The stock markets crash, banks collapse, currencies wither like grass in the sun, yet one economy does not bow to inflation—God’s. Call it divine economy, the eternal marketplace where heaven’s ledger rules over earth’s chaos. Here, the Banker is God, the Currency is Christ, and the Exchange Rate is faith. And unlike Wall Street, it never crashes.
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken, or their children begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). David’s testimony is a headline no earthly treasury can boast. Bishop David Oyedepo once thundered, “No nation’s recession has the authority to rewrite heaven’s covenant of provision.” Pastor Chris Oyakhilome resonates the same rhythm: “In divine economy, shortage is a stranger. Abundance is your inheritance.”
History itself bows to this truth. Israel marched forty years in the desert yet lacked nothing—their manna did not expire, their sandals did not wear thin, their water gushed from rocks as if obeying an invisible currency of faith (Deuteronomy 29:5). In the famine of Samaria, when mothers conspired to boil their children, one prophetic word from Elisha turned scarcity into surplus overnight (2 Kings 7:1–2). Divine economy interrupts human despair with heaven’s abundance.
But a sharp question cuts through: If divine economy is real, why do believers still starve? Gbile Akanni answered it plainly: “Grace is not a license for idleness. The economy of God does not bow to lazy hands or disobedient hearts.” The divine marketplace demands sowing before reaping, obedience before overflow, the cross before the crown. Apostle Paul reminds us: “He who does not work shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10).
Nigeria feels the sting of economic collapse. Today, tomatoes double in price between sunrise and sunset. The naira limps helplessly before the dollar. Yet a widow, clinging to God’s promise, can stretch her last handful of flour into an unending feast—as Elijah witnessed in Zarephath (1 Kings 17:12–16). That is divine economy: when the widow’s kitchen mocks inflation.
This economy is not an escape from reality—it is a higher law governing reality. Nations may draft budgets, but without divine economy, they are castles built on sinking sand. Families may hustle, but without divine economy, they remain slaves to debt. Politicians may rise, but without divine economy, they remain emperors with empty treasuries. The Igala say: “If the yam seller does not know the size of his harvest, the rain will humble him.” Only heaven’s ledger reveals the true measure of harvest.
Even skeptics cannot ignore the mystery. Wole Soyinka once wrote, “Man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” In economic language: man dies in all who trust only the tyranny of markets and not the freedom of God’s provision. Prophet T.B. Joshua summed it more prophetically: “When you run out of rope, that is where God’s grace begins.”
In divine economy, giving is not loss—it is investment. “Give, and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over” (Luke 6:38). Tithes, offerings, kindness to the poor—these are shares in heaven’s eternal stock exchange. Juanita Bynum once declared, “What you release from your hand, God multiplies in His hand.”
The world staggers under wars, climate crises, and food shortages, yet divine economy invites us to look higher. Wall Street may fall. IMF may fail. But heaven’s Street never defaults. In this market, the poor are candidates for glory, the rich are stewards of trust, and the faithful are unshakeable investors.
The last word belongs to Jesus Christ: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33). That is the blueprint of divine economy—the only central bank that cannot fail, the only Treasury that cannot run dry, the only Provider whose accounts never close.
– Inah Boniface Ocholi writes from Ayah – Igalamela/Odolu LGA, Kogi state.
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