The Good Samaritan

July 26th, 2014

Jesus was explaining the Great Commandments on Love to a lawyer.  Intertwined in the explanation was the following parable of the Good Samaritan

Luke 10:30 Then Jesus answered and said: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. 32 Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 35 On the next day, when he departed,fn he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.’ 36 So which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?”

37 And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

If you are going to fully walk in Love, be prepared to put your money where your mouth is.  The Good Samaritan:

1. Paid for a room

2. Paid for any food and supplies to restore the victim

3. Left the tab open until he returned to make sure the innkeeper was made whole

It sounds like the Samaritan understood the Law of Abundance and operated in it.  What are you willing to do for a “neighbor”?  The stronger must minister to the weaker.

The Futility of the Mind

July 26th, 2014

Ephesians 4:17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind.  NKJV

At the heart of the ministry of Servias, we want to instruct and encourage you to walk with Our Heavenly Father and not in the futility of the mind.  In order to do this you must have a personal relationship with Our Creator.  HE is never far from you.  Your ego is the primary interference in developing the relationship.  The ego is in the business of self-preservation.  It is the old man who thinks he should be at the center of your being.  The ego would have the heart be weak and the mind run the show.  The heart is where your spiritual connection lies.  When you give the mind power, it will move you towards judging and analyzing has a primary means of decision making.  That is dangerous to your future.

The mind operates under the Law of Scarcity.  The ultimate result of this belief is war.  Greed is the root of all evil and has at its core assumption- scarcity.  This is in spite of the fact that abundance is all around us.  The mind thinks in a binary fashion: up/down, in/out, black/white, etc.  The mind promotes judgment, especially of others.  Your mind judges your intent whereas it judges others by their actions.  It will rationalize why you can sin and wants to evoke harsh penalties on others for the very same act.  It takes no prisoners.  What is the result of living under the mind’s control?  Darkness:

18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

As you pursue the path of the mind, you move toward outer darkness, isolation, ignorance, and blindness while your mind would have you believe you are enlightened.  You will analyze signs as your primary revelation that you are on some preordained path.  Actually, you are being led by the idols in your heart.  What is the result of this path?

19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

What is the answer?  Put on the new man who is led by his heart and renew your mind:

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

You pursue the path of Love, life, and forgiveness.  You quiet your mind so that your heart can communicate with Our Heavenly Father.  As you focus on the words of Jesus, you will begin to renew your mind with words of Life.  You must quit judging your brother.  Instead, judge yourself and ask for forgiveness.  Set aside the worldly “time burners” and focus on Spiritual Truths.  As you do, you will be prepared for anything that comes your way.  You will learn to rally Heaven’s resources as you walk in Love.  Don’t let the futility of the mind rob you of the richness of Love.  Love will change you but you must make the decision to allow the change.

Psalm 51:10 

Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.  NKJV

Final Phase of the Dollar Supremacy?

July 25th, 2014

My premise in observing world events is based on “the love of money is the root of all evil”.  Thus anytime a global-based event occurs, we must consider who has the most to gain from the event.  Yes, there are real accidents that do occur.  However, with as many failsafe mechanisms in place these days, you must consider possible intent behind events.  There are many coincidences occurring which surround the departure from the dollar as being the world’s reserve currency.

Each country attempting to settle payments with something other than the dollar tends to get overthrown.  This was true in Iraq, Libya, and other countries.  Russia and China are moving forward with alternative settlement mechanisms.  Russia is now being vilified for the downing of the Malaysian Flight 370.  Israeli attacks on Gaza has killed more civilians (800 total killed in Gaza, mostly civilians) than the downed airliner.

18.2 million gallons of Agent Orange (Dioxin) was sprayed by the U.S. military over more than 10% of Southern Vietnam, as part of the U.S. herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam’s government claimed that 400,000 people were killed or maimed as a result of after effects, and that 500,000 children were born with birth defects.  My brother-in-law as well as many other veterans of this war died because of their exposure to Agent Orange.  I point these statistics out to present a relative comparison of media attention to sway public opinion.  Will we ever know that facts?  Only Our Heavenly Father could wade through all of the disinformation being spread by all.

Saudi Arabia is the latest country taking independent steps to move away from the dollar’s dominance.  Currently, the country’s central bank, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, has long managed the country’s investment of oil surpluses abroad, focusing on low-risk assets; it is believed to have placed over half of its foreign reserves, now equivalent to about $730 billion, in conservative U.S. dollar assets such as U.S. Treasury bonds and bank accounts.  Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, an influential advisory body to the government, will discuss a proposal for the country to establish a sovereign wealth fund that would invest some of its vast oil earnings, local media reported.  See: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/08/saudi-sovereign-funds-idUKL5N0OP09020140608

Why does Saudi Arabia suddenly need a sovereign wealth fund?  Could they be intending to dump their U.S. based assets?   What unexpected tragedy will happen there I wonder?

All of this emphasizes the need to place your trust in Our Heavenly Father, not man.

Ugly Numbers coming

July 24th, 2014

From John Williams’ www.Shadowstats.com :

– Unhappy Surprises in Pending GDP Numbers
– Look for Downside Revisions to GDP Growth of Recent Years, Including First-Quarter 2014
– Initial Estimate of Second-Quarter GDP Growth Should Surprise Market Expectations Sharply on the Downside

– Quarterly Consumer Inflation of 3.0% at Three-Year High
– Inflation Wiped Out Headline Gain in June Retail Sales
– Real Earnings Fell for Third Straight Month
– June Annual Inflation: 2.1% (CPI-U), 2.0% (CPI-W), 9.8% (ShadowStats)
– Existing-Home Sales Fell Year-to-Year for 8th Straight Month
– Negative Surprises Likely in Next Week’s GDP Reporting and Revisions

Go to the grocery store, the gas station, the local restaurants, etc. and you will agree with John’s 9.8% inflation number.  The governments numbers are pipedreams.  Inflation at 9.8% and the savings rate at .3%.  Your savings is shrinking at a rate of 9.5% per year.  They are trying to get you to prop up the stock market by moving savings to this market of inherent greater risk.  Who really cares about your safety and future?  What they are prodding you to do with the low savings rate:  “Just cross your fingers roll the dice!”  What a travesty to those who spent their lives doing the right thing.

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The U.S. Dollar continues losing ground

July 24th, 2014

On July 21, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke in an interview with Turkey’s ATV television, and confirmed that his office had cut off direct communications with President Obama, and in fact, were no longer even answering calls received from the White House.  See:  http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-ally-cuts-off-communications-with-obama-and-seeks-new-trade-outside-dollar

It would appear the BRICS countries are gaining in their quest to move past the dollar-based global trade environment.  This will not bode well for those who are holding dollar-denominated assets.  If you have not moved toward a wealth preservation orientation, you might want to consider it.  If you are highly leveraged with much debt, you might want to move toward a “no debt” life.  How many more countries will join them?  Before long we will call them BRICSTGFBSPGA…

In the 1980’s, the Southwest U.S. suffered a deflationary recession due to the oil bust.  Texas, Oklahoma, and other surrounding states saw real estate prices drop up to 50%.  I can recall looking at houses and being concerned that if we bought a house, the value could drop further and we would be “upside down” on the loan by tens of thousand of dollars.  That is the negative side of leverage.  Auto buyers know all too well how that can happen.

Stronger sanctions against Russia will further alienate Germany.  The German economy has many economic ties to Russia and Germany has the greatest influence in the European Union.  The U.S. is pushing Germany to participate in stronger sanctions.  This may backfire.

If you try to control everyone and everything, you end up controlling nothing.  The U.S. may have the strongest military but it doesn’t have unlimited resources.  Throughout history, this path has always ended up in failure.  Overextension of reach only serves to shorten the duration of control.

As I continually write, the solution to today’s complex economic problems can only be solved by Our Heavenly Father.  Mankind has painted itself into a box.  Structure has brought us to servitude.  Only Our Heavenly Father can set us free.  Think about it.

A Good Word

July 23rd, 2014

From Mike:

 

Healing and becoming whole benefits everyone,
    not just you.
It benefits those around you and it benefits Me,
    as I AM about healing and completing all of
    My overcomers.
In healing and bringing wholeness to the overcomers,
    it benefits all mankind.
It will take a first fruits company, in and through Me,
    to lead all creation into healing and wholeness.
Healing and becoming whole benefits far more
    than just you.

The State of the Current System

July 23rd, 2014

Richard Russell, a veteran investment newsletter writer, was recently quoted:

“During World War II, 60 million soldiers and civilians died. Those of us who survived detest war and all those who thrust innocent people into combat against their fellow man. Are we former savages waking up and following the spiritual path to love? Is it too much to hope for? I keep writing and hoping.

Now I want to bring that thesis into the present. I hear daily about the horrendous circumstances that the US faces — rising interest rates, hyperinflation, debt disaster, deflation, war in the Ukraine, war is Gaza, fading GDP, unemployment, Millennials moving back with their parents. And this is only a partial listing of potential troubles.

… Currently, I’m more interested in capital preservation than capital appreciation.

To do that I’ve positioned myself with silver and gold. I believe gold is currently locked in a trading range of 1200 to 1400. If gold breaks out above 1400, that’s fine with me, but I won’t be selling my gold. Sell it for what? Sell it for the paper that I originally swapped for my gold because I didn’t trust the paper (Federal Reserve notes)? I’m aware of history. History tells me that all fiat money ends worthless.”

Each and every day we are being given more confirmations of Richard’s statements and conclusions.  It appears that those in power are posturing the masses for another war.  War only promotes the agenda of those controlling the purse strings by manipulating the masses with fear and self-interest.  When a crisis occurs, those in power pursue greater control by removing liberties of the masses.  The embedded fear in the masses  causes them to accept the change without a challenge.  History reconfirms the ultimate result of this path: death and destruction.  Love is the only answer.  Why focus your time and resources on anything else of less importance?

Who can be against us?

July 22nd, 2014

Romans 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Men in power try to judge the rest of us.  They try to determine our value to society without understanding our gifts or callings.  That will be their downfall.  Men believe that because they currently have power and wealth, they must be ordained to rule all in their realm of influence.  Wrong again.  They are simply operating at the pleasure of Our Heavenly Father as stewards until such a time when HE needs HIS resources to be distributed elsewhere.  Their individual bodies are in decay and there is nothing their money can buy to reverse their mortality.  They have been blinded by riches and power.

Throughout history, perceived wealth and power has come and gone among the nations on the earth.  All economic indicators point to another global change.  The major difference in this power shift is the global connectivity.  In the past, there were geographical barriers to a one-world government.  Those barriers have been slowly removed.

A one world government may be on its way.  Will it be one formed by man or established on earth by Our Heavenly Father?  My confidence is in HIM.  My Intercessor is HIS Most Holy Son and Love is the binding factor.  Nothing can separate me from HIS Love, Period!

Review of July 20th

July 21st, 2014

Back in January, there was a reference to July 20th, 2014, by the head of the IMF.  Did anything globally oriented happen?  All eyes are on the Malaysian Flight 17 disaster.  Fingers are being pointed in multiple directions.  Russia is being maligned by the American politicians and press.  Disinformation is everywhere even before the investigators can access the scene.  There is a consistent call by the mainstream media that there be a unified world outcry for justice.  It is believed by some that the U.S. is desperately wanting Europe to stay aligned with the U.S. Dollar and distance itself from Russia and China.  This disaster just happened to occur as Germany has been in talks with the BRICS group about stronger trade alignments.  Could this disaster derail those talks?

I am relieved that nothing greater happened this weekend.  There is still time for the Remnant to prepare and mature into the fullness to minister to the ungodly.  We must continue to focus on our individual maturing process as the world continues to go to “hell in a hand basket”.  Once each of the Remnant has fully convinced that dying to the flesh is a necessity, the maturing process will quickly come to a conclusion.  Love will be fully revealed in their hearts and they will be irresistible.

Being Empowered

July 20th, 2014

Philippians 4:13  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  NKJV

Back in the “Faith” movement, we were led to believe if we quoted the above Scripture enough, it would empower us.  It was half true which was the problem.  Yes, it is a true statement but you must include the intent behind the statement.  A more complete confession would be “If I am walking in Love and according to my calling established by Our Heavenly Father’s Divine Intent, I can do all things through HIS empowerment and authority which strengthens me”.

Our Heavenly Father strengthen Jesus on two separate occasions by sending angels with the appropriate “anointing” to empower Him for the next stage of His ministry.  After Jesus had been led into the wilderness for forty days to be tempted of the devil:

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

Mark 1:13  And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.

The angels ministered or supplied Jesus with something He needed.  In Luke, we see the result:

Luke 4:14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Jesus returned in power.  He left the wilderness weak but returned in power.  The angels delivered something directly from Our Heavenly Father.  The result was power and authority for the next 3 1/2 years of ministry.

The second empowerment came when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane:

Luke 22:39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. 40 When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed,42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” 43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.

Surely if Jesus needed strengthening, each of us needs the same.  We should expect an empowerment from Above as we move into the next phase of our ministry.  We have been in the middle of our testing and maturing period.  It is coming to an end.  We have persevered through much.  We should expect our angels to be dispatched on our behalf to bring forth the empowerment to ascend to the next level of ministry.  Faith is the “energy” of Divine Intent.  When you are aligned with Our Heavenly Father’s Divine Intent of Love, you should exercise your faith to bring forth the wholeness of your calling.  You should expect an angelic event to take place as required for your impartation.  We see where it was necessary for Jesus, the Son of GOD.  Should we expect anything less than what our elder Brother required?