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The world is blind to these SEVEN, pivotal facts:

1. The Bible communicates Heaven’s 'Multi-millennial Strategic Plan for Humanity'.

2. There are SEVEN ages appointed for humanity.

3. We are nearing the end of the THIRD age, a pivotal turning point in this strategy.

4. A GREAT falling away from the Christian faith is predicted during the ending days of this THIRD age, as a result of backsliding, general lukewarmness and outright apostasy among the heretofore faithful. Look around and this you will clearly see.

5. Biblical prophecies have been and remain seeds of human history.

6. Yet-fulfilled prophecies, unfolding apace, are worthy of diligent study.

7. Now is the time to get and stay on ‘the right side of Bible prophecy’.

 

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The Façade of Scarcity



Economics has been called the study of scarcity. Since God is the source of all abundance, from whence comes scarcity? Is it real, or simply a figment of our collective imaginations, figments that we have been tricked into translating into actualities? Could scarcity be simply an unfortunate, but mere option?

Many experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the concept called groupthink has some validity in shaping actual events experienced by a group of people. At first glance, we may be tempted to discount the very notion. Yet, any careful study of The Bible affirms how this principle (a spiritual law, perhaps?) works both at the individual level, also the community and even national levels. Still a doubter?

Consider this:
·          ...As he thinks [and eventually believes in his heart], so is he, i.e., so ‘becomes’ his factual actuality. (Proverbs 23:7)
     ...Righteousness exalts a [whole/entire] nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. (Proverbs 14:34)

Each of these starts first at the individual level, then expands to the community level, and eventually affects or infects the national level. This process reflects ‘culture’ – the collective behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic or age group; the sum total of ways of living built up by a group and transmitted to subsequent generations. Reprogramming culture similarly starts at the individual level and, over time, may affect or infect a nation via the community level, as a drop of ink stains a cup of water. Human cultures always initiate on a positive path, and then quickly deteriorate negatively.

Persistent, individual thought, thus is the ‘seed’ of culture. This is why God reiterated His concern about ‘the imaginations of the thoughts of man’s heart’, knowing full well persistent thoughts/imaginations become beliefs, eventually produce their fruit, and then quickly spread their seeds to take root exponentially. This is how the earth realm is programmed to respond to seed of any kind.

This exact process is how abundance becomes scarcity -- thoughts ‘thunk’ persistently, then spread exponentially. Our challenge remains: how to reprogram our mindsets, beliefs, speech, and expectations to root out the sickness-poverty-lack mentality we all grew up with. Re-training our imagination is not so easy, especially as we daily ‘behold’ the deteriorated conditions in our world that we have created via the above process. What a conundrum!

The answer is clear and simple, and is reiterated in The Bible four (4) times as:
The just (people whom God calls ‘righteous’) 
shall live by faith. *

The object of faith (i.e., that at which the eyes of faith must steadfastly look) must be something other than that which is in front of our natural/physical eyes. Why? Continually looking at the latter will only ensure continuing thoughts, imaginations, beliefs and seeds to produce more of the same! Rather, we need to focus on (imagine) things associated with and related to our God of abundance to the point that these become real, inwardly. As we do, they will eventually become actual, outwardly. How? 

Faith thus becomes the ‘avenue’ to God’s Grace,
The portal through which things of Heaven we taste.
Grace is the pure essence of God’s mighty power.
It’s exactly what we need in this dark hour!

Thus we may aptly say, ‘The Just Shall Live by GRACE’,
And thus our scarcity mindsets we will erase!
Grace, God’s power through us that accomplishes
That which pleases Him, that which He cherishes.

Economics is the study of façades,
Figments of our imaginations so flawed.
The only shortage that really exists
Is one of faith in God's Grace in our midst!

Imagine this: God has made available to each person the equivalent of a nuclear power plant to generate power to accomplish whatever we need to live a righteous/Godly life, but we stupidly ignore this because we cannot imagine that it's true. And so we make do in life, trying to get by on a couple of rechargeable AA batteries! 
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* Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11 and Hebrews 10:38