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A Father has a responsibility to guide, guard, and govern.  Our Heavenly Father provides the ultimate example of these attributes.  How many fathers out there are doing the same?

! Corinthians 4:14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.15 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. 16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

As mature saints, we are to guide the less mature into the deeper matters of life.  Often, these are the tougher lessons to be learned.  Judgment is a corrective aspect of being a father.  Our Heavenly Father, by necessity, gives us two alternatives to live by: blessing or cursing.  The choice is ours.  HIS two choices are sovereign in that there is no third alternative.  However, within those categories you  have many choices or decisions.  Yes, free choice does exist within HIS sovereignty.  Your choice does have ramifications.

If you choose to walk lawfully by Love, you will have access to blessings.  Those blessings will be given as you mature in those areas of understanding and stewardship.  If you choose to walk lawlessly, you will come under judgment and be removed from the “light” of the Presence of Our Heavenly Father.  This is by necessity.  HE Loves you and does not want your lawlessness to cut short your life by “disintegrating” in HIS Presence where sin cannot survive.  You need to be corrected and restored instead.  You will go to a far country as a prodigal son until you come to the end of your “self”.  Only then will you finally get the revelation of restoration and reconciliation.  The father must guard the rest of the family from you until you are ready and able to be restored.  Yes, you will suffer while you are in the outer darkness.  But in the end, Jesus, or the Word, will come to you find you.  The one lost sheep is important enough to leave the ninety-nine and search out the missing one. 

A father must make the best decisions on behalf of the entire family.  Lawlessness cannot be tolerated to coexist with the lawful.  The lawless must be separated for a period of time so that judgment may ensue and begin the purging, cleansing process.  Each person is unique in regards to how much cleansing is needful.  Our Heavenly Father knows the heart of the prodigal son and issues the appropriate level of judgment under the category of cursing.  Deuteronomy 28 provides us with an excellent comparison between the two categories.  As fathers, we must guide those who have been given for us to minister maturity.  We must focus on being good examples to them.  We must guard them against the “wiles of the devil” and the lawlessness of men.  We must govern in Love, but firmly, with Our Heavenly Father being the best example.  We must pursue grace and mercy until judgment becomes the necessary path.  For some of the immature, judgment is a necessity.  They must come to the end of self-preservation.  Their blindness must be removed.  For others who resist not the Word, restoration comes quickly.

We are called to be “Light Bearers” in a world where the darkness has been increasing.  The blindness of the people has led them down a path of death and destruction.  However, “it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure”.

To be a light bearer, you must take on Christ and His anointing.  To do this, you must walk in Love.  To walk in Love, you must focus on Love, first and foremost.  As you focus on Love, you are brought into unity with Our Heavenly Father and others who walk in Love.  Paul states in Philippians 2:

1 Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

We are called to be “like-minded”.  How can we achieve this?  By having the same Love and placing the Word of Our Heavenly Father as our only doctrine, not the opinions of men.  HIS Law is perfect thus we should be able to align ourselves with HIS Word and become like-minded.  We then can become in one accord, of one mind.  When we are in unity, we are strong in Christ.  We become a people of “no resistance” to HIS purpose in our lives.

3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Self-preservation is the issue here.  Are you walking in selfish ambition or conceit?  Do you try to exalt yourself above others in your conversation?  There are so many subtleties found in our words as we express ourselves to others.  Inferences and innuendoes communicate “self-preservation”.  Start looking at ways to serve those in need.  Start looking at ways to plant good seed in other peoples’ lives.  Obviously, money is a means to be a blessing and it so probably the most sensitive topic I can write about.  Why?  If the reader’s heart is impure, he or she will assume that I am trying to extract money from them for my personal gain.  I find that money provides one of the best barometers for where people are at spiritually.  Here is what Our Heavenly  Father thinks about those who give:

2 Corinthians 9:7  Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

HE Loves them!  They have overcome their flesh which looks at resources from a “scarcity” point of view.  Their spirit knows that MY GOD shall supply all my need.  Can a Light Bearer NOT be a cheerful giver?  There are those who give out of duty or guilt and there are those who give out of Love.  Then there are those who simply don’t give.  They have rationalized away the need to be a giver.  They point to past abuses by others as their justification for not giving.  They look at their own circumstances and see no way to give.  They are defined by their own scarcity rather than trusting Our Heavenly Father to supply their need.  When they withhold their resources, they are looking out for their own interests, rather than the interests of others.  Paul warned us of this heart condition of self interest.

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

A Light Bearer is used by Our Heavenly Father to do HIS good pleasure.  Is that your innermost desire?  If so, you must be willing to give to others.  You don’t have any money?  Give something… time, a kind word, a service… something.  But only do it if you can be cheerful about it, not grudgingly.  If you want to give to Servias Ministries or another ministry, don’t give because I made you feel guilty.  We give into the ministry ourselves and cheerfully provide other resources to bring forth the Gospel.  My consolation is provided by My Heavenly Father.  HE does a fine job of meeting our needs.  I am truly grateful for HIS deliverance and provisions in my life.  It allows me to minister to others and be a “Light” unto them.  Let me encourage you to do the same.  Walk the path of Love with me and let our lights amplify each other so that the world sees us in unity, one accord, of one mind.  This is what everyone is looking for.  Self-preservation would keep a division or wall in place and cause your light to be quenched.  Let our individual lights become as one bright light:

14 Do all things without complaining and disputing, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Shine forth!

The Apostle Paul understood Love.  He was an enemy of Christians and the Love of Our Heavenly Father transformed him into a follower of Christ.  He had followed his fleshly man and had lived a life of blindness.  Nevertheless, his calling remained intact.  He was called to preach the Gospel.  He lived all of his early life preparing for his calling but did not realize it.  He thought he was called to another path.  His gifts were being developed while he was yet blind.  But in the end, he fulfilled his calling.  The Love of Our Heavenly Father is greater than your blindness and HIS mercy endures all of your lawlessness and selfishness, also known as self preservation.  It is never too late to walk out your calling, no matter what your past and present would otherwise suggest.  You are one moment away from change.

The foundation of our entire existence is Love… period.  GOD is Love, that is undeniable.  You must take stock of your walk and assess your motives.  Are you motivated by Love or by self preservation, at the expense of others.  Do you exalt yourself, promote a spirit of superiority?  Do you act elusive as though you have some superior position in life inaccessible to others?  Do you pout when you don’t get your way?  Do you demand justice when you have been wronged yet expect mercy when you screw up?  Each of us must take off the blinders and look in the mirror.  The division among families, friends, and others will only cease as we become rooted and grounded in Love.  If Love can convert Saul to Paul, then your enemies can be converted as well.

The reality is that you need to change.  I need to change.  We all need to change.  Our change will occur as we continue to be cleansed by HIS Word.  We must dwell and meditate on HIS Love to the point where we may are filled with HIS fullness.  We must ascend to HIS Love.  The Good News is He is drawing us to HIM.

Paul prayed in Colossians 1:

9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.

I also pray:

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Love commands, the lawless control and manipulate.

Genesis 2:16  And the LORD God commanded (tsavah) the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.

The word tsavah means:

1. to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order

   1. (Piel)

      1. to lay charge upon

      2. to give charge to, give command to

      3. to give charge unto

      4. to give charge over, appoint

      5. to give charge, command

      6. to charge, command

      7. to charge, commission

      8. to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)

   2. (Pual) to be commanded

To “command” denotes authority whereas to “control” suggests the need for energy, focus, and resources to create the result.  Command has Our Heavenly Father’s causative power and authority behind it.  HIS Love instituted the laws of the universe and keeps those laws in harmony.  As we line up with HIS Love and HIS Laws, we move out of the energy and resistance-based environment into the rest-based flow of being in command.

For example, the U.S. continues to create new laws to restrict private capital (personal wealth) from leaving its shores.  Why?  The government believes it has the right to your money and to tax you for the privilege to exist as a citizen.  It has created a taxing authority whose job is to further the growth of the center of control.  This creates an adversarial relationship with its citizens.  The citizens then begin to look at ways to protect their acquired wealth by breaking the newly created laws.  Ultimately, control ends in death and destruction.  History is full of examples where men attempted to control the masses for personal gain.  Each time, the system ultimately fell apart.  At the same time, Our Heavenly Father’s creation continued to operate in perfect harmony.  The sun came up every day and set every night, without man’s intervention.

Manipulation is the attempt to control the situation for self-preservation.  Jacob was a master manipulator.  He felt he needed to help Our Heavenly Father bless him.  Little did he realize the Our Heavenly Father’s commands needed no assistance from man.  Our Heavenly Father’s words have life and power within them to cause them to come to pass.  HE is in command of the situation.  Behind those words is Love.  Love has power and authority interwoven into every word that comes forth from its pure source.  When we were preparing to make an offer to buy our current house in 1992, Our Heavenly Father told me what to pay for the house.  It was $10,000 less than the latest asking price for the house.  In my less than fully matured state, I said that I would offer him $20,000 less and then negotiate to Our Heavenly Father’s number.  Our Heavenly Father responded: “Negotiation is manipulation, and manipulation is not of ME.”   Oops!  That was a needful corrective interview.  I offered the price Our Heavenly Father gave me and the man accepted the offer.  We took possession of the 1st Day of Tabernacles in 1992.  (I didn’t know this feast existed back then.)

When we respond to Our Heavenly Father’s direction, we move into command of the situation and into HIS rest.  It takes less energy and resources to walk this path.  Time is freed up.  You are not worn out by attempting to maintain control on multiple fronts.  You can enjoy HIS creation.  As you realize the difference between command and control, the choice becomes clear.  Pursue the revelation of Love and your life will be enriched.  You will shed weights you have added to your life from the various attempts to control lives and/or things.  Love attracts those things that should be under your command.  All of creation yearns for the Kingdom of Our Heavenly Father to fill the earth.  We have been charged with bringing it forth.  Not by force, but by Love being in command of the resources assigned by Heaven.  Love brings forth a true equilibrium.  What a joy!

The internal changes the external.  The external is a result of what resides on the inside of you… good, or bad.  Your intent is expressed by your “external”.  Your thoughts are reflected by your actions.  If you Love, you will produce fruit of Love.  If you are bitter and unforgiving, you will also produce fruit.  If you have faith in your heart, you will not be afraid of what man can do to you.  Faith comes by hearing the Word of Our Heavenly Father, whether it be in HIS Scripture or hearing HIS Voice directly.  HIS Intent is found either way and HIS Intent will come to pass.  HE spoke the earth and its contents into being and they continue to exist.  Seedtime and harvest is one of those fundamental laws we all understand.  You reap what you sow and you sow by intent.

Paul said “For we walk by faith, not by sight”.  What we see is subject to change.  Faith understands this.  What we see is temporary and can change in a moment.  As each of us focuses on the internal, we are preparing our calling or purpose to manifest in the external.  We each have to “get it on our own”.  I can’t hear for you and expect you to “get” the revelation.  I can share a revelation as an encouragement for you to pursue your own revelation.  I can instruct you on how to mature in your relationship with Our Heavenly Father.  But in the end, you must do it yourself.  You cannot grow by having an intermediary between you and Our Heavenly Father.  This is why the church has failed to produce mature saints and why lawlessness prevails.  The children of Israel in the wilderness are a perfect example.  They saw miracles and acts of Our Heavenly Father but still had unbelief in their hearts.  They wanted Moses to go talk with Our Heavenly Father and then return to the camp and tell them what HE said.  They focused only on the external.  In the end, they all died in the wilderness without crossing into the Promised Land except for Joshua and Caleb.

Numbers 14:24  But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Caleb had a different spirit from the others in the camp.

Numbers 32:12  Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.

They followed THE LORD in their hearts, the “internal”.  They were able to realize their external inheritance as a result.

Start your day by feeding your internal with HIS Word.  Immerse yourself in the Word or books on topics that focus on aspects of HIS Character.  This is why Our Heavenly Father had Servias Ministries publish books.  They are to benefit you.  I received my blessing when HE gave me the anointing to write the books on Love.  Originally, I didn’t intend to publish a book.  I was simply taking notes on what HE showed me.  It was HIS decision for me to publish the book thus it is for you to receive whatever revelation is contained therein.  If you only received one revelation from reading the book, would it be worth it?  Can one revelation change the course of your life?  Hearing results in responding.  Responding produces the external.

Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.  NLT

It all starts with the “internal”.

"This Book of the Law (Love) shall not depart from
your mouth, but you shall meditate (internally) in it day
and night, that you may observe to do according
to all that is written in it.  For then you will
make your (external) way prosperous, and then you will
have good success."  Joshua 1:8 NKJV

Throughout history, economies of nations expand and contract.  Their survival is determined by their fairness to all.  Profits are made which allow further expansion.  When profits are concentrated to the benefit of a few, destruction of the economic cycle ensues.  The average worker becomes worn out and simply doesn’t want to participate anymore.  They begin looking at ways to receive benefit from the system without providing value to the system themselves.  They become welfare recipients.  Those in power continue to concentrate the wealth without realizing they are creating death and destruction to a larger degree than they can handle.  When this occurs, contraction of the economy results.  The concentration of wealth determines the degree of contraction.  Wealth is then destroyed, even for those who were in power to accumulate it.  The Western World is presently on this course toward severe wealth destruction.  What day will it happen?  Only Our Heavenly Father knows.  How will it affect you and me?  Only Our Heavenly Father knows.  Get the picture?

How do you prepare for this “Great Reset” of contraction?  You must determine your priorities and focus on them.  Sit down and write out a priority list of ten items.  then place an “A”, “B”, or “C” next to each item.  Focus your time and attention on the A’s first.  How simple!  As for me, I have an A priority of praying and meditating on the Word when I first wake up.  You don’t have time?  Wake up earlier.  Are you too tired?  I have found that Our Heavenly Father will “refresh” me and provide the time after I have committed to HIM the first fruits of the day.  In focusing on HIM, I open myself up to greater revelation of HIS Word and HIS Character.  As the day progresses, I have a greater clarity of the lessons HE is having me walk out as part of my maturing process.

Expansion and contraction is a Spiritual Law.  Focus is an aspect of contraction.  Fruitfulness is an aspect of expansion.  Life is compressed into a seed.  In good soil, expansion occurs.  Intense focus produces a hundredfold return.  As you intently and persistently focus on Love, you will reap Love.  If you don’t, you won’t.

Our Heavenly Father’s most primary characteristic is Love.  If you will devote the first fruits of your day to a focus on HIS most primary characteristic, you will produce fruit in that area.  Love supersedes economic cycles.  Love supersedes dis-ease.  Love supersedes vain imaginations of men.  If you will focus on Love, Our Heavenly Father will position you to handle whatever the economic contraction produces.  A complex economy will create a complex contraction.  Men’s worthless contraptions will fall away during the contraction.  Uneconomic pursuits will wither away.  Activities based on lawlessness will be revealed and removed.  The Law of Equal Weights and Measures will reconcile the activities of men.  Your priorities will determine your level of preparation when that day arrives.  Now is the time.  Keep your lamp trimmed.

In yesterday’s Bible Study, Kemper made an excellent point- Each of us must get the revelation of Truth on our own.  Our goal is to make you aware of areas to pursue, to encourage you to press in and mature, and to provide testimony of the result of pursuing the fullness of the Love of the Truth.  Nobody can do it for you, you must act and pursue a relationship with Our Heavenly Father yourself.  As John states, you have received an anointing that abides in you to teach you:

1 John 2:27  But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

This anointing will direct you to the fullness of the revelation of Love thus proceeding to an intimate relationship with Our Heavenly Father:

1 John 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

You have within you the anointing for being led in the fullness of Love, to be rooted and grounded in Love.  This will draw you into the “fullness of GOD”:

Ephesians 3:17 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— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

As you are drawn into the fullness, you will then produce the appropriate fruit for your purpose or calling in life.  Resources will be drawn to you like a magnet and you will have everything needed to fulfill your calling.  Now is the time to press in and tap in to that anointing abiding within you.  Pray to Our Heavenly Father that HE reveal Truth to you personally.  When you walk in your own revelation, nobody can talk you out of it.  You know it first hand and the adversary no longer can manipulate your focus, attention, or path.  You take command of your life rather than being tossed to and fro.  HE Loves you and has given HIS Spirit to dwell in you as your primary teacher.  Don’t let your time be wasted with diversions from the Truth.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)