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It’s not same it’s a national emergency. No digit need signal the National Guard, scramble jets to oppose unidentified aircraft, or secret members of the cabinet in covert locations. No digit modify need dial 9-1-1, because, frankly, no digit at crisis services can manage your particular emergency. It’s not same it’s modify a topical emergency-not same flood waters are rising ominously toward your roof line or a runaway cyclone is bearing downbound on your peonies; not same you and the children must hunker downbound in an improvised shelter or you need to start launching the signal flares you carry in the trunk of your car. Not really anything same that.

To some people, it may not modify seem same any kind of an emergency. Seriously, don’t grouping undergo little mishaps same this every day in every city all around the country, all around every country? Why get all breathless, heart-racing and cold condensate forming on your brow? It cannot really be that serious can it? Surely, you can find a way to manage this crisis. Yes, no matter what another grouping might think, it is actually a crisis in your world, and you must find a way to solve it. You must take tending of it right away.

You call your devoted spouse, hunt wise advice and a manoeuvre of consolation. Your devoted spouse does not clearly understand the magnitude of the problem, but the same marriage partner does reassure you that, of course, you can manage it just fine. You receive no wise advice. You respond to panic. Too late. You already feel frantic.

You take a few deep breaths, building spirit to grappling the problem head-on: Your toilets hit overflowed. They hit monstrously overflowed-aromatically, grossly, and disgustingly. As far as you are concerned, this is the start of the apocalypse. The plumber demands cash when he arrives at your door. You do not hit that cash. Might as well call the National Guard.

Or simply visit your online payday lender, who can hit the money you need wired into your account in minutes.. Plumber paid. Flood waters dispelled. Your sanity restored. No spousal advice required.

I have never been so determined to keep an article short. The point here is so important that I would not want it to be buried in a lengthy diatribe that only added more confusion to the abounding controversy that has already arisen.The saddest thing about the whole controversy is that it may become yet another reason for unbelievers to remain just as they are. Christianity should be known for its presentation of the immutable gospel of Jesus Christ not a series of constant controversies and disputations. It strains the credulity of any reasonable man to read about the horrific persecution of believers in over fifty countries while the big question in America is whether Christians should all be floating in God given riches.

Today thousands of Christians in Islamically controlled countries are facing the very loss of life and limb while American Christians are debating whether God is supposed to be giving them all untold riches, houses and lands. Sound silly, it is but that’s exactly what one proponent of the goody gospel espouses. In the Time magazine article “Does God Want You to be Rich” Kirbyjon Caldwell said “God wants you to own land. The entire Old Testament is all about land. Land represents that God is with you and God has blessed you.”Between the recent interview of Joel Osteen by Barbara Walters and the September 18, 2006 issue of Time on the same subject one question comes to mind. Why is America so engrossed in this question about Christians seeking wealth or resigning to poverty? More importantly is the question, does the Bible really present a conflict on the issue or is it yet again, man meddling with the message?

Time, a largely secular news outlet gave a fair presentation of both sides and included the scriptural proof texts used by each side. They quoted such Christian notables as Rick Warren, Joyce Meyer, Kirbyjon Caldwell and Ron Sider. They gave a fair breakdown of the general views of others on the subject as well such as T. D. Jakes and Creflo Dollar. How I wish they might have attempted to balance it all with a quote from the late Kathryn Kuhlman.

I will have to paraphrase the statement I once heard on Kathryn’s radio program because it was so long ago that I heard it. But forget it I never will, I hope no one else will ever forget it either.What she said is that we should never isolate and amplify any verse of scripture to the exclusion of other verses that also speak to the same subject. Simply put this means, don’t teach or make a big deal out of one verse and forget the other verses that also talk about the same thing.

The verse of scripture I will quote here gives support to neither side of the argument and yet it is the final and consummate answer to the whole matter. The verse takes its authority as final in the matter not from me, but rather from a sovereign God who decides each mans destiny, and each mans wealth or the lack of it on a one to one individual basis.

Kondratieff Winter Survival Guide

Now that the winter is upon us, how can we best navigate this most challenging cycle phase of the Kondratieff Wave? This section is dedicated to providing guidelines and insight for that very purpose.

First and foremost, we must not allow fear to permeate our condition or our decisions because obsessing about our woes prevents us from making the most objective decisions for our prosperity. It’s no fun either. And the central theme of the Kondratieff Wave theory is that the destruction phase is most beneficial by providing the means for the renewal of prosperity that follows. It purges much needed excesses from the system that allow more creative progress to unfold that creates more prosperity for us all. Because historical evidence supports this, we should embrace it rather than fear it. Ideally, I would prefer the harshest, swiftest kick in the rear possible so we can begin anew with a better foundation sooner. Until then, we must adapt to the reality of prevailing market conditions so we can preserve our wealth and prepare for the Kondratieff Spring around the corner. So let’s now examine these conditions to help define where we are in this winter cycle so we can better manage our financial affairs.

We have entered the period of the cycle marked by a deflationary asset bust and slowing global GDP growth. Paper assets, including tangible assets such as homes and land, had appreciated for decades and were due to reverse course. However debt levels had risen over the past few decades to all-time highs and drove asset prices even much higher than they would have under previous cycles. Home prices in the US rose every year since the end of the Depression in the mid 1940’s through 2006, over 60 years, and thus still may slide further until an equilibrium is found. The debt wave that just recently peaked was fueled in great part by new financial alchemy of structured finance products that compounded the leverage even more. Clearly, the great de-leveraging of assets will continue into the foreseeable future and thus it is prudent to avoid making any investments of securities tied to the credit process until this de-leveraging has run its course and the global banking system is on more solid ground.