples. God is. There was just so may implications, it really changed my perspective, and allowed me to breath and take a breath that everything will be ok in the coming few years. God won't forsake His followers.
I guess what I am saying is that prepping is fine, saving money is fine for emergencies, making yourself more off grid is a good investment, but ultimately who gives the increase is God. If you are fearful of the future, and fear is your motivator, then perhaps this message is also for you. If on the other hand, fear is not a motivator, and greed is your motivator, like it was for me. Then this message is also for you. Egypt owns the stock market, egypt owns wallstreet, and all the corporations and all the wealth. It is so completely natural to flee to where the provision is in times of famine. But God never commanded us to got that route. I even have provisions to insure against financial collapse by hedging with commodities like gold or bitcoin. But again to do such things out of fear or greed is vanity. We should be content with a roof over our head, and with food in the fridge, and gasoline in our tanks. We don't NEED the extra's. To live minimally, as in minimalism is a good discipline. But we should do that even if there is no recession coming. Christianity I believe reveals minimalism. But don't get me wrong, I don't agree with some minimalists that say pouring hot water over coffee grounds is somehow better and more minimal than owning a coffee pot, or that boiling water every five minutes or firing up an oven is more minimal than ten seconds in the microwave. you have to think practically and sort out all the bad stuff. I guess I was just posting this to say that fearing God and obeying His commandments is far greater than any sort of prepping we could ever do. See abraham instead of taking his life into his own hands and prepping in egypt, if he just stayed put and prayed for a miracle. God would have done something, and all his servants would have feared God from then on. Instead of coming back from egypt, nearly selling his wife into pharoah's her-rem and coming back with no wife out of egypt. I bet the servants were gossiping about how faithless abraham was in the midst of all of this. See abraham the Bible calls the "father of faith." See how do you know if you are trusting in egypt? If you have to lie, cheat or steel, if you have to spread rumors of dooms day destruction and of financial collapse, if you have to spread fears of things you cannot prove, then you are trusting in egypt. Will there be a recession soon? Probably, but at the same time, we are way more prepared than we were in 2008 for a similar crisis, the FED actually has a mechanism to stop out of control inflation, as in venezuela's crisis. They have contractionary models and such. Our credit risk as a nation is relatively stable at this point, I think we can handle another recession. However it is possible the FED could normalize interest rates and the balance sheet. That would be the best scenario. I don't think they will. But who am I? If God can provide in UR of the chaldeas for abraham, God can provide for americans without the aide of egypt. If the flower is clothed with greater glory than the richest guy in all of history (solomon), then how much more will God provide for those who fear Him. Fear God and keep His commands. The destroyer will pass over your house in a calamity. You have the passover lamb in your heart, the destroyer will pass over your house. You will not be destroyed. Have faith in God. Don't fear the future, fear God. Not as in being scared, but as in realizing that God himself could squash us like a worm, regardless of how well we are bunkered down, regardless of how off grid our home is, regardless of how well we dehydrated our food storage, and could dry out our crop regardless of how well we planned our prepper garden. The advertisers sell things on two emotions, fear and greed. It just happens that wall street operates on those exact same two emotions. As I was studying the finances of a recession, God slowly showed me that there is no amount of preparation that will make one safe. God never called us to egypt. Stay put, don't go to wall street. Can you have money and be Christian, YES! but realize that God wants your heart. Remember to bless those less fortunate. That is the finance of God. God can care less what is in your 401k, what God cares about is how you love others with what you have. Not how well your prepper garden is organized. See the difference. One christian is hoarding, and the other is giving away. I know this goes against most of what we are taught. And Christianity is the narrow way. God would want us to bless others even though we don't have enough to make it, trust in Him to supernaturally provide rather than save for a dooms day that may not happen for ten years, or thirty years, or fifty years, or not at all in our life time. In acts when the christian church was born, they had "all things in common." They did not have individual realestate or possessions. They didn't hoard. If a neighbor didn't have, they gave freely. This unity was the skeletal structure for the apostolic churches set up, the churches that would eventually bring Christianity to the world. I see some churches following this mentality, but the prepper mentality is a lot different. It's not only, "don't share." But it's hoard everything you have even if you have enough. And the christian church has never been that way in the past. It's shameful really. I am actually embarrassed by the document that I wrote preparing for recession, mentions saving six months of wages. But what about that niece or nephew that didn't save, so your going to save you money, not help them out, cause God wan'ts you to prep? It's sad. God will provide in the home land that He promised you, the ur of the chaldeas. don't flee to egypt. Don't live in fear, live in faith. I have lost about five thousand in stock trades in the last five years. That is why I mentioned that I had a hobby but I was by no means proficient at stock trading. I would gain thousands of percent in a matter of six months, then have five weeks of down days, consuming 90 percent of gains. 95 percent of investors lose money at investing. In fact the only sure way to invest is to put money in regularly into an index fund and keep it there (like a retirement). Don't day trade, swing trade, or buy on the dips. Don't try to time it. Just pray over it. Ask God what He would have you do. See God can literally provide out of nothing. One way I find the will of God is I will look at the clock, if the second is an odd number, then it's a yes, if it's an even number then it's a no. You can double or triple your prayers as well, in important things. God picked a home for us this way, and a city. There were literally thirty cities to live in, God chose the city with the safest crime in all the county. He also chose the cheapest house in the valley for the square footage and bedroom count. I did all this with the above tactic. But realize that if you hide sin in your heart, this tactic can sabatoge you. In one place in the Bible when the Israelites prayed over the urrim and thumin, and God told them to go to war. They lost miserably and were slaughtered. They came back and asked the priest, why did God allow us to be defeated? It was because of the sin of achan, he had stolen a gold idol from the camp of the defeated enemy. God did not want them to steal, and that one sin cost thousands of lives. so too, if you hide sin in your heart this tactic won't work. I have made life decisions this way, only to walk away humbled and defeated, because I was living in sin with my girlfriend at the time. But all this is just to show that God does need you to be successful, He will be successful for you, just obey. He does not even need a stock market at all, that's all egypt. Last month after realizing I had nothing to say for my five years of reading books on investing and learning how to provide for myself trading stocks, I was depressed. I realized that I would NEVER, EVER, EVER make it trading stocks. Then God just then provided a buyer for our house, out of nowhere. She offered to pay roughly 170% of the cost of our house, you heard that right, nearly double value. She had grown up there and really wanted to buy our house, but realizing it was a run down, nearly five bedroom home. She would have to pay enough not only to make a profit but for us to buy another similar sized home, at the high market value. And that was why she paid double. See I could have went to egypt all day, I could have sold 3 dollar options all day, and made maybe a few hundred buck here, and maybe a thousand there. But no way would have had 1200 percent return on my investment like God provided in that one single transaction. no amount of prepping would have made that happen. IF anything I would be further in debt. Realize that I was working full time and we had nearly gone through foreclosure last year, we had bankruptcy five years ago and two credit cards in collections, we literally could not buy a home if we wanted at this point. So God lifted his finger and provided. Not hard for God. We stayed in the Ur of the chaldeas, we didn't go to egypt, and God provided in a non stock market way for me. That is extremely humbling to say the least. But if I provided by being a proficient Egyptologist, a professional stock trader. Then I would be proud. I would rely on my egypt training. Now for you, you may be different. You may be able to get a degree in finance or some other degree, and make a good living and realize that it's all God. I couldn't I could not glorify God. I have a pride issue. I literally have a document of mistakes I made, and I have to read it at least once a week. It's probably ten pages by now. It's my humility document. The Bible says to glory in your weakness that God may be strong. If you glory in your ability, then the reverse is true, God wont' be strong on your behalf. God will let you do it. And probably throw a wrench into your cogs, to humble you. Anyway I don't want to discourage away from wise preparing for the future. Being wise is one thing. But being selfish and greedy or fearful is another thing. And there is a fine line between all of that.
I am an investor, not very good at it. But it is my recreation if you could call it that. I love financial news and a recession is very close, I feel. I have created a plan to prepare for the recession financially speaking. But I have to go back through it and totally re do it all. See I went to church sunday and God revolutionized my entire way of seeing things. It really changed my perspective on how I see, perceive and react to lifes circumstances. It was a passage on abraham and sarah. There was a famine in the land and they didn't have food. They assumed God wanted them to go to egypt where all the food was. At this point they had hundreds if not thousands of servants and laborers in their fields etc. Thats a lot of mouths to feed. Genesis 12 btw. but God had already gave abraham a promise of provision. God never said to go to egypt. But He did and some issues happened. This spoke to my life in a variety of ways. Namely being concerned for the future. The coming recession etc. My technique is to use fear as a motivator to save and invest, to prepare for the future. But see, God does not need investments to provide for us. God never uses fear as a motivator. God never uses greed as a motivator. He uses faith and obedience to His will. The Bible says in isaiah 28:16 "He that believes does not make haste" or hurries. Jesus was never in a hurry. Fear does not accomplish God's will. As far a recession, or famine... He could simply provide a source of income that we know nothing about. So that we learn to trust Him. The Bible says that if the bird has food and a flower has clothing, better clothing actually that king solomon in all of His glory. How much more will God provide for us? Waiting on the Lord to provide strengthens our faith. And that way no man or woman would glory in their flesh. See if egypt provided for abraham, his needs and not God. Who would Abraham have aligned with, egypt. A pagan nation. Not God. yes they had provisions, yes they were blessed with plenty. But they are not our examples. God is. There was just so may implications, it really changed my perspective, and allowed me to breath and take a breath that everything will be ok in the coming few years. God won't forsake His followers.
I guess what I am saying is that prepping is fine, saving money is fine for emergencies, making yourself more off grid is a good investment, but ultimately who gives the increase is God. If you are fearful of the future, and fear is your motivator, then perhaps this message is also for you. If on the other hand, fear is not a motivator, and greed is your motivator, like it was for me. Then this message is also for you. Egypt owns the stock market, egypt owns wallstreet, and all the corporations and all the wealth. It is so completely natural to flee to where the provision is in times of famine. But God never commanded us to got that route. I even have provisions to insure against financial collapse by hedging with commodities like gold or bitcoin. But again to do such things out of fear or greed is vanity. We should be content with a roof over our head, and with food in the fridge, and gasoline in our tanks. We don't NEED the extra's. To live minimally, as in minimalism is a good discipline. But we should do that even if there is no recession coming. Christianity I believe reveals minimalism. But don't get me wrong, I don't agree with some minimalists that say pouring hot water over coffee grounds is somehow better and more minimal than owning a coffee pot, or that boiling water every five minutes or firing up an oven is more minimal than ten seconds in the microwave. you have to think practically and sort out all the bad stuff. I guess I was just posting this to say that fearing God and obeying His commandments is far greater than any sort of prepping we could ever do. See abraham instead of taking his life into his own hands and prepping in egypt, if he just stayed put and prayed for a miracle. God would have done something, and all his servants would have feared God from then on. Instead of coming back from egypt, nearly selling his wife into pharoah's her-rem and coming back with no wife out of egypt. I bet the servants were gossiping about how faithless abraham was in the midst of all of this. See abraham the Bible calls the "father of faith." See how do you know if you are trusting in egypt? If you have to lie, cheat or steel, if you have to spread rumors of dooms day destruction and of financial collapse, if you have to spread fears of things you cannot prove, then you are trusting in egypt. Will there be a recession soon? Probably, but at the same time, we are way more prepared than we were in 2008 for a similar crisis, the FED actually has a mechanism to stop out of control inflation, as in venezuela's crisis. They have contractionary models and such. Our credit risk as a nation is relatively stable at this point, I think we can handle another recession. However it is possible the FED could normalize interest rates and the balance sheet. That would be the best scenario. I don't think they will. But who am I? If God can provide in UR of the chaldeas for abraham, God can provide for americans without the aide of egypt. If the flower is clothed with greater glory than the richest guy in all of history (solomon), then how much more will God provide for those who fear Him. Fear God and keep His commands. The destroyer will pass over your house in a calamity. You have the passover lamb in your heart, the destroyer will pass over your house. You will not be destroyed. Have faith in God. Don't fear the future, fear God. Not as in being scared, but as in realizing that God himself could squash us like a worm, regardless of how well we are bunkered down, regardless of how off grid our home is, regardless of how well we dehydrated our food storage, and could dry out our crop regardless of how well we planned our prepper garden. The advertisers sell things on two emotions, fear and greed. It just happens that wall street operates on those exact same two emotions. As I was studying the finances of a recession, God slowly showed me that there is no amount of preparation that will make one safe. God never called us to egypt. Stay put, don't go to wall street. Can you have money and be Christian, YES! but realize that God wants your heart. Remember to bless those less fortunate. That is the finance of God. God can care less what is in your 401k, what God cares about is how you love others with what you have. Not how well your prepper garden is organized. See the difference. One christian is hoarding, and the other is giving away. I know this goes against most of what we are taught. And Christianity is the narrow way. God would want us to bless others even though we don't have enough to make it, trust in Him to supernaturally provide rather than save for a dooms day that may not happen for ten years, or thirty years, or fifty years, or not at all in our life time. In acts when the christian church was born, they had "all things in common." They did not have individual realestate or possessions. They didn't hoard. If a neighbor didn't have, they gave freely. This unity was the skeletal structure for the apostolic churches set up, the churches that would eventually bring Christianity to the world. I see some churches following this mentality, but the prepper mentality is a lot different. It's not only, "don't share." But it's hoard everything you have even if you have enough. And the christian church has never been that way in the past. It's shameful really. I am actually embarrassed by the document that I wrote preparing for recession, mentions saving six months of wages. But what about that niece or nephew that didn't save, so your going to save you money, not help them out, cause God wan'ts you to prep? It's sad. God will provide in the home land that He promised you, the ur of the chaldeas. don't flee to egypt. Don't live in fear, live in faith. I have lost about five thousand in stock trades in the last five years. That is why I mentioned that I had a hobby but I was by no means proficient at stock trading. I would gain thousands of percent in a matter of six months, then have five weeks of down days, consuming 90 percent of gains. 95 percent of investors lose money at investing. In fact the only sure way to invest is to put money in regularly into an index fund and keep it there (like a retirement). Don't day trade, swing trade, or buy on the dips. Don't try to time it. Just pray over it. Ask God what He would have you do. See God can literally provide out of nothing. One way I find the will of God is I will look at the clock, if the second is an odd number, then it's a yes, if it's an even number then it's a no. You can double or triple your prayers as well, in important things. God picked a home for us this way, and a city. There were literally thirty cities to live in, God chose the city with the safest crime in all the county. He also chose the cheapest house in the valley for the square footage and bedroom count. I did all this with the above tactic. But realize that if you hide sin in your heart, this tactic can sabatoge you. In one place in the Bible when the Israelites prayed over the urrim and thumin, and God told them to go to war. They lost miserably and were slaughtered. They came back and asked the priest, why did God allow us to be defeated? It was because of the sin of achan, he had stolen a gold idol from the camp of the defeated enemy. God did not want them to steal, and that one sin cost thousands of lives. so too, if you hide sin in your heart this tactic won't work. I have made life decisions this way, only to walk away humbled and defeated, because I was living in sin with my girlfriend at the time. But all this is just to show that God does need you to be successful, He will be successful for you, just obey. He does not even need a stock market at all, that's all egypt. Last month after realizing I had nothing to say for my five years of reading books on investing and learning how to provide for myself trading stocks, I was depressed. I realized that I would NEVER, EVER, EVER make it trading stocks. Then God just then provided a buyer for our house, out of nowhere. She offered to pay roughly 170% of the cost of our house, you heard that right, nearly double value. She had grown up there and really wanted to buy our house, but realizing it was a run down, nearly five bedroom home. She would have to pay enough not only to make a profit but for us to buy another similar sized home, at the high market value. And that was why she paid double. See I could have went to egypt all day, I could have sold 3 dollar options all day, and made maybe a few hundred buck here, and maybe a thousand there. But no way would have had 1200 percent return on my investment like God provided in that one single transaction. no amount of prepping would have made that happen. IF anything I would be further in debt. Realize that I was working full time and we had nearly gone through foreclosure last year, we had bankruptcy five years ago and two credit cards in collections, we literally could not buy a home if we wanted at this point. So God lifted his finger and provided. Not hard for God. We stayed in the Ur of the chaldeas, we didn't go to egypt, and God provided in a non stock market way for me. That is extremely humbling to say the least. But if I provided by being a proficient Egyptologist, a professional stock trader. Then I would be proud. I would rely on my egypt training. Now for you, you may be different. You may be able to get a degree in finance or some other degree, and make a good living and realize that it's all God. I couldn't I could not glorify God. I have a pride issue. I literally have a document of mistakes I made, and I have to read it at least once a week. It's probably ten pages by now. It's my humility document. The Bible says to glory in your weakness that God may be strong. If you glory in your ability, then the reverse is true, God wont' be strong on your behalf. God will let you do it. And probably throw a wrench into your cogs, to humble you. Anyway I don't want to discourage away from wise preparing for the future. Being wise is one thing. But being selfish and greedy or fearful is another thing. And there is a fine line between all of that.
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