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James 1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

To be a doer of the Word, you must walk in Love for the intent behind the Our Heavenly Father’s Word is Love.  HIS Laws are fulfilled by Love,  HIS Son’s actions were based on Love… It’s all about Love.  How do you apply the Word to business?  It is simple.  Love your employee as you Love yourself.  Love your customer as you Love yourself.  Both your employee and your customer are your neighbors as well.  American business has generally lost this principle.  Love serves the other person whereas greed exploits that person.

Based on a book written by the CEO of the Gallop Poll, the number one priority of people around the world today is that they simply want a real job.  A real job is one where you work at least 30 hours per week creating income.  Let me further add that a real job to a person is one that utilizes the gifts instilled in that person and that fulfills the calling of that person.  That my  friend is a Kingdom job.

How can you find a Kingdom job?  You must find a Kingdom company or enterprise.  I believe there are companies that have some of the principles of Kingdom enterprises out there but there is no major enterprise that can be called a Kingdom company.  Founders of some of the largest corporations started out with some of those principles but after their passing, the vision died with them and those corporations succumbed to the greed of big business.

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done” is prayed millions of times every day all around the globe yet where are all the Kingdom enterprises that reflect “Thy Kingdom come”?  Is there a Fortune 100 company that is known as a Kingdom enterprise?  Are there not enough assets to start a Kingdom enterprise?  What’s the problem?  I would suggest that there has been a lack of unity.

The 276th verse of Scripture is Genesis 11:9:  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.  276 represents The Flesh, Satan, Babylon.  Babel or Babylon = "confusion (by mixing)".  Men without the Word of GOD were observed to be in unity at the tower of Babel.  What was Heaven’s response?  “And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”  Man in unity without the Word could have done anything they imagined as long as they could communicate.  Just consider what would happen if men were in unity AND doers of the Word of GOD.  Nothing would be restrained for The Lord’s Prayer would move toward fulfillment.

To form a Kingdom Enterprise, Scriptural principles must be at the foundation.  Love must be the guiding force for unity of the brethren to rally their resources to support such an enterprise.  We all call ourselves stewards of HIS wealth.  What if Our Heavenly Father gave the call for the true Temple to be built?  Who would show up ready to embrace that call?  Our Heavenly Father can “muster” the resources in one day if needed but I believe HE wants us to respond to the Word and be a Doer.  I sense the call is coming soon.

Impotent means weak or feeble, without power or strength.  In the book of John  Chapter 5, Jesus went up to Jerusalem to the feast.  This feast was prior to Passover and is thought to be the Feast of Purim.  In this passage Jesus heals the impotent man who have been infirmed for 38 years, a sign of being in the Wilderness as were the Israelites under Moses.  Jesus healed this man on the Sabbath and he took up his bed and walked.

I would suggest that we all have been somewhat impotent during this age of Pentecost which is represented by the Israelites wandering in the Wilderness for forty years (18 months by design + 38 1/2 by unbelief).  Had the children of Israel been willing to hear Our Heavenly Father at Mount Sinai, by faith they would have entered into the Promised Land in the minimum time period of 18 months.  However the plan would be a forty year delay so the unbelief would die with the generation that left Egypt.

Purim has had a special place for me since 1996.  In that year I was asked to be a speaker at my first Tabernacles meeting at Moon Plaza in Minneapolis and I covered the prophetic signs of the Book of Esther and Purim.  That was sixteen years ago, a sign of Love.  Esther is all about “Love overcoming greed” and that would be a great vision statement for a Kingdom enterprise.  Esther was willing to give her life for her people, a true servant’s heart.

Esther’s time of preparation had ended and she was now to walk out her calling:  Esther 4:13   And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Mordecai confirmed to her that she was called to this particular time, place, and purpose.  He told her that if she did not respond to her calling that another would surely be lifted up to fulfill the plan of Our Heavenly Father.  She responded and the Jews were saved from certain death.  Haman, the adversary, was hung by the very gallows he had plan to use against the Jews.  The gallows was fifty cubits high, fifty representing Jubilee.  His wife Zeresh (means gold) had suggested the height.  He was clearly married to “greed”.

Jesus said in Matthew 18:1, “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”  This is exactly what Esther did.  She was willing to submit to death.  How many of us will stand up when the call comes to bring forth the Kingdom and the Jubilee?

You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this!  Let us proclaim our healing of impotence and accept the call!

The Feast of Dedication began on December 21st, 2011, and lasted eight days celebrating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.  Exactly one year later is that long awaited date of 12/21/12, the end of the age according to the Mayan Calendar.  December became an important prophetic month to me in 2005 but it actually started in the 1992 time frame.  Our Heavenly Father moved us to our current house in 1992.  HE had specifically directed me to this house even though I was looking to move to a suburb on the north side of Oklahoma City.  Our Heavenly Father had other plans.  Unknown to us, we took possession of the house on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles in 1992.  I discovered this fact in 1997 during a study of Biblical names and their meanings.  Our Heavenly Father revealed to me that our house address had prophetic significance.  With a street number of 2005, I knew I would wait eight long years to see the prophetic significance of this address.  When the year 2005 arrived, I expected something noteworthy to happen during one of the three major feasts- Passover, Pentecost, or Tabernacles.  Nothing, nada, negatory!

It wasn’t until December did the prophetic event occur.  This is when Our Heavenly Father moved my focus away from the Law and the prophetic cycles to Love.  I had spent a decade focusing on the prior and I suppose I had graduated to the next area of focus.  I am now in my seventh year of this area of focus and I believe this to be the culmination of all the previous studies and focus.  For those who study cycles, this seven year cycle of the Feast of Dedication may unlock some interesting revelation.

The Feast of Dedication is mentioned in John Chapter 10:

22   And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

23   And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

24   Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

25   Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.

26   But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

27   My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28   And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.

29   My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father’s hand.

30   I and [my] Father are one.

Immediately,  the Jews prepared to stone Jesus.  He had just proclaimed himself to be equal to Our Heavenly Father.  Jesus manifested works in “my Father’s name” and those works bore witness of HIS fruit.  Jesus basically said, “Judge the fruit”.  Those that hear HIS voice have eternal life from the Lifegiver.  Our Heavenly Father gave to Jesus those who hear and respond to HIS voice.  As we respond to Our Heavenly Father and are drawn by the Holy Spirit unto HIM, we take on HIS character of Love and become one with HIM.  Our temple is dedicated to HIM and this is the temple HE dedicates and inhabits.  We are worthy because Our Creator has deemed us worthy to be inhabited.  Accept it for we too are one with Our Heavenly Father!

It all started on June 22nd of this year.  I was in the midst of preparing for our annual vacation to the beach.  I received a call from our good friends in Canada and was given the following details:

Sheila speaking:  Now this particular morning I was awake at 5 am and heard in the Spirit, ‘Set up a trust fund’— named “To serve” … Ha! That’s funny to the natural mind. It came again, ‘Set up a trust fund’. How would we do that? It would probably cost more than we have to get it set up! A further thought came by the Spirit … ‘talk with Bob Henley. (we did just that).

They suggested that I travel to Canada and meet with them and another couple to discuss a Canadian branch of Servias Ministries.  I suggested that we discuss the trip once I returned from vacation.  I was in the midst of unprecedented repairs & maintenance at the house.  With each new project, I simply spoke gratitude to Our Heavenly Father for having a place to live.  The repair process was to last all summer and I was in no mood to make a trip anywhere but to Home Depot.

After vacation, Canada was not on my priority list, repairs were.  I love my Canadian friends but a trip to British Columbia was a notable commitment, both time and money.  Our Heavenly Father needed to get my attention away from the repairs and HE did with the following excerpts from another email:

August 15th. Last Friday we went to the local library. As I passed the shelf of used paperbacks for sale at 25 cents each, I stopped to have a quick peek and one book stood out; it was entitled ‘The Judas Factor’. I was interested because in some of our research reading, our thoughts were challenged whether Judas was a traitor or an obedient servant doing exactly what Father had asked of him !?!?!? (Wow!).
So I picked up the book but found it had no interest to me other than it was a spy story by an author I had read in earlier years. Within a day or two, I was again prompted to pick it out of my pile of books waiting to be read. I was surprised and lightly questioned it when I read the word ‘serveus’ — used in the story as a password. I finished reading the book the following day and moved on to other things.
Two months have passed and I have not forgotten the ‘Word’ to open a trust account called “TOSERVE”— but have not heard anything further … until just before settling down to sleep on the evening of the14th. — I heard ‘serveus’ (‘servias’?) is the password. I asked the Lord to remind me of this in the morning.

This was the spy’s password to access all of the wealth.  This necessitated my inquiry to Our Heavenly Father about making the trip.  Yes, as soon as possible.  I knew now that I had a mission from GOD.  Where did they live?  Kelowna, BC,,, never heard of it.  I googled the place to get familiar with it and found it was in the midst of Canada’s wine country.  The motto of the city is “fruitfulness in unity” and the name means “grizzly bear”.  In the meantime, a friend in Michigan called and mentioned he had just returned from Canada.  I mentioned my upcoming trip and he asked the final destination.  Kelowna.  “What?   I was just there a couple of days ago".  His cousin took them on a wine tour and the one winery he compelled me to go to was Ex Nihilo Winery.  The ice wine was the premier wine from that valley.  The Rolling Stones are investors.  “Ex Nihilo” means out of nothing… the beginning of creation.

Our Heavenly Father put on my heart that I must buy the ice wine to be inspected on the eve of the Day of Jubilee (aka Atonement) in St. Louis.  This was to represent the grapes carried back from Canaan by the spies for inspection prior to entrance into the Promised Land.  Do you think the spies brought back mediocre fruit for inspection?  Nothing but the best!

On August 17th, I notified our friends that I would travel to Kelowna to meet with them and the other couple on August 26th and spend a few days in the valley of the fruit.  I arrived in Seattle and rented a car.  I knew that I must visit Vancouver’s city center and then travel on Highway 1 to Kelowna.  My GPS routed me through Hope, B.C. even though it was a slight detour.

I arrived at the winery and bought two bottles of ice wine to be used for inspection.  On one of the bottles, the inscription was “Journey of Hope”.  On the other was “Sympathy for the devil”.  After all, we must show compassion for all of Our Heavenly Father’s creation, even the devil.  After I left the winery, I arrived at our friend’s house on the lake.  The other couple arrived and we spent the weekend sharing our hearts.  I am convinced that both couples I met with would be integral in what Our Heavenly Father has called us to in handling Kingdom funds and establishing a presence in Western Canada.  The Canadian connection to Servias Ministries is materializing.  I expect our expansion to occur there next.

After much spiritual warfare, I was able to get the “fruit” back to Oklahoma in preparation for the trip to St. Louis.  We then traveled to St. Louis for a conference held by Stone Kingdom Ministries.  Upon inquiry of Our Heavenly Father, we were to inspect at 2 P.M. with a total of 12 people selected for the task.  Each of us “inspected” the fruit and found it good.  We all agreed that by HIS anointing we were well able to take the Promised Land.  The inspection was completed before 3 P.M. on Friday, October 7th.  Thus what Our Heavenly Father began on June 22nd at 5 A.M. was manifested to complete this leg of the journey HE has us on.

On Saturday, I was led to go to the Arch in St. Louis.  This is where the grizzly bear on prominent display in the Visitor Center connected the dots to Kelowna, B.C.  You just can’t make this stuff up!

The original ark of the Covenant was Noah’s ark.  Eight souls were shut In the ark (1Peter 3:20) and the lawlessness on earth was erased.  At that point, Our Heavenly Father created an unconditional covenant with Noah and as evidence of this covenant, the rainbow was established.  Noah’s mandate was to be fruitful and multiply.  Interestingly enough, Noah did not leave the ark until instructed to do so:   Gen 8:16   Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Noah had seen the dry land but waited on Our Heavenly Father… smart man.  Once out of the ark, he built an altar of sacrifice unto Our Heavenly Father.  This is the first mention of an altar in Scripture.  The burnt offering was a sacrifice of devotion and service.  Each of the clean animals was included in the sacrifice:

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Can you imagine the magnitude of this offering?  The clean animals were taken from the original seven that entered the ark (Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female).  I believe that there were four males and three females with one male sacrificed leaving three pairs to be fruitful and multiply.  Each of these animals would have been selected by Our Heavenly Father and moved upon by His Holy Spirit to enter into the ark thus the genetics would have been flawless for the replenishment cycle.

The number 8 represents “new beginnings” just as the eighth day of Tabernacles is the first day of the new week, the octave in music is the first note on the scale, and so on.  When a covenant is established, two agree on a new beginning thus numerically resulting in 16, the number of Love.  When two establish an unconditional covenant based on Love, the number of the covenant expands to 32.  So, 8, 16, and 32 are all interconnected and tied together by Love.  Love was the primal intent for the creation of the universe.  It caused the compression that resulted in the expansion (or big bang) that caused the universe to form and perpetually expand, even today.

Our Heavenly Father established the “bow”, or rainbow, as a sign of the Unconditional Covenant HE established with Noah.  The “fruitfulness and multiply” mandate has not changed.  We are called to proclaim this Covenant as well.  Recently, a notable group of people met for the fall feast celebration in St. Louis at the Millennium Hotel next to the Gateway Arch.  The Arch is symbolic of the Covenant of Love.  It has 16 elevator cars (eight on each side) ascending to the top.  At the top  of the Arch there are 16 windows on each side for a total of 32.  The Arch was to signify “expansion” just as the Covenant with Noah denoted expansion into the earth.  In the visitor center of 70,000 sq. ft. where you purchase tickets and prepare for your ascent, there is grizzly bear on display.  I would suggest that this ties the Arch to Kelowna, British Columbia.  Kelowna is an Indian name for “grizzly bear”.  The motto of Kelowna is “fruitfulness in unity”.

Let us proclaim: “The time is now for the fruitfulness Covenant to come forth on this earth.  Let Our Heavenly Father smell that sweet savor in HIS nostril and recall in HIS Heart this Covenant of Love.”

Amen!