Servias Ministries Blog

GRATITUDE unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A common theme that I write about is focusing on your relationship, alignment, and communion with FATHER.  After all, that is what Love is all about.  The things of this world can divert your attention away from what is really important.  The solution to every problem you have can be found by being in communion with FATHER.  The adversary has no place in those who are closely linked with FATHER.  In the 4th chapter of the book of James we find:

7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

These are instructions for us to walk out, not simply read and proceed on to the next Truth.  We must walk out these instructions.  You must subject yourself in obedience to FATHER in order to “submit” and you must place yourself under HIS direction.  At the same time you are to resist the devil and he will flee in response.  However, submission comes first in order for this to occur.

A double-minded man’s heart needs purification.  When you are constantly analyzing and reasoning, you can easily become double-minded.  Scientists have studied the left brain where logic and reasoning occur versus the right brain where the creative and intuitive reside.  You must be careful or you can reason away FATHER’S blessings in your life.  The ego or “self” will focus on your left brain and will encourage you to develop your left brain at the expense of your right brain.  The result is double-mindedness.

When I talk about giving, your left brain will kick in and become offended.  You will begin to analyze my every word looking for some fallacy so that you can negate the overall Truth about giving.  You will cite endless examples of abuse by the five-fold ministry and rationalize away why you should tightly grip your money even more so.  The one thing you fail to consider is that FATHER looks at your heart when giving and it matters not what the recipient does with your money.  Your blessing isn’t determined by their use or abuse, your blessing is determined by your intent.  My wife and I have been abundantly blessed over the years by this specific Truth.  The story of Jesus at the treasury observing the widow’s giving in Luke 21:

1 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.

3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all;

4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”

Jesus confirmed that her offering was to GOD, not the officials running the Temple.  He had no issue with there being a treasury.  She please FATHER by her willingness to give and Jesus took note of this reality.  In contrast, He was not impressed by the wealthy who gave very little even though it was of a greater monetary value than the widow’s two mites.

Why have I continued to bring up the topic of giving?  It is because this issue is the most subtle of all hindrances to your communion with FATHER.  If you can’t overcome the subtlety of greed, you cannot fully enter in to HIS Presence.  It is my desire that all of those who read these words “enter in”.  You can endlessly analyze Scriptures and look for hidden keys hoping to unlock some mystery that will allow you entry into the Holy of Holies but I say to you that we should approach FATHER as children who simply want to give HIM their all.  The key is hidden in plain sight!

Do you want to “die to self”?  Then get close to FATHER.  How simple!  Change your focus from the complexities before you to the simplicity of entering into HIS Presence.  As you do this, HE will give you the solutions to your complex problems, to those issues that seem to defy analysis and reasoning.  It times past, I would have some business issue or software logic issue that seemed to be just beyond my grasp.  I would set the problem aside and commune with FATHER.  Suddenly, HE would open my eyes to the solution of the problem and it was usually contrary to standard logic.  HIS ways are higher than our ways thus we need to keep this Truth before us each day:

Proverbs 8:32 ​​“Now therefore, listen to me, my children,

​​For blessed are those who keep my ways.

33 ​​Hear instruction and be wise,

​​And do not disdain it.

34 ​​Blessed is the man who listens to me,

​​Watching daily at my gates,

​​Waiting at the posts of my doors.

35 ​​For whoever finds me finds life,

​​And obtains favor from the LORD;

36 ​​But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;

​​All those who hate me love death.”

Most young men tend to think of themselves as being indestructible.  As I mature, my gratitude increases dramatically and I understand the limitations and frailty of life.  As I look back throughout my life I can see FATHER guiding through all of the trials and tests and at times I thought the end of the world had come knocking at my door.  On the other side of all those challenges my gratitude for FATHER increased dramatically.

The economic picture looks ugly to those who have been trained in that discipline.  The war drums are beating between China and Japan, the U.S. and Russia as the Middle East remains in shambles.  The more you know about world events, the less optimistic you become UNLESS you trust in Our Heavenly Father’s ability to resolve all conflict.  If you do truly believe IN HIM, then you will be grateful to be here at this time in history.  After all, HE placed us here for such a time as this.

Psalm 117:1 Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles!

​​Praise Him, all you peoples!

2 ​​For His merciful kindness is great toward us,

​​And the truth of the LORD endures forever.

​​​Praise the LORD!

The above psalm is short and sweet yet it speaks volumes when “all peoples” come in unity to exalt FATHER with gratitude.  I suspect we may not be far from such a time as the current world is spinning out of control like one suffering from vertigo.  FATHER truly is the only ONE with the solution to the highly complex problems men have created.  There are those with solutions independent of FATHER but they will only result in a temporary delay in the inevitable.

Time is being shortened as the culmination of the Age is upon us.  The authority from FATHER is being assigned and transferred as HIS Government is coming forth.  Those whom HE has prepared will soon be fully empowered with HIS authority.  Let us all be grateful for FATHER’S plan as it unfolds no matter what it looks like out your window (or on your TV screen).  Let our praises proceed out of our mouth and exalt the MOST HIGH.  If HE be for us, who can be against us.

As we continue our walk on this earth, we have the ability to choose which path we take: Love or lawlessness.  You can work the Law and still be lawless because your intent determines your true position.  You can attempt to negate your acts of lawlessness by justifying and rationalizing away your acts but that doesn’t change the fact you are still lawless.  Jesus made the point that even though outwardly men can appear righteous, they can still be lawless.  In Matthew chapter 7, Jesus speaks:

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’

23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Are you walking out your agenda asking FATHER to bless it or are you seeking FATHER’S Divine Intent and responding to and acting on it accordingly?  As you respond to FATHER’s Will for your life, you will take on HIS Character of Love.  Jesus was and is our prime example.  In the 5th chapter of the Beloved Disciple’s Gospel (John), he quoted Jesus as saying:

30 I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

Each of us must overcome our soulish man who would lead us astray.  Many of us are no longer dealing with the obvious acts of lawlessness but must root out the most subtle hindrances to our walk and communion with FATHER.  As I have written multiple times lately, greed is one of the most subtle issues that will separate you from a deep relationship with FATHER.  Greed assumes that FATHER will not meet your need according to HIS riches.  Paul wrote:

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

What are “all things”?  It is that which FATHER has instructed you to do for HIS anointing will provide the needed resource and strength to bring the instruction to fruition.  It matters not what your past is, behold all things become new as you embrace the path of Love.  Paul (who was Saul) is a perfect example of this Truth.  None of us are able to look back at our past and claim to have achieved a lawful life on our own.  I stand before you today by the grace and mercy of FATHER with great gratitude for HIS Love redeeming me from my lawlessness.  Though the old man would want to raise his ugly head to control my destiny, I choose to grow ever closer to FATHER no matter what the day would bring.  HIS Love draws me into HIS bosom and I know that HE will never leave of forsake me.

When I was young I would say “GOD bless what I am doing”.  Now I say, “FATHER, what is it You want me to do?”.  The law of gravity works whether you are righteous or lawless.  A lawless preacher can speak the Word of GOD on healing and the hearer can be healed.  It is FATHER’S Word that has power, not the mouth of the preacher proclaiming it.  Men can work the system with signs and wonders and get people to believe that they are “special” but in the end FATHER will expose them.

Proverbs 22:3 ​​A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself,

​​But the simple pass on and are punished.

It is my intent to direct you away from those areas that would hinder you from an intimate relationship with FATHER.  We are all in this together and we need each other for we are all parts of the Body of Christ.  In my younger years I was subjected to the subtleties of teachings containing error also known as doctrines of man.  We all have been exposed to man’s ideas of who FATHER is and what HE expects.  What better source of information and direction than FATHER HIMSELF!  Don’t let the subtlety of lawlessness creep into you daily walk with FATHER.  Review your words and acts to see if you are walking out Love or lawlessness.  It you see a problem, repent and move on with FATHER for HE knows your weaknesses.  After all, HE created you.  Continue in HIS Love and lawlessness will no longer be an issue.

As always, my desire for all of us is to ascend to a higher level of consciousness in our relationship with Our Heavenly Father.  As we align ourselves with HIS Divine Intent of Love we will become like HIM and think like HIM.  We will see life through HIS Eyes, not our carnal man.  Paul writes in Ephesian chapter 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,

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.

You are either being enlightened or darkened in your understanding depending on what path you are on.  The fruit of your life must be assessed by your own inspection to give you confirmation of your path.  Are you a blessing to people?  Do you desire to serve or are you looking for what others can provide you?  Notice how your understanding can move away from the light of the Word into outer darkness.  The further you move from FATHER, the more blind in your heart you become.  Be not weary in doing good works.  Paul continues:

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.

Your mind is to be a servant to your spirit, not the reverse.  Do you ask FATHER to bless what you have decided to undertake or do you ask FATHER what to undertake knowing that HE will bless the work of your hands?  This is an indication of where you are at concerning the renewing of the spirit of your mind.  If given the opportunity the mind will create problems to be solved, keeping you busy and far from FATHER’S path for you.  In this state you will finish the day unfulfilled with at least a touch of anxiety.

Left to his own devices the old man will grow more corrupt according to deceitful lusts.  As a society removes the references to Our Heavenly Father in schools, kids become increasingly lawless.  We now see the fruit of their lawlessness in the headlines.  Every person has a core understanding of a higher power and only needs to have that understanding reinforced to keep the soul from moving toward further corruption.  The internal must change before the external will produce good fruit.

The Old Testament Law dealt with mandating external behavior but the children of Israel failed constantly in their attempts to walk in righteousness.  The Pentecostal Age focused on changing the internal but also had the conflict of compromise to deal with.  I believe we are now at a time of visitation where both the inward and outward works will produce a great harvest, not just 30 fold or 60 fold, but 100 fold.  The fullness of time is at hand and we must discard the futility of man’s thinking and press in to what FATHER is saying in true righteousness and Holiness.  We are to put on the new man thus putting of the old man and the futility of that thinking.

Now is the time!

A “woe” is great sorrow, grief, or distress.  If you are continuing on the path of being earthly or carnally minded, you will soon experience great woe.

Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

There are three aspects to this great woe.  First is the “way” of Cain.  Cain was not his brother’s keeper.  On the contrary, he was wicked and hated his brother who practiced righteousness.  The two great Commandments of Love were in existence when Cain and Abel walked the earth.  The Beloved Disciple explains the first great woe in 1 John 3:

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.

14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

The second aspect of great distress arises out of the spirit of Balaam.  The “way” of Balaam was to appear to follow FATHER’S instructions but inwardly his intent was that of covetousness and greed.  He was double-minded in his ways.  There is no doubt that he was operating in the gift of prophecy but his inward motivation was greed.  Ultimately those who follow the way of Balaam will produce no fruit just as wells without water are of no value.  In 2 Peter chapter 2, we see this spirit described in detail:

15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness.

The third aspect of this tremendous grief is connected with submission to Spiritual authority.  The rebellion of Korah in Numbers 16 is where a group led by Korah challenged FATHER’S appointed leaders. Their argument was that FATHER speaks to all men and they did not need  to align themselves and submit to those appointments. This position is partially true in that FATHER speaks to all men.  But FATHER also give specific men and women callings required for these times to lead and govern according to FATHER’S Divine Intent of Love.

In this time of visitation, FATHER is raising up those whom HE has designated to form HIS Government on earth.  Their motivation is pure and guided totally by Love.  They seek not to lord over men but instead they seek to simply do FATHER’S perfect Plan, Will, and purpose to bring forth the Kingdom on earth by serving all of mankind.  It is both an outward AND inward work.  Those who resist what FATHER is doing will experience great woes.  Their grief and sorrow will dramatically express itself for all to see.  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth as the apocalypse or exposing of the full revelation of Jesus Christ in the Sons occurs.