Servias Ministries Blog

Just like clockwork the gold and silver prices got hammered as the Federal Reserve meets.  For those so inclined, it is a great day to day to your positions.  Russia and China continue adding to theirs:

http://www.goldcore.com/goldcore_blog/russia-buys-05-million-ounces-and-bank-korea-%E2%80%9Cneeds-buy-more%E2%80%9D-gold

The sanctioned perception games of manipulating the paper markets allow investors to simply buy on the dips.  If a global depression hits, all prices will go down and pain will be suffered by all.  Those who are prepared will suffer least and will be in a position to minister to others.

If everyone’s debt is forgiven, I would suggest that a new currency backed in some form by gold and/or silver will emerge.  If that is the case, one would think that holders of silver would be rewarded for their forward thinking.  Either way, the current fiat currency paradigm may not last much longer.

The Greek elections probably based their votes on fear of the unknown.  The current environment is bad but I am sure they were told the other alternative would be even worse.  I would assume that none of them were told about Iceland’s brave and successful departure from the global bankers.  In the end, borrowing more money to solve unsustainable debt only leads to further enslavement.  By submitting to man’s self-serving thinking, the larger economies around the world are moving toward collapse.  As long as you base the monetary exchange on value that can be manipulated, you will ultimately end up at the same place- bankrupt.

On the other hand when you base the economy on Biblical principles you open yourself up to the Mind of Our Heavenly Father where there are no recessions or depressions.  There are reasons for letting the land rest every seventh year.  The minerals need to be replenished and weeds grow deeper to pull those minerals up to the surface.  There is a reason that one should not tattoo the body.  The metal in the ink interferes with the body’s electrical system.  Piercings do the same (with the exception of the ear lobes).  Do you think Our Heavenly Father would put statutes in place just because HE wanted to arbitrarily restrict you?  Once you pursue the revelation of each statute from a Love perspective, you will find the benefit and/or protection that the statute was intended to address.  In the most subtle manner, rebellion comes and attempts to establish its stronghold.  When the body is “short-circuited” for a number of years by the metal, the ultimate result is sickness and disease.  The result is increased healthcare costs which becomes a drag on the economy.  You then must support those with chronic illness… and the spiral continues.

The solution to the problem resides in the Throne Room of Our Heavenly Father.  I have found over time that I am rarely given the path of least resistance.  Instead I am given directives that stretch and test my commitment to HIS Voice.  We are called to be productive and fruitful.  You cannot do that by sitting on your hands waiting for a handout. By obeying HIS Laws and Statutes, you place yourself in a position of fruitfulness.  This way of life promotes success and fulfillment.  You may sacrifice in the short term but you gain dramatically in the long term.  The ego prefers the path of least resistance and wants immediate satisfaction without considering the consequences of the future.  Which path are you on?

Job 15:31 Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.

Trust is the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.  Trusting another person requires you to observe him or her over time so that you know the character and what motivates him or her to act.  Developing a track record of consistency helps in establishing trust.  Conversation where a person expresses core beliefs also helps.  Times of duress expose the character as well.

We are quickly moving toward a time of potentially unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets.  The evidence screams of deceit against the average person.  Agendas of the powerful have been exposed for all to see yet little has changed to correct all the corruption.  The world is holding on to net worth built on paper and perception.  Man’s unbelief toward Our Heavenly Father has placed him in another fine mess.

Everyone puts their trust in something or someone.  The question is who or what?  Do you trust the people you don’t know with your money and your wealth of do you put your trust in the Kingdom of Our Heavenly Father?  Some men only put their trust in themselves.  They don’t trust anyone else for they need to maintain control even though it is only a perception of control.  They miss out on true blessings when they fail to do their part in empowering those who are called to handle the very resources they are withholding.  How is this different than the unwillingness of the children of Israel to enter the Promised Land.  They did not trust Joshua or Caleb.  Instead their quest for control caused them to die in the wilderness and never see the Promised Land.  Think about it.

Many people are deaf to Our Heavenly Father’s directives to send resources to HIS projects.  They then wonder why they can’t seem to hear anything else.  They wonder why they get sick.  They wonder where is the GOD of heaven and earth.  They want to selectively hear HIS Word.  They want to hear only out of convenience.  Do you really think children will grow with some stress in their lives?  Can we become an overcomer with overcoming something?  Doesn’t hardship breed strength?

I believe we are being prepared for some notable challenges ahead and it won’t be pretty.  The time to prepare is before a crisis, not when you are in the midst of being confronted with it.  You will have to place your trust in someone.  Who’s it gonna be?

Matthew 6:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. NKJV

One of the most divisive topics in the world is money and supports the reality that “greed is the root of all evil”.  As those who have read this writer’s blogs last summer know, I announced that my calling was “treasurer” of the Kingdom.  This calling was reaffirmed with hundreds of prophetic words over decades by multiple prophets.  For years I preferred to “go it alone” so that I wouldn’t have to rely on others to help fund the Kingdom.  I figured the Our Heavenly Father could simply direct me into savvy investments at just the right time to acquire wealth for the Kingdom.  With the right information I could buy certain financial instruments and turn $25K into $1.2 million in a matter of a couple of business days.  Indeed I was given that opportunity before Black Monday, October 19th, 1987, but failed to act on HIS Word.  Oh me of little faith!

Financing the Kingdom will require Love and faith by many who are called.  It will require them to believe that Our Heavenly Father truly provides the increase when seed is planted.  I recall when Our Heavenly Father spoke to me and told me to believe HIM to get out of debt in the early 1980’s.  I responded by faith and suddenly business deals came my way.  I made $10,000 in 15 minutes and two phone calls one day.  Faith cometh by hearing the Word of Our Heavenly Father.

Who funded the building of the Tabernacle in the Old Testament?  All the tribes, the people.  Who will fund the Tabernacles Kingdom to come?  Those who believe Our Heavenly Father will provide the means and methods of fruitfulness.  There are those who will conditionally commit to funding the Kingdom:  “When Our Heavenly Father sends me a windfall, I will contribute.”  “When my boat comes in, I will write the check.”  I suspect that day will not come.  Our Heavenly Father will not be manipulated into acting based on some condition.  Love does not need to extort money to build the Kingdom.

Faith requires planting seed before fruit is produced.  Seedtime and harvest principles were established in Genesis and they have not changed since.  If I plant tomato seeds, I will get tomatoes under the proper conditions.  Mankind’s greed is the major deterrent to the funding of the Kingdom but that condition will not prevent the event from occurring.  Just as Egypt gave the children of Israel wealth before leaving their country, a transfer of wealth will occur again.  When you are placed in extreme circumstances, money becomes secondary to personal safety.  There are those who will fund the Kingdom out of Love and there are those who will fund the Kingdom out of duress.  Either way the Kingdom will be funded.

Deuteronomy 26:12  "When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year–the year of tithing–and have given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled.”  NKJV

People like to argue about the tithe and its application.  Instead they should be pursuing the intent of Our Heavenly Father behind the tithe.  The intent of the tithe is to express the Love of Our Heavenly Father toward the need at hand.  The Pentecostal ministry would have everyone believe that the tithe was to build larger churches while many in the congregation were going hungry.  Some believe that the tithe has been done away with.  Some simply ignore the tithe so they won’t be on the line to give.  In the end it boils down to greed.  The tithe is a practical way of subduing the flesh and determining whether greed is challenging your Love for mankind.  “I would tithe but I can’t afford it.”  I would suggest that greed will keep you enslaved from ever tithing, or expressing the Love of Our Heavenly Father.  Some would argue that the tithe is only required by those who farm or ranch as in the OT days.  I would suggest that we are all called to produce fruit in our respective callings therefore our fruit is to be tithed.

Over the years Our Heavenly Father has been faithful to my family in finances.  We have given money and forgiven financial debts as HE has directed.  Some of those debts were substantial but nevertheless we cancelled them.  HE has been and will be faithful to us for we submit ourselves and our finances to HIS Word.

The focus of the above Scripture is to supply those in need that none should go hungry.  Should the tithe include promoting the health of the population?  Of course.  The more legalistic you become about restricting the Love of Our Heavenly  Father, the more apt you will be to arrest the flow of funds to the Kingdom.  If you withhold your funds, Our Heavenly  Father will move on to someone else.  You will then wonder why you can never make ends meet.  The flow of funds is healthy to any kingdom.  Man’s kingdoms are simply a substitute for the real Kingdom.  Which kingdom will you promote?

Greece is getting ready to vote on staying in the EU.  The following video explains what people in Greece are dealing with:

The global economy appears to be moving toward one of two scenarios:  hyperinflationary depression or deflationary implosion.  The central banks will side on the hyperinflationary depression route by printing money at an ever-increasing rate.  They have no tools to combat a deflationary implosion.  This has the potential of getting ugly out there.  It might be wise to get as liquid as possible.  Keeping about 30 days of cash on hand is not a bad idea if you can swing it.

Hyperinflation results from a rapid and continuing increase in the supply of money, which occurs when a government prints money or creates credits in bank accounts, instead of collecting taxes to fund government activities.  Some view hyperinflation as being 100% inflation in one year.  Less than that is called high inflation.  I would suggest that hyperinflation varies from country to country based on historic levels.  I would call 30% inflation in the U.S. at the “hyper” level.  Couple that with a severe drop in economic activity and you have a hyperinflationary depression.

On the other hand, a deflationary implosion is where the money supply contracts at an increasing rate and the population quits spending, fearful of the future.  Economic activity dries up and spirals to lower levels.  The diversity of the U.S. economy would slow the process initially.  However, as executives see a drop in demand, they would respond by contracting their operations as quickly as possible.

Fear and uncertainty cause investors to rapidly move toward a position of preserving their wealth.  Gold and silver have been the historic investments of safety.  Currently, Central Banks around the world are increasing their gold reserves.  China and India have made noteworthy increases to their reserves.  Other countries are now considering a move to take possession of the gold reserves held at the NY Federal Reserve.  The EU wants to loan their members money with their gold as collateral.  I guess gold is no longer a “relic” in the minds of the central banks.

Iceland economy grows at fastest pace in four years: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/08/us-iceland-gdp-idUSBRE8570UA20120608

I guess that once you throw the big banks out and declare a jubilee you can get back to productive business.  This generation of Icelanders will not let themselves be hoodwinked again.  I find it interesting that the article does not discuss the jubilee at all.  It gives all the credit to the IMF.