A season of advance

"A season of advance" is what the Father said to His prophet, Silvana about the days ahead and we look to Him with joy over all He is accomplishing in the Spirit and what He has planned. So often the Holy Spirit speaks through numbers and recently He was showing the number 33. We looked to Him about what He was showing. Of course 33 is the age that Jesus was when He was killed and 33 is the age that He was when He rose from the dead. The Holy Spirit showed us the power and the victory of resurrection in the number 33, tempered by the seriousness of death, and not any death, which is serious enough, but the death of the Son of God. So 33 represents powerful victory, purchased at great price, at great suffering. What can be more powerful than Jesus, risen from the grave, with total victory over sin and death? In Jesus' name, by Jesus' death, comes resurrection power in this season before us. It is a number of warfare with Satan (Jesus laid down his life in Satan's presence, and overcame him by rising again, and Satan could do nothing to stop Him) and it is a number of great victory.

The Holy Spirit showed the number thirty-three in the following manner: first, as we told you in an earlier blog, Antonio and Nikki went in obedience to Jesus to a motel in Albuquerque to give the pictures of Jesus there so they could put the pictures in each of the rooms. The motel had 33 rooms and they had with them 33 pictures. Second, when we mailed the packages of pictures during our push to send out pictures to every request we had received, which were starting to back up because of the cost of postage, we mailed 33 packets the first day, which just happened to be how many we had ready in time to reach the post office before it closed that day, and we mailed 33 packets the second day, which also was how many we had ready to send at day's end. (We have mailed another 70 or so since then.) In the tragedy in Virginia Tech University, when Satan moved on the man to kill 32 students and staff, and then himself, 33 were dead that day. On April 28, 2007, it was 33 years to the day since the prophet of the Father in the United States, Silvana Lupetti, was baptized in Jesus' name, and baptism is the exact thing to represent the power that the Holy Spirit is speaking of: going down to death in Jesus' name and rising up in His resurrection power.

As we pray for people, we remember the power of Jesus in overcoming death. What if Jesus had not ascended to heaven but had stayed on the earth. How many would have been healed? What great miracles would have been done by Him on earth?


Doors are opening from the Spirit of God to the city of Gatumba in Rwanda. Pastor Jean has a friend who is from that town, who will take Jean there and allow him to stay with his family while he shows THE PASSION and distributes the pictures of Jesus. The Father showed a plan for Gatumba, and really for every one of the cities in the four corners of Rwanda: first, find a pastor who will allow OJP to come and show THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST in their church. Then, at the church meetings, the Father said to act in the following order: 1) Present the Message to Rwanda From the Father, 2) Show the film, 3) Pray for people in Jesus' name and lay hands on them with oil, and 4) give out the free pictures of Jesus. The Father promises He will move with power.

We sent Pastor Jean more pictures for Gatumba, including 200 8x10s and 5000 small strung pictures of Jesus. We also took a vial of oil and we all laid hands on it and each of us prayed for the people in Gatumba, and the people in all of Rwanda. We prayed with Jordan for healing for the sick. The Holy Spirit showed Himself as the Lifter of our Heads: He said that the spirit in the atmosphere in Gatumba has kept the people bowed down, feeling sad, feeling without hope, but when He comes to move, as Pastor Jean shows the film and gives the pictures, that the very air over the town will change. The Holy Spirit will be there, to lift the heads and the spirits of the people. We know what it is to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit with power. Your courage and your faith and trust and understanding is strong because of His help and it will be the same in Gatumba.

We put some of the oil on our hands as we prayed over the vial of oil that we were sending to Jean. While Silvana and I were praying for the people in Gatumba, I saw the Father, and it was as though He had His hands on the vial of oil too. Then He lifted His hands from the vial to place them on the people of Gatumba. When He did, I saw that His hands were wet with the oil, as ours were. But as I looked, the liquid on His hands became blood: the blood of His Son, Jesus. The Father said to us that the answer to our prayers over the oil is yes, "Yes, because we ask in Jesus' name". With such a noble and powerful sacrifice as Jesus made for us, as illustrated in THE PASSION film, how can the Father say no? His heart for Jesus, His heart for the people, leads Him to heal, to help, to answer our prayers. Another sister in Jesus, who was also praying for Gatumba, said that she saw many Rwandans, who have left this earth, and they were gathered together watching as we prayed over the oil. These are the Rwandans who want the people left behind on earth to know that they are healed now, as was described earlier by the prophet, Silvana in THE FATHER'S MESSAGE TO RWANDA.

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I saw something about the group of people who were walking towards the Cloud of Witnesses, to stand with them, as Silvana was shown by the Holy Spirit earlier today. The people who Jesus brought out of hell are those who were there from Noah's day, to whom Jesus preached when He descended to hell after dying on the cross, and then ascended on high "with captives in His train". The captives were the prisoners in hell, who had been there since Noah's day because of the widespread violence on the earth.

The Father has been showing us about the current warfare in the spiritual realm with a demon strongman, who is a powerful henchman of Satan. He is violent in every way. It is because of this demon and his powerful actions, leading to murder and cruelty and destruction, that Jesus was so serious as He was showing me about seeking the 100th lost sheep the other day. This demon strongman has affected millions and millions of people over time, moving on whole cultures to lead them towards murder and violent actions.

Therese and Mabel and Silvana and I were praying about this demon strongman as the Holy Spirit was showing him to us last week and we asked others to pray with us concerning him. Since then, we see the deaths at Virginia Tech University and we know by the Holy Spirit that the demon is planning to bring more death. He wants copycat crimes. He will move on the weak-minded, who will not resist his evil, but who will join him in the killing of the innocent. His aim is death and sorrow and grief and loss through violence.

It is powerful that those who went to hell because of violence are coming to join the Cloud of Witnesses (and we who stand on earth for love and for our God) during this time of warfare against this strongman, and this season of standing on earth. Silvana said that as they walked she saw their humility. Thank you, Father, for helping us.

SEEK THE LOST

Due to a mistake on the part of our printer's assistant, the color for the 8x10 pictures of Jesus that we ordered recently was put into the printing machine wrong. As a result, there are greens and pinks and other shades around Jesus' face. Mark, our printer, came back to his shop and discovered the mistake and immediately ordered another printing with the correct color settings. When we went in (on Good Friday) to pick up our printing of 4000 8x10s, we saw the pictures with extra color and we thought they were beautiful so we got them too. (This is how we ended up with 7000 of the larger pictures of Jesus.)

When I first saw the colored picture, I thought of the verse in the book of Revelation which speaks of a rainbow around the Father on His throne: Revelation 4: 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. We loved the picture, and Mark graciously gave them to us and trimmed them for us. (Send us an email to request a free 8x10, or a free 8x10 with extra color.)

Some of the pictures had been put in a trash pile so we retrieved them. This week I was trimming the extra pictures we retrieved and I counted them. There were 99 pictures. This made me think of the parable of the lost sheep, in which there are one hundred sheep and one wanders off so the shepherd goes to retrieve that one. As I was thinking about this, I saw Jesus looking at me. His face was deadly serious and grieved. I saw, by the Holy Spirit, that this is absolutely serious. It is not a sermon, not a cute teaching, but in reality there are people all over the earth who are lost, who are in despair, who are tormented in their lives by their feelings, by their circumstances, by the wickedness of the enemy, and Jesus wants us to reach them.

Silvana, prophet of the Father in the United States, speaks of Satan at times and one thing she has prophetically said of Satan is that he wants Jesus to return to an earth piled high with corpses. Satan wants to maim and murder and torment and destroy human after human, causing deep suffering wherever he can. When he can move to cause men to murder, he does. Where he can move to cause mankind to cause pain to others or to themselves, he does. We can see the grief and anguish and pain caused to 32 families by the murders at Virginia Tech University in the last few days for an example of Satan's work. Jesus grieves. He wants us to share His pictures, to show THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and to give out the writing called JESUS IS ALIVE AND KNOWS YOUR NAME, which presents the truth about Jesus and the way to have a relationship with Him. (Which is simplicity itself: just talk to Jesus and listen. You will feel His presence and He will talk to you. This is how you become restored to your Creator. For our restoration with Himself, our restoration with the Father, Jesus came and paid the ultimate price on the cross. Suffering exists all over the earth and Jesus entered personally into that realm and there purchased our freedom. Let us honor Jesus' sacrifice by developing our own relationship with the Father, and by reaching others with the same simple message of redemption. The pictures and the film are powerful tools in the hands of the Holy Spirit, which He has continually told us.)

The Holy Spirit showed: this is not a game, this is not a joke, this is not a sermon. This is a serious war with an invisible enemy who has mayhem and murder on his mind. The Father is great and will do great things to rescue people: healings and miracles and signs and wonders, to draw people to His Son, who is His heart. But we must join Him. We must respond when He tells us to share pictures, we must act and show THE PASSION, we must look to the Holy Spirit to lead us, because He knows the paths to every person on earth, and every person is the lost sheep, every person is the one He wants to rescue.

In the past, the Father showed me a view of the earth, and the view was like a satellite map. It showed blocks and areas and in each block, in each area, there were dark, black blots and this is a true reflection of how it looks on earth. There are demons world-wide, bringing darkness and causing great suffering with their deceptions and lies, as they move always to keep men and women in pain and despair and to separate them from their God who loves them. Recently the Father told Silvana that we should take some of the pictures of Jesus with color that He gave to us and to put them up in alleyways, on fences, in dark places, so the people who go there can see Jesus' loving face and feel hope. Some drink too much, and it has been long since they felt hope. Some use drugs to change their reality, some are in despair, but all are loved by God. He sees their pain, He sees their needs, and with all His heart He wants to reach them. He knows the plans of Satan, and He will act to counter them, and we must join Him.

This message is to you too. Together we are the Church, and together we are called to share the good news (Jesus Himself!) that will save lives, that will bring an end to despair, that will turn people from the persistant lies of our vicious enemy. The Father grieves. Do we care? Is the most important thing to us that we ourselves be blessed by God, that we ourselves are healed? He loves us. Our eternity is secure. It was bought with the blood of God, so how could it not be? Since we are loved, since we are secure, let us follow the example of Jesus and turn our attention and our efforts to the world, and let the Holy Spirit lead us to reach them: our neighbors, our towns, and the people of the nations of the world. Contact us for free pictures of Jesus.

Sending out pictures of Jesus

In the next few days we are sending out all the requests for pictures that have accumulated from phone calls and letters and via email recently. Yesterday we mailed 33 packages. Over the weekend the Father spoke of "Weekend of Resurrection" and I see by the Holy Spirit that mailing the pictures out now is a part of this. Lives are being changed and miracles are happening by the presence of the Holy Spirit who accompanies each picture. Maria said it first, when she said she felt as though she had been resurrected after we prayed for her about her cancer and we see the same is true of many lives. What great power our God has and how glad He is to honor His Son by helping us and healing us. Truly, by His stripes we are healed. Thank you, Jesus. What a noble and beautiful sacrifice You made for us. These healings are wonderful but even they are connected to what happens in our mortal bodies and therefore they are temporary. The greatest result of the pictures of Jesus is the one that lasts into eternity as people come to know their Creator. "Jesus smiled at me", they tell us, and others hear Jesus speaking to them for the first time. And what joy to come to know Him! No one is as kind as Jesus. No one is as wise as Jesus, and no one understands us or cares about our problems as deeply as He. Silvana was saying the other day that "for the joy set before Him, Jesus endured the cross", and that the joy set before Him is us and the relationship He develops with each of us. Not only does He care about us and participate with us in looking to the good of ourselves and our friends and families as we pray for them, but He shares with us what is on His heart as He looks across the world and into the spiritual realm. This is a Friend indeed, one who shares the burden that He carries.

For us to look and see the pain and grief and sufferings of the world by the Holy Spirit and to take this to the Father, and to stand against the evil one with his plans and wicked deeds is balm to the heart of the Father, who cares so deeply for all. Naturally, we all want God for our Friend, but He really rejoices when we act as His friend, and we participate in what He cares about. I remember how the Father shared with Abraham what was on His heart about Sodom and Gomorrah and how Abraham entered into the situation with his own concerns and prayers, and then the Father listened and acted accordingly. We often see the same thing happening now. The Father, or the Holy Spirit, will bring up a situation or a location on earth and then we will seek Him with concern about the people involved. This is how we started with Rwanda. He brought to our attention the great tragedy that occurred there and we started to seek Him on their behalf and then he opened doors to send the pictures of Jesus there, and now OJP has a representative right there in Rwanda who gives the pictures out and who sends us testimonies of the power of the pictures among the people there. What suffering there is all across the world, continually occupying the attention of the Father. Besides my own reIationship with Him, I have the honor and the privilege of living with a prophet of the Father, who constantly brings out things that are on His heart so I see how loving He truly is and how deep is the care in His heart for mankind.

Some of the requests we are sending thia week are going places where we are delighted to have the pictures go. For instance, there is a librarian in a jail in Virginia who wants to give picture to the inmates and who wants to show them THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. There is a person in charge of a nursing home in North Carolina who wants to give them to the people there. Another package is going to a vet in Kentucky who leaves them out for her customers. (We always get lots of calls from her customers for more pictures since she has been doing this for some time.) In the mailings this week, there are pictures going to people in Australia, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Cuba, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Uganda, Rwanda, Ukraine, Pakistan, Canada, Vanuatu (which I had to look up on the map - it is among a set of islands between Hawaii and Australia) and of course all over the USA. The majority of the overseas requests are from Ghana. Also, our dear Brother Joseph, who is in Ghana now, has been earnestly asking for more pictures of Jesus for some time now because they are quite low and they get many requests for pictures. We will send him a box with 5000 pictures of Jesus and I know he and the believers with him will gladly help us with the stringing. Join us in praying for the Holy Spirit to move in Ghana.

Resurrection Weekend

"Resurrection weekend" said the Father last week. Jesus rose from the dead on Easter and the Father is moving so powerfully that many lives are being changed so dramatically that it is as though the person has been resurrected. Many have been healed, others have been helped.

On Good Friday we went to town to pick up the 8x10 pictures of Jesus that we had printed and while in town we went to a yard sale when the Father suddenly told us to go down a certain street. What a joyous day. We had ordered 4000 of the larger pictures, but we ended up receiving 7000! Our printers, Discount Printing, did a wonderful job and the pictures came out as cyrstal clear and lovely as can be. Thank you, Mark and Natasha!

We also went to a yard sale. There we met Mabel, who sold us some beautiful clothes for Beathy and others in Rwanda for a very inexpensive price. We told Mabel about Jesus healing Maria recently from cancer (who went dancing the other night! We could dance with joy ourselves over this good news) where even one of her bones which had deteriorated, mysteriously re-grew. and Mabel rejoiced with us and then told us her own testimony about what Jesus has done for her. Mabel was run over by a car some years ago, which ended up dragging her 300 feet. She had many injuries from this accident and skin on her legs had been rubbed off and one leg turned white from the trauma to it. While in the hospital she developed gangrene in the leg and was told by her doctor that she would have to have one of her legs amputated the next day. She told her doctor, "No, my Doctor is going to come and fix me up." He replied, "I am your doctor". She said, "You may be my doctor in the natural realm but I have a Doctor in the higher realm and He is going to come and help me." She said that all night she cried out to Jesus, saying, "Please come and help me and please back up what I am saying of you". She told us that the nurses came in every 15 minutes to check on her because of her serious condition. Finally, at about three o'clock in the morning, she was dozing and she woke up when a nurse in her room screamed. She woke up to hear the nurse saying, "Mabel, look at your leg!" She looked down and both of her legs were the same color and both were healthy. She said, "I told you my Doctor was going to fix me up."

While Mabel was telling us the details of the accident she got called away for a moment. While she was gone for that brief moment, I saw angels who were recounting the same story to one another. Then, the angels started to jump up and down with joy and I heard them say, "And then Jesus did ..." I couldn't make out what they were saying that Jesus had done but it was clear that it was a miracle. Mabel came back to resume her story and I told her what the angels were saying and she said, "Yes, that is exactly what happened" and went on to tell us about the healing.

Good news about Maria!

Maria called today and said that she went to the doctors and that it was all good news. They said that her cancer is not spreading, that her red cells are increasing, and a part of a bone that was being destroyed by cancer is healing! Jesus is answering our prayers. Thank you, thank you, Lord Jesus.

The doctors had previously taken an x-ray of Maria's leg, which showed deterioration of the bone because of the cancer which was eating away at it. They took another x-ray during this visit and then they said that the bone had somehow been restored and was whole again. Maria told them, "Jesus did it!"

Oil on Europe and Larry's call

I dreamt of a map of Europe. There was golden oil all over it. The oil had run down off the high places on the map but was pooled in small areas where there were little valleys. The oil was simply resting on Europe. The Father is resting on Europe. They have been far from Him, but He is acting to give them a chance to come to the truth, to respond to His Spirit.

The other day Larry called us. Larry is the man who goes to hospitals to pray for people with the pictures of Jesus, and who put a picture of Jesus up in the room of his relative after he had been given the last rites by his priest, and then Jesus restored his relative. (As related in an earlier OJP Blog.) Well, Larry called "accidentally" he said. His cell phone had dialed our number. Of course it was not an accident, it was Jesus. When the cell phone called us, Larry was at the hospital waiting on a painful treatment for his muscle deterioration disease. Therese and Jordan prayed for Larry and afterwards Larry said that after praying for him, that he saw Jesus with him, there in the hospital. Thank you, Jesus! Please join us in praying for healing for our dear brother, Larry.

New audio post

I posted a new audio post this morning, titled, SERVE. In it I talk about a vision that the Father showed to Silvana and what He had to say about it later. To listen, scroll down and click on the line that says SERVE - Episode Seven, inside the blue box at ths side of this page.