Servias Ministries Blog

“Ask, seek, knock”, we are instructed to do those acts.  Each require us to make a decision to continue and back it up with action.  Our lives on this earth require us to make many decisions on a daily basis.  Each one of those decisions is based on your intent.  When you speak, it is out of the abundance of your heart.  Yes, you can temporarily control your speech to project an illusion for the other person’s benefit, but in the end your true character will be revealed.  Your body language speaks volumes as well.

We are to owe no man anything but Love.  Why?  The borrower is servant to the lender and the borrower must always consider the requirements of the lender and act according to those requirements.  This relationship suppresses your ability to walk according to Our Heavenly Father’s Divine Intent for you.

Leverage is utilizing resources greater than your own to create a greater outcome.  This occurs when people buy a house with a mortgage.  Leverage in itself is not bad.  It only becomes a problem if you are unable to retire the leveraged portion you borrowed.  There is always a day of reckoning where the account must be settled and the debt must be satisfied.  People who look for ways out of satisfying the debt are lawless in their hearts.  They want to enjoy the fruits of others’ labor without the responsibility of repayment.  They are known by their persistent “taking” without ever “giving”.  They are poor stewards and will receive their just reward.

We are all given the opportunity to change from vessels of dishonor to vessels of honor.  We are first given simple tasks of stewardship to train, test, and, correct us.  A good steward will move on to greater responsibilities.  A poor steward will not.  A wise man seeks correction and change.  One who is led by their old man continues in his path toward destruction.  The choice is yours.

The Lord’s Prayer prophesies of the coming Kingdom enveloping the whole earth.  If you are not aligning your intent and actions with this Word given by the Jesus Christ, you are missing the point of the Gospel.  Your ego would have you proceed down alternative paths that are simply “time and resource burners”.  How many more church buildings do we need?  Unfocused resources are ultimately consumed into oblivion.  Each of us needs to put our money where our mouth is.  However, the choice is yours.

Joshua was told be strong and of good courage (to be strong, alert, courageous, brave, stout, bold, solid, hard).  Courage is required when you are called to step out of your comfort zone.  If you want to become mature in your calling, courage is required.  The choice is yours.

Many are called but few are chosen.  This tells us that there will be a division among those who are believers.  How do you make the cut?  The parable of the Wedding Feast gives us the answer.  Those who have other priorities and are unprepared are not allowed to be included.  As I have said in the past, look at your bank statement and your daily calendar.  Those two will proclaim your priorities and intent.  It is never too late to repent and change directions.  The choice is yours.

PS:  Don’t shoot the messenger.

All of us are called to wear many hats in our lives.  Yes, we each have a primary calling but that does not exclude us from other tasks and responsibilities.  A child eats, drinks, sleeps, plays, and learns.  Later the child is introduced to school and is required to master several areas of study in order to move to a higher grade.  This is true in all areas of life.  Our Heavenly Father provided us at least 66 books of the Bible, each one focusing on multiple areas of study.  In addition, we receive frequent training and revelation from HIS Spirit.  We are to become well rounded individuals as we move toward maturity.

My career was no different.  I held several diverse positions in business, each one selected by HIM.  I was content with being a banker yet HE moved me to IBM.  There I was content as well but HE further moved me into other positions in other companies.  This is true for all of us.  We are called to be multi-faceted in HIS expressed image.  HE has many names, each representing a different aspect of HIS Character:  Savior, Healer, Mighty Counselor Deliverer…  Would you want HIM to be any less?

Each of us has a primary calling but we need to be careful that we don’t forego the multi-faceted aspects of that calling.  If we try to narrow our focus too much, we will do nothing.  If we try to expand it too much, we will be ineffective.  The key is balance or moderation in all things.

A fundamental Law in Scripture is seedtime and harvest.  It is interwoven throughout Scripture.

Genesis 8:22  

“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

“While the earth remains” provides us a perspective of how long this law will be employed.  It is simple:  you reap what you sow: 

If you sow nothing, your reap nothing

If you sow Love, you reap Love

If you sow discord, you reap discord

If you sow isolation, you reap isolation

If you sow financially, you reap financially

If you take, you are taken from

The list is as long as resources and characteristics of mankind.

A caveat to sowing and reaping must be mentioned.  Some people think that you can create a formula out of this law.  It will not work.  The subtle aspect of this Law includes “intent”.  There is a Divine Intent behind a seed.  It must and will produce after its own kind  The Intent is carried inside the seed and is reflected in the fruit.  If you sow money strictly to get more money, your intent is greed and scarcity.  You are actually sowing scarcity and will reap greater scarcity in your life.  This is why we must seek first the Kingdom of Our Heavenly Father and HIS righteousness.  THEN all these things will be added unto us.  When we sow with the proper intent, we will reap the proper reward.

As you walk in Love, you are assured of having the proper intent directing your sowing.  Those who are called to serve at the pleasure of Our Heavenly Father must expect to do things that are not necessarily in their comfort zone.  As we grow we must endure stress, trials, and tests.  We are given tasks that don’t appear to align themselves with our calling.  We must consider that there are lessons to be learned in all that we are exposed to throughout our walk.  It may be days, months, or years before we can appreciate those tasks we were confronted with.

HIS ways are higher than our ways and we must embrace those challenges before us, knowing that HE has designed a perfect training plan for our individual paths toward maturity and perfection.  Embrace each challenge, learn from it, and move on to greater maturity.

Romans 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

No one can deny the impact of songs in our lives.  We are wired to remember stories put into musical form.  The Song of Moses is one such example.  Another is the Song of the Lamb mentioned in Revelations 15:3 & 4.  Paul underscores the characteristics of the “New Man” in Colossians where Love is the bond of perfection:

Character of the New Man:

Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. 14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

After a brief commercial, enjoy Andrea’s gift of song to Our Heavenly Father, it is but a taste of things to come:

To date, we have received $3,125 for Dave Dixon.  He called me and expressed his deep gratitude for the response.  We appreciate all who were led to give.  If you feel a tug in the heart and have not responded, feel free to add to this total.  It is our pleasure to be a conduit for this expression of Love toward Dave.

Dave provided some pictures of his challenges: http://dinneronthebay.blogspot.com/p/slide-show_07.html

Note: Dave mentioned the 1st check of $2,705.  The next check being sent out Monday is for $420.  Every little bit helps.

What is your priority in life?  Are you seeking something that is at best a temporary accomplishment to satisfy the flesh?  The ego would have you focus on the unimportant at the expense of the precious and everlasting.  We ought to be contemplating those precious promises given to us by Our Heavenly Father.  Love is absolutely the greatest revelation you can receive, bar none.  Secondly, faith is a critical aspect of our walk.  Faith is required when we are living in a span of time.  The maturing process includes a time factor.  Jesus did not begin His ministry until he had turned thirty years of age but we know that at a young age he was about His Father’s business.

Hebrews 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

I can attest that I have diligently sought a full and complete relationship with My Heavenly Father.  HIS grace and mercy have prevailed in life… by necessity mind you.  My past failures were certainly noteworthy but HIS mercy was more than sufficient.  I have complete and utter faith in HIM.  One only has to consider the vastness of the universe to begin to understand HIS wisdom and resources available to HIS children.

As we diligently seek HIM, we are rewarded.  I have been spared from death, disease, financial destruction, and the list goes on.  Some people may tell you that HE does not heal anymore.  It is too late for me, HE has healed me multiple times.  Some people may tell you that HE has no interest in your financial affairs.  Too late, HE has delivered me from financial famine.

As we walk in Love, we align ourselves with HIM.  David was a man after GOD’S own heart and I want to be known in that regard as well.  How about you?

Each of us will be tested as we mature in faith.  We must trust HIM and HIS Love for us.  As we do, we set ourselves up for a reward for HE knows our needs and our righteous desires.  As a Father, HE will fulfill those needs and desires more so that we can fathom.

Love is the basic measure of Spiritual maturity and there are three main categories, two are mentioned in the New Testament.  The most immature category is eros. It means physical attraction, a selfish kind of love.  It focuses on physical need.  The second category is phileo, meaning brotherly love.  It is a conditional love based on fairness, equality in a legal sense.  It begins to give consideration to others in their relation to yourself.  Agape Love is the unconditional love that Our Heavenly Father shows through Jesus Christ.  This is where pure truth resides  The more immature people are in their maturity of Love, the less Truth they will walk in.

Jesus laid down His life for the entire world of the ungodly:

Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.  NKJV

Who will you lay down your life for?  The purity of Truth is found in those who have no ulterior motives in their relationship with others.  They present themselves as a Holy and acceptable sacrifice.  They present the Truth in Love following the example of Jesus, the pattern Son.  They are willing to serve in whatever capacity that presents itself.  They lead a productive life being a blessing to others.  Each day is filled with fruitfulness as they encounter needs presenting themselves to them.  You don’t need to seek Our Heavenly Father to determine which need to fulfill.  HE will guide you on a path full of needs and tasks to complete.  Just do them.  Find a blessing that needs fulfilled rather than waiting for one to track you down.  Express Love in action.  When do you start walking in Truth and Love?  Now and right where you have been planted.  We should be looking at ways to bless others rather than waiting for some fateful day when we think something noteworthy will cross our path.  Now is the time to walk as Jesus walked, not tomorrow or next week or at some point when you think you are finally ready. 

Maturity occurs by experience.  Each of us will be tried and tested in our Love walk.  We will be shown what level of Love we are operating in.

Paul speaks of the New Man’s walk:

Ephesians 4:

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest off the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 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; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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.

Let us not walk in the futility, vanity, or emptiness of the mind for it will only lead to blindness of the heart.  It will lead you to a path of scarcity and you will respond with greed and depravity.  We must put off our former old man and walk in the Truth which is found in the Love presented to us by Jesus.  It is pure.  It has no private agendas or motivations to lead us astray.  It directs us toward the Heart of Our Heavenly Father.  We too should be known as a “man after GOD’s Own Heart”.  This is where total peace resides.  This is where the source of healing can be found.  This is where your calling will be discovered.  Do not delay.