B.O.S.S.:

I mean there are so many pastors now misusing these so-called revelations from any instincts is now being turned to one and they even have the horse sense to call it revelation.

Of course there are pastors that misuse their so-called revelations BUT we can not go around trying to hunt them down out of bias of some sort. When it comes to spiritual issues, each person has his/her own opinion. Now, if a pastor chooses to reveal revelation in a PRAYER MEETING, that is fine. However, if we out of bias or our inability to accept that there are something’s we do not and may never understand, go into these PRAYER Meetings, and then come out to announce the claims made in there as if they were more OUTRAGEOUS revelations, we have not only crossed a line but also lost our understanding of what religion really is about.

B.O.S.S.:

I guess he probably didn’t make it public then did he?

It seems in this case he did not make it public but someone felt to do so, so I can not in anyway fault the pastor but the reporter and his intention.

B.O.S.S.:

Due to the mere fact that such revelation was made in a prayer meeting makes it more sensible to broadcast it because it makes political sense and especially because it’s in the interest of the whole nation. Don’t you think?

I disagree! Religion is not and should not be made political. Do you think it would make sense if an Imam were to announce that he had a revelation from Allah, and that ALL Nigerians should flock to the mosque for prayer if they wanted to survive the recession? I would be one of the first to stone the man for such a ridiculous statement. Why? Because that would be BULL to me but I bet many muslims out there would not think twice but heed his advice.

B.O.S.S.:

By the way, have you started planning for seven years of drought?

Roflmao!!! I will wait to get confirmation from God of such a thing before I plan for such.

B.O.S.S.:

Disclaimer : You have every right to be biased especially if you really trust in the word with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding.

Lol. . . . I believe, I also believe God reveals his intention to his own. So I will wait for God to reveal his intentions to me for what to do about the recession. So far, I still hear LIVE OUT LOUD, ENJOY!! Roflmao!!


_{Disclaimer : I am seriously biased here because I happen to be a Christian who believes in paying tithes and being righteous, and also that God reveals his word and plan to those who believe and believes this recession is going to last a while and many will definitely come out scarred for life.}

Uhmm dem don come again!

Can daddy GO-GO just shut the fuc.k up for a while?!

MrCrackles:

Uhmm dem don come again!

Can daddy GO-GO just shut the fuc.k up for a while?!

lay off Daddy GO Brashy, is it his fault that people want to report everything he says, even in a private prayer meeting?

Very soon some journalist will hear that Daddy GO prefers goat meat to cow meat and someone will report it as an 'exclusive'

http://www.aish.com/societyWork/work/When_The_Dow_Goes_Down.asp
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As we watch the turmoil on Wall Street, our sinking portfolios, and the financial crisis that may be leading us to a severe recession, we're left to wonder what is the deeper spiritual message.

After all, what we are seeing now isn't something new -- although we wanted to fool ourselves into thinking that it wouldn't happen to us again. Too bad we can't be as smart as Warren Buffett, universally recognized as the world's best and most intelligent investor. In 1999, as analysts kept insisting that "this time there is no limit to how high the market could go," Buffett warned of what he called "an almost biblical kind of symmetry." He was referring to the Book of Genesis, where Joseph is called to interpret the dreams of the Egyptian Pharaoh: Seven lean cows ate seven fat cows, and seven lean ears of grain consumed seven plump ears. The interpretation, said Joseph, is that seven years of bounty will be followed by seven years of famine.

Almost eerily, Buffett linked Joseph's seven-year cycles with the performance of the Dow Jones at the close of the 20th century. He recognized that the concept of economic cycles discovered by Joseph is as relevant today as it was then, and could only be ignored at our own peril.


The concept of economic cycles discovered by Joseph is as relevant today as it was then, and could only be ignored at our own peril.


And so, just about seven years after the bull market again began to roar in 2001, the seven "fat cows" of prosperity are being swallowed up the "lean cows" of sub-prime mortgage defaults, bankruptcies and hedge-fund collapses in 2008.

There is a stark truth that somehow never seems to be acknowledged. Crashes are treated as total surprises, unpredictable and beyond reason -- as if Joseph's words weren't part of our ancient legacy. It is a mistake to believe, as most do, that people had no advance warning for the Crash of 1929. In the book Blood in the Streets, the authors Davidson and Rees-Mogg quote Paul Clay who in 1928 identified major financial fallacies. "First among these fallacies," he wrote, "is the New Era delusion, as typified by the famous dictum, 'This is a new era. Statistics of the past don't count.' Every period of great prosperity is considered to be a new era and so much better fortified to give promise of permanence."

Sound familiar? Before the most recent crash of 2000, newspapers and magazines overflowed with stories about the "new paradigm" -- the notion that thanks to increased global competition and technological advances, inflation and the business cycle are dead. The advanced economies, in other words, could look forward to uninterrupted years of strong growth and low inflation, and the exuberance of equity prices around the world was thereby justified. As a spokesman for Merrill Lynch put it in 1999, "We are genuinely in uncharted territory -- there are no chart points or critical levels we can refer to."

And that's what the Wizards of Wall Street repeated in 2007 as housing prices soared beyond any justifiable barometer and the herd of investors borrowed heavily against their mortgages to buy stocks they were assured could only move to as yet unimaginable highs. In other words, forget the past and the theory of economic cycles. Joseph, it seems, was wrong.

Manna from Heaven

But Joseph wasn't wrong. Cycles are here to stay. They can always be counted on. And the Jewish sages not only accepted them as economic realities, but explained them as having deep spiritual benefit.

Do you want to know why God doesn't simply keep showering His blessings on us in uninterrupted fashion? The answer appears in the Talmud in response to a question about the manner in which the Jews received manna from heaven as food when they traveled through the desert on their way out of Egypt.

"Why," asked the students of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, "didn't God give the Jews their entire food for the year at one time, rather than doling it out in a daily fashion?" To which the rabbi responded, "Let me offer you a parable: A king used to give his son a sizeable allowance once a year. The prince would only visit his father when his funds were depleted. The king then changed his arrangements to distribute only enough money for one day at a time. In this way he would see his son on a daily basis. So too, God provided the manna in daily portions to keep every person's eyes focused toward Heaven as source for his sustenance."

What we want from God is His blessings. What God desires of us is awareness of the relationship. Give too much and we take it for granted. Give uninterruptedly and we assume our blessings are coming to us without any need for gratitude or acknowledgement.

The Code of Jewish Law tells us in the first chapter that every day "Every Jew is required to recite the biblical chapter that tells the story of the gift of the manna." Why? So that we reaffirm our awareness of God's role in providing our daily necessities. With technology creating an illusion of total control, that lesson applies today now more than ever.


Every so often, we need a reminder that it is our Father who doles out our allowance and to whom we must give thanks.


God wants the world to run in a seemingly natural fashion. Incomes are earned, moneys accumulated, portfolios allowed to grow in ways that offer us the semblance of security. But every so often, perhaps seven years -- corresponding to the weekly Sabbath meant to remind us of God's ongoing rulership -- we need a reminder that it is our Father, the King of Kings, who doles out our allowance and to whom we must give thanks.

Every Seven Years

When our coffers are full, our granaries overflowing, the Torah reminds us that there is an all-too-human trait of distancing oneself from God. "And Yeshurun (the Jewish people) waxed fat, and they kicked [away their attachment to the Almighty]." Wealth sometimes brings with it forgetfulness. Forgetting where we came from. Forgetting to whom we owe our good fortune. Ignoring the One Above without whom we would have nothing.

This idea finds expression in the biblically-ordained Sabbatical (Shmita) year. Every seven years in the Land of Israel, not only do we let the land lie fallow, but we must allow other people to freely enter our fields and take any available produce. We unlock our gates, in effect proclaiming that we have no individual dominion over the land; all privileges emanate from God, Who can give and take at will.

Ironically, this year (5768 on the Jewish calendar) is indeed a Shmita year.

So when the Dow drops, as it always must, and the divinely-ordained cycle brings us back down to earth, as it has now, it's important to remember this: When times get too good, and our relationship with God is threatened by the kind of self-assured egotism that often accompanies extreme wealth, He reminds us of where we could be without Him. And when times are bad, He renews His role as Provider in the hope that the lessons we learned when humbled by diminished prosperity will make us better human beings, as we enter the next cycle.

debosky:



lay off Daddy GO Brashy, is it his fault that people want to report everything he says, even in a private prayer meeting?

Very soon some journalist will hear that Daddy GO prefers goat meat to cow meat and someone will report it as an 'exclusive'

Or make dem report Daddy GO wan knack Mummy GO!

MrCrackles:


Can daddy GO-GO just shut the fuc.k up for a while?!

All in agreement that the above is the Quote of the Century, say aye !

ye

phew~! thot the banom thing was close to real.

IN every establishment or govt, crooks exist that run the affairs in a corrupt manner thereby causing the collapse of that institution/system. The economic recession now is a product of such crooks in high places. Now that they have been discovered and flushedout, recovery will not take long, if the incoming ones a ready to cleanup the mess as soon as possible. With the way Obama is pursuing the economic reforms and with the right support, I don't think It will take the world more than 3 years to recover. Let's watch.

Nigeria has been in economic crisis since when? God knows. We as a country have being in perpetual economy crisis for long.

Pastor Adeboye, sharing the revelation during the meeting, which he hosted, stated that it was revealed to him that the global economic meltdown would subsist for seven years.

“Despite the gloomy economic state worldwide, those who are righteous, faithful in giving their tithes and offering will prosper,” he said.

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All these prophets sef.9ja don dey crisis since independence so which one come be all dis doomsday prophecy?

And the chairman of Inspiration FM is the same sacked CEO of Intercontinental Bank? How come GO Adeboye did not know that the chairman was running Intercontental bank aground?

Use of the word "may" in any statement or prediction actually provides a soft landing for any statement or predication that does not happen and conditions are usually attached so as to make excuses when nothing happens.

My worry is that the attention tithes and offerings are receiving in churches today is way to much, misleading and definitely not what God is interested in considering the fact that He created everything and owns everything including those who think they can impress God with their wealth. No one is focusing on salvation, we are not hearing more of lover thy neighbor or the need to resist evil no matter the consequences.

Many of the so called Christians who will use the same mouth to preach and curse, carry out wicked acts, lie and misinform are just jokers and even though they may be able to confuse men they cannot confuse God who sees through all the hypocrisies and sycophancy.