In prayer, we came to understand that the Lion's Market was actually the insertion of biblical economics into the financial system of the nation. It has been prophesied that modern-day Josephs will arise and take their place in society to implement God’s plans, reforming the nation back to a biblical worldview and fulfilling the part of the Great Commission that calls us to make disciples of nations. (You can read more about this in my book, Reformation Manifesto.)

We also realized that, through prayer, we needed to "uproot" laws put in place that would restrict the growth of a free-market economy and pray that God's modern-day Daniels would field new legislation to reform laws.

Additionally, with the new world of lightning-speed buying and selling, we prayed against what is known as a "flash crash"—a rapid, deep fall in security prices over an extremely short time period. We also asked God to expose corruption in these kind of transactions and any other transactions being made in the worldwide financial systems.

These represent the broad-brush picture of our strategies, although by no means includes them all. As in 2008, we would wait to see what would transpire as we made prayer journeys later in the day to the Federal Reserve Bank, Federal Hall, the NYSE, and the statue of the bull right up the street (or, as some have called it, the golden calf because people from around the world rub its horns for luck. It is called guerrilla art as it was not commissioned by Wall Street, but just "appeared" there one night.).

At the stock exchange, we were given a tour and were delighted to meet some fellow believers who pray together for the exchange and for each other. This was greatly encouraging to us.

We met at the bull and prayed for the Lion's Market to emerge with biblical economics and the transfer of wealth. We also prayed that God would shake the market in a way that would bring a course correction and avert another Great Depression for the future.

As always, we are grateful for the mercies of God.

We had a prayer meeting at Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated and our first congress met 226 years before. The hall is an impressive structure, catty-cornered to the NYSE. Earlier that day, musicians in colonial garb played the fife and drum, and an actor dressed as George Washington read his inaugural address that evoked Almighty God.

As we gathered to pray and commemorate Washington’s historical inauguration, we had a deep sense that we stood on the shoulders of giants as we cried out for freedom of religion to remain in the land. Our forefathers paid for such freedom with their blood and hammered our Bill of Rights together with iron-clad, irrevocable declarations that now seem in danger of being done away with in our time.

We made our Appeal to Heaven with the flag that George Washington had hung from the Navy ships—those same words emblazoned across the top. We humbled ourselves and cried for a return to the covenants our forefathers made, and we invoked the name of the great Peacemaker for our nation that is seeing rioting in the streets from the pain of racism. We felt the weight of knowing our society has turned from the loving Hand of God who had made us a great people, and we believe that His powerful presence will once again shake our nation with another Great Awakening from sea to shining sea.