IT MEANS POWER

This morning I woke up and I was in the Spirit. Suddenly, I saw in the Spirit as though I was in the ground and I came bursting up, resurrecting up out of the ground. I thought, "What does this mean?" Immediately an answer came back, "It means what Therese Cooper said it means: it means POWER".

(Yesterday I told Therese more details about the dream in which I was working in a garden field and how the person came back to life and I had opened the mound they were buried in and they came out. More details included people in the dream, such as Silvana and Antonio and Anthony and Therese and others here at OJP. The person in the mound in the dream was a man, but I don't know who he is. In the dream I only knew that he was a part of OJP and that as his body was changing - getting well and getting stronger and stronger until death couldn't hold him - that the bodies of all of us at OJP were the same. I said to her after relating the dream, "I don't know what it means." She replied,"it means power".)

The Father wants a relationship with you like He had with Abraham

I woke up this morning (after dreaming that we were being resurrected - I opened a mound that was a grave to move it since it was in the midst of a garden field where I was working, and the person inside, who was with OJP, was alive) thinking about Lowell (a man who is gifted from the Holy Spirit with wisdom about numbers) saying that the number 11 is representative of Abraham. Since this is so, then the number 9/11 is the Father bringing man - fruitful man - to a relationship with Him. To America first - FREEDOM - and also to the whole world.

This fits perfectly into what the Holy Spirit has shown us. Mankind coming to nine, to fruit, has been an ongoing theme from Him. And the message, "The Father wants a relationship with you like He had with Abraham" is one that He has shown me personally to share with others, over and over.

In fact, recently the Father said something of this while I was talking to a friend about the Father and doing His will and living for Him. (Which is the only way to live!) The angels go wherever the Father goes, or wherever the Father sends them, and their lives are full as they live for others and for the will of God. They know Him, they love Him, and they are happy in what they are doing. And how we are the same: our lives are to revolve totally around the Father and what He is doing and what He wants us to do to reach others, and to teach others to know Him. Whether we have a family or not makes no difference when it comes to knowing the Father. Abraham had a wife and a household and I am sure he was very busy, but he was friends with the Father. The same is true for us: knowing Him is what matters. What is He thinking? What does He want us to do? What is happening in the world and in the Spirit around us? These are the questions on which we lay a foundation of relationship and service to Jesus our Savior and our friend.

As I was talking to this friend, we stepped outside. When we did, it was as though the Father filled the whole sky, as though the throne room opened and now our sky was part of the throne room, in the presence of the Father. My friend also felt His presence. He said, "Jesus is here". I walked home in the presence of the Father and He spoke. He said, "I am the God who called Abraham".

What an honor. What exciting times, to be called to come to the Creator, to the God of history, to the Father who sent His Son to die for us, to friendship with Abraham's God. Yes, there is terrible war in the spirit. The enemy, who is cruel, is bent on destroying many and the world is being prepared for deception of great depth, but the Father is in control. On a personal level, He wants each of us to come to friendship with Him. This means hearing His voice, following His Spirit, depth with Jesus, and answers to the problems in our own lives. On a wider scale, this means wisdom as to what the Father is doing in the world, leaving our lives that center around ourselves and what is happening to us, guaranteed opposition from Satan who is the enemy of our great Friend and of the whole world, and a call to action, so our wallet and our time match what is on our lips and in our heart. Our lives are eternal. Our relationship with God is real. Eternity starts now. What difference does it make to us whether we are in heaven, in service to Him, or still on earth? The angels don't care and nor should we. To those who seek the Father, to those who leave self for Him, He will send the Holy Spirit to pour over them, to lift them up to do His will, and He will draw near so their relationship with Him will deepen and develop over time. Thank you, Father. Nothing is more fulfilling, nothing can be better, than our relationship with You.

The power comes from Jesus

This morning when I woke up I saw Jesus right by me so I reached out to Him in the spirit and I put my arms around Him. I said, "Jesus, help me today to do what will please the Father. Help me to do something to help Him." As Jesus put His arms around me, I suddenly thought, "Oh, the Holy Spirit promised that power is coming. He will help me to do the Father's will".

Suddenly, I saw an electrical cord. It looked like a Christmas electrical cord that can be attached to another so the lights run end to end. Then I saw Jesus, and He was the Master Cord. I could plug myself into Him and He would be the power source that I was relying on.

What a wonderful analogy from Jesus. We don't need to rely on ourselves, on our own power. He is here, ready to help us when we need Him. Thank you Jesus.

Thanksgiving message

The first thing I want to comment about was the fact that I saw in the Spirit and I saw a tree (like our cottonwoods) and it had white Christmas lights on it as ours do. Suddenly I saw the lights turned on. The tree glowed with white light and I felt power go out and the enemy pushed back. Then on Thanksgiving Day the Father spoke of that vision. He said that the lights on the tree represent power. Power from the Holy Spirit.

So then the Holy Spirit asked the question: What would power mean to you personally? I knew He meant this question to each of us. To Nikki, power will mean that she never withdraws. To Char it will be the ability to carry out what He shows: to blog, to organize, to act. To Felicia it will be the power to stand firm in the face of opposition. To OJP power will be the ability to give more to Jesus worldwide, through pictures, through obedience etc. So the promise of power is accompanied with the desire of the Holy Spirit that we submit to Him - move towards Him in areas of weakness in our life, so He can direct His power as He sees we need individually, for the greater purpose of power for OJP - power for Jesus. Wonderful promise. Yes, Holy Spirit.

The second thing the Father said to me was about Thanksgiving itself. The Father spoke of gratitude and thanksgiving. We all owe Jesus an enormous debt that we can never fully repay. His sacrifice was too deep. But out of love, we can try. Then the Father said, "Would they be thankful for what I asked them to be thankful for? Would they dedicate themselves to be thankful to what I would ask them to be thankful for?" Would you? Whatever the Father asks you to be thankful about, will you?

This is what the Father asks you to be thankful for this year: be thankful for Therese Cooper. Take a moment before the Father and consider her. Therese gives her all to OJP - all to Jesus. Be thankful for all she does. She supports Char and Silvana as they serve the Father, as they serve OJP, leading as He leads them. So take this time, the Father says, and set your heart for gratitude, and then follow your gratitude with action. Do everything you can to support Therese, in any way you can, this year, from this Thanksgiving Day.

So that is the message that the Father gave me for you on Thanksgiving Day. God bless you all. If you set your heart to please the Father in this way, power will come to you and the Father will be pleased. May Jesus be lifted high before all until the day He returns to bring the final victory over our mortal enemy whose middle name is brutality. Even so, come Lord Jesus.

Warnings

I dreamt that Jordan and I were on a bike together. We were on our way home, and passed through the middle of a park. I was pedaling on the bicycle and Jordan was behind me. On the right side of the park was a cemetery with crosses and gravestones.

On the left were some woods. There were many people seated on blankets, each having a picnic. We passed through the middle of the park. As we neared the end, the road we were on narrowed to a path. It swung towards the right and skirted by the edge of the cemetery. At the end, it was so narrow that you had to go on the path in single file.

As we approached the final path home, we came to a steep cliff which brought an abrupt end to the park, The path went by the right side of the cliff to reach our home. Jordan and I rode up to the edge of the cliff and swung around to look over. Down below we could see Satan, standing on a ledge, waiting for people to fall over. Twice we drove up to the edge and both times we swung our bike around, parallel to the edge, and looked down.

end of dream

I told Silvana about the dream and she described it perfectly. She drew a sketch of the dream, and she was accurate in every detail including many things that I had not yet mentioned. Then, she spoke of what the things in the dream symbolized. The cemetery represents the reality of death. She said that "home" represents heaven. The path is narrow to arrive there. She said that the picnickers on the blankets are the oblivious, and among them is the church. The cliff lies ahead, the cemetery is filling, yet they remain oblivious. She went on to say that Jordan and I were swinging by the cliff to point it out to the people.

After I woke up, I saw a hand sweep through the picnickers and many of them were swept off the cliff. The Father is giving a warning. The times are serious and they will get more so.

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11-14-07 Today I saw Satan talking to the strongman of China. They were sitting together (they were sort of squatting down) and plotting. I didn't know what to say to the Father, except to ask Him to come against their plans. The strongman of China was dressed entirely in armor and he had many weapons. The armor covered him from head to toe. The armor looked like a robe that an ancient Chinese man might wear. It looked like off white cloth but I knew it was armor. He wore a helmet that covered his whole head. The cloth (armor) was in horizontal rows, and in each row he had many different weapons.

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The Holy Spirit said that He will come to anyone who seeks Him, anyone who does His will. All the power we need to do His will is with Him.

"The way things are right now in the spirit"

On Sunday, October 27, 2007, Silvana and I were in her studio. Silvana was in the Spirit and we were looking at a map of the world that is on the wall in there and she spoke of a mystery, and then she said that an unexpected nation would do something, but we did not see what it is that they will do. We look forward to the Holy Spirit revealing more about this as we know He will.

As we looked at the map, suddenly I saw by the Holy Spirit, as though I were looking at a frozen moment in time. I saw the world and it was as though Satan's face was at the right side of Russia looking towards North America. (towards Alaska) Facing Satan (as though a face in the west coast of Alaska) was the Holy Spirit. Behind the Holy Spirit was the USA and Canada. Behind Satan was Russia and China. So Satan and his forces seemed to be facing the Holy Spirit and His forces. It was almost west versus east. Time seemed frozen momentarily, as though a great battle was about to commence.

Then my eye fell on the continents below. I saw South America, Africa, and Australia and the area just above Australia. As I looked, I saw by the Holy Spirit, as though each place had been prepared. We mentioned in an earlier blog how we have been sending pictures to South America. In one day recently we sent 48 packets of pictures of Jesus to Argentina, plus packets to other nations of the world. As you know, we have been sending many pictures of Jesus to Africa, especially to Rwanda. It was as though the Holy Spirit was showing that those two continents are prepared. They are prepared to stand and pray because Jesus is there and He will lead them to support the Holy Spirit, while the battle is being fought out by the nations directly involved. So they are prepared to stand behind the USA and pray. My eye turned to Australia and Indonesia and the Holy Spirit showed me that they are also prepared. He said that the tsunami was a preparation for this coming battle because it brought a blow to Satan's forces there, to the many, many Muslim extremists within Indonesia. Then He showed me a recent event in Australia, and that was the death of Australian Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, who was deeply loved and admired in Australia, and all over the world. When Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray (and the Holy Spirit showed the involvement of Satan at the time. It was a time of warning in the Spirit about accidents; that Satan will cause harm and death through accidents and Jesus warned us to be very, very careful) Australians took the blow personally and they have not yet responded. Several stingrays were killed by Australians, but they realize that this could never be an appropriate response to what they feel, nor to the death of a human being. So, the Holy Spirit showed them as though they are primed to act, ready to respond to Him, to fight back against what is being done to Steve, to the West, to humanity.

In the background, in the tail of the two forces, I saw Europe. Lucifer will try to hit Europe as hard as possible to keep her from coming to the aid of the USA. Europe heart may be to come to the aid of the USA but it will face deception and many attacks from within and without.

The end of the war between Satan and the Holy Spirit will be the capture of Satan and the return of Jesus. The Hope of Mankind will come to the earth. So, this is what I saw and the Holy Spirit said of it, "the way things are right now in the spirit". I don't want to jump to any conclusions, nor to guess what this all means. It is easy to be mistaken about what the Holy Spirit means by what He shows, as anyone knows who reads the Holy Scriptures. Look and see what the Holy Spirit is showing and ask Him about it. It will come, the war will commence, and afterwards we will look back and see that what was shown was perfectly accurate.

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Be prepared to act. Recently, I have seen many, many angels, and always as I see them, their hands are busy. I had a dream in which the hands of the people with OJP were busy. We all should be acting, as the Holy Spirit leads us. Put oil on the corners of your property, the corners of your house, saying ALL FOR JESUS, IN JESUS' NAME and then be prepared to give pictures, to support the pictures of Jesus, to act as the Holy Spirit leads. Today I saw the angels and their hands were still but in their hands they held tamborines.

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Yesterday, I saw a great sword. First I saw a sword as though it came from us (from OJP) and it was pointed towards the enemy. Then, as I looked, another sword came up behind it and took its place. The second sword was the size of the whole world and was the sword of the Father. It was aimed directly at Satan and it was close to him and Satan's underbelly was exposed. Then I heard a voice say to Satan, "Your end is near".

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Pray for OJP and support us if you can. We face many obstacles as we try to go forward in Jesus' name. Our main obstacle right now in OJP in the USA and OJP in Rwanda is financial. We have many bills and printing and mailing costs. We also have rising costs in Rwanda as the school prepares to open on January 11, 2008. The Father said today that He wants people to help us.

The Holy Spirit was singing

Yesterday Therese and Anthony and Nikki and I went to clean a house for a local landlord so we could earn the money to give our printer a down payment on the Supertract. In fact, we agreed to do the job for the price of the down payment. While we were there cleaning, I heard the Holy Spirit singing. Suddenly, I saw into the throne room and the Holy Spirit sang a song, and then another. I knew the songs, but had not heard them for years, when we sang them at church when was a child.

The first song He sang said, "Give of your strength to the Master. Give of the strength of your youth..." The first song really was about willingness to work for Jesus' sake. The second song was about the Supertract. Here are the words I heard Him sing:

We’ve a story to tell to the nations,
That shall turn their hearts to the right,
A story of truth and mercy,A story of peace and light,
A story of peace and light.

For the darkness shall turn to dawning,
And the dawning to noonday bright;
And Christ’s great kingdom shall come on earth,
The kingdom of love and light.

We have been so opposed lately, as the enemy comes against us because of Jesus, because of the Supertract. This good news, this story (Jesus is the story!) Satan does not want to get out. The war against evil, the war against Satan, continues to rage around us all. What can we do for Jesus? What can we do to help? We have a story to tell to the nations. Help us Holy Spirit, to spread this story, far and wide, in Jesus' name.

Standing for the SuperTract

I was standing in the Spirit at the end of September and twice I saw the enemy near where we are at OJP. Both times, in the Spirit, I jumped over a little table to my left to lunge at him. The second time it happened, I saw more in the spirit. I saw a row of desks in the shape of a square in front of us. The little table I jumped over was part of a square of tables. The Father was sitting to my right and He and I and where we sat formed the front of the square. Then there were a row of tables on each side of us and a row on the back, directly across from us. Together, we and the individual tables (they looked like school desks) seemed to form a larger table. The lunging at the enemy was really the Holy Spirit, pushing him back from the people at the desks. After the enemy was pushed back, then each person at a desk had a walk-space behind them so they could get up and move around freely. It is a time to serve the Father together and to learn. The Holy Spirit is eager to teach us to follow Him better. He moves like the wind. How quickly can we move to follow Him? To serve the Holy Spirit, you must be able to run.

There has been intense warfare in the spirit lately. I woke in the night last night and the enemy and I were standing at the top of a precipice at the top of the world. (over the world) We had something in both our hands and we were wrestling over it, both trying to take it from the other. It was flat and square, shaped like our paper cutter that we use to cut the tracts and trim some pictures of Jesus. What I was seeing represents the fight over the SuperTracts.

We got a quote from our printers for the SuperTract, which is the picture of Jesus, plus WHERE LIFE BEGINS and JESUS IS ALIVE AND KNOWS YOUR NAME, printed in black and white. Here are the prices we received for front and back printing:

5,000 $495.00
10,000 $720.00
50,000 $1770.00

Will you ask Jesus with us for the money to make and send these Supertracts into all the world? The enemy is opposing. Will you help us go forward in Jesus' name?

Jesus, please help us to move forward to all the world with your picture and with these writings from the Holy Spirit. Do not let the enemy interfere but help us to send out these truths, so people can come to you, and hear your voice and get to know you as they were created to do. Bless all who join you in this endeavor. Let the Holy Spirit move, and your people respond.