I declare to you: YOU can have it better!
The country added zero jobs in the month of August. For some, that's a call to panic, point fingers, place blame.
Yo...it's been worse:
2Ki 6:25 NKJV - And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was [sold] for eighty [shekels] of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings (ahem: bird doo-doo) for five [shekels] of silver.
2Ki 6:26 NKJV - Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
2Ki 6:27 NKJV - And he said, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?"
2Ki 6:28 NKJV - Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
2Ki 6:29 NKJV - "So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
2Ki 6:30 NKJV - Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath [he had] sackcloth on his body.
2Ki 6:31 NKJV - Then he said, "God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!"
2Ki 6:32 NKJV - But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And [the king] sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. [Is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
2Ki 6:33 NKJV - And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then [the king] said, "Surely this calamity [is] from the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
2Ki 7:1 NKJV - Then Elisha said, "Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD: 'Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour [shall be sold] for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.' "
2Ki 7:2 NKJV - So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, "Look, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" And he said, "In fact, you shall see [it] with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
2Ki 7:3 NKJV - Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die?
2Ki 7:4 NKJV - "If we say, 'We will enter the city,' the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die."
2Ki 7:5 NKJV - And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one [was] there.
2Ki 7:6 NKJV - For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses--the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, "Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!"
2Ki 7:7 NKJV - Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact--their tents, their horses, and their donkeys--and they fled for their lives.
2Ki 7:8 NKJV - And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid [them]; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried [some] from there [also], and went and hid [it].
2Ki 7:9 NKJV - Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day [is] a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king's household."
2Ki 7:10 NKJV - So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, "We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one [was] there, not a human sound--only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact."
2Ki 7:11 NKJV - And the gatekeepers called out, and they told [it] to the king's household inside.
2Ki 7:12 NKJV - So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, "Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we [are] hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.' "
2Ki 7:13 NKJV - And one of his servants answered and said, "Please, let several [men] take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they [may either become] like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, [I say], they [may become] like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see."
2Ki 7:14 NKJV - Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, "Go and see."
2Ki 7:15 NKJV - And they went after them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road [was] full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king.
2Ki 7:16 NKJV - Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2Ki 7:17 NKJV - Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
So, let's recap:
1. There was a famine in the land: an economic downturn, so bad people started eating and valuing bird poop and canabalizing their own children!
2. The Man of God spoke the Word and circumstances changed dramatically!
3. The scoffer of the Man of God not only ended up not taking part of this bonanza: he was killed by the hungry in a stampede!
If you've got 10 dollars, tithe one.
If you've got 100 dollars, tithe ten.
HEAR the Word from your Man or Woman of God and believe it!
1Pe 2:9 NKJV - But you [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
1Pe 2:10 NKJV - who once [were] not a people but [are] now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
Grandma (and Grandpa) may have it good right now...you can have it better!
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