Some Jeep owners have a playful upside down sign on their windshield. "If you can read this, roll me over." That sign always makes me chuckle. But there is another upside down sign from centuries ago that has a much darker meaning. Low down in the Elbe River in the Czech Republic, near the town of Decin, is a river stone engraved in upside down writing-- "Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine." (When you see me, then weep.) Famine was coming.

I wish to share some things I saw while praying yesterday, along with an attempt at interpretation. As with anything like this, I think we need to each individually ask, "God, if this is you, what does it mean?" And then ask the next question-- "God, what do you want me to do with this information?"

Two giant buckets of molten steel were being heated and filled... I sensed that they were almost full...

Friends, God talks. And sometimes He provides warnings of trouble to come. Amos 3:7 tells us: "The fact is, the Sovereign GOD does nothing without first telling his plans to his servants the prophets." I believe that this is one of those times. Long ago, God gave pagan king Pharaoh a dream of impending famine so he would prepare, and in so preparing, save Joseph's family. And I am hearing the same thing from various people today, in unrelated ministries... that hard times and