More and more we are hearing people talking about how our Presidents are or have handled many of the major issues that affect our country.The economy, the war, the $750billion bailout, and the banking system, are all hot topics for our country.As we find ourselves struggling through the financial times in our personal lives, we tend to depend more and more on our jobs and our possessions.We spend countless hours trying to figure out how to hold on to all those things.We sometimes struggle finding reasons not to compromise our moral values and ethics, to hang on to what we work for.Do I fudge a little on our taxes to get more money back?Do I add un-worked hours to my timesheet to gain some extra finances?These are all questions that we can be forced into on a daily basis.

We have tried to depend on the government to cover or support us as we battle through the struggles of the economic times.We would love for them to say that they are going to give us unlimited funds to bail us out of our situations.We want our President to come up with a magical plan that he can snap his fingers and all of the financial woes of the country are gone.This just is not going to happen!

The fact is that we have become too dependent on our jobs, our government, and ourselves.Our greed and selfishness has led this country to be in the position that it is in, and God has sat back and allowed it all to happen.We have push Him aside and tried to do it all ourselves, and we see where it has gotten us.We have been given all the warning signs that we should have needed, and we have totally blown them off.President Bush could not have saved us from 911, which was one of the first warnings.President Bush was in a situation that was basically a, lose – lose.Had he not chosen to go to war, we would have complained he was being a wimp and not defending us. But when he chose to go to war we called him a war monger!! We are all over President Obama about how he is handling the economic situation with the stimulus packages, and giving money to the major corporations. The falling stock market and financial crunch, I believe this is our second warning from God.

The bottom line is that we are failing to do the one thing that we have been designed and created to do.Trust and depend on God as our source.The bible tells us that one of the redemptive names of God is Jehovah Jireh, “The Lord God that provides.”This clearly shows that God shall provide for us.The key is that we have to trust in him.We as a country need to pray for our leaders to seek the wisdom of God and learn to trust in Him for direction.He will clearly lead them if they trust Him.We also need to learn to stop putting out trust in our jobs, money and ourselves, and learn to trust and follow God will all our hearts.

That is how we start seeing a turnaround in this country, and its people.