Is Your Money King Over You, or Are You King Over It?

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 The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life– what you shall eat or drink– or about your body– what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

“Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

“Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

“So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

“But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Is it disconcerting to you that we have so many signs showing us what’s coming and few acting upon it.

We have a lack of something taking place in our culture, worldwide, and that’s thoughtfulness, thinking, reflection.

Of course, Our Lady said, “Reflect on your future.”

She wouldn’t say that if we wouldn’t derive thoughts by reflecting on our future, that we need to be making decisions about our future.

And so, I find it disconcerting that so many people can’t read signs that are probably the most clearest man has ever seen.

Noah and the flood, they had the sign of Noah building the ark. But we have so much more than that.

They had their little plots, or they had their little ways they were making their living.

We have an engaged system that affects every person in the world, economically, through commerce, consumerism, materialism, entertainment and all of which shows us that there is something very, very wrong.

We can’t have an event that united our whole nation into prayer, both parties, political parties, different people of different beliefs, holding hands that evening in churches, gathered in prayer, on 9-11, ten years ago.

And ten years later, through that tragedy, we ban prayer.

We can’t mention Jesus Christ. It might offend those who perpetrated the evil upon us.

Our Lady says you’ve lost your discernment.

Do we wonder why, economically, we’re in trouble.  Do we question our future viability to stay in the system or keep the system that we’ve had to be restored?

Impossible, not when you block out, literally block out…one thing it’s neglect, one thing it’s being busy, one thing it’s being mesmerized and entertained.

But here it is, physically, we have a pagan, Bloomberg in New York, saying there will be no prayer at 9-11 site.

If Christians had fiber, they would go. Throughout the whole event and ceremonies, just start saying the Our Father. Say it a thousand times out loud. Drown them out.

We’re so concerned about our next meal, what are we to eat, what are we to wear, that we’ve lost the big picture.

Why do we have a problem? Because we don’t have God.

Our Lady says God is truth. He exists. He’s not going to go away because you ban prayer at 911.

In fact, you’ll draw Him closer. At least in His actions. He doesn’t let His people go astray.

He turns man over to himself. You’ll see more actions of God when we do this.

But they’re not good actions for His children.

So, we have a system now, economically, that’s not viable.

It’s impossible for it to survive. There’s no way for it to continue.

All the signs are there. We bought one of our big pieces of equipment downstairs in our printshop, the Mueller-Martini from Switzerland, and they were the strongest economy in the world, basically.

We checked them out. We didn’t want to send even our deposit over there through this economic downturn with the chances of somebody bankrupting.

The franc was king; they’re money strong. And now they’re in trouble.

Nobody expected it. Everybody was putting their investments, because there is so much money out there, they are pulling it out of the stock markets, they are putting it over here, they’re putting it over there.

They don’t know where to put it. They are just trying to put it someplace they can preserve it, or hold it level, from being lost.

So, a lot of people bought Swiss francs. Now, there is so much of it that the exports of this small country, with the machine that we got, there are going to be bankruptcies.

You need a weak currency to have good exports. And because they are an exporter, the next trade thing that they have is tourism, the only thing they don’t export, it comes into them, it imports, people, but they’re in trouble.

And everybody and all the master bankers thought they had it figured out.

They had the idea, the great idea of this is a great banking country, people have many banking accounts there, that they could beat the system.

But when you turn against God, when you forsake Him at memorials where He should be the keystone, when you’ve got to apologize for Jesus Christ, you’re not going to outfox God.

He’ll bring it down by turning you over to yourselves, just like Romans 18:32 speaks of.

God withdraws but, in His actions, to withdraw, it is actually He is coming closer because you are going to see His actions, you are going to know of Him more.

Just like someone told us the other day, even atheists can’t be atheists if there was no God. What would they not believe in? You can’t escape God. He’s there and He is and you not believing, you not accepting, you not going His way doesn’t change anything.

Just because an atheist says, “I don’t believe in God,” or “You’re going to offend me,” doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist, so who do we offend? The atheist or God?

We are choosing to offend God. And you think there are no consequences to this? And nobody is leading. Nobody knows how to go the way. Nobody knows what to do in the next moment.

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Alfred the Great was King of the West Saxons in England during the ninth century. His determination to protect England from Danish conquests and his emphasis on literacy and education for his people have lifted him into the ranks of England’s most popular rulers.

The famous story reminds us that attention to little duties prepares us to meet larger ones.

In England many years ago, there ruled a king named Alfred, a wise and just man.

Alfred was one of the best kings England ever had.

Even today, centuries later, he is known as Alfred the Great.

The days of Alfred’s rule were not easy ones in England.

The country was invaded by fierce Danes who had come from across the sea.

There were so many Danish invaders, and they were so strong and bold, that for a long time, they won almost every battle.

If they kept on winning, they would soon be masters of the whole country.

At last, after so many struggles, King Alfred’s English army was broken and scattered.

Every man had to save himself in the best way he could, including King Alfred.

He disguised himself as a shepherd and fled alone through the woods and swamps.

After several days of wandering, he came to the hut of a woodcutter.

Tired and hungry, he knocked on the door and begged the woodcutter’s wife to give him something to eat and a place to sleep.

The woman looked with pity at the ragged fellow.

She had no idea who he really was.

Come in, she said, I will give you some supper if you will watch these cakes I am baking on the hearth.

I want to go out and milk the cow. Watch them carefully and make sure they don’t burn while I am gone.

Alfred thanked her politely and sat down beside the fire.

He tried to pay attention to the cakes, but soon all his troubles filled his mind.

How was he going to get his army together again, and even if he did, how was he going to prepare it to face the Danes?

How could he possibly drive such fierce invaders out of England.

The more he thought, the more hopeless the future seemed and he began to believe there was no use in continuing to fight.

Alfred saw only his problems. He forgot he was in the woodcutter’s hut.

He forgot about his hunger. And he forgot all about the cakes.

In a little while, the woman came back. She found her hut full of smoke and her cakes burnt to a crisp.

And there was Alfred, sitting beside the hearth, gazing into the flames.

He had never even noticed the cakes were burning.

You lazy, good for nothing fellow, the woman cried. Look what you’ve done.

You want something to eat, but you don’t want to work for it.

Now, none of us will have any supper.

Alfred only hung his head in shame. Just then the woodcutter came in.

As soon as he walked through the door, he recognized the stranger sitting at his hearth.

Be quiet, he told his wife. Do you realize who you are scolding?

This is our noble ruler, King Alfred himself.

The woman was horrified. She ran to the King’s side and fell to her knees.

She begged him to forgive her for speaking so harshly.

But the wise King Alfred asked her to rise. You are right to scold me, he said.

I told you I would watch the cakes and then I let them burn.

I deserved what you said.

Anyone who accepts a duty, whether it be large or small, should perform it faithfully.

I failed this time, but it will not happen again.

My duties as King await me.”

The story does not tell us if King Alfred had anything to eat that night, but it was not many days before he had gathered his men together again and soon, he drove the Danes out of England.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

It’s amazing how many people have forsaken their duty.

They’re not even investors. Just working people. And you’re giving your money over to 401ks and people to invest that and depending on them to take care of it.

And it’s all being scattered. It’s all being lost.

And you’re drowning in your problems, oh, look what I lost.

You take your own autonomy. Warren Buffitt, the greatest investor of all time, says you manage your own money.

Now, he’s talking to people who have millions.

But if you only have fifty thousand dollars, a hundred thousand?

Why are you entrusting this to somebody else.

Oh, there’s the regulations they choke you with and say, well I have to.

Or this or that, or I’m going to get penalty if I pull it out.

You gain autonomy. You take charge. You get your little army up. You fortify yourself.

Start thinking. And that’s our problem. It’s disconcerting.

There are so few people who are really thoughtful.

And they can do something now in the green wood, in this time of grace, as Our Lady said, that they can’t do four years, two years, maybe a month from now.

When a storm is approaching, do you roll up the windows in your car? Do you go out and tie things down if a hurricane is coming?

Do you board up your windows? Why do you do that?

Not to do that makes as much logic as what we are doing now financially with a lot of people and what their situations are.

Even those who have lost their jobs.

There are many things that can be done.

Start thinking about your family.

I was looking at a book, a picture book of 1929 the other night, and the woman who took these photographs, she actually landed a job by the government to photograph these people.

She witnessed one guy came from Oklahoma to California and she was watching him from a distance and he just walked and just stood there and looked all the way around him, 360.

He’d take a step one way, then he’d just stop. He didn’t know where to go.

Some of the captions says that they, their whole bodies were broken from the work they had to do.

And these people weren’t used to being idle. And they had no footing.

Another one said there was no footing to even get started on, there was no seed to do something, there was no little ground to go find a patch or anything.

They were caught just completely off guard.

And they didn’t have the warnings. You’ve got every indicator, every warning showing you that it is impossible for our government to pay back its debt, that the states are broke, the county governments are broke, the cities are broke.

And our people in this nation are in debt.

And some got enough investments to get out of debt and yet they don’t move.

So, this is something that we need to understand that we can do like the king and drown in the misery and the overwhelming things that are in front of us, and just say, well I’ll just wait to see what happens.

This is insane. Act now on things that you know you can do. And there is a lot you can do.

“It Ain’t Gonna Happen,” is a whole book about this preparation.

If you don’t owe anything, you own your house, you own your land, you own your cars, you own everything you’re doing, then basically all you’ve got is the power bill and a couple of [???] that those will come up.

If you are free from debt, you can do a lot of things; you’ve got a lot of longitude and latitude.

Most people don’t have that. They are so glued to the system. Even if they’ve got money.

There are people who have tons of money, and yet they don’t even have it available, it’s all tied up.

Your best investment is you’ve got a plot of land, or if you’re wealthy, five hundred acres, you have, build five cottages for families, surround yourselves with them.

But the driving force I always moved toward, since my youth, was how can I do what I need to do without the dollar?

Every step I took, every step I built my business with, every step I built Caritas with is to operate without the dollar.

We’re sitting in a studio that we cut down the trees, put it on our saws, dried the wood and made.

How did we do it? Labor. Who paid us for the labor? Nature. We didn’t have to go get money.

God is a lot more efficient in growing the tree, the sunshine, watering it, the ground, the soil, the nutrients.

The tree has been 60 years growing. We get the tree. Our labor does that. Nature pays us. That’s our paycheck.

And that’s how we operate.

Yeah, we’ve got to have cash to make equipment, but we do a lot in this mission by labor.

That’s why you can buy some of our booklets, 8-page booklet for fifteen cents, because we are just transferring you the cost of the paper for that.

Our volumes increase, so we even drop the price of the paper while everything else is going up.

This logic, this commonsense concept is lost. It’s Our Lady Herself who said Jesus is the light of common sense.

But because people don’t think and because people don’t have practical experience, because people don’t have the ability because they have gone along with the system to see this with clarity, they do what the system tells them to do.

Oh, this is your 401k? We’ll take care of it for you.

What are they doing for it? I met a guy from England years ago that had gone through a conversion and started confessing things to me.

He said, well we take hundreds of millions of dollars of people’s retirement, and we will go put it into a subdivision. In England we will build a development, and then we’ll own the cemetery and we’ll own the water and we’ll own the garbage. That’s really where we make a lot of our money.

He says if it bankrupts, we don’t care.

I says, well that’s people’s retirement.

He was talking into the billions. He said it don’t matter. It doesn’t mean nothing to him.

Can you imagine these people toil their whole lives and save up seventy-five thousand dollars for their retirement and these are the people that were running it.

This guy had a jet. Just from doing this.

And this was probably eight to ten years ago.

The guy was repentant. He was going to Mass twice a day because he realized the wrong, he had done.

But I spent lunch with him in our connected flights coming back from Medjugorje. I was shocked.

Don’t you have any sentiments? What makes somebody so hard, so steel, hearts like this?  These people have your money.

And it’s not just wealthy people’s money, it’s the working people.

You gain control of what you have. You fortify your own way. Structure your life and in all ways possible that you’re not dependent on the dollar.

That is what “It Ain’t Gonna Happen” is about. That is why we made the Medjugorje Miraculous Medal Silver one-ounce piece round, just to take what you have, temporary hold it in that until you can transition it into a way of life because you can’t eat silver, you can’t eat gold.

But you need to be living, just like the group Alabama, the country group says, “somebody told us Wall Street fell, we couldn’t tell, the grass was always green around our house.”

They were already living subsistently.

And to me, if you have the means, one of the greatest investments is to have where you are getting your food from your ground to your mouth and have people in league with you.

Let them live their free. They are your investment. It’s part of your life for your children.

The whole issue of why we’ve got these things we’re talking about anyway.

Why are we talking about Mejanomics? Why are we talking about economics-wise, except Our Lady said every Thursday read Matthew 6 because this was the basis of what She foresaw 30 years ago as it is going to be the problem we lead to.

She told Ivanka, June 25, 1989, “satan has special plans to enslave you through materialism. he is active in this plan.”

And it really wasn’t that prevalent at that time. We didn’t see it.

We knew people who were into everything, but now we see it, or at least those who are praying see it.

And we don’t let people come into the community; one criterion is that you can’t have debt.

If we let people come here and have debt, then we become responsible as a community for their debt.

Then they want to get paid. Our pay is what we work for, our own keep as St. Paul said for what we do agriculturally, our agrarian.

That we have freedom to give our labor for the mission and the propagation of the message. That’s a disease. We don’t want that disease.

And that is exactly, Switzerland is like the community. They were very, very strong, very powerful economic-wise.

And not they are taking on the Euro. They announced that they will buy every Euro, unlimited amounts of Euros when it falls below, I think, 1.20.

So, in other words, we’re going to eat your disease. Then how do you be an economic power and eat so much poison without being poisoned?

We don’t want that here. You should be the same way.

Debt makes you a slave to the system. Get a way from it. Don’t own anything.

Oh, the bankers will say, oh you’ve got two hundred thousand dollars in the bank. Don’t take that out, borrow two hundred thousand dollars against the bank and use that to borrow against it.

Well, human nature would do that. And then human nature will use that two hundred thousand, and then you’ve got four hundred thousand dollars.

You still have two hundred thousand dollars you owe. It’s their lie. It’s their propagation to keep this lie continuing.

So, the whole banking system is bankrupt.

The only thing you can take to a bank, if you are talking about banks, is Our Lady’s words.

“…Everything is passing. Everything is falling apart…”

There is no exaggeration. The meaning of what those words mean go beyond what you can comprehend in depth, in magnitude and we’re there.

You know, we live in a physical world, but we are supposed to be a spiritual people. Our soul, our spiritual soul will be in heaven when we die.

But it’s trapped in our body and what we physically do affects that eternally.

And what damages the soul is through the physical, even through our thoughts even.

And so, our physical environment, the decisions that we make physically are very important.

And so, Our Lady is addressing physical when She says everything is passing, everything is falling apart.

She’s not talking about just morality. That’s already gone.

And She’s saying as a result of the morality and the depravity that we live, depravity, the physical is now falling apart.

It depends on that.

You can’t turn away, Jesus being mentioned, prayers to God the Father in New York, and not expect more disaster, more falling apart of what they are meeting there in the first place for.

How stupid can man be? It’s idiotic. It’s beyond idiotic. It’s now I’m demonic, because it’s not just negligence, it’s a choice.

We don’t want you God. We don’t need you God.

And God says okay.

Roman 1:18-32, if you haven’t read it, and if you did read it last week read it again.

We’re going to make some t-shirts because people, I’m giving this to Christians and they said, whoa, I didn’t know that.

Someone wrote, questioning me about something a couple three weeks ago on the show we did called, “It’s Imminent, the Culture is Going to Crash.”

And we talked about the pinnacle sin which is the big sign that once that starts in, prevailing in the culture, its God come back time.

And I wrote them back, read Roman 1, chapter one, verses 18 through 32.

We cannot tolerate these sins and we need to go backwards from this and clean up our own small sins to get rid of the big sins.

If you initially got your “It Ain’t Gonna Happen” six months ago or a year ago, or even three months ago and you read it. With the signs there now, we’re radically different than just twelve months ago.

Reread the book. It will speak to you in ways that you didn’t see it that first read. It will amaze you.

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Until next time, goodbye.

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The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

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