A New Kind of Bank Robber

I am reading this and I have to tell you I am a mature christian. In december I sold my house for what I could get and moved closer to my job. Selling furniture, I counciled with many and prayed. I took my sons 22 and 18 with me. My oldest married and they together lived with me. I had no idea the economy would tank as bad as it has. We have gone through my resources and even though I changed jobs to a different furniture company one with a more stable pay. It is hard to say the least. The furniture company i work for now is closing their doors. I only know how to do sales which is not stable. I am praying for direction. What are we looking at for the economy 1 year, two or three. Please

Dear Patricia... I am sorry to hear of your difficult circumstances. If you are good at sales, then you are in a great profession which only increases in demand in a down economy. If you have strong selling skills with an ethical approach you have what many companies are looking for in a tough economy. If sales is not your gifting, you need to move into what is. I believe the economy will be tough for awhile. Others believe it will improve after the new president gets in office. I really have no idea, only a gut feeling. If you don't have my book Selling Among Wolves - Without Joining the Pack, then you can call my office and ask Cheryl to mail a complimentary copy your way. Blessings, Michael

Sure Garry... We had some problems with the link... Here it is... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aatlky_cH.tY&refer=worldwide Be sure to run it altogether in one line. IF that fails, you can find the story on Drudge Report with this headline... FED REFUSES TO IDENTIFY $2,000,000,000,000.00 BANK LOANS

Michael, I am EXCITED as I walk deeper into the \"life giving\" water that flows from the throne of the MOST HIGH GOD!! I am looking forward to process of building an EVER deep relationship with our CREATOR GOD that loved me SO much that He sent HIS son to die for me!!! I look forward to the spiritual sphere walk with you; and want you to know I have and continue to pray for you! I look forward to the journey because my victorious Lord is with me and I want His name to be glorified and praised! Where God is, the adversary cannot be...PTL!

This reminded me of the Scripture that faith without works is dead. It's also interesting that Jesus spent most of His time praying and a few minutes ministering. But those spurts are things we are still talking about! This is something that we need to marry: spending quality face to face time with God to receive the strategies we need to make the most impact, just like Jesus. Unless God has called us to specifically only minister to Him like the Prophetess Anna, we need to also seek God to find out what we can do to bring His will to pass not only in our sphere, but in the sphere we encompass, which is this nation. Thank you for such a great post!

The Federal Reserve refuses to do anything they don't want to do because they are a privately held system, and are not accountable to anyone in the government. The name is designed to mislead people. Yes the President \"appoints\" the head of the Federal Reserve but that is a sham. In nearly 100 years they have never submitted to an audit. Yet these banks basically have the most incredible control over the supply of money and over whether there will be growth, recession etc. I believe one maybe more of the banks now are owned by people who are not even Ame,rican citizens. The original dollar is less than 1/3 of ONE CENT. of what the value of the dollar was when Congress created a Central Bank through the Federal Reserve Act. It was very controversial at the time, and was only passed by a stealth vote the 23rd of December (1913 I believe) when most of the Congress had gone home for the Holidays. Every intelligent American should educated themselves about this Central Bank system and how it was resisted for over 100 years before it was finally integrated in to our system. They are indeed robbers, but there is nothing new about them.

Michael, Did you hear the whipping up of the wind in the mulberry trees today; because if you didn't, you should have. This is quite a \"stirring\" message! With reference to Ephesians, we who are in Christ have been raised up to sit together with Christ in heavenly places far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come; and God hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. In other words, we can use the name of Jesus and call down the armies of the stronghold demons of economic failure, calling their assignments null and void and snatching the devil's agenda out of their hands with the word of God coming out of our mouths whether the powers of darkness have accomplished all this through the privately held Federal Reserve banking cartel, whether it be through executive orders that have been carried out, whether it has been aided by the media or propelled through bailouts. We have been made \"more than conquerors\" through Christ Jesus! The more scriptures we pull out of our arsenal like Psalms 18:14 or II Sam. 22:15, \"He sent out his arrows and scattered them, and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them,\" the more dangerous we are going to be to these rulers of darkness. I also like what you said about this not being an either/or proposition to adhere to the spiritual aspect and not also step into the arena that is currently dominated by the enemy with faith based action and understanding. What value or worth is in a threshing instrument if it has no teeth? Blessings, Judy

Albert Einstein once said, \"The significant problems we face will not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.\" I've been having very similar thoughts as yours in this post about how to address the current situation, both spiritual and practically. While considering how to engage practically, I recently read something written in England during WWII from T. Austin-Sparks called \"God's Spiritual House\". I thought it corresponded to the current situation and was good insight into how the unseen realm governs the seen realm. Here's an excerpt: \"The Exaltation of the Lord Jesus The first with which we were concerned was that this spiritual house of God exists for the purpose of setting forth, proclaiming, manifesting the exaltation of the Lord Jesus as God's Son, the exaltation of the Lord Jesus to the throne of the Father. It is for that the Church exists, and it is for that we exist if we are of the house of God. But that is not just a truth, a doctrine to be proclaimed. That is not just a part of the Church's creed - \"Jesus Christ has been raised from the dead and exalted to the right hand of the Majesty on high.\" That is not just one of our convictions, as we say. That is something which has to constitute us spiritually and has to be expressed by means of life. The exaltation of the Lord Jesus is, before and above all other things, a matter of life. It was when He was exalted to the right hand of the Majesty on high, it was when God made Him both Lord and Christ, it was when He was actually seated at God's right hand, far above all rule and authority, principalities and powers, that the Holy Spirit came out from His presence and made that which was in heaven, a spiritual reality in the Church; and that reality was marked and demonstrated and proved and evidenced by the mighty power of His ascended life. We have to be spiritually constituted on the basis of Christ's exaltation. That is to say, within us something has to be done which brings about in us a living spiritual oneness with the exaltation, the Lordship, the supremacy of Jesus Christ. It is not to remain something outside of us, however true it is. We have to be that in fact; and, as we have pointed out, the impact of the early believers upon this world, upon those around them wherever they were, was the impact of the FACT, not the doctrine, not the teaching, not merely the statement, but the FACT that Jesus Christ was exalted. That came home upon the situation because that fact has its supreme significance in the spiritual realm, and we know quite well that all that is visible, all that is here on this sentient creation, has behind it a spiritual order. Never has that been more clearly manifested and demonstrated than in the present world situation. There is a spiritual order of things which is driving on, mastering, manipulating everything. It is, as many have been saying for the past months, Satanic in its background. The exaltation of the Lord Jesus finds its first registration there, and it is not until the registration is made there that the foreground is really affected. To arrest men, to arrest a course of things, to bring the yoke down upon situations, to harness developments in the seen, you have to get behind and register some superior reality against those forces which are creating these things. Now, that is spirituality. The Apostle Paul said much about this sort of thing, and we have his language by which he expressed this reality. For example, \"the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds\" (2 Cor. 10:4). He did not actually use the word, but it is quite clear that he meant that the weapons of our warfare are spiritual, getting behind the situation: and you know what he was dealing with at the moment when he used those words. Here were Corinthians who were seeking the advantages of natural wisdom, natural learning, the wisdom and the power of this world, in order to give them position, influence, standing. They were carnal in their quest for carnal weapons by which to gain ascendency in this world. That led the Apostle to that great discourse on the foolishness and the weakness of this world's wisdom and this world's strength, and he said that, to overcome this world, you want something more than this world's weapons, this world's men. To overcome the carnal, you must have something more than carnal weapons, and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God. In other words, they are spiritual. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood in the form of wisdom and worldly power, \"but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenlies.\" Therefore our weapons must be spiritual, and spirituality means fundamentally the ability to get behind the seen, the tangible, to the unseen, the invisible, the intangible powers of evil, and to register your superiority there: and that superiority is the exaltation of the Lord Jesus far above all rule and authority and principality and power. That is a spiritual thing. The house of God is a spiritual house for that spiritual purpose, namely, to bring home Christ's ascendency in a spiritual way against spiritual forces. Then the instrumentalities of those evil spiritual forces will in turn come under arrest. It is no use going directly at things. You must strike at the cause of things, and then the things themselves will, according to God's purpose and intention, either be destroyed, or be brought under arrest or limitation, just as the Lord intends. It is not the Lord's thought to stop wars altogether just yet, nor much else that is going on in an evil way, but there is such a thing as limiting things to the purpose of God; and I do feel, and appeal to you as the Lord's children, that we ought to be engaged in this spiritual registration of the authority and supremacy of the Lord Jesus in the unseen, in the background of present world situations, with the object of limiting things to God's purpose. I believe it is possible for the Lord's people now to take hold of every air raid on this country and limit it, give it God's limitation, and I believe that that is what is happening. I only use it by way of illustrating my point. It is an amazing thing how things have been limited. We have seen again and again what might have been, and how much the onslaught has been penned in, even where great damage has been done. Oh, how much more might have been, could have been, and the amazement of every day is the limitation that is imposed. Surely that is an encouragement. I believe it is due to something in the unseen which is set in motion through the prayers of the people of God. That is encouraging. Let us be given to our ministry. That is what the Church is for. Thus the very first thing is that Jesus is exalted above all principality and powers which lie behind this world darkness, and the Church is here, by prayer and testimony and spiritual life, to bring home upon those background forces this superiority of the Lord Jesus. It is a thing, not of words, not of doctrines, not of creeds, but of life, the impact of His ascended life.\"