Friday, January 30, 2009

Believing the Worst

For the longest time, news about recession has been hitting the whole world and this somehow makes most of us alarmed. Everyday news about mass lay offs and companies shutting down only worsens it...Read on this email I got from a friend...

"Whenever the media states, 'We are in a recession,' people lose confidence, quit buying, and more people are thrown out of work. As a result the cycle widens, and soon there really is a recession," wrote Ken Gaub in his best-selling book Dreams, Plans, Goals (New Leaf Press, 1993).

Larry King, on the "Larry King Live" show, asked former president Richard Nixon, "What is a recession?"

Nixon answered, "A recession is any time people lose confidence in the future and think there are no answers."

Don't let brainwashing by the negative news media rob you of the positive that God can help you do.

"The LORD watches over you [us] -- the LORD is your [our] shade at your [our] right hand; the sun will not harm you [us] by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you [us] from all harm -- He will watch over your [our] life; the LORD will watch over your [our] coming and going both now and forevermore" (Psalm 121:5-8).

"Trust in the LORD with all your [our] heart and lean not on your [our] understanding; in all your [our] ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your [our] paths straight.... Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your [our] foot from being snared" (Proverbs 3:5-6, 25-26).

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