I AM A SERVANT by Larry Norman

Larry Norman died recently leaving a legacy of songs that lift up the heart, and bring conviction to the flesh and self. He understood the need to hear from Jesus and to follow Him no matter the cost. Let us read his words and take them as our own. I'll blog more of his songs for a time. Thank you, Larry for all you did for Jesus.

I AM A SERVANT

Larry Norman

I am a servant, I am listening for my name,
I sit here waiting, I've been looking at the game
That I've been playing, and I've been staying much the same
When you are lonely, you're the only one to blame.


I am a servant, I am waiting for the call,
I've been unfaithful, so I sit here in the hall.
How can you use me when I've never given all,
How can you choose me when you know I'd quickly fall.


So you feed my soul and you make me grow,
And you let me know you love me.
And I'm worthless now, but I've made a vow,
I will humbly bow before thee.
O please use me, I am lonely.


I am a servant getting ready for my part,
There's been a change, a rearrangement in my heart.
At last I'm learning, there's no returning once I start.
To live's a priveledge, to love is such an art
But I need your help to start,
O please purify my heart, I am your servant.

SEASON OF THE ANGELS

The Father spoke and said: "Now comes a season of the angels".

I saw in the Spirit the movement of many, many angels; their movement like the waves of the sea pouring towards the shore over and over.

The Father said to me, "I send them to help Me intervene, to lift up, to push back evil, to open doors, and open hearts with hope. The enemy of God and man moves with frantic power to destroy what he did not make. He whispers in the night and screams in the day to those I created. He screams threats and whispers schemes of violence and evil."

"Now before the day of My Coming I send My angels who love Me into the fray, joining My Spirit, to overturn the fortresses and high places of Satan and all who fell with him. Satan's power is not above Me. I made him and I will unmake him."

"My angels do this not because of duty, not because they must; they do it for love of Me. And My followers on earth would do well to be as they are, and to join them as they are sent into the darkest places on earth to bring the hope that has been given on a cross of wood."

"The times will get harder, and grievous events are still ahead. Fear and terror are coming to man as the time draws nearer to the Event much awaited, the return of My Heart in the form of Jesus, Redeemer King."

"Hold fast to the Hope I bring, and do all that I make possible for you to do, which is to smash the barriers of opposition to the good, and to the right. The season of angels will cause many close to death to see them, will cause the lost to lift their heads, will cause hardened hearts to soften, and the sick to recover, while many acts of supernatural power are coming. And always know that what I conceive and what I will do shall never be in vain."

COUNT THE HOST OF HEAVEN

I was in the Spirit this morning with the Father when He showed me the enemy saying, "My name is Legion for we are many". As the enemy spoke I saw that he was both boasting and threatening. Then the Father spoke and answered the enemy. The Father said, "COUNT THE HOST OF HEAVEN". The Father never speaks in vain. Don't be satisfied with superficial understanding. Look deeply into what He says and what He is showing. - January 18, 2008

WHERE ARE THE SELFLESS

OJP is in the middle of a war zone. The more healing and stories of victory after victory the more demons gather to stop us with all their hate and malice. Shoulder to shoulder looking neither to the right or left, but singleminded in our mission to lift up Jesus in this world at war, we have to choose between God or self. We are advancing through the fiery daggers becuase of love of the Father, love of Jesus, love for those despairing and suicidal. Where are those who always consider the cross in everything they do? Where are they who see no place for self-centeredness where Jesus is concerned? They are the only ones who can carry on this fight for love's sake. That's what OJP is to stand for and nothing less. We owe this to the bloody cross.

It is as it is

If Satan is brought out of the shadows, as orchestrated by the Holy Spirit, all of us in OJP and all those who love Jesus should look into what is being shown and not have a misinformed view about the enemy of the Father. The fallen church is foolish about Satan.

The Holy Spirit is giving an opportunity to see the Father's adversary in the light, and take away the myth. To see Satan's lying hate and ultimate self-loving state. To see his nature, so ugly and dark. To bring Satan into the light is to show that he is NOT GOD, but one who makes mistakes, since he is imperfect after his fall.

See the film "300", and its portrayal of Xerxes, king of Persia, and you will see what the Father means when He says of that portrayal, "It is as it is". The Pope says of the film THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, "It is as it was" and he was right. Look to the Father about what I'm saying, and if you believe, do it with all speed: watch "300".

In Jesus' mighty name see an exposure of the false god who is created, who is not the Creator of all things.

Silvana Lupetti
Prophet of the Father in the United States
December 31, 2007

Born to die

Our thanks to Robert and Catherine for their help to OJP in lifting up Jesus to the world. On Christmas Day after dinner of fellowship with our families, we are going to gather together to watch THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, remembering the reason He was born. He was born to die, that precious babe we sing about. Today we are putting together the packets of pictures and The Passion, a supertract, and a candy cane for our neighbors as the Father showed us. 112 houses. We lift up the babe who came to make us free. Thank You, Father, in the loving name of Jesus.

Christmas 2007

OJP sends many hundreds of DVD's of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST along with the pictures from the Shroud. We know of the man who had murdered his girlfriend and gotten away with it, until he saw THE PASSION. He turned himself into the police, saying that he couldn't live with it anymore. The Pope said a right thing about it before he died. "It is as it was" he said, and so it is. On Christmas night this year, Char and I will watch THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Whoever wants to do this with us are welcome, those in OJP New Mexico, and any who are with us in other states as well. For this He came to the manger. For this He came, this noble immeasureable sacrifice given to save us from ourselves. The baby we honor and love, lowly in the manger, so vunerable and humble, came to take all that earth and hell could visit on Him, to free us. So we honor the day of His birth, and we bow before the day of His death.

Vow a vow to me on Christmas Day

The Father spoke to me this morning, saying, It's coming on Christmas, and Christmas speaks of mother and Child. And then He swept His hand over Rwanda and said, The children of the raped in the genocide, and their mothers, are innocent, yet a dark cloud is over them. Tell Rwanda that I say; love them, pray for them, help them. Mother and child innocent of the darkness visited on them by the rulers of the darkness in this world in spirit and in flesh. Have pity on them. Remember them when you think of that Holy Night of a mother and a Child. Vow a vow to me on Christmas Day that you will be my helpers in Rwanda for those children and mothers of woe. I come to Rwanda to come and heal what the locusts have eaten. Help Me to help them, and more darkness will be lifted over Rwanda. Do this in the name of My heart, Jesus, and I promise you, healing and help, good fruit will come. And the Father said to light a candle on Christmas Eve for the mothers and children, victims of rape not only in Rwanda but in all the world. Father You have our promise.

It's all about the blood

I saw myself in the Spirit, standing in front of the enemy after looking at the violence and havoc he has visited on the earth, the extent of which human words fall utterly short. I was standing there and I said to him, "It's all about the blood". He the bloodthirsty beast who has no other purpose now but to spill oceans of blood to feed his rage and hate of Jesus and of the Father. And I repeated it over and over again, "It's all about the blood".

All of a sudden my words took on another meaning, even as I was speaking, and now the meaning was about Jesus and now it was about His blood. "It's all about the blood". That blood spells defeat for evil and victory for love. We owe our lives to that blood.

Peace

There's something we have, if we have Jesus, if we love Him, something that the richest man on earth couldn't buy. We have peace within.

Our struggle to know the truth of who we are, and why we are here, and what is death, are over. There are no mysteries that He doesn't know. that we cannot know. Even in the dire storm of warfare and death, we know the truth of eternity.

Blessed assurance. And all we seek now are those that have no peace and need His love, those torn and wounded, those full of fear. They need the Prince of Peace. We can help them to find Him. There is no higher purpose than that.

My Testimony

Excerpt from "My Testimony"

One afternoon, alone at her friend's house, Silvana was holding the Bible and thinking about what she had read, and she asked out loud, "How can I know you?" At that moment a knock came from the door. She went to the door and opened it. Three people were standing there. They looked very similar to each other, with big brown eyes, curly brown hair and smiles on their faces. They said: "We were walking past your house and God told us to go to your door, so here we are". She asked them in, and told them what she had just asked. They immediately told her about Jesus' sacrifice, how much pain He went through, how much He loved her and that if she were the only person on earth, He would have still done it for her. She remembers sitting on a stool, by Sammy's art easel, and tears began to pour out of her eyes. The people were silent then, and then said a few things to her with their hands on her shoulders, then they left. She looked down and at her feet was a literal pool of tears.

Link to "My Testimony"
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/ocean/Silvana.html

A NEW NATION

The Father continued to show me about the activity in the cloud as I mentioned in my last post. I was just in my studio where I have a map of the world on the wall, and I was sitting looking at the map. Suddenly I saw what looked like strong cables or wires, springing from every nation, nation to nation. If I were to use string and connect the string from place to place you would see a thick mesh covering the whole map.

Then the Father showed me what it meant. The cables are connecting every person who knows that the world is at war, that evil is evil, and who know what is good and what is right. Freedom is the foundation of this fight with the enemy. And I saw strong bonds coming from eastern Europe where they had lived without freedom for so long, and now that they have it, they will never go back. The bonds link all of us together that love freedom and understand what is at stake. Some nations have bowed to the terrorists. Spain gave them the election that they wanted and pulled out of the war, so the terrorists got their way by bombing Madrid, a mass murder. They will not stop until they are stopped. Some nations have good leaders, others have weak ones. But within all the nations there are the like-minded, says the Father.

I saw that by linking us all together in the spirit like this, the stronger help the weaker, especially in nations that are surrounded by liberalism, which is the philosophy of the enemy. His philosophy is that evil is good and good is evil. And I saw that we who agree together look like a new nation, a nation in the spirit, all of us knowing what's right and what's true.

When I was in the spirit recently, I cried out to the Father about Iraq. I saw the Iraqi people being bombed day after day and was grieving over the state of the battlefield there. I was before the Father calling out to Him about the people. "They need to stand up and say, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. They need to help lead the fight by finding out where the terrorists are hiding. They need to reach that breaking point which has been present in all righteous revolutions. How long, Father, can they stand to see their neighbors and friends and families, children and grandmothers, blown to pieces, day after day by the beasts of terror?"

Since I cried out in the Spirit to the Father about Iraq, there have been new reports that the war there is winnable. And it is winnable because the Iraqis are now doing what they needed to do. They are standing up and going after the terrorists. Remember that noble day, when in the face of death threats to themselves, their families and friends, they walked to the voting booths, showing great courage. They have been successful in recent days uncovering hiding places and armaments. There has been change in the thinking about the war in Iraq, which is one battlefield in the Father's war against evil. Pray for the Iraqi people as they endeavor to live in freedom.

When all the like-minded in the world are linked together, our collective right thinking is like a prayer, a petition always before the Father, for the sake of freedom and the defeat of darkness. He will hear us. He will answer. All nations, He says, have some that are right, and now we are linked together. This is what the activity was in the cloud. The enemy can't get in front of this to oppose it because the Father moved too swiftly and hid this plan from him.

Father, You rescue, You lead, Your victory is sure, even in the darkest of times. We love You and we thank You for helping the world in tribulation leading to the return of Jesus. He will make things right when all government is on His shoulders. He brings justice and a rod of iron with Him and the truth will at last, prevail.

THE CLOUD

Yesterday, the last day of July, I saw something from the Father. It was a large cloud in the sky, but it was different from the other clouds. I could see movement within it, as though there were beings moving around inside, and it seemed that the movement was vigorous, there was a lot of activity. I couldn't see who it was but I could tell it was angels.

Then today, the Father showed me more about it. Clouds are close to the earth so whatever is happening will have to do with the earth. And the reason I couldn't see inside the cloud is because the Father is hiding His purpose from the eyes of the enemy.

Something is going to happen that will take the enemy by surprise, and it will be good. A move of power from the Father.

Thank You, Father.

WHERE LIFE BEGINS

NOT BOUND BY ANYTHING

There is a difference between what we know in the mind, and what we know in our spirit; a vast world of difference. Our universe of thoughts and experiences, of time passing in our own generations, are not the totality of ourselves. We are not defined by time. We are defined by boundless eternity. The earth was made as if it were a growing field, that had a time of birth, life and harvest. The harvest is not the end of the process, it is only a step towards the truth of everything.

What is our spirit? It is the "real estate of the Father" which is not bound by anything.

The spirit, our spirit, can hear things that the mind doesn't hear. The mind has boundaries, the spirit has no boundaries. Deep within us is a part of something pure that seeks the truth, that has a reflection of something greater in it than our minds can fully realize. Our spirit is the center of who we are, inside a body that will die, but not bound by the body.

We are made. We are created. We didn't create ourselves. Most of us realize this even if only in part. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Who made us to be alive? Who is behind all the beauty of the earth and who is the Maker of individuality?

A Being, a Person, a Person that can be seen by our spirit, heard by our spirit, and who is the source of our spirit. A Person that wants to give life in abundance, full of joy and beauty and love. A Person who is Life itself always giving life. As we give birth to our children, He gave birth to us.

This beautiful Being wanted us, and He wanted us to grow and see the beauty of the stars, the joy of life, and above all for us to be loved, and to love. And in this love, as we grow towards the harvest, He wanted us to come to know Him. To know Him is to know Love itself. He wants us to take His hand and walk with Him, to talk with Him. He wants us to know Him well, as well as He knows us.

All the reason and purpose of life is to know the truth, and to know the One who created us, who gave us the freedom to choose. And we, in our time on earth, can choose to know only what our minds know, or we can choose to know more. One day we will know all the mysteries of the world here, and the world beyond, but we can choose to know now what the Father will show our spirit. The freedom to choose comes with a high price to the loving Being who made us. Our choices will either be defined by love, or they will be defined by self. Self puts itself over everything. And self over everything can take us to the farthest places from life and love, as far as the east is from the west. Our freedom to choose carries with it the consequences that we see all around us. What He intended when He made us was nothing like the misery we ourselves have created through what we do and what we choose.

We had gotten lost, lost from our source. So He came to us to show us our source, to remind our spirits of love, by showing the highest and purest selfless love, shown in a cross of wood, shown by Jesus Himself. And all along time, from the very beginning, God has been striving to bring us to our destination, which is not the earth alone, nor our bodies that are mortal. Our true destination is free from fear, free from grief, free from sickness. The Father told me, "There are no hospitals or graveyards or prisons in Heaven". Our arrival in Heaven will not be strange even though our minds imagine it will be. Heaven is in our own spirit, a piece of Himself in us. Cultures and religions and differences will fall away as though they never were, the darkness will end when we come to the Light. We will understand. That is written in the cross.

So when you think of the Father, think of the Being who made us with hope and anticipation and joy, eager to know us, eager for us to know Him. Come to Him and take His hand. Speak to Him, He will speak to you. That's where life really begins.

Nobody Knows.

Nobody knows what the birds are really like. Nobody knows the way things really are, as they were meant to be. People have spent their lifetimes studying nature, all the birds of the air, and all things in the sea and all on the land.

Nobody knows what we, the people of the earth. are really like. People have spent their lifetimes studying the habits and body language and behavior in all environments and cultures from one end of the world to the other. Lifetimes of study only resulting in half-truths and conjecture. Scientists strive to understand all things, but they fall short.

Think of birds: their songs, their beauty, then think of the animals; all creatures great and small. Now, try to imagine them without fear.

I watched the birds this morning, as the dawn came. They were singing with vigor and were drinking the water and eating the seeds by our flower garden that we put out for them. As I watched them, suddenly I saw that they were nervous, and fearful that they might be attacked, so they weren't eating and drinking in peace. And then I saw heaven's birds, and it was as if I had never seen birds before, just as beautiful as ever, but at peace.

And think of us...all mankind, without fear. Without depression, oppression, despair, loneliness, no betrayals, no sickness. No one hates, no one kills, no one dies. That is the way it was meant to be. And that's why nobody knows, because they don't know a world without sin, or darkness or fear.

What a world of love is ahead. How foolish we are to hold on to this world, instead of living for the life of love that we are promised. And all the angels we will meet, and the stories we'll tell together of the battlefield of the Father, and what they did and what we did together to help Him rescue the perishing. So many stories there will be, and how glad we will be that we loved Him well, and did our best for Him in all things.

Will this be so of your life? Jesus' sacrifice calls to us to join Him in the rescue of the world; from murder and suicide, terror and fear. And when all things are done, we will know that we helped Him with all our might, all our heart, all our strength, to enter His faultless realm, holding the hands of all those we have brought to the cross, with all of us whole and free, as He made us to be.

Jacob became Israel, Israel became Esau

The Father was showing many things today about the birthright of Esau so easily thrown away by him. He showed Jacob who wrestled with an angel, saying, "I will not let you go until you bless me". Jacob fighting to hold on, and Esau throwing down his birthright for nothing, just a bowl of lentils. Then the Father showed me Israel throwing down its birthright as easily as did Esau. That birthright was Jesus, the beating heart of the Father, the Reconciliation of Israel and of the whole world. Jacob would not let go of heaven, but Esau saw nothing of heaven, and had his head down to the earth all his life.

And then the Father said: "Jacob became Israel, and Israel became Esau".

Israel must come to the Reconciliation of the Father, lifting up its head to heaven and receiving the birthright given, Jesus the Messiah, who is the third bread taken away and hidden and then returned. (The third bread is one of the three pieces of unleavened bread in the Passover Sedar, which was broken and hidden and brought back at the end of the meal, according to Jewish tradition.)

Testimony of a Survivor of the Rwanda Genocide

When the attacks started, along with my father and some other men, I escaped to the mountains of Bisesero and Kirongi where we could fight back. We resisted the militia, so they sent the presidential guard. It was hard, but we were really motivated to resist, hoping that some of us might survive. They used heavy ammunition, grenades and rockets. We used stones, arrows and sticks. We'd mix with them, hit them with rocks, tackle them with their guns. Then they would be ordered to move back to re-organise. By the end, official figures say that 85,000 people were killed there, but I think there were 160,000 or 175,000. I come from a big family - 188 people descended from my grandfather. But by the time the French arrived, they had all died except me and my uncle.
I returned to my neighbourhood in the valley of the Kirongi Mountain, but an attack group found me. I asked them why they were going to kill me when I had never wronged them, when in fact I had lived in harmony with them and their children. They told me to ask God because He was the one who created Tutsi and had abandoned them. I knew they were going to kill me. I had seen death and was no longer scared. I asked them to let me pray, and they agreed. While I was praying, they started complaining that my prayer was taking too long and they needed to go somewhere else to find people to kill. They hit me on the head with a club. I fell down unconscious and don't know when they hacked me, but I have four machete scars on my head. For four days I lay there unconscious. I woke up after a dream about being killed. I decided to go to Kibuye town. I would go to the hospital and they would either kill me or treat me. I was really looking for a place for a nicer death. It took me two days.
When I got there, a crowd started to beat me. They asked me why I had come there, and I said, "To be healed or killed, one of the two." One woman stood out and shielded me. She took me inside the hospital and treated me. She gave me antibiotics, washed me, fed me and even gave me clothes because what I was wearing was very dirty. I'd been wearing those clothes since 8 April. She also hired Interahamwe to protect me. She paid them not to kill me. I spent the entire month of June in the hospital. When the Interahamwe went out to kill elsewhere, they used to leave a notice saying that, if they found me dead when they came back, it would be best if my killer was dead as well before they got there. Those were the terms on which I survived, while other people at the hospital were being killed on a daily basis, especially the many girls who had survived at the stadium and were kept to be raped.
The nurse who saved me is still alive today. Sometimes I visit her. I feel overwhelmed by all she did for me. I have nothing to give her in return. She didn't even know me when she saved me. She just saw people torturing me and made a decision on her own to rescue me. So I put that lady in a category of humane people with a true human heart. When I'm in Kibuye, I feel very sad; it's immeasurable. Even though I was lucky to survive, it's still a problem because I cannot forget it. From the first day, I saw people dying bad deaths for no reason. Those scenes frequently replay in my head like a film. It's all kept somewhere in my head. Wherever I go in this world, I will not forget Kibuye. I had a good life and a bad life there; I lost all those people, but it still remains my home. It is a marked place inside of me.

Please read the blog entry dated February 6, 2007: Yours Once Again. See how true it is in the face of this testimony. The Father is moving to bring help and hope to those who cannot forget, and carry deep wounds inside and out. I had never read the testimony of this survivor it's very hard to get them to talk about the genocide, but the Holy Spirit showed the state of the survivors and He was right.

Join With Heaven

This morning, Jordan Cooper the nine year old son of Doug and Therese Cooper of OJP had to be taken to the doctor for a recurring problem with his lungs not having enough oxygen. Jordan is a wonderful child who has a gift from the Father, to pray for the sick and the Father has healed many using Jordan's gift. Jordan will recover and his sympathy and empathy for the sick will deepen, and we thank you for your prayers for him. So as we were dealing with this I suddenly saw something significant in the heavenlies.

I saw a group of people walking together towards the Cloud of Witnesses. I looked at the Father and He said: "They are those who were in hell, and were led out by Jesus Himself when He went there to show them the freedom He had brought them through His blood."

I saw that they were known, that they had names and that their experience in hell and the stunning sight of Jesus come to them in hell to free them made them care deeply about the state of mankind, the suffering and captivity that sin and evil bring. These who went from hell to heaven following Jesus will add this power of empathy to the voices of the Cloud of Witnesses. As the Father moves to prepare the world for the return of Jesus, He calls on all who have been to the Cross to join with Heaven and care about the darkness and those lost who must be found.

Thank You Father, in Jesus' name for Your love.

Commentary from Char Tierney about JOIN WITH HEAVEN

"A LIVING PRAYER"

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A Living Prayer

In this world I walk alone with no place to call my home
But there's One who holds my hand
The rugged road through barren lands
The way is dark, the road is steep
But He's become my eyes to see
The strength to climb, my griefs to bear
This Savior lives inside me there
In Your love I find release
A haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer my God to thee
In these trials of life I find
Another Voice inside my mind
He comforts me and bids me live
Inside the love the Father gives
In Your love I find release
A haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer my God to thee
Take my life and let me be
A living prayer my God to thee