The "Economy" and What Should We Do???

A few weeks ago I was praying about what was happening about the stock market and the Lord spoke something to me very clearly. He said,

"Honorable men need fear not."

I looked up the meaning of "honorable" and got this:

"In accordance with or characterized by principles of honor."

So, what is "honor?"

"Honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions."

So, an "honorable" person is one whose actions are governed by honesty, fairness and integrity.

I had an interesting dream this morning. In the dream I was speaking with a very, very wealthy businessman I know. I told him that some workers that worked for me are now making $200,000 per year (a dream, unfortunately, and not a reality.) The wealthy businessman freaked out and had a conniption fit, yelling and screaming at me, "Why do they have to make that much money!!! Are you crazy!!!" In the dream, a peace came over me and I said, "Why is it OK for YOU to make that much money and not OK for THEM?????"

I believe that the most essential aspects of this disruption in the stock market are:

1. To get Christians to separate (forcibly, if necessary) from a reliance on the world's economic systems, and to put their reliance on God alone, and
2. To pry dishonorable men's hands off of the wealth of the nation.

Notice that when the Lord told me "Honorable men need fear not" He didn't say, "Christians need fear not", or "Unbelievers need to fear." His focus here is on honorable and dishonorable, NOT Christian or non-Christian.

I've known many Christians who weren't particularly honorable people and many non-Christians who were very honorable. I've also know many honorable Christians and dishonorable non-Christians.

So, what should we do?

1. We need to learn to live by faith, not by our trust in 401(k)'s, IRAs, commodities, etc. God may allow us to have all of these but the moment we trust in them ahead of trusting in God, we separate ourselves from Him.
2. We need to give more. Period. This is all part of honesty, fairness and integrity. Are we these things if we have plenty while others suffer? What does this giving look like? Believe me, this is the easy part. The most organic, authentic, real giving is the giving we do that makes a difference in the lives of the people we come into contact with in our day-to-day lives.

One last point for tonight. In the words of Ronald Reagan, "Don't confuse the stock market with the economy." No matter what happens with the stock market, apples will still grow, cows will still give milk, oil will come out of the ground and the sun will still shine. Our "economy" is not this false demonically-inspired gambling and speculation venture call the stock market. It's about the hard work and talents of the people and the incredible and vast resources of this great country.

On Friday, October 10, 2008, a Wall Street stockbroker was interviewed on CNN. He said, "There is way too much fear in the market. We HAVE to get the fear out of the market so we can get back to greed." I'm not kidding about that. If this statement doesn't pull the blinders off of all of our eyes about the market I don't think anything ever will.

May the Lord enlighten the eyes of our hearts so we may see truly what is true.