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So, what are some things that the Christians, the body of Christ, should be watching right

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now?

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Hi, my name is Leanne Priestman, and this is Restoring Word.

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And I've got an interesting word for you today.

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It's maybe not like your typical devotional, really it's more of a prophetic call to prayer.

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There are some things that I'm seeing in the natural that I'm watching closely and I'm

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praying about them, and I just wanted to share my heart with you today, the listeners of

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Restoring Word.

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First Thessalonians 5, 16 through 18 says, Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give

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thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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So, in everything, we should be watching and we should be praying.

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From Romans 8, 26, Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses.

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Aren't you thankful for the Holy Spirit?

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Aren't you thankful that he is faithful to quicken us to pray as we should?

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For we don't know how to pray for what we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with

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us with groanings too deep for words.

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Those of us that are spirit-filled Christians, when we pray, oftentimes we pray in our prayer

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language.

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We don't often understand what we're praying through when we do that, but the Holy Spirit

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knows all things.

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Okay, so Leanne, where are you going with this?

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Well, it was kind of inspired by, this message was inspired by the wind vane that's going

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on top of our Catalina 25.

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The wind vane is not an expensive thing, it's just basically, it's a metal arrow that goes

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on top of the mast, I'm going to post a picture of it, and it's perpetually spinning.

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Now, I remember these being on farmhouses or windmills all across the state of Iowa,

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being raised as a kid, you know, in the Midwest, but the job of the wind vane is to let those

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that are down below watching the direction of the wind, where is the wind coming from?

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And how, or do I need to adjust something for what's coming?

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The sailboat always is perpetually adjusting to the wind.

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As long as the sailboat has wind at a specific angle towards those sails, the sailboat can

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move forward.

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But you're always going to have to be watching because why?

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Those winds change.

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There are some things that are changing right now in America.

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There are some red flags that I have, things that I'm watching, things that I'm trying

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to perceive the direction of where we're going in terms of Bible prophecy.

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I taught Bible prophecy for probably 20 some years at Victory Christian School, I was on

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staff there for 27, probably heavily more so the last 15 years.

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And always I would take what was going on in the news and try to relate it to everyday

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life for my students.

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These are the three things that I am watching right now.

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Number one, the banking system in America.

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Elon Musk did an incredible interview with Tucker Carlson a couple weeks back.

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In this interview, he talked about some real concerns he had with banking in America.

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And you know, I grew up, my grandparents suffered a lot during the Great Depression.

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They lost a lot.

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And so the banking system and finance has always been something that I've taken seriously.

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I've taken it to heart.

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Elon Musk talked about commercial real estate in San Francisco.

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Currently, 40% of the commercial real estate in San Francisco is empty.

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Why?

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Well, it's kind of common sense.

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Because of COVID, so many businesses are now having their workers work remotely.

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So there isn't a need for the real estate.

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Now why is that significant?

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Well, banks use commercial real estate to solidify maybe their loans and their holdings.

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And if there is some sort of a fallout or a adjustment that happens within this commercial

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real estate market, it could shake and already unstateable.

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stable banking system.

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It's something we need to pray about and it's something that we need to watch.

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The next thing that I'm praying about that I'm taking seriously actually was inspired

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by my brother-in-law, Matt Boomgarden.

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We have a Bible study on Thursday night and Matt brought up a business index called the

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Russell 5000.

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I spent a little time noodling around on the web and I'll put a link to it below in this

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message.

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But in the Russell 5000, what they basically do is they study the business health of businesses

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here in America.

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And one of the real considerations I had never thought about, but it makes absolute complete

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sense to me, is that there is a substantial amount of businesses in America that took

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out loans before COVID or during COVID.

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And when they took those loans out, they were only borrowing money, these businesses,

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at 1% interest.

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Well now the Federal Reserve has upped the interest rate to almost 5%.

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What does that mean?

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Well that means in America there's going to be thousands and thousands of small and large

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businesses that are going to have trouble in the next year to two years, maybe five

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years.

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Because why?

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They're going to have to refinance the debt.

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That is not good.

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We know also because of artificial intelligence, which is the third thing and where I'm going

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next, that a lot of jobs are going to be replaced soon because computers and technology are

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replacing what a lot of workers or personal assistants or secretaries used to do in the

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past.

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Now there isn't such a demand for it.

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The value of the American dollar, that's probably number four and I wasn't really planning on

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going there today, but the value of the dollar really is going to be determined by, well,

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a multitude of things.

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But obviously the health and the strength of American business, the health and the strength

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of banks across America.

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And then just the overall, the ability to buy and sell oil, which has usually been bought

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in dollars.

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Unfortunately, now it's being bought in Chinese currency or other world currencies as well.

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So probably as intercessors, we probably should be paying attention to the last thing and

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that is the dollar.

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In conclusion, I want to talk about artificial intelligence.

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You know, there are some very curious prophecies in the book of Revelation, primarily in chapters

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13 and 14, where three quarters of the way or halfway through, I'm sorry, the book of

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Revelation three and a half years in, the Antichrist rises to power.

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Now this is an individual that controls all finance worldwide.

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You cannot buy or sell without a mark.

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And it's something that of course, you know, Christians and believers watched very seriously

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even during the time of COVID because you're not going to force anyone in America to put

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anything in their body without permission.

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But the thing that concerns me the most about AI is how, did you know that it's doubling

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every 48 hours?

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Did you know now that between chat GPT and other platforms that pretty soon this artificial

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intelligence may be able to communicate with itself in languages that we don't understand.

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It may be able to replace humans.

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And the thing about it is we as Christians, we know that we're spirit beings.

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We're eternal beings, that we're going to live in eternity with Jesus.

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This technology that is developing, we don't know if it could be used for good or for bad.

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Yes.

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We all welcome technology that would help us grow and be healthy and strong and enable

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us to communicate like I'm doing right now.

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I'm preaching the gospel on social media and sharing my thoughts with you.

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All of that is healthy and good as long as it's controlled by people who have good motives.

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Back to my wind vane illustration.

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As an intercessor, we need to pray about the things in the natural that are going to impact

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the body of Christ.

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We need to watch.

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We need to pray.

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We need to ask God to show us what to do.

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Not with fear, not with anxiety, but with wisdom, because the Holy Spirit wants to show

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you where he's going.

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going. He wants to show you where he's moving. He wants to lead you and provide

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for you in this hour regardless of what happens in our economy. We aren't limited

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by the economy in the natural. We serve a supernatural God and we do not live by

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fear. We live by faith. Anyway, I'd like to hear from my viewers. If you have

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things that you're watching or things that you're concerned about that you're seeing

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right now, could you share those in the comments below? I'll also put in the comments

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links to the different videos that I've been quoting from just so that you'll have

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maybe a point of reference and you can think about how the economy may shift in the years ahead.

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Thank you for listening. I'm Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.

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