Today Felicia called us to ask us to pray for the child of a friend of hers, and for the child of her friend's brother. (Seven month old Ian has Croup, and the ten month old boy has pneumonia.) She asked me to call Jordan and Therese and Nikki so they could also pray for the two babies. After I got off the phone with Felicia, but before I called next door (we live in two houses, side by side, and share a driveway, and we have fenced our back yards together), I saw the Father. He was standing above the earth waiting for us to bring our prayers to Him about the children. It was the same as I saw in the vision yesterday. There is so much happening in the world. There is so much to pray about, and people to pray for, and He is waiting and willing to answer us concerning everything we bring to Him.

Today Silvana was talking about gifts from the Holy Spirit. She said, "Gifts are given, but without Jesus, they make no sense, and they are no good. Gifts are given, first of all to be taken to Him." She is so right. Gifts are given from a loving Holy Spirit to be used, for the sake of others, and just as we bring the people of the world to the Father, so also that which we see by our gift, needs to be brought first of all to Jesus. In our relationship with Him, we will see what He shows us, then as we wait on Him, He will give us wisdom as to what to do with what we see.

The Holy Spirit told me about a month ago that some people have received the gifts of the Holy Spirit and they rejoiced in the fact that He gave gifts, and they loved the gifts more than they loved the One who gave the gifts, who is Jesus. Their interest in charismatic gifts was greater than their interest in Jesus Himself. This leads to deception. Naturally, Satan, who dwells in the spiritual realm, comes to interfere and deceive. The only way to be safe with what is seen and heard from the spiritual realm, is by knowing the truth about what you see or hear from Jesus. Jesus is the Head of the Church. He is the True Vine and we are only Branches. If we lose touch with Him, by not hearing Him, then we lose our safety. Then, though gifts flourish, deception will flourish as well. Gifts are given freely from a generous God, who loves the world, and gave the gifts, and wants us to use our gifts to help others, but we must not lose our connection with Jesus, our Saviour, the Head of us (the church) and our Bridegroom. Rather, says the Holy Spirit, receive His gifts, and use them well, in correlation with Jesus and what Jesus is doing and saying to you.

Felicia Nikki Lydia and Jordan praying for Brother Joseph and the Believers Ministry in Ghana.  

Today I was waiting on the Father and I saw a vision. It looked as though we (OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES, and all who are with us in Jesus) were up on the very tiptop of the world. The Father was above us, surrounding the earth, and leaning in to listen to us. Our hands were full, as we made the pictures, and as prayed for people and brought them to the Father in the Spirit, with their needs and their lives. In the vision, and in real life, a person will come to our attention and we will immediately take them to the Father together, and then He answers, and helps them. In the vision, He was moving as fast as we could bring people and problems to Him, so we had to move like lightening to keep up with Him. May we move with the swiftness of the Holy Spirit up to the very day that our Bridegroom comes to claim us!

Last night Therese was telling me about going to the Smith's Grocery Store in a town nearby. She said that a week ago she was in the store with Lydia, the four year old child of our sister in Jesus, Felicia. At that time, she overheard a woman say that she had a migraine headache. Well, this woman is someone to whom we have given pictures of Jesus, who gives the pictures to her boyfriend who is an ambulance driver, and he shares them with people he meets through his work. (Which is wonderful indeed!) So, Therese asked four year old Lydia to go pray for her headache, because Lydia is a lot like Jordan Cooper, with dreams from the Holy Spirit, and she prays for people. Lydia was shy, so she stayed by Therese and asked Jesus to heal the woman's headache. Therese told the woman that Lydia had asked Jesus to heal her. Then, last night, a week later, the woman came up to Therese and told her that about ten minutes after Therese and Lydia left, that suddenly her head got really warm on the top and then her headache went away! (Thank you, kind Jesus!)

So, then the woman said to Therese, "Now I am asking Jesus to help me stop smoking". By the Holy Spirit, we got to participate in helping a person turn towards Jesus for help - who will help her with joy and love! And as she starts to talk to Jesus, she will hear from Him, with words to her spirit, and by the Holy Spirit in many ways, as Jesus makes Himself known to those who are seeking Him, in a myriad of ways, just as He did with Abraham, and wants to do with each of us now. How lovely on the mountains are the feet of them who bring good news. And Jesus IS good news!

Char Tierney
OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES