Servias Ministries Blog

You have choices.  It is your right and freedom to ask before selecting a choice.  However, Our Heavenly Father will provide HIS Wisdom from Above if you want it.  What is your track record of success in your choices?  Some have miserably failed.  Others appear to be lucky.  Yet others make just enough right choices to offset the bad.  How many bad choices did Jesus make?  I would say “zero”, yet He was subject to circumstances just like we are.  How was He able to make the right choices?  By seeking the Wisdom from Above.

There are many attributes of Wisdom.  In Kemper’s book “Raising the Remnant” (www.unity153.net) , he provides excellent revelation on wisdom and many of its attributes.  Wisdom is the foundation, understanding makes up the walls.  What is the “end game” of his book?  It is to reveal, prepare, and instruct us to ultimately walk in Love, access Divine Intent, and be fruitful.  This is what Servias Ministries’ goal is as well.  The economic blogs on this website are written to reveal, prepare, instruct and protect us as we pursue the fullness of being mature sons and daughters of Our Heavenly  Father.

The prodigal son was given the choice of remaining with his Father or to go out and do his own thing.  He left the love of his Father and ended up with the pigs.  After he came to the end of himself, returned to the love of his Father.  He finally realized his mistake in the choice he made.  The revelation did not occur until he had spiraled down to the point he was eating with the swine.  Let’s look at the spiral:

1. He wanted to leave the instruction and service to his Father. (The older brother stated that he have been serving the Father for many years)

2. He asked for his inheritance to take with him.

3. He gathered together all his belongings, not expecting to return… ever.

4. He journeyed to a far country, a great distance from his Father: His ways, laws, values, blessings, fruitfulness, instruction, etc.

5. He was profligate in his spending. (carelessly and foolishly wasting money, materials, etc. : very wasteful)

6. He lost everything

7. A severe famine occurred in the land (of course)

8. He began to be in want (desperate)

9. He joined himself to a foreign citizen who put him to work feeding swine (unclean animals)

10. He was now willing to eat the pods he was feeding the swine.

When could he have returned to his Father?  At any time.  Why didn’t he return when he lost everything in #6?  Was his ego or misperception of his Father keeping him from returning?  Our egos have a subtle way of preventing us from seeking Wisdom from Above.  Our ego would blind us from such a simple act.  Let’s face it, our earthly wisdom is a poor substitute for the wisdom from Our Father.

It seems that the United States is following the same path as the prodigal son.  It would appear that we are at #5 as a nation.  That does not mean that every inhabitant must endure the same level of pain as those who are under judgment.  After all, the Father and the older brother were not hurting.

As this nation continues its profligate spending, it is determined to suffer a famine.  Those of us who are residing in the country need not be unprepared.  However, we must seek Wisdom from Above.  It is there for the asking:

James 1:5 NKJV – If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

This is what you should expect when you ask:

James 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

There is no need to stay in the mud with the swine.

How well do you represent Our Heavenly Father?  How often do you misrepresent HIM?  Who do you know that fully represents Our Heavenly Father?  Thus far, only Jesus Christ has successfully represented the fullness of the Character of Our Heavenly Father.  The rest of us are at best a distant second… barely in view.  What is missing?  It isn’t knowledge.  We have access to more “knowledge” than any time in history.  I would submit that it is the fullness of the expression of Love.  And after Love, it is wisdom- being teachable and correctible.

A beloved sister of mine told me a story of how Our Heavenly Father challenged her “belief system”.  She and her beloved husband avoided being in debt.  It was not Our Heavenly Father’s best to take on debt.  However, they recently had the opportunity to buy a property that required going into debt.  They knew they were to buy the property but it would require taking out a loan.  They were not young in the world’s eyes and it seemed unusual to take out debt at this stage of life.  At any rate, she asked for a confirmation.  At the last minute, Our Heavenly Father spoke a word to her “Prove Me”.  Okay, two words.  When she further inquired for an example in Scripture, HE said “Look at Abraham.”

Isaiah 51:1 “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness,

​​You who seek the LORD:

​​Look to the rock from which you were hewn,

​​And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.

2 ​​Look to Abraham your father,

​​And to Sarah who bore you;

​​For I called him alone,

​​And blessed him and increased him.”

​3 ​​For the LORD will comfort Zion,

​​He will comfort all her waste places;

​​He will make her wilderness like Eden,

​​And her desert like the garden of the LORD;

​​Joy and gladness will be found in it,

​​Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

​Abraham did not believe in human sacrifice.  After all, Our Heavenly Father established the Covenant with Abraham using animal sacrifice in Genesis 15.  It was now time to test Abraham’s “belief system”:

Genesis 22:1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Oops!  A human sacrifice?  Did Our Heavenly Father draw Abraham out of his comfort zone?  Was Abraham willing to step out of his current beliefs and obey the Voice of Our Heavenly Father?  We know the rest of the story.  The Son of Promise survived the trip to the top of the mountain.  Our Heavenly Father’s testing of Abraham exposed the commitment to the Covenant.  Abraham passed the test and this test was a type and shadow of Our Heavenly Father’s willingness to put HIS Son on the altar.

When Our Heavenly Father challenges your belief system, know that HIS Divine Intent is at work.  Trust that HE knows what needs to be done in order that you may ascend to a higher level of maturity.  You must place on the altar whatever HE commands of you.  As you do, your level of misrepresentation will decrease.  At some point, people will see Christ in you and your belief system will be modified to HIS Divine Intent.

The Apostle Paul makes it quite clear that Love is critical to our walk if we are to move into the fullness of Our Heavenly Father.  Paul indicates that we can be strengthened with might through His Spirit in our inner man.  It is done according to the riches of HIS glory.

Ephesians 3:17 NKJV – that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—

People are in search of knowledge, but without understanding, knowledge is of little value.  It might even be a little dangerous.  Wisdom is the prerequisite to understanding being maximized for our use.  If you want to be highly successful, you must start with Love.  It is truly the prerequisite to tapping into the “riches of HIS glory”.  Paul knew this and emphasized it to us.  However, this has fallen on blind eyes and deaf ears for centuries.  Love is the key that unlocks revelation for this particular time in history.  In order to comprehend the width and length and depth and height, you must have the proper intent- Love.

Being rooted and grounded is not an overnight, instantaneous event.  The seed must be planted, watered, and protected.  It will then “take root”.  A foundation is built before raising the walls of the structure.  An improper foundation leads to disaster.  The root system of a large tree is massive.  Being rooted and grounded in Love is THE prerequisite for full comprehension and being filled with the fullness of Our Heavenly Father:

19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

How much clearer could Paul make it?

Why haven’t all Christians focused on Love versus about any other topic out there?  The ego knows that once Love has been rooted and grounded, its power is gone.  The fullness of Love brings forth the death to the old man.  That is the reality.  The old man will be kicking and screaming all the way to the grave.  We must not be discouraged as this battle occurs en route to the “fullness of God”.

Exodus 4:11 KJV – And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

Our Heavenly Father takes credit for deafness and blindness in the above Scripture.  Until we focus on Love(HIS Character), HE will withhold certain mysteries, power, and authority from us.  Why?  Without Love we would abuse power and authority.  We would ultimately use the power and authority for “self”.  Paul further explains:

1Cr 4:15 NKJV – For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [you do] not [have] many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Instructors can provide knowledge and information, fathers also provide Love, wisdom, and understanding.  Paul saw the problem then and it is even a greater problem today.  Jesus was the ultimate expression of Love as our example.  HE walked in the fullness without abusing the power and authority.  He made it quite clear in Matthew 26:

52 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? 54 How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”

Because He was fully rooted and grounded in Love, He did not dispatch the angels in order to preserve “self”.  What would you do in that situation?  Would you sacrifice “self” for the benefit of others?

In 2 Timothy 3, Paul warns us:

1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

The time is coming when the wheat and the tares will be separated.  Once the Remnant is fully matured, perilous times will be allowed to play out.  HE will move on Mystery Babylon in their blindness to take actions that will unexpectedly take down their kingdom.  The illusion of wealth will evaporate, people will become desperate, and they will seek the Truth.  The Remnant will be equipped with the “fullness of God” to bring forth HIS Kingdom.

The following 9 minute clip dramatizes the “perilous times” in today’s environment: