This is Part 6 in the “How To” Create a Storehouse Series…
We will have a time of question and answer about starting or operating a “Storehouse”. All questions are fair game:
How do fees and costs get paid for ?
Who makes the decisions about what projects to work on ?
Can we charge people interest ?
How do we attract interest ?
How are debts forgiven ?
What’s more important: storing up or putting resources to work ?
Your questions ?
We will have those who have participated in storehouse communities field people’s questions…
Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Wednesday February 8th from 9-11am EST we have Part 6 of the Romans911 / NBB joint study on Zoom. We will be discussing true repentance and reformation – What does it mean to renew our minds?
Tomorrow we will discuss three possible future financial/economic scenarios and how God’s people can start to prepare now. We will do this as a way of thinking differently – as a New Breed of Business people – and how we can react well during times of uncertainty and shaking. This will help prepare us today for how to plan and live out our faith now and for the future. By the Spirit and in the natural. A hybrid of heaven and earth.
The discussion format will be this: we’ll lay out three scenarios and you – the NBB “management team” – will brainstorm about what could be done to address certain situations that may emerge. We will also evaluate and test the Storehouse models for how they would work under such scenarios.
Should be fun!
Pierre Wack – Royal Dutch Shell
Back in my strategic planning days in banking, we used a tool/method developed in the 1960s and 1970s known as “Scenario Planning“. This was made famous by Royal Dutch Shell, who through the leadership of Jimmy Davidson, head of Shell’s economics and planning, brought Ted Newland and Pierre Wack together as in-house “futurists”. The duo had a knack for shaping plausible, yet unlikely, future scenarios. And Wack, through his flair of his storytelling developed as a former magazine editor, was highly effective presenting such scenarios to executive management. They were able to imagine future scenarios and “think outside the box” of regular management and planning to solve potential problems. Wack was able to get management to react to his “what would you do if?” type of questions. What emerged were common solutions that came out of the divergent future scenarios. This allowed for Shell to prepare ahead of time for what might eventually come. And it did.
Shell famously prepared well for not one, but several crises. The oil embargo of the 1973 middle east crisis was the first. Their management team was prepared for this. All of their competitors were caught out, unprepared. And in turn, Shell thrived during those times of crisis and increased their market share and profitability.
OK, so how does this translate for us?
Three Scenarios for Discussion
1. China invades Taiwan. The US and its allies in the region hesitate militarily, and decide once again to extend its Russia-type sanctions against dollar trade with China and its allies. But it backfires as supply chains are even more disrupted than during COVID19. Further, it backfires as an Eastern block of nations coalesce with many OPEC nations, distancing themselves from the dollar and trading petro-yuan and petro-rubles instead. Israel finds itself having to develop relationships beyond the US for its financial, energy and economic security.
Chuck Pierce’s Passover Prophecies and War of the Future Church (see Trade Wars writeup and podcast)
2. A new global financial crisis emerges and US banks close for a period of six months, when the banks reopen the government bails-in the banking system by renegotiating loans and haircutting deposits.
3. Inflation takes off again and the economy goes into recession. Many staples become scarce (famine). US Government receipts decline, so it has to borrow much more – well beyond its capacities to repay. The Fed tries to keep raising interest rates to tamp inflation, but now all sorts of unintended consequences arise. The government can no longer afford to pay its interest, and there is no political will to keep raising rates. So the Fed reverses course and prints money in a desperate attempt to revive the economy. All global credibility and trust in the dollar goes away. People panic and a run on the banks ensues. The existing USD effectively starts to fail. As a result, FDIC deposits are frozen. Debts can no longer be paid with old dollars. After a brief time, a new CBDC (digital dollar) is introduced that the banks have been testing behind the scenes. Old dollars are no longer accepted for many things. If you want to use old dollars, you have to bring them in for destruction, and only then are you issued new digital currency at 100:1. But that dollar is now controlled by a central authority. You can only use your money to purchase approved items. Rations are also introduced. Paper money is gone instantly because in the crisis, Americans become desperate to try something, anything. Democrats and Republicans alike.
We will be entering into a teaching time followed by prayer time of Coming out of Babylon and Divorcing Baal / Mammon (deliverance and healing prayer).
Roundtable Discussion: Shakings – first Japan, then US/World
A headline caught my attention Dec 20th 2022: Bank of Japan shocks global markets with bond yield shift. What was the shift? The BOJ is winding down the yield curve management that was ushered in by Haruhiko Kuroda as BOJ President starting 2013. He has stated that he will not seek reappointment at the end of his term April, 2023.
Why does this matter? Because it could be a signal that the BOJ reserves the right to raise short-term interest rates at some point in the future. It could happen quickly and by surprise. This could portend/trigger other global financial events, as it did in 2007.
When was the last time this happened? 16 years ago at the end 2006 and the beginning of 2007. The BOJ raised rates. It was unexpected. It was premature for their economy, which was still greatly depressed and had just turned positive for the first time in a long-time.
The Lord visited me with a word on Jan 2, 2007 when our family was in St. Thomas that surprised me. Here is a summary:
This word changed my life. The net result of its coming to pass, for me personally, was that it marked a shift in my way of thinking from simply running a specialized US long-short, public-private hedge fund using Wall Street models, into thinking globally, and paying attention to the macro financial markets (such as currencies), with the opportunity to shift generations of wealth for good. This also coincided with a shift in my business practices away from pure capitalism and into biblical economy (the New Breed of Business reform) and with that, the Storehouse vision. God making ready Storehouses of finance and resources throughout the earth for his Kingdom’s purposes, not adhering to the ways of “Babylon“. Like a type of global endowment of true riches (people and resources) for the Church at large, if you will.
Back to Japan…
Japanese stock market never fully recovered – even 35 years later…
So what emerged from all this is there seems to be a financial pattern: first Japan, then the US/rest of the world. Fittingly, Japan is known as the land of the rising sun. Where does the sun rise first? In the east. In Japan. What happens to the Japanese experiment in monetary policy has then flowed into the rest of the world’s thinking, starting in the US.
Let’s look at some important – not so great – firsts and facts:
FIRST – JAPAN
FOLLOW – USA / EURO
STOCK MARKET CRASH
1989
2008
0% SHORT RATES
1995
2009
0% 10Y TREASURY
2016
2019
DEFLATION
1998
2009
DEBT TO 100% GDP
1999
2013
DEBT TO 200% GDP
2010
CENTRAL BANK QE – GOV DEBT
2001
2009
CENTRAL BANK QE – ETFS
2010
2020
CENTRAL BANK QE – 50% OWN GOV DEBT
2022
Now, I’m not sure exactly why Japan might be a leading indicator for the Western world’s central banks and economies.
Some believe that the USA missed the opportunity to introduce the gospel and Christianity to Japan in the post WWII reconstruction period. Unlike Europe, the nation of Japan was never rooted in Christianity. Instead, the US helped reconstruct and “Westernize” Japan’s economy post-WWII through introducing democracy and capitalistic economy, banking and financial markets.
But, the absence of any Judeo-Christian moral grounding and guardrails, its implementation led to the decade of Japanese decadence and triumphalism of the 1980s.
Japan’s economy grew twice as fast as the US from 1960-1989. By some measures, Japan was briefly the #1 economy in the world in the late 1980s. Its financial markets were on a tear. Its real-estate was the most expensive in the world. Its manufacturing efficiency and quality was the envy of the world (remember Kaizen and Just-In-Time manufacturing?)
But not anymore.
Bob Jones Earthquake Prophecies
There is a key prophetic pattern to understand that relates the geo-physical to the geo-political/financial: The Bob Jones earthquake prophecies. Both natural and economic earthquakes. First, the big one will hit Japan physically (fulfilled March 11,2011), then the big one hits West Coast USA physically as well as an “economic shaking” to the US/World:
First Japanese Quake -> then West Coast USA quake
First Japanese Quake -> then US/global economic shaking/meltdown
Bob Jones Earthquakes Dream/Vision 1989 (incidentally the year the Nikkei also tanked):
First, N. California Coast quake will be witnessed all around the world (fulfilled Oct 17, 1989 during world series televised game)
Second, a Japanese major quake (fulfilled March 11, 2011)
Third, a major California quake (beyond what has been seen – not yet fulfilled)
Part of the prophecy relates to an “economic unraveling”, a “financial collapse”, “economic meltdown”, that will hit the US and the world. All of this is God lifting his hand which currently is “holding it all together”. It is a remedial judgment of God which we pray for his mercy, and the grace in its aftermath to repent and reform.
Rick Joyner’s advice for Preparation:
Build our houses on the Rock of Jesus Christ
These coming financial shakings are one of the reasons why we work toward the Storehouse Vision.
Rick discusses coming natural and financial earthquakes March 2011
In 2013 Rick repeats warning of coming West Coast “Big One” Earthquake
Wednesday December 21st from 9-11am EST we have Part 4 of the Romans 911 / NBB joint study on Zoom. We will be entering into a teaching time followed by prayer time of breaking-off of replacement theology and anti-Semitism that has come through our family bloodlines or otherwise (deliverance and healing prayer). There is homework for this, which is in the study guide and the videos (see below). As always, if you need financial help purchasing the study Guide, we have scholarships so please let Grant or I know. Also, let us know if you have trouble playing the videos.
Below is Grant’s email with the homework assignment…
Beloved, Please note the change of date and the HOMEWORK for our December meeting. Wednesday December 21st – 9-11 AM ET.HOMEWORK FOR NEXT SESSION – we are asking everyone in our group to watch the first part of Session two (video #3) in the R911 Study Guide video teachings before our next meeting. Please do your best to plan this time and watch the first teaching, as it will have a significant impact on the next teaching session that we will watch together as a group. When you purchased the R911 Study Guide* you would have received a user and password to access the Video teachings on the Website. To access the videos, please follow the instructions below: Click on thehttp://romans911.org/website and at the top, all the way to the right, click on the MY ACCOUNT tab – Then enter your user and password – Then click the VIDEO TEACHINGS TAB – Then click – Watch Christian Version – Then click the arrow down – Then click: Christian Part 1 – PERSONAL FOCUS – Teaching # 3 – SESS 2A In the STUDY GUIDE – To follow Teaching # 3 – SESS 2A, you can read SESSION 2 – THE RESTORATION Part A – Christian Obstacles – Page 23. Please let us know if you need some help, or if you have any questions. Lots of love in Yeshua,and for His Glory, Grant&Hali
*Please note, to engage in the study, you will need to purchase The Romans 911 Study Guide book. When you do, you will immediately receive free access to review and watch our 14 hr video series that are taught in tandem with the Study Guide teachings. – https://romans911shop.org/
Roundtable Discussion – No Plan B in the Kingdom of God
Lot came out of Sodom. But, his wife looked back (Gen 19)
Israel came out of Egypt. But that generation looked back (Num 14)
Judah came out of Babylon. But Ezra commanded them to leave their foreign wives and children (Ez 10)
Today we share testimonies of coming out of financial Egypt / Babylon and trusting God instead for provision with miracles coming forth. No half in, half out. No one foot in the world, one foot in the Kingdom. No Plan “B”.
We discuss the importance of avoiding fallback plans as FAITH-KILLERS and SELF-SABOTAGE, subconsciously or otherwise. Often this has to do with fear and control. When we fully trust God and eliminate fall-back plans, God honors our faith and often involves miracles.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him
Hebrews 11:6
The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’
Judges 7:2
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do
James 1:6-8
Part of the discussion will surround the implications of leaving behind institutional debt and mortgages, FICO scores, stock market gains, 401k/IRA retirement plans, bigger barns, etc. We will hear testimony of vows made in obedience to God and their scriptural precedent.
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.
James 4:13-15
An Israelite’s Failed Retirement Plan:
The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.
Luke 12:16-20
In that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold…
Isaiah 31:7
An interesting perspective on these things: Preparing for the End Times with Monte Judah:
We also examine the difference between faith in what God said and desires, versus divining what we want or vainly imagine/desire. And how that often gets confused in our money culture. And the more innocent matter of “I thought what God said would happen looked different than what actually happened”.
This week we hear from Joel Frazier about his recent missions trip to Uganda, explore the intersection between the Storehouse and missions work, and pray into the future of this mission.
Discipling missions trip in the New Breed of BusinessCharcoal Kiln ProjectUgandan Macrame EntrepreneursJoel Clownin’ with the Kids
Joel’s debt miracle and refinancing story in the NECAPJinja, Headwaters of the Nile
Gregg’s ministry trip Jan 2007 to Uganda. Had a dream about the inheritance of the Storehouse and the New Breed of Business. Ministered in Jinja, where Joel went 15+ years later, fulfilling the dream…
We will discuss the basics of starting a Storehouse using two types of funding models at any group level (church community, city, county, state, region, nation) :
1. Create an evergreen “Common Fund” or “Storehouse Fund” to serve a community on an ongoing basis. You can think of this as an “and they laid the proceeds at the Apostles feet” as per Acts 4:35. You also can think of this as an Endowment or Foundation.
2. “Storehouse Project” funding whereby individuals within a community can opt-in or invest side-by-side and project by project. As part, each individual can also “store” resources in a type of account where they have the flexibility and choice to: invest from, transfer funds in and out of, have principal returned to, donate, purchase goods or services with, and receive gifts or dividends. There are 3 basic types of projects, which we generally categorize as: Assist (benevolence), Equip (interest free loans) and Destiny (dividending loans).
And how a hybrid of the two works together…
These models will focus around a simple USD based Storehouse, but can be done with any currency, or you can create a local currency (see Alt Currency podcast).
– What happened? – How did we get here? – Future of Crypto? – Implications for the Storehouse Vision – Failure of Crypto’s “Bridge” and the “Ark” – How greed undergirds and undermines crypto
God’s Economy in the One New Man – Key Principles Part 2
Study Every 2nd Wednesday for 12 Sessions from 9-11am Eastern
Today’s Discussion will focus on the Key Principles of the Reconnection and the New Breed of Business, Part 2. The intersection of The One New Man and the New Breed of Business. The intersection of the “Reconnection” and “Coming out of Babylon”.
John 17 Unity: The harvest (the whole world will know Christ) will come through true unity in the Body of Messiah/Christ.
2 Corinthians 5 : The ministry of reconciliation. First between man and God. Then between one another.
Ephesians 2:16 : That such reconciliation is made first between Jew and Gentile. Without which, how can an within “the two become one”?
2 Corinthians 6 : Come out and be separate from Babylon .What does Christ have to do with Satan? Do not partner together with unbelievers.
1 Corinthians 3 : Strife, Divisions, Carnal, Worldliness work against Holiness and Unity. Maturity requires Holiness and is the process of sanctification. No one gets credit other than what God gives. No one gets another wage other than the Lord deems fair. No one can build apart from Christ if they expect the work to last and survive the test by fire. The sign of immaturity in Christ is division (a lack of unity).
Common Pitfalls
Using Galatians 3:28 to justify another gospel: False Teaching: No longer Jew nor Greek means there is no distinction any longer between Jew or gentile. But how could this be if we clearly know in fact that there is still a distinction between Man and Woman which is a parallel sighting in the scripture: There is no longer Male nor Female?
Believing we have “Come out of Babylon” when we still adhere to logic such as: Self-preservation – “God helps those who help themselves”. Or, Mammon – “Well, without the money it can’t be done.” Or, “Seek-first Provision” – “Well, I guess god didn’t call me to do something because he didn’t provide the money for me to do it.” Or when we follow the doctrine of the world in “Separation of Church and State” “Separation of Church and Business” “The Business of Business is Business”
Roundtable Discussion – Economic Update in Prophetic Context
Bank of England buys Gilts?
Recently, there have been a few significant shakings in the financial markets, particularly in Europe, that have been stayed for the moment. Specifically and most recently, we had the Bank of England step in on an emergency basis to buy UK Gilts (like US Treasuries) to stave-off a financial crisis caused by “Liability Driven Investment” derivatives which is a fancy name for a leveraged “free lunch”. This is a Quantitative Easing move in a time of tightening of monetary policy. This reveals the vulnerability of the central banks to yet another crisis.
Now just a few scant days prior to this we had the Credit Suisse meltdown. NOTE, both the UK and Switzerland are independent of the EU. Credit Suisse is Swiss based even though they have a significant US presence through completing the acquisition of First Boston in 1990. Here is an article encapsulating how the Reddit meme stock crowd almost sunk the venerable Swiss Bank: How Credit Suisse Became a Meme Stock. (alt free article) Deutsche Bank also got swept into the bankruptcy concerns in early Oct with its stock price also declining precipitously triggering liquidity concerns all over again.
So, here is some prophetic context:
1. David Wilkerson prophecy from the 80s. See PDF below:
“The Great divide – The new Normal on the Mississippi River” “Record Set for Number of Cities with Riot Curfews” “Martial Law to be extended for 30 More Days” “Blight in Grains Spreading” “Drought Continues to cause Prayer to Rise” “Loss of Identity – The Cost to Belong to the New Euro Community” “Demand for Classic Seeds Skyrocket” “Derivative Panic Hits Global Markets” “Food Prices Lead Nation’s Escalating Inflation Woes” “Sysco Co and Kraft Considers Guards on Delivery Trucks as Food Nears 40% of the Family Budget” “Big Regulations Hit Small Banks” “Credit Markets Freeze Up” “The New Face of Robinhood – Flash Mobs Loot Rich Neighborhoods”
4. “I am uprooting the money tree” / “I am uprooting the men of money” spring 2010 word of the “No Name” storm knocking out power for 3 weeks in Fairfield County CT. Power outage greatest and longest according to the wealth of the town.
Study Every 2nd Wednesday for 12 Sessions from 9-11am Eastern
Tomorrow’s Discussion will focus on the key principles of the Reconnection and the New Breed of Business, part 1. The intersection of The One New Man and the New Breed of Business. The intersection of the “Reconnection” and “Coming out of Babylon”. See syllabus attached for the first 6 sessions.
debunk – expose the falseness or hollowness of (a myth, idea, or belief). Oxford Languages
How can the Queen of England’s passing help us understand both God’s redemptive plans for nations as well as His judgment of “Harlot Babylon” among the nations? We will explore…
The Finality of Babylon’s Doom “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.” Revelation 18:21
“Babylon refuses to mourn, but My people will mourn before My return.” – JFriz Word of the Lord 2004 (paraphrase of Rev 18)
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Therefore,
“Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
And,
“I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corinthians 6
Come out of Slavery and Servitude to Babylon
“‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;”
Revelation 18:4
“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”
Slavery = debt to a “Babylonian” institution; income from an “Babylonian” institution
In our discussion, we will cover:
Chris Reed prophecy Jan 2022
Queen Elizabeth and Liz Trust 2 days
Brexit
Hope for Britain
Separation of England from Babylon
Separation of US from Babylon
The purposes of heaven
Mission sending
Original intent
Revelation 22:24 and Zachariah 14:16 speaks of the nations repenting and coming up to Jerusalem
The degradation of Babylon over time
Prophetic analogy of Lion and wings of an Eagle
“The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.” Daniel 7:4
Shermara Fletcher, Principal Officer for Pentecostal and Charismatic Relations, Churches Together in England, Queens Funeral, recipient of 2020 exceptional young persons award of the wise women awards
A book on affordable housing? That the Church and the people of God need to help others with housing in commerce and economy? Yes, the Queen’s death leads to life.
From our friend Christpher Lucey:
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the LEAST of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” – Jesus; Matthew 24:40
Romans 911 Study Every 2nd Wednesday for 12 Sessions from 9-11am Eastern
Today’s discussion will focus on the introduction to the purpose and content of this study of the intersection between the “One New Man” and the “New Breed of Business”. The intersection of the “Reconnection” and “Coming out of Babylon”. A syllabus will be handed out for the first 6 sessions.
Parallels to Israel “Coming out of Babylon” in Economy
Second Temple parallels to the Second Acts Church prior to Jesus’ Second Coming
This morning we will discuss a topic we can call: “Ezra Calling”, which is part of God’s reformation in business and economy – a return to Old Testament / Tanakh scriptural truth when it comes to moral ethical economic issues in faith and community – just as Ezra rediscovered the scriptures and taught the people, so we must do similarly in these days. This may become a 2-part discussion where we then look to “Jesus Calling”, in how Jesus built upon the Torah and the Prophets (like Ezra, but as one “greater than Jonah”) and took these truths even higher when he gave the sermon on the mount.
This discussion is going to be a natural lead-in to kicking-off the following week’s Monthly study, whereby we will set aside the 2nd Wednesday every month for the next 12 months to look at the intersection between the “One New Man” and “Returning to God’s Economy”. How the One New Man (Jew and Gentile – The “Reconnection”) directly relates to the return to covenantal relationship between God and Man in economy (The “New Breed of Business”). Both are critical pillars in the preparation of the return of the Lord, preparing “a Bride without spot or wrinkle”.
So, we must “Come out of Babylon” and put away the foreign wives as putting away the foreign gods/idols of Baal, Mammon and the Egyptian Calf worship system of ancient Northern Israel. These today all have modern day equivalents.
OT Scriptural Truths:
Fallow Lands in Israel
Return to:
Sabbaths – Once a week; every 7 years; every 50 years
No charging of interest – Don’t be a money lender to Israelites / believers
Returning the pledge – Don’t take the pledge/bed/house/donkey/car
Helping others as we trust God to help us – Proverbs11:25
Divorcing foreign gods, such as Baal (self-interest), Mammon (money)
Putting away idols, such as our ‘golden calves’, our materialistic goods/goals, self-reliance
Embracing the Abrahamic Hebraic Covenantal cycle of life as a way of life instead of survival-of-the-fittest, Greek based logical linear mindsets
Parallels to Ancient Israel
Moses – God told Moses if the people follow the law “there shall be no poor among you”. Deut 15:4.
Ezra – Coming out of Babylonian marriages, idolatry and worship practices. Returning to the sabbaths and the shmita.
Nehemiah – Rebuking the wealthy who wrote mortgages profiting from and enslaving the poor. Ezra 9-10. Nehemiah 5.
Elijah – Mt. Carmel challenge. Israel faltering between two opinions, Jehovah and Baal. Serve one or the other. 1 Kings 18.
Gideon – Midianite robbers and crop spoilers. Tearing down his father’s altar to Baal. Judges 6.
Jehu – Kills Jezebel, tears down Baal, but fails to remove Egyptian golden calf system Jeroboam set up in 1 Kings 12:28-29. 2 Kings 10:29.
Saul – A King the people wanted
David – A King after God’s own heart
Jonathan Cahn has done a great job in prophetically warning America that we are following the path of ancient Israel and its slide into apostasy. And we must “Return to God” if we hope that He will return to America. He started with writing “The Harbinger” where he looked at the Isaiah 9:10 parallel to 9/11 in 2001. Now, he has just released “Return of the Gods” which gets into the very same issues of our discussion here today. This is prophetically timely.
Here is an outstanding teaching that Jonathan gave on these things years ago, but prophetically relevant to today: The Mammon Key
Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God. So we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well. But as you abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—see that you abound in this grace also…
For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened; but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality. As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
2 Corinthians 8:1-8; 13-15
Deut 16:18
A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:25
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things [unbelievers] seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matt 6:29-34
The upside down Kingdom
“It is better to give than receive” — Acts 20:35
– Widow and the two mites
Luke 21:1-4
– Trusting God, leaving outcomes in His hands, helping others, even out of our poverty
“Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luke 17: 33-37
“for your life is not your own… For you were bought with a price”
This morning we discuss the driving forces behind answering the question: “Why create a Storehouse?” this is part of a series we are doing called “How to Create a Storehouse”.
