How to Prosper in Hard Times — David Wilkerson

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Delighted to have you here tonight. I trust you have experienced the presence of the Lord already. And now we open our hearts to receive the word of the Lord. This church knows, and perhaps some of you visiting may know, that the Lord put on our hearts to warn Christians in America about a coming economic holocaust.

Warning Christians About Coming Economic Judgment

The book is entitled, America's Last Call. And in the first 40 days, over 200 ,000 books were ordered, going toward a quarter million. And we're getting back letters now from all over the United States, from businessmen, from common people, from people everywhere.

And I think, and my wife reads hundreds and hundreds of these letters, and I think we've only received one negative. Most of them, all of the people that write say, we sense the same thing coming. And my wife pulled out some of these letters to give me a sense of what people are saying.

And I'm probably more excited about the book I'm writing now. I think this is my 38th book or so, I don't know the number, but this particular book has me very excited. It's entitled, The Preservation of Zion.

The subtitle is, God's Plan to Keep His People During the Coming Depression. And I'm very excited about it, because the Lord is showing me some wonderful things about what he has in store for his church and for his people.

That all that he's doing, all that he's going to do in this world, in the way of judgment, and all that he's doing to the United States in the way of judgment, has to do with purging his church, getting his church and his bride ready.

Because we are the holy Zion, the new Jerusalem, the city coming down out of God, out of heaven. And everything God does, he does in regards to his church. He has a controversy concerning Zion, we preach that.

And this is about the fourth or fifth message along that line. And this evening I want to talk to you about how to prosper in hard times. How to prosper in hard times. Now, if you're part of Times Square Church, you know already where I'm going with this.

True Prosperity in the Midst of Hard Times

So, I'm not backslidden on the prosperity gospel, believe me. But folks, this is not a trick. This is not a trick statement. There will be a people in the hardest of times. It doesn't matter if there's a total collapse of the economy.

It doesn't matter if there's going to be the worst depression in the history of the nation or the world. God is going to have a people who survive. Not only survive, but prosper in a way that represents true prosperity.

Very real prosperity. I told Pastor Carter before I came out, I said, Boy, this church has to, you're kind of testing proving ground. I told Brother Carter I'd never acknowledged until this past year because the Lord had me acknowledged.

I'm not a prophet. But he has made me one of his watchmen, his many watchmen. And I've had to acknowledge that before the Lord. He's called me to speak to the evangelical church world about what is coming.

Because very few pastors are warning their people. I was in Dallas, Texas a few weeks ago. By the way, my son, Gary, Greg's here. Gary was this morning. Greg, God bless you. Nice to have you and your family with us here.

And I preached this message to hundreds of pastors. We've had four letters now and one this past week from from pastors who were in that meeting. And they said, Brother Dave, we accepted it, but the majority of the ministers did not accept it.

In fact, they overheard, pastors overheard saying, We hope the pastors here have better sense than to preach that foolishness in their pulpit. And they totally, many, many, not all, but many rejected it outright.

So that tells me that it's not being preached from pulpits. That many people, when this happens, are going to rise up against their pastors and say, Where were you? Were you not in prayer? Did you not hear from God?

Folks, there'll be nobody in this church to be able to say that because Pastor Carter and other pastors that have been hearing from God have been standing in this pulpit and we have been warning lovingly.

Now, let's talk about how to prosper in hard times. Father, I pray that you give me your mind. I'm just going to talk from my heart tonight. Lord, it's something you put in my heart. You put a weeping spirit in me over your church that is not prepared.

It's not ready. They're going to be shocked. They're going to be surprised. The men are going to be angry and say, God, how can you do it? Just like the young man, the homosexual gay boy, that young man is dying of age.

He's saying, God, how could you do this to me? How could you not prepare me for this? How could you have allowed this in my life? And yet he has to acknowledge he had warning after warning after warning.

There are going to be people, Lord, that are going to be shocked and surprised, rise up and even curse their pastors because they did not hear from God. Lord, I pray that you cause us to hear your mind tonight.

Speak clearly to us, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Let me give you the heartbeat of many Christians. These are all Christians from my mailing list. Dear Pastor Dave, I'm writing you because I'm perplexed about your recent messages about America's upcoming financial collapse.

All our lives, my wife and I have been good stewards of the blessings God's bestowed upon us. We've supported many ministries, including yours, and of course, our local congregation. My question to you, Brother Dave, is this.

Our investments have been good to us and now support us quite comfortably. If the economy is about to collapse, as you say, where do you suggest we put our finances? Are we to trust mutual funds, the stock market, the local bank, or our bedroom mattress?

Now, this man is very serious. He says these are a few of the questions we Christians in America need answered. It seems that everyone knows there's gloom ahead, but no one has any recommendations for us how to prepare.

We're out of debt. We pay our tithes. Where do you suggest we put our share of the money? I know you're not a financial advisor, but you've got us all concerned about the economy, and we'd love to hear from you and from the Almighty God.

Notice he put me first. Letter from the Midwest. Pastor Dave, thank you for your warning. We're praying for instructions now. We are hearing so many voices and prophetic words that leave us in confusion.

We know God's not the author of confusion. We have a local Christian radio station that features prophecy, and we are hearing some strange things and strange reactions to these prophecies all over our area.

One man, a friend of ours, determined to sell his house and move his family into an apartment. He said because things are not going to last much longer anyhow. His wife is in distress. His family is disturbed.

His children are upset. He said a local church is absolutely shut down because people are following the instructions of a certain prophet here, and everything is being misinterpreted prophetically. So a few of us as intercessors got together and we've come to the following conclusions.

Number one, we will pray that we will not be deceived by any prophecy. Number two, that we will clearly hear and obey God's voice. Number three, that we will use these hard times to become more intimate with the Lord.

And number four, and these folks have no pastor, nobody. They're just intercessors. This is what God's saying. And number four, that our property, our homes, be available for the use of others. We are ready to harbor other Christians who need help.

And from the West Coast, a brother wrote, he said, Pastor Wilkerson, you warned about the collapse of the stock market, but our pension funds are invested there. The pensions constitute the major source of income for millions of Christians.

Most of us have no choice over those investments of our funds. There's Social Security, over which I have no control. There's a broad range of investments that are all dependent on the stock market. And where are these institutions going to invest their funds, their endowments, their annuities?

And we as individuals, we don't have any choice. If the market crashes, so do all our union pensions, the teachers' pensions, ministers' pensions. I have a missionary call. I'm going to need those funds to support me on the mission field.

And if an economic collapse is coming, we need more than a warning. We need solutions and answers. Now, folks, let me tell you something right here. Now, these are samples of letters that are coming from all over the United States.

The majority of Christians say, thank you, Jesus, for being so merciful to warn us. But if you're merciful enough to warn us, would you not be merciful enough to show us how to prepare? Now, most of these Christians that are writing to us are not greedy Christians trying to hoard money.

These are tithers. These are praying people who love God. And they say, we don't have any place to turn. We don't have any answers. Please, Brother Wilson, give us something from it. I've been on my face before the Lord.

You say, well, Brother Wilson, I live from paycheck to paycheck. I don't have any stocks, bonds. Those things don't mean anything to me. There is a pension. There's Social Security. And there is your weekly check, your rent check, your food check, and all these other things.

And you can't tell me you're not human and you're wondering about it yourself. How do we survive? How are we going to make it, Pastor Dave? Now, folks, as a pastor, I feel this burden of the Lord. I can't just stand and warn people that hard times are coming.

If you use me as a voice to do that, then you'd better use me as a voice to give people some kind of instruction, not just on investments, but how are we going to survive so that we're not facing the future focused on the hard times.

It bothers me very much that the focus now, there's so much gallows humor, there's so much talk about everything blowing up and everything falling down and the end of all things, that even some of the most pious Christians, that's all they talk about.

They're not even focused on the Lord anymore. They're not focused on the Word of God, and they have no peace of mind. There's a troubling all over the nation. God never hides anything from his people.

He doesn't hide the truth. If he's going to warn us, he's not going to just leave us hanged there under that Damocles sword and live in constant dread and fear. That's not the way our Heavenly Father...

You wouldn't treat your children that way, and God will not treat us that way. The problem is, we don't want biblical answers to these problems. We want secular answers. We want man-centered answers.

Because when I come now and tell you that I'm going to talk about how Christians can prosper in hard times, there's going to be some who have a mindset and say, well, wait, this is trickery. I don't want any nebulous talk about God being my broker.

I don't want something impractical where you just say pray and hear a voice from God, and he's going to direct you. No, I want to know where I put my money. Do I go to T-bills? Do I take my retirement funds out of control of these because you can do that?

Can I put the little bit of money I have in retirement and put it in government T-bills or whatever? You know, people tell me, if you're going to put your money, put it in treasury bills, government T-bills, because if the government goes down, it's all over anyhow.

That would be the last thing that stands. It's sad to say multitudes of Christians have so neglected the Word of God, they have had so little the Word of God revealed to them from their pulpits and their churches, that they no longer have confidence in this book.

They no longer believe that this is the real answer. So what they're doing now, even Christians that should know better, they have lost confidence in this book. They have no ability to get along with God in a secret closet, a way to get direction from God.

And I'm going to tell you, you may laugh at this, but God is my broker. God should be our broker. What do you mean by that? Well, Dave, how much money have you got? I'm responsible for the monies that come into this church to support all the charities and everything else and what God has supplied.

We have to get together as pastors and we pray and we meditate before the Lord and God gives direction. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I'll bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent if God not made foolish the wisdom of the world.

You see, people, all of the United States Christians, they want me to give them something from my head, something I've read. Expect me to be an economist. I'm the most stupid economist on the face of the earth.

I don't know anything. I know judgment is coming, but I know the book. Do I trust any economist in America or in the world? No. Do I trust any secular newsletter, financial newsletter? No. Do I trust Social Security?

No. Do I trust that the government is going to survive? Even that can fail. You mean you don't trust the pension fund? You don't trust any of these? Who do you trust? Everywhere I go, I'm looking for a safe place for my money.

I have a feeling of... I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you this in truth. In the next six months, I could be a multi-millionaire. Are you listening? If all I did... I could do it easy.

I would go to the library here and pick up every New York Times and Time magazine all day and I would piece together every little bit of information from all of these stupid economists that don't know what they're doing because God's blinded them judicially because of sin.

The wisdom of the world. He said, I'm going to make it foolishness. And I could write a book, How to Survive the Coming Depression. And nothing spiritual about it. And I could just send it out to Christians.

And I'll tell you what, I could sell a million of those books at eight dollars apiece and have eight million dollars in the next six months because people don't want Bible answers. That's too nebulous.

That's too... That's spiritual. What does spirituality have to do with investment? What does spirituality have to do with learning how to make it in hard times? Folks, that's everything. That is the basis of it.

If you're a Christian. You know, God says he's going to shake everything that can be shaken. The only thing left is going to be those things that can't be shaken. Doesn't it sound reasonable then to find out what can't be shaken and go get on that ground?

And God's clearly shown us what can't be shaken. Now, there's a kind of believer. The scripture says, go to Psalm 1, the first Psalm 1. First Psalm. There's a... There's a kind of believer, the Bible says, is going to prosper in any kind of situation, no matter what the economy is.

Psalm 1 and the Prosperous Believer

Verse 3. I'm going to show you the man who's going to prosper in hard times, and then we'll go back and explain it. And he, this man, is going to prosper in hard times, this woman. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.

Verse 3. That bringeth forth fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall... what? Now, that word in Hebrew means to overcome any adversity. It means to rise above and overcome any kind of adversity, economic, physical, spiritual, any adversity, this man is going to prosper.

Now, the Bible said there's that kind of man. I won't be that man. Or that woman. You won't be that woman. There it is. God hangs this out in front of us. And God is not a tease. God is not a mocker. He said there's a man here.

He's in the Bible. Anything in this book. Pastor Carter made it clear. I want it. He wants all the good stuff, the spiritual stuff that makes a man or woman of God. This is part of it right here. Thank God it's there.

To prosper is to overcome adversity. David said the ungodly are not so. Verse 4. The ungodly are not so, but they're like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Now, look at me, please. There's a storm coming.

It's going to be a windy storm. There's going to be spiritual lightning and thunder like we've never known. And in this hard time, there are going to be many Christians blown away. The ungodly are going to be blown away.

They're going to be blown away with this adversity. We've got people now that are multimillionaires driving $200 ,000 automobiles and living in $5 -10 million homes. Those are going to be poverty-stricken without a dollar.

It is going to be awesome. They're going to be driven away by the wind of adversity that's coming. Jesus said their hearts will fail them for fear, beholding those things that are coming on the earth.

But then he says there are the godly ones who will not be driven to despair. They'll face the same violent storm, the same calamities, and they are going to survive it. They're going to prosper in those times.

Now, let me tell you the kind of prosperity I'm talking about. It's not a prosperity as expressed and known by the world. Riches, goods, silver, estates, all kinds of material wealth. We're talking about everything in the Scripture talks about prosperity being the fulfilled life in Jesus Christ.

Where whether you abound or whether you abase makes no difference to you. That the real wealth is the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and your security in Him that come what may, nothing is going to blow you away.

What comfort, what peace is it if you're what they call one of the lucky ones and you saw the storm coming like many people. New York Times says that many wealthy people in New York City, many in Wall Street have already got their golden parachute.

They have a place out in the country stocked with food. They've got their guns. They've got everything to protect their stockpile. And they're out there now just waiting. And they've got their chauffeurs waiting.

They've got a little shack or little cottages for their chauffeur. And he's ready to scoot them out of this city for a sign of any kind of riot or violence. But what comfort is it if you're one of those so-called lucky ones and you were able to keep your money and everything around you is crashing.

What kind of comfort is it when God said, I'm going to shake terribly the earth. I'm going to shake it. And everything, you turn on the news and everything is shaking around you. And you're sitting there nervously trying to protect what you have.

And every time there's somebody out in the yard somebody's got the gun and there's nervousness and everything else. And living like this. There are books written now by Christian writers telling people how to prepare for the coming storm.

One of them that I have in my library it says you buy 25 cans one pound cans of chewing tobacco so that you can trade it with the sheriff when he comes to help protect you when your food is under attack.

This Christian book suggests that you buy four cases of booze big bottles, fifths of whiskey so that anybody comes against you and they're criminal type they'll rather have the whiskey give them the whiskey.

And I'm reading this stuff. And they list five kinds of guns that you have to have. And how much ammunition you have to have. These are Christians. I wonder how many guns they had in the wilderness to protect their manor.

Isaiah prophesied in a time similar to this in his early days the land was full, the scripture says of silver and gold neither was there any end of their treasures their land was full of horses neither any end of their chariots.

Chariots, horses, cars. In our time. There was no end to the wealth. Gold was their idol an idolatry of hoarding gold and silver purchasing expensive chariots. And gold had become their idol. And they said their desire was to live the rest of their life in ease above the reach of danger beyond the reach of danger.

But a day came similar to the day I believe that we're talking about when God arose to shake that society and that gold and that silver all that materialism that had been hoarded was of no value in the tear of the storm with all the materialism wealth and their gold and silver here's what happened the scripture says in that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold to the moles and to the bats to go to the clefts of the rocks for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he arises to shake terribly the earth.

Folks, when this shaking comes gold and silver is not going to buy you a cow. It won't buy you a McDonald's hamburger. You don't believe that. But that's what the Bible said things can get so bad when the nation is under the judgment and chastening of the Lord that gold and silver because evidently money can lose its value.

Now the Christian who is prosperous in hard times is the one who's given up on the counsel of the ungodly and has cast himself completely on the counsel of the Holy Spirit and the voice of God. Now listen to it again.

Do you want to prosper in hard times? Then you turn your ears away from the counsel of the ungodly and you cast yourself completely becoming wholly dependent on the voice of the Holy Spirit who abides in you.

David said of this man in verse 1 the prosperous man, look at verse 1 chapter 1 of Psalm. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the skeet of the scornful.

Seeking God Rather Than Human Counsel

Now folks, listen to me please. He's talking about counsel he's talking about where you get your advice whether it be for investments and how to live, whatever it may be. Now when it says blessed is this man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the skeet of the scornful he's not talking about going to X-rated movies with your friends ungodly friends he's not talking about all the abominable things we talk about.

The whole thing is this blessed is the believer who refuses to make any decision or to be influenced by the advice and counsel of ungodly scoffers who hold God's word in derision. It goes so far beyond just sex and gambling and standing in the way of sinners sitting in a movie theater with wicked people around.

That's an abominable thing to God but that's not what he's talking about. He said if you want to be prosperous he said you're going to have to make sure that you do not make any decision because you're my bride and I will not have my bride I will not have my church depending on a second of mind.

You will have the mind of Christ you will seek me, God says with all your heart and mind, soul and strength you will turn to me. His delight is in the law of the Lord in his law he does meditate day and night.

He's not getting his direction from somebody else he's not making his decisions based on what he reads in the newspaper or what any economist says he bases every decision on what he gets on his knees and he's meditating in the law of the Lord.

In the law of the Lord he meditates day and night. Please don't come to me and say Pastor, I'm concerned I want to know what to do. Don't expect to give you direction if you won't even go to him and ask for it.

You're not even praying you're not seeking God. You say how am I going to survive in these last days what am I going to do? And some of you are retired so I don't have any problem. I'm not trying to scare anybody but none of these things are the same because they're going to shake everything.

Everything is going to be shaken. You had better be on your knees you better be seeking his face. You should do that anyhow not just to know how to survive but because you love him. But the byproduct of doing that out of love is to be in close communion where you hear you know he said my sheep know my voice.

You know his voice? God's not vague on this in showing his hatred and his dislike. This process of going to somebody else than to him for direction and counsel woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and trust in horses and chariots in horsemen because there are many and strong but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel.

Neither do they seek the Lord. He said you're running everywhere else looking for direction. You want advice you want counsel but you won't come to me. This is the end of side one. I mean these people that are writing to me are on their face.

How many are in the secret closet because I have a suspicion or I have a knowledge. I believe is a better word in me that if they had been seeking God with all of their heart God would have put their mind at ease.

God would have already told I'm going to take care of you. I'm going to tell you every step to take I'm going to see you through this. He would bring comfort to the heart. The Holy Spirit is here and he's the comforter.

If you're spending time with the Holy Ghost he's got to be comforting you. Isaiah warned all that put their confidence in ungodly help. They're going to fall. The scripture says Isaiah 30 verse 3 they shall all fall together.

That means the counselor and those who listen to their counsel. Jeremiah 17 verse 5 thus saith the Lord cursed be the man that trusteth in man and make his flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the Lord.

Then the prophet said but blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope is the Lord. He shall never cease from bearing fruit. Never. He will always have an answer. Right, secondly those who fully trust the Lord Jesus Christ need never be moved or terrorized about the coming storm.

Trusting Christ When the Future Is Unknown

No one on earth nobody knows the full extent of what's going to happen. Nobody knows that I don't. There's nobody that knows the full extent of what it is. But Paul made a statement. I was reading it this past week and it blessed me.

Remember Paul was going up to Jerusalem and he said I go bound in the spirit up to Jerusalem not knowing the things that shall befall me there. He had no idea that when he got there he's going to turn the city upside down.

He had no idea that he was going to be stoned. He had no idea that the temple would go wild and a mob would take him prisoner into the high priest that he would be bound with chains threatened with death he'd brought before rulers and tried and examined and finally end up in a Roman prison.

He didn't know any of that. He said I'm looking to the future. I don't know what's coming. There were hard times coming for him. In fact Paul said I'm not knowing those things that befall me. But none of these things move me.

Neither can I my life dear to myself he said the Holy Ghost. He made it very clear that the Holy Ghost had told him that hard times await him persecution and afflictions. He said it's all I know that persecutions are going to befall me.

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is that the Holy Ghost has warned me. Hard times and afflictions are accounted to me. That's Acts 20 -23. Now folks we don't know what's coming but we do know.

God says hard times are coming. Just like he told Paul the Holy Ghost warned him and Paul said he was grateful the Holy Ghost warning him. But he said I want to tell you something. I don't know what's coming.

I don't know how hard. In fact if the Holy Ghost had told him how hard it may have been a little difficult for him. But I don't think so with Paul because he said really I know how to abound and I know how to be abased.

He said I've found all things. I'm contented because I have Christ. I've won Him and nobody can take that from me. They can take a paycheck. They can take everything else away from me. But they can't take what I have in my heart and I fully trust in Him who's able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day.

That's any day Paul the Apostle said but you see none of those things move me. He was not moved by the potential of facing hard times because he coveted no man's silver or gold. He said I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.

He said I don't want. I don't want anybody's bank account. You can have all those things gold, silver, all of that. I'm not even looking. Paul probably only had one tunic one piece of clothing one suit.

So to speak of his day he said I'm not after any of those things. I have showed you all I have showed you all things how that laboring you ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how He said it is more blessing to give than to receive.

Now this man's facing hard times and he's thinking about giving not hoarding. I got a, we got a. Gwen showed me a beautiful little lady in the Midwest and sweet as I think. She mentioned she was a grandmother and she said Pastor David I know hard times are coming.

I'm a praying woman and God revealed to me it's going to be worse than anybody knows. And she said they're not even going to be able to buy little things. So the Lord told her she said to go collect little things that people are not going to be able to get like she's saving up hairpins needles, thread and she's got rooms full of all of this stuff.

She's got not for herself. She says I'm going to be in hardest times. I'm going to be giving everybody things that they can't get toothpaste and all these things. I can't argue with that because she's got a giving heart.

She's got a room full of hairpins and bobby pins and safety pins and needles and everything else. But she's got a giving heart glory to God. I'm not against storing food but you better have a gun around.

If you're going to store food it's because you want to give to your neighbors. You want to give to others and to friends. You know you contrast that spirit of this little lady because she just wants to give.

Contrast that with the spirit grabbing everything you can get. And if I'm the only one that survives I'm going to survive if I have to shoot everybody else to do it. God help us. Now let me tell you why none of these coming calamities ought to move you or me as Christians hear it.

God's Power Revealed in Humanity's Darkest Hour

Well now because man's hour of darkness is always Christ our power. Now let me tell you what I'm talking about before I close here very quickly. God's hour of power is always revealed or always brought into action at the point of man's greatest despair.

Remember Jesus being invited to a wedding with his disciples. His mother was there evidently a friend of Mary's who's getting married. But Jesus and his disciples were invited and Jesus' mother came to him and said they have run out of wine.

And remember what Jesus said. Woman what have I to do with my time. My hour has not yet come. I've often wondered about that. I looked this up when he said woman that expression was an oriental expression that was of the highest order of respect.

At that time woman was not an address of disrespect. The oriental mind at that time woman was a very respectful address. He said you want me to turn water into wine. But my hour has not yet come. That hour came shortly after that hour came for his demonstration of power that Jesus.

I always pictured Jesus you know at the wedding. Everybody's out here and he's way back here somewhere in a corner just watching cause my mind could never conceive how Jesus you know could be happy and laughing and hug somebody and say congratulations bride you're getting married.

God bless you. I've always pictured Jesus over here. What am I doing here man you know. Cause that's like me. I put myself in the picture. Weddings. I'm always back here. When's this thing going to be over.

No not. When I'm up here doing it it's at the reception. Should have never said that should have never said that almost lost my place. Jesus said my hour hasn't come. You know why Jesus said that it hadn't come to the end.

The bottles were empty because she told him go to my bottles and do what he says. But Jesus is looking out over and they still have wine in their glasses. Now when Jesus turned water into wine I'm not.

I could almost prove to you it's not alcoholic. And the reason for that is because wine causes. If a woman is expecting a child alcoholic beverages can kill that child and Jesus would never offer that kind of beverage to put a baby at risk.

There was a wine at that time. I wrote a book on it and maybe I have to reproduce it. But Jesus is standing there said my hour has not come because they have not run out of their resources. They're still I'm going to wait.