A Climate of Fear
The article I am linking to today, “Don’t Believe the Hype“, gives a unique perspective to the climate of fear we are currently living in. I believe this is a real tactic of the enemy seeking to shut us down. A phrase the Bible repeats probably more than any other is to “fear not”.
I have checked some of the facts in this article and they do seem to be accurate. I searched quite a bit for the final retail sales figures for the ‘08 holiday season and could not find any. There were plenty of stories that made all types of doom and gloom claims but I could not find any hard data telling what sales were this year and last year. Does this mean there is nothing to worry about? I believe it is truly a time to press in and walk in faith, yet, how we communicate that is very important.
A Punative God
So often the “prophets” of doom communicate to us a punitive God and all the stuff we had better be doing if we are to have any hope of escaping His punishment. Personally, I believe we are coming into the most exciting season the body of Christ has ever seen. I believe miracles will be way more prevalent financially, physically and emotionally. I believe God’s presence will be accessible like never before and people will find answers in God in just hours, days and weeks where it used to take years. God is not punitive; He is helping us to see a way above so we might depart from low level living!
Past Examples
In 1991, Larry Burkett said, “I felt that our national debt and annual deficit were out of control and would eventually bring our economy to its knees, creating an economic collapse of historic proportions”. Instead, President Clinton balanced the budget. Larry Burkett, Pat Robertson and others jumped on the “Y2K bug” bandwagon in the late 1990′s making huge profits selling their books by propagating fear. My feeling is that these authors should give back the money they made on their books and repent to the body of Christ at large for all the fear they caused. Perfect love casts out fear!
This article, “Prophetic Words for 2009″ is by Loren Sanford whom I would consider to be a much more balanced prophetic voice. http://www.newsongfellowship.org/propheticmoments18.html
Article where Burkett seeks to restate his position after so clearly prophesying wrongly: http://www.crown.org/Library/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=587
Burkett, Catastrophic Warnings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Burkett (Scroll down to “Catastrophic Warnings”
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