Please pray for Jordan Cooper. Last night he was jumping on the trampoline with his brother and cousin and he broke his arm. He had to have surgery to put the bone back together, but he is coming home today. Although he was in a lot of pain at the hospital, he prayed for a baby and for a man who was admitted to the hospital. Jesus, please help Jordan to recover quickly. Also, please pray for Barbara, who is suffering with heart problems.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
I wanted to write a little more about what the Holy Spirit was showing me after the Father said, "MY WILL BE DONE".
The Holy Spirit used Kenneth Ezra as an example. He said that Kenneth DID the Father's will. Kenneth made sure that the Father's will was accomplished. First, he said he would take the pictures to Rwanda himself. He patiently pursued the package that was supposed to take 3-5 days, but took 15. He talked to a supervisor at the Post Office, he had them show him around and he gave his phone number to another postal employee. He sought after (and worried about and prayed for) that package until it was safe in his hands. Upon agreeing to go, he immediately got sick, with two different things, and was in the hospital, as he were attacked in his body by Satan. He got hit by a car the day before he left for Rwanda. Political tensions were high between Rwanda and Uganda, and there was distrust from one to the other, and he could have suffered serious harm just crossing the border. Off he went, trusting the Father.
He got the pictures of Jesus into the hands of the Rwandans, just what the Father wanted to happen. He showed them THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. The Father's will was done on earth. That is what He is trying to show us. DO my will.
Kenneth was instrumental in getting THE PASSION to be shown to the Rwandans. The Father said that for those who have suffered, seeing murder and bloodshed, to see the suffering of Jesus, will brings healing to their spirit. The image of suffering that was done by Jesus for their sakes, will bring healing to that deep, deep wound that is in the spirit of the Rwandese people. Jesus was beaten, and then crucified, for our sakes. He didn't have to be up there. No one would ever do it for nothing. It was incredibly painful. But he wanted us to come back. He missed us, He loves us. He wanted the Father to be reunited with us, and be able to go and talk with people, just as He did with His friend, Adam. So, as their spirits are being healed, and balm applied by the Holy Spirit by what they see, doors are opening for them to talk to the Father, to enter His presence. The effect of having the picture of Jesus, after seeing the film, is deep and powerful. When they look in His face in the picture, they feel. Their spirit feels what they felt as they watched the movie. Their spirit feels His presence. What balm, what peace, what hope, Jesus brings. We need Him more than anything on earth. When we rest in His presence, or look in His face and feel Him looking back as you so often do as you look at His picture, taken from the Shroud, your spirit is comforted and strengthened.
There are only a few of us here in New Mexico at OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES, and because there are so few to make the pictures, to send the pictures, we work extra hard, as hard as we can, to carry out the Father's will. Silvana used a poker term the other day to describe our lives and what we do: we are ALL-IN for Jesus. All-in lays everything on the line. It is win the hand, or you are out of the game. We live for Jesus with all we have, as Satan opposes everything we do. Satan opposes, the Father rescues and leads us forward. There is great travail in the world and there is no better place to be than in the will of the Father, seeing that His will (for He is the One of great love - it was His Son He offered to the world to crucify) is done. And we pray for every one who joins us, who sees Jesus' will and acts. God bless all who act with the presence of Jesus, closer and closer.
The Holy Spirit used Kenneth Ezra as an example. He said that Kenneth DID the Father's will. Kenneth made sure that the Father's will was accomplished. First, he said he would take the pictures to Rwanda himself. He patiently pursued the package that was supposed to take 3-5 days, but took 15. He talked to a supervisor at the Post Office, he had them show him around and he gave his phone number to another postal employee. He sought after (and worried about and prayed for) that package until it was safe in his hands. Upon agreeing to go, he immediately got sick, with two different things, and was in the hospital, as he were attacked in his body by Satan. He got hit by a car the day before he left for Rwanda. Political tensions were high between Rwanda and Uganda, and there was distrust from one to the other, and he could have suffered serious harm just crossing the border. Off he went, trusting the Father.
He got the pictures of Jesus into the hands of the Rwandans, just what the Father wanted to happen. He showed them THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. The Father's will was done on earth. That is what He is trying to show us. DO my will.
Kenneth was instrumental in getting THE PASSION to be shown to the Rwandans. The Father said that for those who have suffered, seeing murder and bloodshed, to see the suffering of Jesus, will brings healing to their spirit. The image of suffering that was done by Jesus for their sakes, will bring healing to that deep, deep wound that is in the spirit of the Rwandese people. Jesus was beaten, and then crucified, for our sakes. He didn't have to be up there. No one would ever do it for nothing. It was incredibly painful. But he wanted us to come back. He missed us, He loves us. He wanted the Father to be reunited with us, and be able to go and talk with people, just as He did with His friend, Adam. So, as their spirits are being healed, and balm applied by the Holy Spirit by what they see, doors are opening for them to talk to the Father, to enter His presence. The effect of having the picture of Jesus, after seeing the film, is deep and powerful. When they look in His face in the picture, they feel. Their spirit feels what they felt as they watched the movie. Their spirit feels His presence. What balm, what peace, what hope, Jesus brings. We need Him more than anything on earth. When we rest in His presence, or look in His face and feel Him looking back as you so often do as you look at His picture, taken from the Shroud, your spirit is comforted and strengthened.
There are only a few of us here in New Mexico at OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES, and because there are so few to make the pictures, to send the pictures, we work extra hard, as hard as we can, to carry out the Father's will. Silvana used a poker term the other day to describe our lives and what we do: we are ALL-IN for Jesus. All-in lays everything on the line. It is win the hand, or you are out of the game. We live for Jesus with all we have, as Satan opposes everything we do. Satan opposes, the Father rescues and leads us forward. There is great travail in the world and there is no better place to be than in the will of the Father, seeing that His will (for He is the One of great love - it was His Son He offered to the world to crucify) is done. And we pray for every one who joins us, who sees Jesus' will and acts. God bless all who act with the presence of Jesus, closer and closer.
Monday, May 29, 2006
MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGE
THE WORLD IS IN TRAVAIL
Because the world is in travail, we must know the Father well enough to hear His voice. Then we can see the earth and all the goings on of man through His eyes. There is a battle raging all around us. Sometimes we see the effects in the physical realm, and sometimes in the spiritual realm. If you have put on the mind of Jesus, then you can see what is beyond the veil. That means that you see what He sees and He shows the significance of everything, what His purpose is, and how to keep going forward. Forward into the darkness of this war.
My hope is that any who love Jesus as a Bride to a Bridegroom, HEAR HIS VOICE. Nothing else will do. His voice can be understood by any language any culture, as long as man has a spirit within him. "My sheep hear My voice, and know Me". He wants you to hear what He is saying and know what He is doing about the terror and evil all around the world. And He wants us all to help Him.
I am appealing to you today, to consider the Father's will. As evil reveals itself through murder, and tries to destroy everything and everyone, what is the Father doing about it? What does He want us who love Him to do? Well, that is an easy question to answer. It is to lift up Jesus as the light in the darkness. We do that because He first loved us and gave Himself to us.
There is a tool that the world became aware of a short time ago. It is the film, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. When this film was revealed, the longed for revival began. People weeping out loud in the theaters, convicted of their selfishness, which is the beginning of all sin. A murderer turned himself over to the police, confessing his murder. Feuds between neighbors stopped. Jews came to the cross, and realized their Messiah. Now the Father has turned the minds of the whole world to Jesus, and the ripples are widening. Couple the PASSION with the free pictures of Jesus, and you have a powerful tool with global impact, with angels on our side helping to drive away the enemy and offer the blood of love from our Bridegroom, freely given. There is the Hope of all the world: Jesus.
Please show the film to any the Father would ask of you; to any you can. Request pictures to give to those both near and far. The Father knows the way in the dark, to those who are suicidal, desperate, lonely and with no hope for the future. He IS the future and by His power there will be victory in the end.
Look for a good price on dvd's of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, such as at Wal-mart, Sam's Club, or on E-bay. What He is asking can be done with maximum impact for Him, and is such a small thing on our side to do. Pass out pictures, show a film. Big deal. But it really IS a big deal to Him, and revival will and is coming through it.
The film and the pictures are seeds. There is evidence with THE PASSION film, and there is evidence with the picture from the Shroud. This evidence, of repentance, of healing, of restoration to Jesus, which have come through the film and the pictures show the presence of the Father. There is fruit from the seeds, from this tool that the Father is entrusting into the hands of those who love Him. The fruit now is a beginning and the fruit that is coming is a greater and greater harvest for Jesus, our Bridegroom.
Father, may all who seek You, find You. And may all who find You, love You above everything, above themselves. And may they bear fruit and bring the lost into Your arms. In Jesus' name, thank You, Father, we love You. May we make you glad to call us YOURS.
Silvana Lupetti
Prophet of the Father in the United States
OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES
May 29th, 2006
Char Tierney: Yesterday the Father said to me, "On earth, My Will Be Done". I saw that He meant, "My will be accomplished." The angels do the will of the Father. Whatever He tells them to do, they accomplish. This is what He wants from us: to see what He wants and then, by our actions, for it to be done. This is the task that He lays before us, as we live on this earth awaiting the arrival of our Bridegroom, His Son. He wants us to show the film THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, and to give out the pictures of Jesus, all over the world, as described by Silvana above.
Ask Him where you fit in, and what you can do, to help in accomplishing His will for this earth. Remember, for today is Memorial Day, that Jesus gave everything, even His life, in accomplishing the will of the Father, and remember the soldiers over time who have given everything in the struggles on earth against evil, and take your stand now, to act and to carry out the will of the Father, here on earth.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
PACKAGES MAILED: NEW RWANDA PAGE
We posted a new Rwanda page on our website wih links to all that the Father has been saying, and the latest developments in sending pictures to that nation. http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/ocean/Rwanda/R.html
Thanks to Robert, Mary, Emily, and Anthony, we sent six packages of the packages of pictures of Jesus this week: to Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, the prison chaplain, Raton, NM, and to the woman who will be a counselor at a Franklin Graham crusade. Thank you, Father, and God bless each person who gets a package of pictures. Be with them Father as they pass them out. Open doors for the movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST that we included in the packages,so that many, many people can see the gospel of what Jesus die for us.
Thanks to Robert, Mary, Emily, and Anthony, we sent six packages of the packages of pictures of Jesus this week: to Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, the prison chaplain, Raton, NM, and to the woman who will be a counselor at a Franklin Graham crusade. Thank you, Father, and God bless each person who gets a package of pictures. Be with them Father as they pass them out. Open doors for the movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST that we included in the packages,so that many, many people can see the gospel of what Jesus die for us.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Doors opened - packages of Jesus' pictures prepared
The Father has opened many doors for us to send packages of Jesus all over the world, especially into Rwanda and the surrounding area where Rwandan Refugees fled during the horrific genocide of 1994. We are getting together 14 packages to mail out this week and next week: (We have six finished, one more we expect to finish today, and the other seven we will finish next week.)
PACKAGES READY TO GO:
1. Raton, New Mexico, USA - this is the town we visited in the RV last year when the Father showed the two roads: we are sending 2000 pictures of Jesus and 10 dvds THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name" in English and Spanish.
2. Prison Chaplain in West Virginia, USA - 1300 pictures of Jesus, "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
3. Kenneth Ezra in Uganda - 5000 pictures of Jesus plus THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Swahili copies of "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
4. Linda: Councilor at an upcoming Franklin Graham (Billy Graham's son) crusade: 2000 pictures of Jesus, "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
5. Brother Joseph in Ghana - Hooked on Phonics and Hooked on Math for their children who are not in school, 230 pictures of Jesus, Ewe (African language spoken in Ghana, Benin, and Togo) "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
6. 73 year old Marjorie in New Mexico who came across a copy of JESUS IS ALIVE AND KNOWS YOUR NAME and read it and wants to share it with many others. We sent her copies of the writing (tract form) and 250 pictures of Jesus.
PACKAGE TO BE READY TODAY:
7. Pastor Jean in Rwanda: he travels around in Rwanda and in neighboring Congo. 5000 pictures of Jesus, 10 PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Kinyarwandan and Swahili tracts: JESUS IS ALIVE. Pastor Jean is also translating JESUS IS ALIVE into French, which is widely spoken in the area.
PACKAGES TO PREPARE NEXT WEEK
8. Brother Arakelian in Armenia. 5000 pictures of Jesus. 10 THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Armenia is the site of the first genocide in the 20th century. 1.5 million people were murdered. It was during WWI and it was widely ignored by the world, and is barely acknowledged to this day. God bless Armenia, our brothers and sisters who have suffered so greatly.
9. Brother Nelson in Pakistan: 5000 pictures of Jesus. 8x10 one color pictures of Jesus with Urdu writing on the back. I am hoping that Brother Nelson can send me the entire JESUS IS ALIVE translation in Urdu so I can put it on the back of each 8x10 picture.
10. Rwanda: the head of an organization which is over schools in Rwanda. 5000 pictures of Jesus and 10 THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Kinyarwandan tracts.
11. Tanzania: 500 pictures of Jesus and Swahili tracts, plus THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.
12. Bulgaria: 500 pictures of Jesus and English JESUS IS ALIVE, plus THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.
13. Botswana: African pastor in Botswana: 2000 pictures of Jesus, Swahili tracts and THE PASSION.
14. Marie-Christine: 1000 pictures of Jesus, Swahili tracts. Marie-Christine is a Rwandan refugee living in London, England, who has contacts with other refugees. She is a survivor of the 1994 genocide. She and her (then) three year old daughter were able to escape to England after being rejected by four other nations.
MORE PACKAGES WE WILL SEND
- a request from Uzbekistan for more pictures. We want to send him 2500 to share with others in his nation. What an opportunity for Jesus!
- a request from a schoolboy in Ghana who wants to share "the gospel of God" with everyone, and has many other students asking for pictures. We would like to send him several hundreds and Ewe tracts, plus THE PASSION.
- other requests already in our inbox, plus calls, such as the sixteen year old girl from Ohio who wants pictures for herself and her mother, letters which come in the mail: we have some letters from prisoners in US jails, plus any new requests which come in during the week.
We work on these packages with joy! How lovely on the mountains are the feet of them who bring good news, and Jesus is the good news. Miracles have happened after people received these anointed pictures of Jesus, because He is present, to heal, to help, and above all, to love.
PACKAGES READY TO GO:
1. Raton, New Mexico, USA - this is the town we visited in the RV last year when the Father showed the two roads: we are sending 2000 pictures of Jesus and 10 dvds THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name" in English and Spanish.
2. Prison Chaplain in West Virginia, USA - 1300 pictures of Jesus, "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
3. Kenneth Ezra in Uganda - 5000 pictures of Jesus plus THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Swahili copies of "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
4. Linda: Councilor at an upcoming Franklin Graham (Billy Graham's son) crusade: 2000 pictures of Jesus, "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
5. Brother Joseph in Ghana - Hooked on Phonics and Hooked on Math for their children who are not in school, 230 pictures of Jesus, Ewe (African language spoken in Ghana, Benin, and Togo) "Jesus is Alive and Knows Your Name".
6. 73 year old Marjorie in New Mexico who came across a copy of JESUS IS ALIVE AND KNOWS YOUR NAME and read it and wants to share it with many others. We sent her copies of the writing (tract form) and 250 pictures of Jesus.
PACKAGE TO BE READY TODAY:
7. Pastor Jean in Rwanda: he travels around in Rwanda and in neighboring Congo. 5000 pictures of Jesus, 10 PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Kinyarwandan and Swahili tracts: JESUS IS ALIVE. Pastor Jean is also translating JESUS IS ALIVE into French, which is widely spoken in the area.
PACKAGES TO PREPARE NEXT WEEK
8. Brother Arakelian in Armenia. 5000 pictures of Jesus. 10 THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Armenia is the site of the first genocide in the 20th century. 1.5 million people were murdered. It was during WWI and it was widely ignored by the world, and is barely acknowledged to this day. God bless Armenia, our brothers and sisters who have suffered so greatly.
9. Brother Nelson in Pakistan: 5000 pictures of Jesus. 8x10 one color pictures of Jesus with Urdu writing on the back. I am hoping that Brother Nelson can send me the entire JESUS IS ALIVE translation in Urdu so I can put it on the back of each 8x10 picture.
10. Rwanda: the head of an organization which is over schools in Rwanda. 5000 pictures of Jesus and 10 THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Kinyarwandan tracts.
11. Tanzania: 500 pictures of Jesus and Swahili tracts, plus THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.
12. Bulgaria: 500 pictures of Jesus and English JESUS IS ALIVE, plus THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.
13. Botswana: African pastor in Botswana: 2000 pictures of Jesus, Swahili tracts and THE PASSION.
14. Marie-Christine: 1000 pictures of Jesus, Swahili tracts. Marie-Christine is a Rwandan refugee living in London, England, who has contacts with other refugees. She is a survivor of the 1994 genocide. She and her (then) three year old daughter were able to escape to England after being rejected by four other nations.
MORE PACKAGES WE WILL SEND
- a request from Uzbekistan for more pictures. We want to send him 2500 to share with others in his nation. What an opportunity for Jesus!
- a request from a schoolboy in Ghana who wants to share "the gospel of God" with everyone, and has many other students asking for pictures. We would like to send him several hundreds and Ewe tracts, plus THE PASSION.
- other requests already in our inbox, plus calls, such as the sixteen year old girl from Ohio who wants pictures for herself and her mother, letters which come in the mail: we have some letters from prisoners in US jails, plus any new requests which come in during the week.
We work on these packages with joy! How lovely on the mountains are the feet of them who bring good news, and Jesus is the good news. Miracles have happened after people received these anointed pictures of Jesus, because He is present, to heal, to help, and above all, to love.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Letter from Pastor Francis in Rwanda
Hello Char T Praise God, we are very proud of you and
team you are working with to allow God to work in
you in this very wonder full ministry (operation free
Jesus pictures) it is very important here in Rwanda it
touches heart of people to have Intimacy with God and
people too, like David and Jonathan in Bible. in this
year God is visiting RWANDA differently way. we have
hundred days of hope making crusades, seminars, conferences.
All over the country organized by the Rwandan
Christian in friendship with Internationals like
Darien from Australia and Joyce Meyer from USA and
other International preachers who wanted to encourage
hopeless, genocide survivals of 1994 like wise
genocide was done within 100 days, it is from April
to July every year we do remember Genocide this is
days of mourning.
You can see attached photos for Joyce meyer in
national stadium and in church when we was showing
the passion of Christ. surely this is Gods time to
change and Rwandan people even our Government is
supporting those activities of 100 days of hope.
In Rwanda it was good to see your plan (FOUR CORNERS
OF RWANDA) showing you showing in web site 17 cities
of Rwanda that we will be working in through showing
Passion of Christ and giving photos of Jesus. I sure
you that you have answered the call of God.
In 15 to 20 we will be in Mutara ,we have seminar of
showing Passion of Christ. We need your prayer it will
be in Easter province.
we have four province in four corners of Rwanda.
*eastern province.
*west province.
*Northern province .
*Southern province.and Kigali city.
This is needs to prayer for.
Projector,
DVD Pray,
Generator.
These are the material [equipment's]we have to ask
Jesus to give to us in order to do the work
effectively during our felled work.
Yours,
Pastor Ntuyahera Francis
Kigali, Rwanda
Joyce Meyer in Rwanda
Watching THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST in Pastor Francis' church
team you are working with to allow God to work in
you in this very wonder full ministry (operation free
Jesus pictures) it is very important here in Rwanda it
touches heart of people to have Intimacy with God and
people too, like David and Jonathan in Bible. in this
year God is visiting RWANDA differently way. we have
hundred days of hope making crusades, seminars, conferences.
All over the country organized by the Rwandan
Christian in friendship with Internationals like
Darien from Australia and Joyce Meyer from USA and
other International preachers who wanted to encourage
hopeless, genocide survivals of 1994 like wise
genocide was done within 100 days, it is from April
to July every year we do remember Genocide this is
days of mourning.
You can see attached photos for Joyce meyer in
national stadium and in church when we was showing
the passion of Christ. surely this is Gods time to
change and Rwandan people even our Government is
supporting those activities of 100 days of hope.
In Rwanda it was good to see your plan (FOUR CORNERS
OF RWANDA) showing you showing in web site 17 cities
of Rwanda that we will be working in through showing
Passion of Christ and giving photos of Jesus. I sure
you that you have answered the call of God.
In 15 to 20 we will be in Mutara ,we have seminar of
showing Passion of Christ. We need your prayer it will
be in Easter province.
we have four province in four corners of Rwanda.
*eastern province.
*west province.
*Northern province .
*Southern province.and Kigali city.
This is needs to prayer for.
Projector,
DVD Pray,
Generator.
These are the material [equipment's]we have to ask
Jesus to give to us in order to do the work
effectively during our felled work.
Yours,
Pastor Ntuyahera Francis
Kigali, Rwanda
Joyce Meyer in Rwanda
Watching THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST in Pastor Francis' church
Monday, May 15, 2006
The Father on a throne
Silvana saw the Father, seated on a throne, under a dark blue cross. The throne upon which He sat was gold, and there were billowing clouds all around. (like the Clouds of Witnesses) - there were stone steps leading up to the throne.
Last night Silvana and I watched a tv show we had taped that is called WAR DETECTIVES, which talked about two nuns in Rwanda who participated in the genocide in 1994. Thousands of people gathered at their Catholic Church for protection, but the Mother Superior turned them over to the interahamwe, the militia that was killing people. Two weeks after she had the militia come, and they slaughtered many people, the Mother Superior called on the police for help in getting rid of others who came to her for sanctuary. This time she gave them some gasoline and they burned a shed with 700 people locked inside. Everyone who tried to escape was killed by machete. Those who did not try to escape were burned to death. Later, they were brought to trial and convicted in Belgium.
As we watched the show, we both saw the Father with His arms open wide. He had His arms around every person in that building, and is still holding them. I saw the word "Jesus" as though it were a painful wound to them. As they screamed in pain and terror, how could they cry out to Jesus, since this was happening to them in His name, by nuns wearing a cross. I saw the Father holding them tight, as you would hold your children if you gathered them all in your arms. Silvana saw the stone (granite - it is stone with crystal in it) steps and those murdered were going up the steps to the Father's presence.
How grievous are the sights of murder that come before the eyes of the Father! This is why He destroyed the earth in Noah's day. One reason that the Father brought out the movie, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, is to prepare mankind for what He sees every day. He sees torture and bloodshed. He sees cruelty and injustice. He sees every horror that happens, and He weeps. How long until man takes the burden of mankind onto ourselves, and shares in the weeping, and shares in the seeing, and shares in the caring? His Son was murdered for our sakes. What more will it take? The last days of this battle between the one who was a murderer from the beginning, and the One who created and gave eternal life, will be more and more intense. As we looked at the piles of corpses, and the rows upon rows of skulls (most with slashes in them from machetes) that were shown in the tv show, Silvana talked about Satan's desire to have a whole earth filled with corpses: then, Jesus can return, Satan says. He wishes to present Jesus with a world of graves and bodies and suffering survivors.
We don't think we could bear to watch the horrors that have happened in Rwanda, if we did not have the free pictures of Jesus to give out to those who have survived. To see what the Father sees comes at a price, the price of grief and suffering. With each picture of Jesus that we give, comes healing, and love, and their eternal Creator, who is their Father who loves them, who has a place prepared for them, where they will be reunited forever with those they love, who have gone before.
Last night Silvana and I watched a tv show we had taped that is called WAR DETECTIVES, which talked about two nuns in Rwanda who participated in the genocide in 1994. Thousands of people gathered at their Catholic Church for protection, but the Mother Superior turned them over to the interahamwe, the militia that was killing people. Two weeks after she had the militia come, and they slaughtered many people, the Mother Superior called on the police for help in getting rid of others who came to her for sanctuary. This time she gave them some gasoline and they burned a shed with 700 people locked inside. Everyone who tried to escape was killed by machete. Those who did not try to escape were burned to death. Later, they were brought to trial and convicted in Belgium.
As we watched the show, we both saw the Father with His arms open wide. He had His arms around every person in that building, and is still holding them. I saw the word "Jesus" as though it were a painful wound to them. As they screamed in pain and terror, how could they cry out to Jesus, since this was happening to them in His name, by nuns wearing a cross. I saw the Father holding them tight, as you would hold your children if you gathered them all in your arms. Silvana saw the stone (granite - it is stone with crystal in it) steps and those murdered were going up the steps to the Father's presence.
How grievous are the sights of murder that come before the eyes of the Father! This is why He destroyed the earth in Noah's day. One reason that the Father brought out the movie, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, is to prepare mankind for what He sees every day. He sees torture and bloodshed. He sees cruelty and injustice. He sees every horror that happens, and He weeps. How long until man takes the burden of mankind onto ourselves, and shares in the weeping, and shares in the seeing, and shares in the caring? His Son was murdered for our sakes. What more will it take? The last days of this battle between the one who was a murderer from the beginning, and the One who created and gave eternal life, will be more and more intense. As we looked at the piles of corpses, and the rows upon rows of skulls (most with slashes in them from machetes) that were shown in the tv show, Silvana talked about Satan's desire to have a whole earth filled with corpses: then, Jesus can return, Satan says. He wishes to present Jesus with a world of graves and bodies and suffering survivors.
We don't think we could bear to watch the horrors that have happened in Rwanda, if we did not have the free pictures of Jesus to give out to those who have survived. To see what the Father sees comes at a price, the price of grief and suffering. With each picture of Jesus that we give, comes healing, and love, and their eternal Creator, who is their Father who loves them, who has a place prepared for them, where they will be reunited forever with those they love, who have gone before.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Yesterday, late afternoon, I felt the presence of Jesus and I told Therese, "Something very good is coming." A few hours later the email about the Rwandan refugees came in, that we have posted below. After receiving the email, I was in the Spirit and I was singing and praising the Father for what He is doing for Rwanda, and for people all over the world. A little while later the "Daily Manna" Scripture verse came into our inbox, and the Father told me, "Tell them to rejoice in Me, with thanksgiving and worship." He is acting and how can we do anything other than to thank Him? How great He is! THANK YOU, FATHER. THANK YOU, FATHER!
Daily Manna from the 'Net - Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:2-5 TNIV Bible (Subscribe to Daily Manna)
Daily Manna from the 'Net - Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:2-5 TNIV Bible (Subscribe to Daily Manna)
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