Servias Ministries Blog

January 11th, 2011 has been of great interest to me. Circa 1997, Our Heavenly Father brought this into focus.  I was working “heads down” on a programming project on a Friday afternoon and suddenly the “anointing” came.  HE immediately told me to turn around and look at the clock and it was precisely 1:11:11.  HE said, “I bring MY anointing at the precise time”.  The anointing comes based on need.  At that time, I began to keep an eye out for any event tied to this number.

Economic cycles occur in multiple forms: short-term, long-term, monetary based, job based, etc.  What would happen if that “Perfect Storm” of cycles all converged at a specific point, similar to “Black Monday” in 1987, but with a greater magnitude at the convergence point (or date)?  It appears that early 2011 may be one of those such points.  See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/6763411/Baroness-Vadera-I-still-have-nightmares-about-the-financial-crisis.html

There are two facets of financial wealth: maximizing Return on Investment (ROI) and Preservation of Wealth (PW).  In Biblical terms, we are to focus on life (PW) and the living (ROI).  Dying equates to losing money and death equates to a complete loss.  We must keep our focus on life and the living and discern the difference between life and death in every facet of our walk.  As an example. for decades we all assumed that our home would appreciate in value thus we leveraged ourselves to buy the most house our income would support.  We expected appreciation of value and were comfortable in maximizing our leverage.  As the Fed lowered interest rates which effectively lowered the monthly house payment, they facilitated more expensive home sales.  They tempted borrowers to maximize their leverage beyond their ability to ever repay the principal amount of the loan.  They sacrificed the “Preservation of Wealth” aspect for the expected “Return on Investment”.  You must keep these two facets in balance or you will shift towards death and dying.

The same is true for revelation.  Wealth represents life and ROI represents growth or the living.  Churches die when the revelation that built their congregation becomes tradition.  They failed to invest their time pursuing greater revelation and became complacent and began the death march.  How can you tell what path a group of people are on?  Become a fruit inspector and look at the fruit.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of GOD and His righteousness” is a well known Scripture among Christians.  Judah was given the scepter representing the King and Joseph was given the birthright or inheritance.  Joseph’s sons were given prophetic names representing this reality: Manasseh and Ephraim.  Manasseh = "causing to forget"; Ephraim = "double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful".  Why must we seek the Kingdom?  It is because we have forgotten the fruitfulness of the Kingdom.  We accepted our assignment before we entered into the womb (that’s a whole other topic in itself).  But now we are to seek this Kingdom of fruitfulness.  If we do, there is no need to be concerned about tomorrow for the daily fruit will sustain us just as the manna did in the wilderness.  Once we leave this wilderness, there will be no more need for the manna.

The manna was given to test their hearts for lawfulness (Exodus 16:4).  The manna was given as a daily provision and could not be hoarded.  They were to focus on “today” rather than the future.  Each day there were tested for lawfulness and their stewardship.  They needed to learn that to be good stewards, they must focus on what they were given for that day rather than always living and focusing on the future.  Men are always wanting to work a deal with Our Heavenly Father.  “God, if you will financially prosper me, I will fund the Gospel.”  In the meantime, needs all around them go unmet.  If you want to fund the Gospel then be a good steward over what you have been given.  Complete the project in front of you and show your Heavenly Father that you can be trusted with a small project so that HE can send you a larger project.  Men tend to run to and fro looking for that one deal which will make them rich, bypassing those small projects that will lead them to the road of success.  Be fruitful in what you have been given and trust Our Heavenly Father to expand your “tent”.

Excessive leverage is an attempt to bypass stewardship and catapult you to a higher net worth.  Greed kicks in and ultimately brings you back to a financial position worse than before you started.  Be of good cheer, Our Heavenly Father does not want to punish you but to prove and test you by revealing what is in your heart.  Once you see your error, you can then begin to build wealth on a solid foundation and become the blessing to others you were meant to be.

Have you been given a small project and failed to deliver?  If so, repent and complete it… even if it means you won’t make a profit.  By doing this, you establish a basis by which Our Heavenly Father can trust you with a larger project.  Anybody can start a project but only good stewards finish it.  This is the best return on investment and wisest means to preserve your “capital”.

Several months ago, I projected gold to hit $1,600 by January 11th, 2011.  We have 13 months to go and the commercial real estate market is now unwinding with the Dubai World news bringing this issue to the forefront.  Any discussions of raising interest rates is purely intended to manipulate perception.

The U.S. Total Debt is racing towards a cliff with nothing to stop it.  The Administration has projected this year’s deficit to be $1.417 Trillion.  However, simple mathematics would indicate that the deficit will be $1.885 Trillion based on the government’s own numbers.  In 1982, The National Debt was $1 Trillion.  By 2019, the National Debt will be $25 Trillion and the interest payments alone will be $1.5 Trillion per year.  This is bullish for gold, silver, oil, and natural gas denominated in U.S. Dollars.

Am I a gold bug?  Of course not, I am a pragmatic student of economics.  I don’t think there are any true experts in economics based on the track records of all their proposed economic theory.  Economics is affected by the spiritual realm and cannot be sanitized from its impact.  This higher realm affects men’s decisions, emotions, greed, and fear.  This is why mathematicians have been unable to find the “holy grail’” of formulas to predict future prices of stocks and commodities.  You must look at Biblical fundamentals and cycles to see where the economy is headed.  The real issue becomes the timing of the changes in direction.  In 1990, I discerned that the U.S. was headed for destruction but knew not the timing.  It took a decade for the first bubble to burst.  In the meantime, it appeared that I was wrong since I had no understanding of the timing factor.  Now the bubbles are bursting at a faster rate and leaders are using out-of-date tools to fix the problem.  There are such massive levels of leverage on assets out there, the only liquid asset without a liability attached is a precious metal.

Currently it takes about 8.75 ounces of gold to equal the Dow Jones Industrial Average (10,471/1200).  Once this ratio moves to a 5 to 1 relationship, one should consider reducing their gold or silver position slightly (assuming you have a 10-20% position relative to your assets now).  If the relationship moves to a 1 to 1 ratio, diversification into other assets should be considered.  This ratio has only been achieved a couple of times in the last 150+ years.  This would indicate that the public in now “all in” and the public is usually the last group to arrive on the investment scene.

The financial media has been talking up the Dubai default.  It would appear that there is some attempt to manipulate the fear among investors in an effort to increase the demand for the US Dollar and slow its slide.  Foreign Government and Institutional investing in gold will keep a lid on any notable appreciation of Dollars.  China recently announced its intention to be a buyer of gold, up to 10,000 tons, for the next ten years.  What currency do you think they will use to buy their gold?   See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113001461.html

Our world leaders are “satisfied” that everything is under control.  Just a note on Gordon Brown: Between 1999 and 2002 Brown sold 60% of the UK’s gold reserves at $275 an ounce. A frequent criticism of this decision was that an unprecedented rise in the gold price since has resulted in £2 billion of lost potential revenue (at 2007 gold prices). As a result, the period from 1999 to 2002, when gold prices were the lowest for 20 years, has been dubbed the "Brown Bottom".  Based on today’s price, the bottom even looks deeper and what is that brown stuff on the bottom?