Servias Ministries Blog

FATHER,

17 I pray that YOU impart to me the riches of the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know YOU through my deepening intimacy with YOU.

18 I pray that YOUR Light illuminate the eyes of my imagination, flooding me with light, until I experience the full revelation of the hope of YOUR calling—that is, the wealth of YOUR glorious inheritances that YOU find in us, YOUR Holy Ones!

19 I pray that I will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of YOUR power made available to me through faith. Then my life will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through me! This is the mighty power 20 that was released when YOU raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the Heavenly realm! 21 And now He is exalted as first above every ruler, authority, government, and realm of power in existence! He is gloriously enthroned over every name that is ever praised, not only in this age, but in the age that is coming!

22 And He alone is the leader and source of everything needed in the church. YOU have put everything beneath the authority of Jesus Christ and have given Him the highest rank above all others. 23 And now we, His called out ones, are His Body on the earth and that which fills Him who is being filled by it!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen

(Based on Ephesians 1:17-23)

My friend Steve wrote the following:

The Natural

“But the spiritual one is not the beginning or first in time, place, order and importance, but the natural one of the soul and mind; only then the spiritual one.” (I Corinthians.15: 46)

This verse is part of a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the ekklésia in Corinth. In the surrounding verses (35 – 50), Paul is explaining to them (and to us) that when YHVH created the heavens and the earth, He distinguished one dimension from the other. YHVH then created, among other things, unique living beings that were equipped with certain properties and authority that enabled them to perform their role and function within their respective dimension. A spiritual being was thus restricted to the spiritual dimension while a natural being was restricted to the natural dimension.

The exception to this rule was Man. He, alone, possessed the properties to function in both dimensions of heaven and earth, the spiritual and the natural, at the same time. So, spiritual beings may want to spread certain ideas or influence certain behaviors or do certain things on the earth, but they cannot do them without Man first agreeing to cooperate. They may attempt to initiate but ultimately MUST FOLLOW what Man, both male and female, agrees to do. This is what was happening in the decade of the 1960s.

America seemed to be at war with itself as it continued to promote and embrace one destructive idea after another. This produced huge and unprecedented upheavals in law, government, family, education, religion, business, in the norms of everyday life, in the structure and operation of authority. And, with each upheaval the fabric of this nation that once declared that it was “under God” and claimed to be “indivisible with liberty and justice for all” was being torn apart.

Some examples of these unprecedented, fabric-tearing upheavals that were systematically dismantling the culture of America included:

• 1962 – Supreme Court ruling that banned prayer in public schools.

• 1963 – Supreme Court ruling that banned the reading of the Bible in public schools.

• 1964 – Launch of LBJ’s Great Society and passage of the Civil Rights Act.

• 1965 – Launch of the Hippie Movement.

• 1968 – Launch of the Feminist Movement.

• 1969 – Launch of the Jesus Movement.

• 1969 – Launch of Roe v Wade legal challenge that led to the Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark ruling, which legalized abortion under the guise of a woman’s “right to privacy.” This reduced an unborn child to the status of a wart. Since then, an estimated 310 million unborn babies have been legally (not the same as lawfully) executed in the U.S. alone (60 million surgically + 250 million chemically).

The common thread that ran through and connected each of these examples was that in the name of law each promoted something that was entirely lawless. This lawlessness was not only authorized but also protected by the Highest Court in the land. This marked the clear and intentional insertion of lawlessness into the U.S. legal, legislative, judicial, and law enforcement systems. The Court was then used to provide cover and legitimacy for the subsequent dismantling of the then-existing social norms while inverting – or flipping – established authority structures in favor of new ones.

What’s so sinister about these rulings and events is that they each targeted the innocent, the weak, or the less fortunate in the population – women, children, minorities, the poor – under the guise of helping and protecting them. They also had a resounding, declarative tone to them as if they were being established by decree.

For example:

• Children and Education: The 1962 and 1963 rulings declared that God was no longer to have a role in the education of children; only the government would.

• Civil Rights and The Great Society: The Great Society and the Civil Rights Act declared the end of poverty and discrimination against minorities.

These wonderful-sounding concepts and legislative initiatives were noble on their face (who wouldn’t want an end to poverty and discrimination?), but the practical effect, empowered and mobilized by judicial authority, has been to upset virtually every aspect of American life. Though packaged as a morally superior approach to civil society that promised to create equality for all by prohibiting and punishing discrimination, it actually set up a caste system within America’s population.  Instead of unifying the nation as promised, it divided the nation into antagonistic sub-groups that have been and continue to be exploited by politicians and the powerful.

The first beneficiary of these grand schemes was to be the black community. But instead of providing benefits, it has all but destroyed this community by replacing the black man/husband/father with the government as the family’s head/provider/protector. The result: Three generations of husbandless women, fatherless families and children, angry and violent sons, imprisoned men, and impoverished families that continue to perpetuate more of the same in proportions not seen in any other segment of society. And though equality was the “right” most promised to the black community, they scream more for equality today than before this whole charade began.

• Hippies and Baby Boomers: The launch of the Hippie Movement exploited and mobilized the teen and young adult members of the population in the name of advancing the movement’s redefined ideals of peace, love, and harmony. It was the first declaration from the young and youthful that they were better equipped to run the nation and its society than the older, more experienced adult members.

To accomplish the declaration, its young adherents had to dismantle and invert the traditional authority structure in the home en route to dismantling and inverting it in society. So, the young no longer deferred to or sought the wisdom of their elders nor did they yield to them out of respect. Rather, the new order dictated that the possessors of wisdom and experience were too old and out of touch to be of use in the new, vibrant, and morally superior world that was coming.

This cultural shapeshifter burst on the scene with such speed and force that it begged for a term to describe it. Soon, “Generation Gap” was coined not only to label the growing separation that was forming between the young and old but more importantly to legitimize the flip in authority that was coming with it. Though catchy, by implication the term shifted blame for the gap to the older generations. This gave credence to the younger Baby Boomer Generation’s assertion that the elders had forfeited their right to lead and govern the nation.

Once the term’s name and premise of blame and responsibility were accepted, the term’s impact became entrenched. This established the “Generation Gap” as the new norm. From that point forward, each succeeding generation of youth would experience a gap between it and every other older generation.

The generational mandate of the new order was thus accomplished.

The movement’s redefinition of peace, love, and harmony that outwardly promised to build a morally superior society of unity and equality, instead built a culture of inverted authority, blame, and division that was assured to pass from one generation of youth to the next. The movement’s strategic purpose was set. The attitudes that were sown in the Boomers in the 1960s were now certain to be sown

in the succeeding generations of youth, the evidence of which is now observed in Gen X and the Millennials.

• The Feminist Movement: The feminist movement declared that women were equal to men. Of course, to declare oneself equal means that you must first declare yourself to be inferior en route to becoming superior. And so, for women to gain equality with men meant they had to first concede that they were inferior to men. But, for an inferior to gain equality with a superior means the inferior must first possess a power that is greater than the superior with whom they are attempting

to become equal. Thus, the declaration of equality was the first step to the feminist movement repositioning women to be superior to men.

This was a hard sell because it required women to confess that they were inferior to men. To overcome this objection without first losing its constituency, the feminist movement had to create a common enemy to distract women from its core message (that women are inferior) while rallying them against their new enemy (their life) and the ones who were accused of creating that life (men). This required the redefinition of equality while igniting feelings of discontent and antagonism to mobilize women into the cause.

The movement accomplished this by shifting focus away from the person of women and to the activity of women. Once a sufficient number of women bought into this misdirection, it gave the movement its basis for establishing women’s inferiority without making women inferior. This set the stage for pointing to the woman’s role in the family as being inferior to the man’s role outside the family. The workplace then became the new definition of equality.

Women were unrelentingly bombarded with messages from every conceivable medium convincing them to break free of all previously established norms of what it meant to be a female, a woman, a wife, and a mother. Their new mission became the ever-elusive quest of achieving equality with men – now redefined as working outside the home in pursuit of a business career.

This, of course, was an illusion because although women were distinct from men, they were already equal to men. They could do whatever they wanted as many women of that time demonstrated.

No matter. The march was on.

• Feminism and the Career: The Medusa of the outside career (like the man had) had now become the ultimate prize that redefined what it meant to be equal. The glory of distinction was dissolved by the demand for sameness as the outside career was now placed on the highest rung of the value ladder. Nothing was more important than the career; not relationship, not love, not marriage, not having children, not raising children, not caring for the family, not providing stability

in the home. The panacea of career was heralded to women everywhere – in the arts, in magazines, in newspapers, in music, on the radio, in television programs and ads, in the movies. What had been praised for centuries as the noblest of all professions had been redefined in a few short years into a curse word – just like “straight.”

Over the next decade, a tidal wave of women fled the home and flooded into the workplace creating huge upheavals in the family.  Children for the first time in history were being raised in mass by strangers for a fee. Financial prosperity soared as two-income families became the norm. And the authority structure in the home was being flipped en route to doing the same in business, education, government, society, and all manner of life. The game was afoot.

• Feminism and The Sexual Revolution: An enthusiastic partner that was running parallel to the feminist movement was the sexual revolution. This began in the early 1960s. Its mission was to dismantle existing sexual norms by removing all barriers to sexual distinction, choice, behavior, and lifestyle, particularly among young women. It redefined sexual practices that for centuries had been deemed

abhorrent, deviant, and destructive to now be normal. Promiscuity, premarital sex, homosexuality, bisexuality, pornography, transgendering, sadomasochism, and the like, were all celebrated as not only being acceptable but preferred by the progressive, liberated mind. Soon this mindset seeped into the teen culture to affirm the normalcy of teen sex. Living in the liberty of this new sexual norm was heralded as yet another victory in the ongoing war for equality with men en route to becoming their superiors.

• Feminism and Power: What’s fascinating about the feminist movement is that it has never been about women being inferior, or superior, or pursuing more noble careers, or achieving equality with men. As stated earlier, though distinct women have always been equal with men, and have always had the freedom in the U.S. to compete in the marketplace. Money in this current world system has no allegiance

except to those who have the skill to make more of it and who are willing to give their life and all they have for it. And so, women have always had the same opportunity as men to love and give their life for money. But, like men, they have had to learn how to compete for it and to prove that they are willing to withhold nothing to get it.

To some, this may sound cold and insensitive toward women. To others, it may sound naïve, ill-informed, or even misogynistic. It’s none of these. It is practical. This Paper has already asserted women’s equality with men and is in full support of a woman working wherever she chooses as the law of liberty rightly allows. But the reality is that this current world system is being run by the spiritual powers of the kingdom of darkness. In this kingdom there is no equality, only power, domination, and servitude. This is how it rules, so this is how it rules us. Equality only exists in the Kingdom of God. So, if equality is what we want, then we have to learn how to play by God’s rules.

Women, like the rest of us, were being sold a bill of goods. They were being promised something that the promisor has no intention of delivering. Why? Because equality produces unity among people of every race, color, creed, age, and gender. But unity is the last thing the powers of darkness want to facilitate among people. The only thing they want to facilitate is division. This is how they rule humans and the institutions through which those powers rule the earth without us knowing it. This is what the strategies and events of the 1960s were all about. For those who decided to accept them, they promised to deliver a morally superior society and the unity such superiority produces. But instead, they only delivered hatred and division. And so, the equality that these strategies and movements promised was a lie because equality does not exist in the realm that devised them.

So, the feminist movement wasn’t about equality. It was about seizing power, authority, wealth, and control. It was one of many devices and strategies in the 1960s that was billed as one thing while delivering something entirely different.

• Abortion: Abortion was the strategic crème de la crème. It was the ultimate goal and achievement of the 1960s as it positioned women above law and even above life itself. This was the crown jewel of the authority inversion strategy. Once any class of being obtains or possesses the power to subordinate life to personal choice, the seat of the Divine is all that remains. As Eve was beguiled in the Garden by the Serpent, so our women were being beguiled in the 1960s, and with them, us.

These examples, though profound in their own right, don’t tell the entire

story. We could go on to discuss the assassinations of JFK (1963), Malcolm

X (1965), Martin Luther King (1968), and Bobby Kennedy (1968).

We could also talk about the Black Power Movement or the Black Panthers. We could examine the Jesus Movement, which grew out of the Hippie Movement. It has changed the face of Christianity more than any other influence, especially among the evangelical and charismatic segments of the Christian religion.

These are but a few of the tumultuous events that were happening in the natural order during the decade of the 1960s. And each of these events worked meticulously to accomplish the core strategic objective of the kingdom of darkness – to dismantle societal norms as a precursor to inverting God’s authority structure in the physical earth.

While the powers of darkness were furiously working to disrupt and enslave through their strategies, Jesus was way ahead of the curve working to free and bless by methodically building the infrastructure for today’s technology-driven world.

Some examples would include: Introducing the prototype to the modern computer in 1964. Developing the UNIX operating system in 1969. Sending the first message over the ARPANET (the predecessor to today’s internet) in 1969. And then, 20 years later in November 1989, when all was ready and in place, releasing His Net Vision with the announcement:

“Kingdom Business is about to break out.”

The natural.

My friend Steve wrote the following:

Capturing a Generation

“Truly and most assuredly I say to you, laying the argument to rest, there is no possibility nor is there going past this family, generation, and race until the whole and all of this comes into being, transitioning from this realm and condition to the next.” (Matthew 24:34)

I attended a 4-year high school in Southern California that had about 2,200 students. At the end of my junior year, you could count on less than two hands the number of kids in our school who smoked marijuana or took drugs of any kind.

The counterculture hippie movement that began in the mid-1960s was gaining momentum and starting to take over the college and university campuses, especially in California. Places like Cal Berkley and the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco were having a profound influence on young people of all ages, particularly when it came to drug use and the new, revolutionary concept of free love. Professors like Timothy Leary were becoming the icons of free thought and expression among the university student class. He was among the early professors to indoctrinate students in the new norms of the new youth movement. He, along with others like him, began to openly promote the enlightening benefits of experimenting with mind-altering and mind-expanding drugs like LSD, mescaline, and magic mushrooms.

On the surface, the hippie movement was all about peace, love, and harmony. However, there were 3 notable exceptions: The Viet Nam War, the soldiers who fought in the war, and anything related to authority (other than their own). In addition, the federal government was considered corrupt, police were routinely called “Pigs” and the Marin County Sheriffs of Northern California were referred to as “The Blue Meanies.” As a sign of identity and solidarity, the movement came up with what it called the Peace Sign – the shaping of the first two-fingers into a V. This sign came to be used among the kids in both the high schools and colleges as a symbol of the hippie movement’s ideals of peace, love, and harmony.

Words

Jesus was beginning to teach me about the power of words and how the devil uses them to direct and control people without them even knowing it. He does this by changing the definitions and meanings of the words we regularly use and then getting us to accept his new definitions. He does it everywhere, in virtually every area of life where words are used to communicate thoughts, ideas, and feelings. He even does it in our Judeo-Christian belief systems, and especially in the document that Christians hold most sacred – the Bible.

While this is a highly provocative concept, it is still nonetheless true. For most Christians, the Bible and the scriptures are the same things. They are not. “Scripture” is a Latin term used to describe the original sacred writings of the various authors. The “Bible” is the collection and translation of those writings. The way the devil redefines the words of scripture is by getting the Bible translators to use words that change the meaning of the original words to support satanic purposes or to promote certain perverse religious doctrines or theologies.

We could list dozens of examples where the Bible translators have redefined the scriptures to make them mean something different than what God had intended, but for now we will offer 3 examples to illustrate the point:

• Example 1: Genesis 2:1: YHVH is describing to Moses (and thus to us) the conclusion of His creative work. A common Bible translation of this verse is:

“Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts

of them.” (KJV)

When we read these words, we accept them. This is what the Bible

says, so this is what we believe is true.

Until Jesus gets involved.

He can do this in a variety of ways. One way is to have us consult with any number of reference tools. With what is available today, either electronically or in book form, we can reconstruct any Bible verse WITH Him using Strong’s Definitions of the original words of the text along with other word study helps. When these tools are used WITH Him to reconstruct Genesis 2:1, it reads:

“Thus, the whole and all of the heavens and the sky, the physical earth and land, and the army organized for war and warfare were completed, finished and accomplished.”

This definition-based rendering paints a very different picture than the Bible translators do. They use a vague, but majestic-sounding, English word (hosts) to translate the original Hebrew word (tsaba) that is very descriptive (a mass of persons organized for war and warfare – an army). So, while appearing to accurately convey the sum of YHVH’s creative work, the Bible translators actually hide an important aspect of it – that He also created an army to ensure that what He had begun would not only be defended but also finished and accomplished. This

deviation then raises the fundamental question: Who benefits by hiding the fact that YHVH has an army?

• Example 2: Genesis 3:8: A Bible phrase that captures the imagination of many is commonly translated:

“And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the

garden in the cool of the day. . .” (NASB)

This is one of those wonderful-sounding Bible verses that has inspired many a sermon about how wonderful it would be for God to visit us, “in the cool of the day.” Who wouldn’t want that? And so, we accept the idea that God visits us because that’s what the Bible says.

Until Jesus gets involved.

This time He teaches us to pause by taking a step back WITH Him to listen to what it means for God to visit us in the cool of the day. He then starts listing the implications:

o For God to visit His Man means He is in one place while we are in another. Thus, God is separated from His Man by location.

o For God to be separated from His Man by location means He is also separated from His Man in work. God is in one place performing His work while we are in another performing ours.

o For God to visit His Man in the cool of the day means He is separated from His Man in time and the conditions of the day. God is working under one set of conditions while we are working under another. When He finishes what He has been doing and we finish what we’ve been doing, then God visits.

o For God to visit when the day is cool means He only comes after the heat of the day has passed, which we, presumably, bear alone.

o For God to visit His Man means God is the One who leaves where He is to go to where Man is. Thus, He comes to us; we don’t go to Him. Just like what the Church teaches and practices.

When viewed from this perspective, Jesus reveals that the “cool of the day” translation conveys the core belief system of the Christian Church: Man is separated from his God who only visits when certain conditions have been met. Until then, we do our thing where we are while He does His thing where He is – what God calls sin.

But that message completely contradicts what the definitions-based rendering conveys:

“And hearing in the enclosure of the garden the sound and

voice of YHVH of the Elohim coming, going and walking in

the breath, wind and spirit of the day. . .”

Notice that cool isn’t in the definition of any of the original words. It is an insertion that has been used by the Bible translators to replace “breath, wind, and spirit.”

With this contrast in view, we begin to wonder if the translators are wanting us to believe that YHVH was talking about the temperature in the Garden that day? Of course, He wasn’t. Otherwise, He would have had Moses use the Hebrew word qar (cool, cold). Rather, YHVH was showing us through His words that He is always WITH His Man. He comes, goes, and walks, and is present in the ruach – breath, wind, and spirit – of His Man and his Garden (life) continuously. And so, by inserting a word that sounds really good but that isn’t actually there, the Bible translators completely change the relationship between YHVH and His Man from one that is continuous and uninterrupted to one that is occasional and periodic. All by a single word – cool.

Adam learned about the continuous and uninterrupted reality of YHVH’s presence being WITH him when he did his deed by eating from the forbidden tree. Though he tried, he soon discovered that there was no place for him to hide. And even though his disobedience made him feel ashamed, afraid, and separated from YHVH, the reality was that he wasn’t. YHVH’s Voice was still and always there – IN Adam’s breath, IN Adam’s spirit, IN the wind of Adam’s garden, and IN the physical earth where he was to rule WITH Him. YHVH’s Voice was always there and everywhere WITH him, and it both terrified and comforted His Man, both male and female. (Genesis 3)

Adam and Eve’s firstborn son, Cain, discovered the same thing. At his lowest and most vulnerable point, YHVH was WITH him. His Voice was there, in the garden of his life when his countenance was ravaged with anger, YHVH laid out the issues and challenges that were facing him. And WITH His Voice YHVH offered to Cain the solution that would resolve his dilemma – to master sin; the perverse idea that it was okay to decide, act and live separately from YHVH. (Genesis 4:6, 7)

• Example 3: Luke 3:23: Luke is setting the stage for introducing Jesus.

A common Bible translation of this verse says:

“And when He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about

thirty years of age. . .” (NASB)

When we read these words, we once again accept as true the idea that Jesus came to the earth to minister.

Until Jesus gets involved.

Then, He points out that the word ministry isn’t even in the original text. It is a Bible translator’s addition. And only after reconstructing the verse WITH Him do we see what Luke is telling us:

“And, Jesus, Himself, was commencing to rule at about thirty

years of age. . .”

So, which rendering impacts you the most – that Jesus started His ministry or that He began to rule?

No wonder Jesus said that the Father would instantly make available to Him more than 72,000 angels (12 legions) if He asked for them. He knew exactly what His role and prerogatives were as He discussed WITH His Father the options and resources that were available to rule over the situation that appeared to be threatening Him. Yet, the Church has been scratching its head for centuries trying to figure out what the Father sending an army of angels has to do with ministry.

(Matthew 26:53)

 “But come to know, recognize and perceive absolutely by personal experience this one thing, that if the head of the family had seen with his physical eyes to grasp the spiritual truth about the character of the thief who steals in secret by stealth, and in what time and manner it was going to come, he would have stayed awake and been vigilantly watchful and would not have permitted his house and family to be broken into and robbed.” (Matthew 24:43)

“For as the soul of a living person thinks, so is he. . .” (Proverbs 23:7)

The tidal wave of drugs that poured into Southern California during the summer of 1968 launched the drug culture in the U.S. It soon found an enthusiastic partner in the wildly popular rock concert scene. Kids who weren’t old enough to drive and who could never buy alcohol or party in bars, went to concerts to get high on drugs with their friends. The same thing was happening with our young servicemen who were fighting in the Viet Nam War. They would ease the horrors of their war experiences by smoking the easily accessible Vietnamese weed.

This trio of drugs, concerts, and war targeted America’s youth. It was cleverly woven into the fabric of the idealistic but naïve Baby Boomer generation. This was the first generation groomed to carry this new cultural norm to the succeeding generations of youth giving it an uninterrupted generational capability.

And it didn’t stop there.

My friend Steve wrote the following:

Overview

“For as the soul of a living person thinks, so is he. . .” (Proverbs 23:7)

Decisions

Choice is the greatest power that God has given to His Man, both male and female. From his choice, he decides. From his decisions, he rules. And, in his ruling, he must choose and decide if he is going to rule on his own or WITH Jesus.

Man’s power to choose and decide is the target of every strategy devised by the powers of darkness. This is what they attempt to exploit and control because through Man’s decisions he exercises his rule.

And so, as far as the kingdom of darkness is concerned:

• If it can control what a person sees or hears, it can control what a person thinks.

• If it can control what a person thinks, it can control what a person believes.

• If it can control what a person believes, it can control what a person decides.

• If it can control what the person decides, it can control them, what they have and what they will do.

In other words, it can control how a person exercises their authority to rule. So, by controlling what a person thinks, the kingdom of darkness can control what a person decides, and the reality he or she will produce and live in.

“. . . as the soul of a living person thinks. . .”

This is what happened in the Garden of Eden. It is what happened in the 1960s. It is what is happening today. It’s all the result of how YHVH created His Man to function and the power of choice that He gave to him. Jesus invites His Man to rule WITH Him. The powers of darkness persuade Man to rule on his own. And, based on Man’s choice, his decisions will produce either the Good of the Kingdom of God or the Evil of the kingdom of darkness.

My instruction in the power and reality of decisions and the inescapable harvest they bring came many years ago. It happened one day when out of nowhere, Jesus asked:

 “Stephen, when did President Kennedy die?”

Though the question caught me off-guard, I obligingly answered: “In November 1963 in Dallas.”

He responded:

“No, he died the moment he decided to go to Dallas and drive without a bullet-proof covering.”

When I first heard this, I had no capacity to grasp what Jesus was saying. The concept was so foreign to the way I thought, I just stood there stunned. However, as I continued to explore WITH Him what He had said, I could literally feel my old thoughts being stripped away as He reshaped my mind to make room for the new. Then, as if in the blink of an eye, there it was. I could see exactly what He had said from the beginning of the first decision to the end of its outcome. Each decision  and action led to the next as if they were all connected as a single event in time. This continued until there were no more decisions to be made. And when the last decision came, so, too, came the harvest of JFK’s new reality. He – along with all those who were with him both near and far – experienced the full fruit of his first decision.

And he died.

That’s when Jesus began to teach me about the nature of decisions, how they work, and the power they possess. The initial decision is directly connected to the outcome, and the outcome is directly connected to the initial decision. It is as if they are inseparably joined by a single thread of time. This is how God designed decisions to work.

“And He was saying, laying the argument to rest, ‘In this way is the Kingdom, Sovereignty and Royal Power of the God: It is like a man who casts the seed that is sown upon the physical earth and land that operates in time and space,

“And then he sleeps at night and rises up by day, and the seed that has been sown sprouts, produces and grows; how this happens he does not know, nor does he perceive it by observation. “But the physical earth and land that operates in time and space acts automatically on its own to bear the fruit without needing to be

persuaded by other external forces – first the blade of grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

 “Then when the fruit hands itself over, he at once commissions the sickle because the harvest has been presented.’” (Mark 4:26-29)

So, when JFK spoke the words of his decision, he planted the seeds of his fate that fixed the time, date, and means of its harvest – November 22, 1963.

How this all happened, he, himself, did not know, nor did he perceive or observe anything about it while it was forming. And yet, he lived the full reality of his choice in the precise manner of its nature. And no power in creation was going to change the outcome of his sovereign choice except another decision that countermanded the first.

This brings into crystal clarity why Jesus responded the way He did to the Devil after his first temptation:

“But answering, He said, laying the argument to rest, ‘It has been written and inscribed that it is not fitting that the man shall live solely upon bread alone but upon each and every part of the totality of every spoken word that comes out from the mouth of God and the effect and influence it has on the man.’” (Matthew 4:4)

It also explains YHVH’s perspective about the seemingly strange thing He said to Adam in the Garden of Eden about the effect his choice would have on his life:

“And YHVH of the Elohim laid charge and ordered the Man, saying, ‘Of the whole and all of every tree in the enclosure of the garden you may eat and eat.’

“‘But of the tree of the knowledge of what is good, beautiful, pleasant and agreeable, and what is evil, bad and adverse, you shall not eat from it for in the day you eat from it, dying you shall die.’” (Gen 2:16, 17)

What YHVH was saying to Adam was that as a sovereign who possessed the authority to rule and to exercise dominion, his choices and decisions carried great weight. They would produce outcomes that would be inalterable, so they were to be made wisely WITH Him. And that’s exactly what Adam discovered. One sovereign decision; one inalterable outcome. The two connected by a single thread in time. And, over the next 930 years, Adam was dying until he was dead. (Genesis 5:5)

“For in the day you eat. . .”

As it was with Adam, so it is with us. The reality that Adam lived then, is the reality we are living today. The choices and decisions that we were tricked into making by the powers of darkness in the 1960s have since been producing their inalterable results. If we like these results, we can keep producing them by continuing to make the same kinds of decision that Adam made – on his own. But if we don’t, we can change them by exercising our sovereign choices to make a different set of decisions WITH Jesus. Only then will our decisions produce a different outcome in our day.

“. . . Select and choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve

and work with. . .” (Joshua 24:15)

Strategy

The clear and obvious break from traditional norms that occurred in the 1960s created massive shifts in America’s attitudes, culture, and law. These shifts weren’t the result of a series of random events that somehow suddenly converged into a mega-movement. Rather, the shifts were incremental and intended. This made them products of design, which then revealed that they were also products of strategy.

What’s important to note about strategy is that it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Strategy doesn’t make itself but is the product of intelligent design. Thus, a strategy can only originate from one of two sources – a human source or a spiritual source. Determining the source then aids in determining the scope of the strategy and how it must be dealt with.

Strategy only exists in a competitive environment where one party is trying to gain an advantage over another. In non-lethal engagements, like in sports or business, it’s called competition. In lethal engagements, like with nations or kingdoms, it’s called war.

Strategy is a military term that comes from the Greek word, strategia, which means, “art of the general or generalship.”

The art of strategy is that it is comprised of stratagems – schemes, devices,

and maneuvers designed to trick or outwit an opponent. Misdirection is the core function of stratagem. Its purpose is to make the opponent think one thing while another is happening. Anything can be used to misdirect, but whatever first catches the eye or is the first conclusion drawn by the mind is usually the misdirection when stratagem is in play.

Strategy, then, is an artful plan devised by a sophisticated command leader to achieve a predefined outcome by outwitting his adversary. The presence of strategy not only affirms intent but also serves as a window into the command leader’s objectives and attitude toward his adversary. When the markers of strategy are present it is therefore wise to pay attention because it reveals adversarial intent.

As discussed throughout this report, the kingdom of darkness is the source and origin of the strategies that were devised in the 1960s. The architect of these strategies is attempting to outwit and outmaneuver Jesus by packaging its strategies as “rights.” By mobilizing its human partners to advocate for these rights, the powers of darkness hope to achieve 5 key objectives:

1. Dismantle traditional norms.

2. Exploit the youth generations.

3. Contain the explosive growth of the human population by

slaughtering the unborn (abortion).

4. Secure and tighten control of human institutions.

5. Invert God’s authority structure.

While the human population both then and now was and is being duped into mobilizing these hideous strategies in the name of rights, none of this has caught Jesus off-guard nor has it surprised Him. He isn’t reacting to them because He doesn’t have to. He is so far ahead of the curve that they are actually serving His interests as all things do. They set in place those things that were necessary for the release of the Seventh Angel’s Sounding and the mobilization of The Transfer, which were to be launched 22 years later in June of 1982.

Personal Experience & Witness

As a high school student during the 1960s, I was not only a prime target of these strategies but was also a firsthand observer of and participant in many of the seismic events that were taking place during that time. All of us were being swept away by forces that were suddenly and violently being thrust upon us as an unsuspecting population. Riots, rebellion, campus marches, drugs, war, lawlessness, and the like, were tearing families, businesses, and educational systems apart. The very fabric of the nation was ripping – and no one was equipped to deal with it. The older generations were paralyzed in shock while the Boomer generation was too naïve to know that what they were advocating for was deadly. All of this happened in a few short years as we were being led like sheep to the slaughter, and we didn’t even know it.

Those of us who have been around for multiple decades and have pursued a higher Spiritual walk with FATHER have been given eyes to see the changes slowly shaping our world resulting in the current environment. My friend Steve has written a paper concerning the macro-view of what has been happening, especially in the U.S. He is openly exposing the strategies of the adversary and his minions for all to see. FATHER is always multiple steps ahead of the adversary who will once again paint himself into a corner.

In order to keep perspective as you read the installments, the following provides one with a simple illustration of God’s Authority Structure through which He delegates His authority and it might look something like this:

The Father Greater Than All (The God)

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Elohim Class Ruling Class

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Jesus YHVH, Lord Most High Elohim

Man Male & Female = Heaven + Earth

Elders Heavenly Rule

Watchers Heaven’s Administration of Earth

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Angelic Class Ministering Class

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Cherub } Angelic

Seraphim } Orders Arché } Etc. }

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Animal Class Serving Class

God’s Authority Structure related to the Order of Man might look something like this:
The Father Greater Than All (The God)
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Jesus YHVH, Lord Most High Elohim
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Man Elohim Male
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Woman Elohim Female
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Children Elohim Heirs
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First-Born Male Carry-on Family Elohim Rule
Under God’s Authority Structure, the Father has given all authority to Jesus. Jesus then delegates a measure of that authority to the Elohim Male who is responsible for blessing and protecting his wife and family. Jesus also delegates a measure of authority to the Elohim Woman (Wife and Mother) to bless her husband and bless and protect their Elohim Children. The First-Born Male Child is then in line to carry on the Elohim Authority for and on behalf of the family.

My friend Steve wrote the following:

A White Paper Examining the Spiritual Strategies

Devised and Mobilized in the 1960s

“Decisions are the seeds of reality’s harvest.”

Introduction

The reality that we are living in today is a direct result of the decisions that we have made in the past. If we are happy with our life but want to ruin it, then all we have to do is to start making some bad decisions. It won’t take long before the good we had will be swallowed up by the bad we chose. The opposite is also true. If we’re unhappy with the life we have, we can change it by making good, quality decisions. The positive outcomes of the new good decisions will begin to outweigh the effects of the old bad decisions. Our life will then start heading in the right direction. This is how decisions work.

So, too, with America. The decisions that our founding fathers made in forming this nation were good as they grew to produce the greatest nation that the world has ever known. But apparently, we weren’t happy with that. So, we started making some really bad decisions as a nation in the 1960s. It wasn’t long before this once great nation began to change into something that those same founding fathers would never have recognized.

The decade of the 1960s was one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of the United States (U.S.). In a few short years, it had disrupted or altered virtually every aspect of American life and society. It then spread to the rest of the world, and from there to succeeding generations. And so, to understand our current reality as a nation and world, we must understand what was happening in the 1960s.

While previous decades seemed to be more event-focused:

• People sailing to the New World for adventure, opportunity, or religious liberty.

• Breaking from the tyranny of the English Crown.

• Forming a new nation on the novel idea of the sovereign citizen.

• Ending slavery.

• Establishing the supremacy of the Union over the States.

• Expanding the territory and occupation of the non-political land called America.

• Wars both national and global.

• Sinister efforts to subjugate the sovereign citizen, and so on.

The 1960s were highly strategic. Every event, action, situation, and mindset that was created or incited by these strategies were meticulously devised to achieve the architect’s grand ambition. Uncovering this Grand Ambition and the spiritual architect that conceived it is the subject of this White Paper. It is a comprehensive examination of the spiritual strategies that were devised and mobilized in the 1960s by the spiritual powers of the kingdom of darkness. Each has influenced America, the U.S., and the world in profound ways. And each has set in motion the destructive attitudes and behaviors that we now see on full display today.

Though this Paper discusses certain national and global events, its primary

focus is to reveal the linkage that exists between those events and the spiritual strategies that incited them. The report will also uncover the current state and ruling structure of the kingdom of darkness. This will give insight to the reader about:

• Who the architect of the strategies is.

• Why the strategies were conceived.

• What they were intended to accomplish.

• Who was targeted to implement them, and

• How The Transfer has affected them.

The purpose of this Paper is to inform and to shift. To inform the reader about the spiritual realities that exist in our day, and to shift the reader’s attention from those strategies to Jesus and what He is doing now.

To that end, the report is comprised of 3 major themes:

1. The human’s role and authority in the earth.

2. The desperate state of the kingdom of darkness.

3. The unimpeded advance of the Kingdom of God through The Transfer.

The reader will note that various scriptures are referenced throughout the report. Unless otherwise stated, the verses have been reconstructed using Strong’s Definitions of the original words of the scriptural text in combination with HELPS Word-studies where applicable.  The reader will also note the use of Jesus’ Old Testament Name – YHVH – when and where appropriate. Despite being recorded more than 6,800 times in the Old Testament scriptures, YHVH has been stricken from the record by the modern Bible translations and replaced with the title LORD. While history attests that there have been and continue to be many lords, there is but one YHVH, whose Name we proudly and reverently use with honor.

The strategic nature of the events that were mobilized in the 1960s by the kingdom of darkness presents a significant challenge to those who are living under the consequences of those events today. After more than 60 years, those consequences have become so embedded in how we think and live that most of us now just accept them as normal. Like a frog being boiled in water, we continue to point to other unrelated reasons for our decline while ignoring or even justifying the very things that are causing our demise as a nation.

As forces both seen and unseen continue to systematically dismantle America and the world, the challenge that is now confronting us is this: Are we willing to confront not only what we cannot see but more importantly what we have accepted as right, just, and true when it is a lie?  And yet, it is precisely when these lies have reached their pinnacle of acceptance and success and seem to be most impenetrable that Jesus has called for them to be revealed and dealt with. And so, for those who are up to the challenge, this Paper will prove to be exceedingly useful, especially for those who are serious about learning how to see as Jesus sees, so they can also learn how to rule WITH Him.

“Because to us the wrestling, struggle, and conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against the originating chief rulers; against the authorities that have been delegated the power and freedom to act in a designated jurisdiction with force, competence, and mastery; against the world rulers of this darkness who influence the lives of people; against the malicious, pain-ridden evil and wicked spiritual ones in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Samuel recorded by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Samuel chapter 10 concerning the anointing of Saul as king:

3 Then you shall go on forward from there and come to the terebinth tree of Tabor. There three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. 4 And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive from their hands.

5 After that you shall come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is. And it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, a tambourine, a flute, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying. 6 Then the Spirit of the LORD will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.

7 And let it be, when these signs come to you, that you do as the occasion demands; for God is with you. 8 You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and surely I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and make sacrifices of peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, till I come to you and show you what you should do.”

9 So it was, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, that God gave him another heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.

FATHER uses musical instruments in bringing forth the anointing for change.  The prophets in the above passage returned from Bethel, the House of GOD, playing their instruments and prophesying.  It is clear from this passage that the music had an important part in changing Saul’s heart and allowing the anointing to flow else it would not have been mentioned.

David learned to play the harp at the same time he became proficient with a slingshot.  Where did he get his harp?

Servias Ministries with the help of the band teacher has identified two girls, each in need of an instrument in order to further their giftings given to them before they were formed in the womb.  We have purchased a flute and a clarinet based on the recommendations of the teacher.  Without our assistance, the girls would have no means to acquire these instruments.  They belong to families in serious need.

The instruments are intended for intermediate students and are brand new.  We will continue to assist kids in developing their gifts and callings as THE LORD leads.  Your contributions allow us to be blessings to these families by meeting the needs of the kids.

When I played bass guitar in church, the anointing for ministering by The Holy Spirit came typically during the music ministry and FATHER would move upon me hundreds and hundreds of times to give a message in Tongues immediately after a song ended.  The interpretation came through others.  FATHER would often tell me which song we would play to bring forth that anointing.  Music prepares the people for hearing and responding TO HIM. 

When FATHER is the Source, musical instruments carry an anointing.  Let this be confirmed when these girls advance in their giftings.  FATHER moved upon us to do this for HIM thus we responded.  We will continue to plant HIS Seed into the lives of the kids in need, knowing that FATHER takes on the responsibility to bless those who give to HIS kids in need.

Thank you for your financial support!

Faith requires expression.  It is not enough to simply ponder a revelation, we are to speak it forth by faith for manifestation to occur on earth.  This is first revealed by THE SPIRIT in Genesis chapter 1:

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

If FATHER found it necessary to speak forth HIS revelation then we should not be hesitant to speak for the revelation HE gives us.  HE expects us to walk in faith when we speak forth the revelation.  Speaking it forth may be during prayer but HE will guide us in who else should hear the revelation.

As FATHER develops our character and we become trustworthy, greater revelation will come forth according to our individual callings.  Revelation is all about Jesus and not about us.  We are to point to HIS Glory and not bring attention to anyone else.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 1:

1 Throughout our history God has spoken to our ancestors by HIS prophets in many different ways. The revelation HE gave them was only a fragment at a time, building one Truth upon another. 2 But to us living in these last days, God now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through Him God created the panorama of all things and all time.

FATHER will minister to you and me concerning the status of our character and whether it is time to publicly share revelation concerning our individual callings.  Joseph shared his dream and incited his brothers to get rid of him.  However, FATHER used their actions to move Joseph into his character development phase.  I can relate.

We are now in times where past revelation is being brought forth to the forefront though once thought to no longer apply to our situation.  Sometimes the seed needs to die in order to bring forth life and fruitfulness.  However, FATHER is WHO provides the life-giving power to the seed.  In the parable of the soils, the seed was never the issue, it was always the soil (the heart).  Once our heart is truly ready and mature in character, the seed will germinate and begin its manifestation.

We may have to deal with family, friends, or acquaintances who attempt to dig up our seed but we must protect it and not take it personal.  There are many who are sincere but they are sincerely wrong.  When FATHER speaks to me, I know it and I am unwilling to let anyone talk me out of what HE said specifically to me.  I urge you to do the same.  Great faith only comes by exercising it and not restricting HIS Word in any way.

Faith is an act.  The Holy Spirit will tell you of things to come which establish expectations in your life.  When you put expectations and acts of faith together, you bring forth a transfer from the spiritual realm into the physical realm.

Faith does not create “what is” or the substance that is being hoped for.  That substance already exists in the spirit realm.  Instead, faith brings it into the physical realm.  We need to get over the scarcity or lack mentality as though FATHER is low on resources and we need to hoard them until a new shipment arrives.  HIS creative power is more than enough to insure we have the resources we need.  Jesus proved that Truth when He fed the multitudes.  We need to expect the same.

There are those who have established a comfort zone which will satisfy their personal requirements but are doing nothing for those in need.  Did Jesus have this mindset?  Absolutely not!  He was ready to provide when He saw the need arise.  We should be the same way.  We are meant to walk in great faith and this will require us to move on to a deeper level of Agape Love and fully trust FATHER to bring forth the revelation we need to walk in a higher state.

As Paul prayed on our behalf by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 1:

19 I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you!

Amen!

FATHER wants us to develop our character so that we will become trustworthy.  HE wants to get us to the place where HE can trust us.  Once that occurs, HE can and will use us as a carrier of HIS Glory, not just an instrument of HIS gifts.  When our character is developed, we can and will be partakers of HIS Divine Nature.

Are you trustworthy to be a steward of a revelation from FATHER?  Each of us needs to prepare and develop this characteristic in order to receive greater revelation.  Be assured, we will be tested and the results of the test will determine our maturity and expansion.  Will FATHER have to revisit a past revelation that has not been acted upon or will we enable HIM to move on to a higher revelation to be implemented through us?

The purpose of the devil is to get you to respond outside THE SPIRIT.  When revelation comes, it provides the solution but it does not eliminate spiritual warfare.  We must have the character to handle warfare in order to fully embrace and walk in the revelation.  The adversary comes immediately to steal The Word and we must not allow that to happen!

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2:

17 But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored more eagerly to see your face with great desire. 18 Therefore we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us. 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? 20 For you are our glory and joy.

We must realize that satan will use whomever he can to be a hindrance to our walk and we must be aware of his devices and not allow the hindrance to deter us from our walk.  Until the Word of GOD comes to pass, we will be tested… just plan on it!  This is where mature faith is required and will not be denied.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 1:

15 Because of this, since I first heard about your strong faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and your tender Love toward all His devoted ones, 16 my heart is always full and overflowing with thanks to God for you as I constantly remember you in my prayers.

The Holy Spirit refer to both Agape Love and strong faith found among those Paul is writing to in this letter.  What impartation should they expect from his prayer?

17 I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know Him through your deepening intimacy with Him.

18 I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of His calling—that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that He finds in us, His Holy ones!

19 I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power 20 that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the Heavenly realm!

We are meant to be advertisements of His immense power as we walk in the fullness of revelation of the glorious inheritance in us.  To what end?

21 And now He is exalted as first above every ruler, authority, government, and realm of power in existence! He is gloriously enthroned over every name that is ever praised, not only in this age, but in the age that is coming!

22 And He alone is the Leader and Source of everything needed in the church. God has put everything beneath the authority of Jesus Christ and has given Him the highest rank above all others. 23 And now we, His church, are His body on the earth and that which fills him who is being filled by it!

Joseph was given the revelation concerning his calling.  However, he needed to have his character developed in order to walk in the fullness of his calling.  Satan was well aware of his calling and the adversary even used his family against him.  What they meant for harm, FATHER meant for good.  In Psalm 105, The Holy Spirit recorded:

11 He said to them, “I will give you all the land of Canaan

    as your inheritance.”

12 They were very few in number

    when God gave them that promise,

    and they were all foreigners to that land.

13 They were wandering from one land to another

    and from one kingdom to another.

14 Yet God would not permit anyone to touch them,

    punishing even kings who came against them.

15 He said to them, “Don’t you dare lay a hand on my anointed ones,

    and don’t do a thing to hurt my prophets!”

16 So God decreed a famine upon Canaan-land,

    cutting off their food supply.

17 But HE had already sent a man ahead of his people to Egypt;

    it was Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18 His feet were bruised by strong shackles

    and his soul was held by iron.

19 God’s promise to Joseph purged his character

    until it was time for his dreams to come true.

20 Eventually, the king of Egypt sent for him, setting him free at last.

21 Then Joseph was put in charge of everything under the king;

    he became the master of the palace

    over all the royal possessions.

22 Pharoah gave him authority over all the princes of the land,

    and Joseph became the teacher of wisdom to the king’s advisers.

23 Then Jacob, with all of Joseph’s family,

    came from Canaan to Egypt and settled in Goshen.

24 God made them very fruitful, and they multiplied incredibly

    until they were greater in number than those who ruled them.

We need to embrace the necessity of our character being purged.  FATHER had to develop Joseph to the point where he could successfully walk in the fullness of his calling.  In Joseph’s case, it took 13 years and under extreme circumstances.  Each of us will have our own timing associated with the purging/testing process.  Embrace it and everything will turn out fine.

The following passage is the one place where FATHER says to “test HIM” (based on a Hebrew scholar’s research of this particular phrase in the Old Testament).  This challenge requires us to have faith in HIS Word. 

As I have written in the past, Abraham and Jacob specifically and immediately tithed after their direct encounters with THE LORD.  They had the revelation of being blessed through the obedience of tithing.  I too can attest to this reality.

FATHER spoke in Malachi chapter 3:

8 “Would anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you! 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and put Me to the test now in this,” says the LORD of armies, “if I do not open for you the windows of Heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.

A mature believer will grasp the importance of tithing and will subdue any soulish attitude that tries to rationalize away this test.  If we are not fully submitted to walking in the entire Word of GOD, how can we expect to be classified as part of the Remnant?  FATHER makes a commitment once we begin tithing:

11 Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field prove fruitless to you,” says the LORD of armies. 12 “All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of armies.

Would you rather personally deal with the devourer or allow FATHER to deal with the devourer on your behalf?  How long will it take to see fruitfulness return (or begin, whichever the case may be)?  I can’t tell you but I know it has worked in my family’s finances for decades. 

Unexpected opportunities have opened up and provided for us.  We no longer pay interest to financial institutions since we are now debt free.  Did all this happen immediately as we began to tithe?  No, it took time for the seed to grow and begin production.  Each of us has a uniqueness about our situation so results cannot be determined by some formula.  Faith in FATHER’S Word is the primary criteria.

Did I have to get over the emotions connected to giving when I felt that I needed the money for my family?  Yes.  Did I try to rationalize why this passage didn’t apply to me?  Yes.  I had to overcome the soul and respond to THE SPIRIT.  At first it was difficult but as I exercised my faith IN HIM, fruitfulness came forth and I observed FATHER rebuking the devourer for my family’s sake. 

FATHER wouldn’t ask us to test HIM if HE wasn’t confident of the outcome.

The Sons of GOD are meant to be distribution centers for the rest of the world.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 1:

19 I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you!

What is a distribution center?  It is a collecting place for resources which are then sent to specific areas of need.  A treasury is one such example of an intended distribution center.  Jesus had a treasurer (Judas) thus He had a treasury which was intended to give to the poor.  The Beloved Disciple confirmed this and recorded by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 13:

29 Some thought that Judas, their trusted treasurer, was being told to go buy what was needed for the Passover celebration, or perhaps to go give something to the poor.

When Jesus was confronted by the rich young ruler, He gave the young man a directive in Luke 18:

22 “Ah,” Jesus said, “there’s still one thing you’re missing in your life.”

“What is that?” asked the man.

“You must go and sell everything you own and give all the proceeds to the poor so you will have eternal treasures. Then come and follow me.”

23 These words devastated the rich leader, for he was extremely wealthy.

Notice that Jesus did not suggest that the proceeds go into HIS own treasury but instead was intended for the poor.  Jesus was the Source of provision and encouraged others to become sources as well.  Eternal treasures precede physical treasures.  Jesus tested the rich young ruler to see where his priorities were at: Spiritual or physical.  The young man did not pass the test.  If he had planted the financial seed as Jesus suggested, he surely would have reaped a harvest in like manner based on Jesus’ own parables.

As a matter of fact, when the disciples questioned Him about giving up everything for the Kingdom, Jesus responded:

29–30 Jesus replied, “Listen to My Words: anyone who leaves his home behind and chooses God’s kingdom over wife, children, parents, and family, it will come back to him many more times in this lifetime. And in the age to come, he will inherit even more than that—he will inherit eternal life!”

There were no more questions about giving to the poor by His disciples.  Those who have been impoverished by the world’s system hold a special interest to FATHER.

The following Scriptures express FATHER’S Agape Love for those in need:

Psalm 41:

1 God always blesses those who are kind to the poor and helpless.

    They’re the first ones God helps

    when they find themselves in any trouble.

Psalm 112:

5 Life is good for the one who is generous and charitable,

    conducting affairs with honesty and truth.

6 Their circumstances will never shake them

    and others will never forget their example.

7 They will not live in fear or dread of what may come,

    for their hearts are firm, ever secure in their faith.

8 Steady and strong, they will not be afraid,

    but will calmly face their every foe

    until they all go down in defeat.

9 Never stingy and always generous to those in need,

    they lived lives of influence and honor that will never be forgotten,

    for they were full of good deeds.

Proverbs 19:

17 Every time you give to the poor you make a loan to the Lord.

    Don’t worry—you’ll be repaid in full for all the good you’ve done.

Proverbs 22:

9 When you are generous to the poor,

    you are enriched with blessings in return.

Servias Ministries continues to be a financial distribution center to benefit those in need as well as those who give.  We then become bonafide advertisements of the immense power that works in us.  It’s all about Love!