Help From God During Financially-Troubling Times

Everywhere I turn, I see people who are miserable and frightened about the economy. I know personally how scary it is with cash flow problems at work... but at least I have a job. Many of my friends and acquaintances do not. Some haven't held a career-type position for a couple of years.

It looks grim. As I write this, the "experts" expect America's economic problems to continue for two to five years.

But, in spite of what news sources, government reports, and the doom-and-gloom secular prophets tell us, Believers have a God-authorized "secret weapon": Proclamation.

What is "proclamation"? It is simply speaking God's written word to the circumstances we face.

And this is a great financial scripture to proclaim over scary financial circumstances:

And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others.

II Corinthians 9:8 (NLT)

I know this in my head, but I am really starting to learn this in my heart: the more I trust in God and focus on Him, not my circumstances, the more worry-free I become. Trust builds on trust. And God can build on small amounts of trust, just like Jesus mentioned in the mustard seed parable.

God bless you all, especially readers going through trying financial and economic times. Remember one of God's special names in the Scriptures: The LORD who Provides. And if God spoke and our universe and our planet came into being, then a weak economy is no problem for our God!