So, what are some things that the Christians, the body of Christ, should be watching right
now?
Hi, my name is Leanne Priestman, and this is Restoring Word.
And I've got an interesting word for you today.
It's maybe not like your typical devotional, really it's more of a prophetic call to prayer.
There are some things that I'm seeing in the natural that I'm watching closely and I'm
praying about them, and I just wanted to share my heart with you today, the listeners of
Restoring Word.
First Thessalonians 5, 16 through 18 says, Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give
thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
So, in everything, we should be watching and we should be praying.
From Romans 8, 26, Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses.
Aren't you thankful for the Holy Spirit?
Aren't you thankful that he is faithful to quicken us to pray as we should?
For we don't know how to pray for what we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with
us with groanings too deep for words.
Those of us that are spirit-filled Christians, when we pray, oftentimes we pray in our prayer
language.
We don't often understand what we're praying through when we do that, but the Holy Spirit
knows all things.
Okay, so Leanne, where are you going with this?
Well, it was kind of inspired by, this message was inspired by the wind vane that's going
on top of our Catalina 25.
The wind vane is not an expensive thing, it's just basically, it's a metal arrow that goes
on top of the mast, I'm going to post a picture of it, and it's perpetually spinning.
Now, I remember these being on farmhouses or windmills all across the state of Iowa,
being raised as a kid, you know, in the Midwest, but the job of the wind vane is to let those
that are down below watching the direction of the wind, where is the wind coming from?
And how, or do I need to adjust something for what's coming?
The sailboat always is perpetually adjusting to the wind.
As long as the sailboat has wind at a specific angle towards those sails, the sailboat can
move forward.
But you're always going to have to be watching because why?
Those winds change.
There are some things that are changing right now in America.
There are some red flags that I have, things that I'm watching, things that I'm trying
to perceive the direction of where we're going in terms of Bible prophecy.
I taught Bible prophecy for probably 20 some years at Victory Christian School, I was on
staff there for 27, probably heavily more so the last 15 years.
And always I would take what was going on in the news and try to relate it to everyday
life for my students.
These are the three things that I am watching right now.
Number one, the banking system in America.
Elon Musk did an incredible interview with Tucker Carlson a couple weeks back.
In this interview, he talked about some real concerns he had with banking in America.
And you know, I grew up, my grandparents suffered a lot during the Great Depression.
They lost a lot.
And so the banking system and finance has always been something that I've taken seriously.
I've taken it to heart.
Elon Musk talked about commercial real estate in San Francisco.
Currently, 40% of the commercial real estate in San Francisco is empty.
Why?
Well, it's kind of common sense.
Because of COVID, so many businesses are now having their workers work remotely.
So there isn't a need for the real estate.
Now why is that significant?
Well, banks use commercial real estate to solidify maybe their loans and their holdings.
And if there is some sort of a fallout or a adjustment that happens within this commercial
real estate market, it could shake and already unstateable.
stable banking system.
It's something we need to pray about and it's something that we need to watch.
The next thing that I'm praying about that I'm taking seriously actually was inspired
by my brother-in-law, Matt Boomgarden.
We have a Bible study on Thursday night and Matt brought up a business index called the
Russell 5000.
I spent a little time noodling around on the web and I'll put a link to it below in this
message.
But in the Russell 5000, what they basically do is they study the business health of businesses
here in America.
And one of the real considerations I had never thought about, but it makes absolute complete
sense to me, is that there is a substantial amount of businesses in America that took
out loans before COVID or during COVID.
And when they took those loans out, they were only borrowing money, these businesses,
at 1% interest.
Well now the Federal Reserve has upped the interest rate to almost 5%.
What does that mean?
Well that means in America there's going to be thousands and thousands of small and large
businesses that are going to have trouble in the next year to two years, maybe five
years.
Because why?
They're going to have to refinance the debt.
That is not good.
We know also because of artificial intelligence, which is the third thing and where I'm going
next, that a lot of jobs are going to be replaced soon because computers and technology are
replacing what a lot of workers or personal assistants or secretaries used to do in the
past.
Now there isn't such a demand for it.
The value of the American dollar, that's probably number four and I wasn't really planning on
going there today, but the value of the dollar really is going to be determined by, well,
a multitude of things.
But obviously the health and the strength of American business, the health and the strength
of banks across America.
And then just the overall, the ability to buy and sell oil, which has usually been bought
in dollars.
Unfortunately, now it's being bought in Chinese currency or other world currencies as well.
So probably as intercessors, we probably should be paying attention to the last thing and
that is the dollar.
In conclusion, I want to talk about artificial intelligence.
You know, there are some very curious prophecies in the book of Revelation, primarily in chapters
13 and 14, where three quarters of the way or halfway through, I'm sorry, the book of
Revelation three and a half years in, the Antichrist rises to power.
Now this is an individual that controls all finance worldwide.
You cannot buy or sell without a mark.
And it's something that of course, you know, Christians and believers watched very seriously
even during the time of COVID because you're not going to force anyone in America to put
anything in their body without permission.
But the thing that concerns me the most about AI is how, did you know that it's doubling
every 48 hours?
Did you know now that between chat GPT and other platforms that pretty soon this artificial
intelligence may be able to communicate with itself in languages that we don't understand.
It may be able to replace humans.
And the thing about it is we as Christians, we know that we're spirit beings.
We're eternal beings, that we're going to live in eternity with Jesus.
This technology that is developing, we don't know if it could be used for good or for bad.
Yes.
We all welcome technology that would help us grow and be healthy and strong and enable
us to communicate like I'm doing right now.
I'm preaching the gospel on social media and sharing my thoughts with you.
All of that is healthy and good as long as it's controlled by people who have good motives.
Back to my wind vane illustration.
As an intercessor, we need to pray about the things in the natural that are going to impact
the body of Christ.
We need to watch.
We need to pray.
We need to ask God to show us what to do.
Not with fear, not with anxiety, but with wisdom, because the Holy Spirit wants to show
you where he's going.
going. He wants to show you where he's moving. He wants to lead you and provide
for you in this hour regardless of what happens in our economy. We aren't limited
by the economy in the natural. We serve a supernatural God and we do not live by
fear. We live by faith. Anyway, I'd like to hear from my viewers. If you have
things that you're watching or things that you're concerned about that you're seeing
right now, could you share those in the comments below? I'll also put in the comments
links to the different videos that I've been quoting from just so that you'll have
maybe a point of reference and you can think about how the economy may shift in the years ahead.
Thank you for listening. I'm Leanne Friesman and this is Restoring Word.
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