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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"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 Radio WAVE Mejanomics, with your host, a Friend of Medjugorje.
I saw a girl today with a t-shirt on, and it said, "I'm allergic in the morning." I'm surprised she's not embarrassed to say something like that, or even wear a shirt like that. Would you want to be married to that? People excuse themselves, and bad behaviors, and the bad positions they're in simply because they don't want to change. And they suffer for it.
We have some of our people out of town right now in the community. And one of them called in and said they saw a billboard up in the north. It says, you don't need to be in the right position to move in the right direction-- pretty profound. You don't need to be in the right position to move in the right direction.
So in the spiritual life, what does that mean? It means you're not in a good position to go in the right direction. Begin doing what is right. This is the basis for Our Lady's messages. If you've noticed it and have talked about this, and you should talk about it a lot, Our Lady says, dear children, dear children, dear children.
But what you'll see probably 3/4 of that time, in the monthly messages specially, dear children, a third word comes up. It's dear children, today. Dear children, today. Dear children, today.
What is that purpose? Why does Our Lady add the word today in that? Because She knows we're on the wrong path. She said that. You are on the wrong path. In other words, you're not in a good position to go in the right direction.
That seems to contradict you don't need to be in the right position to move in the right direction, but not really. Our Lady tells us, dear children, today you live this message. You're on the wrong path. You're not in the right direction. And you're not in a good position. But you don't have to be in a good position with the message.
So She says to us, dear children, today I want you one, two, three these things to do. That immediately changes your direction. You begin that day on a right direction, even though you're in a bad position.
And don't expect this to change everything overnight. You spent years putting yourself in a bad position and your wrong direction. And so I discovered years ago, Our Lady is telling me and you, dear children, today apply these things in your life.
Don't matter what kind of wreck you're in, what kind of mess you're in, how entangled you are, today you just start. Forget what's happened in the past. You just do what I'm telling you at this moment today. And that will get you in the right direction immediately, even though you're in a bad position. Or as the billboard says, you don't need to be in a right position to move in the right direction.
And most everybody in the world is not in the right position, but they can go in the right direction. And that's why the Mother of God is here, to teach us and show us this. This is a positive thing that all people who are not in a right position, which means you're in a negative position, to change it.
So this girl with this t-shirt, "I'm allergic in the morning." She's not going to be happy. She's self-admitting something, that I'm a grouch. I hate mornings. Don't talk to me. No, thank you. I don't want to be around somebody like that.
Many of you know that. Maybe you're that way. But that can change by changing your direction immediately, which results after years and years, because it won't change everything overnight. You have to work at this. You have to build cognition. You have to pray. You have to build yourself a position of right to continue in the right direction.
And isn't that what Lady just told us, March 25, 2017? This time of spring moves you in a new life to a renewal in thought and hearts. Did you catch that?
The billboard said to move you in the right direction. Now I'm telling you Our Lady's saying today do this, because you're in a not a right position to move in the right direction. And She says, this time of spring moves you to a new life-- in other words, moves you, like the billboard says, to a right direction.
But She says in the message, moves you to a new life, to a renewal in your thoughts and your hearts. It's a wrong mentality to think I'm allergic to the mornings. It's a bad thing.
And then Our Lady continues on this, to change your position-- in other words, in your thoughts and your hearts. That's what you've got to change first. You got to today live that message.
And then Our Lady says and continues, therefore, little children, I am with you to help you to say yes to God. See that? That's a right direction. That's changing your wrong position, because it's not right in the way you're living. Say your yes to God and to God's Commandments with resoluteness-- in other words, the solution is very simple.
If you're not in a right position to move in the right direction, you simply say today, resolutely, I am going to live the 10 Commandments, just 10 laws. You don't care what Congress does. We don't have to care what everybody else thinks how it is, and these methods, and all these things. Just bring order to your life. And that covers everything.
And so it's a beautiful thing. And I want to be repetitive with this. You don't need to be in the right position to move in the right direction. And then through Our Lady, this time of spring moves you to a new life, to renewal in your thoughts and hearts. Therefore, little children, I am with you to help you say yes to God and to God's Commandments with resoluteness. Awesome.
See, Our Lady can speak to you through a billboard. We've talked about the billboard campaign coming up. You're going to see a lot of people convert through this program that we're releasing. This is one billboard that's probably about something secular. I don't know what the subject matter was. But immediately, we're supposed to have the message view of everything, the Biblical view of everything, even if it's secular. How will it benefit us?
And so that's part of our read today, because many people are not in the right position to go in a right direction. But you start the direction first. Then your position changes.
This comes from a friend of Medjugorje's, It Ain't Gonna Happen, A Return to Truth. I just wanted to open up the book and read from it. So this begins saying, this is Our Lady's wish, to reawaken in hearts the principles of Christianity that embraces living within the measure as God gives.
With your sacrifices and efforts, working in collaboration with God, the fruit that will result is peace in seeing God meet all your needs. Most homes, and the things in them, and around them are the masters, enslaving those who think they own the home or things, but rather the home or things own them. Do your home and things own you? Do you work for them? Or do they work for you?
Debt makes you work for them. You are their slave. And your home and things are your master. You are constantly seeking money to pay the debt on your house, instead of seeking boards to build it yourself. Instead of being your master, your home, your things, your money, all have a higher purpose, which is to be used as Our Lady explains, January 25th, 2009, for all worldly things are to be a help for you to draw you closer to God the Creator.
Worldly things also include money. How can money be used to draw you and others closer to God? By returning things back to their original intent that God ordained for them when He created them.
Jesus said, you cannot serve two masters. You will be devoted to one and despise the other. Do you realize what was just said? Did you hear it in your heart? Did you grasp the greatness of Jesus' words? You will be devoted to one and despise the other.
Do not think this means you only have one or the other. In fact, many have two masters as opposed to one or the other. Most all people in this age of modernism have both masters, God and mammon. The world's enslavement through the economic material disorder captures hundreds of millions through debt and consumerism. When you convert and become devoted to Jesus, a parallel takes place while you are still entangled to your devotion, being mastered by money, debt, home, mortgage, car loans, etc.
You suddenly realize you cannot free yourself from this god who dominates your life and who you suddenly begin to despise with disgust. Even if you are rich, money and your preoccupation with it dominate you. Not only nonbelievers need conversion, but Christians especially need to convert and wake up to the fact. As a devotee of Christ, you are serving two masters at the same time, by being devoted to one god and despising the other god. Ask yourself as you convert or grow in conversion, what do you begin to despise?
Now do you comprehend the greatness of what the scripture says? Do you hear it in your heart? Many in the world today believe in God, are devoted to Him, but have indentured themselves as the servant of money and mammon. Our Lady's words, Jesus' words, are to free yourself from having two masters.
You must decide who you will serve. Our Lady said, this is a time of decision. March 18th, 1999-- decide, my children. It is the time of decision. It's a time to decide for one master, that being God. March 25th, 1996-- do not let satan attract you through material things. But little children, decide for God who is freedom and love.
Once you realize you have to, with your whole heart, completely become devoted to God, it may take years to undo in your heart what you have begun to despise. It is why are they said to give over to God all you possess, rather than despise it. Get rid of the inordinate love of money and/or things, and come to serve the God you are devoted to.
Something about what we just read, we can recall back to Ivanka's apparition in 1989. I was there with her in her house. Only a few people were there. I was kneeling beside her, and several times, I went annually to her apparition on the June 25 anniversary. That's our one year apparition. So close that I could see her, she's so nervous and excited that even her blouse was beating with her heart. I could see her blouse moving back and forth with the heartbeat, and basically pressed her side.
But she got a message on June 25, 1989, that said, pray because you are in great temptation and danger, because the world and material goods lead you into slavery. satan is active in his plan. I want to help each of you in prayer.
This message struck me profoundly, not just because I was there, but it results even in not thinking about it consciously, going from 1989 to 2010, writing It Ain't Going to Happen, happening what Joan just read, because debt has done this. It was a trick of the devil to enslave you, and most of the world is enslaved.
And so this read proves that, by simple logic, we have two gods, one we love, one we despise. Sometimes we love the real God, and sometimes we love the false god, or back and forth. Our Lady is here to resolutely show us, live the Commandments.
The first, love thy God with all the mind and the heart and your whole being. And so we're living a delusion, and seeing the stock markets climbing and climbing and climbing. Do you think this is going to continue? And that's coming off the heels of the election and a brighter blue sky.
People that buy these stocks know when to get out. It's going to crash. It can't continue to climb. Have you ever seen it do that and never come back down?
Already, right now, we're seeing in the economy things is already making things nervous on Wall Street. The dollar has dropped sharply. There's a huge slowdown in boring in the oil fields, just one industry, because they're paying off the debt.
Now these big industries aren't going to the banks. So the banks are in trouble. They don't have the business there, because they're saying it's consumer confidence. This election is being so good that they're not boring, and they're just paying things down, which makes, in some backwards way, growth weak.
In other words, the banks are in trouble. Your investments are in trouble, and your savings, because it's all tied together. It's all integrated. You can't escape that.
And all the investments you have will crash. You'll lose. You'll gain. That's the nature of it.
You have, right now, an article in Newsmax that says retailers going bankrupt at staggering rates on flood of store closures. It says retailers reported a filing for bankruptcy protection at a disturbing rate that's flirting with recessionary levels. Meanwhile, a steady stream of store closures continues to haunt the battered American retail industry. It's only April, and nine retailers have already filed for bankruptcy since the start of the year, as many as all of last year.
So see, things aren't as good as you think they are. Business Insider explained, 2017 will be the year of retail bankruptcies, according to a bankruptcy lawyer. Retailers are running out of cash and the dominoes are starting to fall.
When you see these things, you see the dominoes starting to fall, you need to get your savings, your funds, your IRA, all these things transferred to something that the bank don't hold, and investment companies don't hold, but that you hold. More than 3,500 stores are expected to close over the next several months, reported Business Insider. Annual retail bankruptcies peaked at a total of 20 in 2008. The US could hit that dismal milestone by September if the rate is sustained. The pace of stores closing this year is already ahead of 2008.
And we know what the crash was then. The rapid descent of so many retailers has left shopping malls with hundreds of slots to fill. And the pain could be just the beginning. More than 10% of US retail space, or nearly 1 billion square feet, may need to be closed, converted to other uses, or renegotiated for lower rent in coming years, according to data provided to Bloomberg by CoStar group.
With retail rents on the rise, due to record low vacancies, more stores going dark is inevitable. And the list of those are amazing. You have 1,000 Payless stores going under, RadioShack, 552, The Limited, 250, Family Christian, the numbers just go on. Wet Seal, Crocs, J.C. Penney's, American Apparel, K-Mart, H H Gregg. I've just heard about this yesterday. I was surprised at that. Eughty-eight of their stores are going under. Staples, CVS. CVS? They're all over the place, every neighborhood. Macy's, yes, Sears, Gander Mountain, and that's just the major ones.
So we see all these things the way we've lived that puts us not the right position, and therefore, we're not in the right direction. And so Our Lady's here about your soul being in the right position. And She tells us, for renewal, for a new life, to move into this, in your thoughts, in your heart, is just say yes to God today. I'm resolutely going to live the Commandments.
And He works it out. Yes, you've got to make moves. Did you know the IRA, you could take that out of your investments now, put it in silver and gold and keep that at home? That's why we designed the Miraculous Medal Medjugorje Round, the one ounce piece, the number one specialty round in the world right now, as far as we know. And a lot of people have moved in that position, not necessary to hoard their money, but to preserve it, and do their savings and their investments in silver.
And I'm not saying and misleading. I don't want to mislead anybody. It's not to be making investment. It's to preserve, because it's intrinsically valuable. It can't go to nothing like investments can or like your IRA can. So this is a new thing that the government's allowing now with IRA accounts and other things, that you can actually buy physical silver and take it and keep it in your possession at home, safe deposit box, or wherever you want to hold it. This was a new development in the last year or so. And it's a good move.
The thing about the Miraculous Medal Medjugorje Round is for conversion, change incentive for everything you have toward God and sanctify your savings, that when it's dispensed, people are holding the Miraculous Medal. That was the plan. And it's worked for many people.
It has not worked for everybody, because they bought maybe under the wrong pretext, thinking look out for it to go up. You don't buy for that purpose. And actually, you don't even buy it. You're just exchanging your dollars for silver, and a little bit over spot.
Why is this important? Because it's part of the plan. Jesus said, when you see the storm clouds in the sky, you know a storm's coming. You see all these bankruptcies. You see it. But everything looks good. It gives a good appearance, because everybody wants to keep the lie continuing. They wanted to keep it going. But it's not going to be that way.
So everything's affected by everything in the culture. Everything goes in that direction of what mammon has set up. And you need to break loose from that system. You need to get in a right position by first going in the right direction. So living the Commandments begins this path for you.
What a Friend of Medjugorje is saying about the Miraculous Medal Medjugorje Round, it's important to understand it in its proper context. If you were to look at it in the context of manna, for example, God gave the Israelites manna, but told them not to hoard it in their tents. And some people did do that. And it rotted overnight. God was going to provide for their needs every day.
So, what a Friend of Medjugorje is telling you that this is not an investment, but it is done for a spiritual purpose. And those who have done this with the purest of intentions have felt the peace in their hearts of knowing that they have done a holy action. And so if you understand Medjugorje and what Our Lady is doing in Medjugorje, things like the Miraculous Medal Medjugorje Round make perfect sense to you.
Today is a very significant day, not only because it's Holy Thursday, April 13, but it's also the day that we released a very important writing from a Friend of Medjugorje about Our Lady's April 2, 2017, message given through Mirjana. It's titled Medjugorje, The Last Stand, and you can go to the home page of medjugorje.com right now, mej.com, and you can click on that, or you can find it on the left hand menu under Medjugorje Headlines.
But this is an important writing for the whole Medjugorje world, because it defines what Medjugorje is without argument, without convincing, without trying to reason. It just simply states the facts. And it states it very clearly in the way that Our Lady has revealed through the course of Her apparitions. So be sure to pray before you read it. And again, you can find that on mej.com.
So you begin today with all of these thoughts. You change things today by applying the messages, applying a resolute decision to live the Commandments. And that will put you in a direction that things will fall into place by their own power.
This time of spring moves you to a new life, to a renewal in your thoughts and hearts. So you don't need to be in the right position to move in the right direction. You just follow Our Lady. You just do as She says. And you'll see that what She says, this is the time of grace. I am calling all of you to open your hearts to God's mercy and to begin a new life through prayer, penance, and a decision for holiness. We wish you Our Lady. We love you. 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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