“Old Man”
February 4th, 2006
Priscilla Van Sutphin
Early morning and all day, been hearing this old song; and it kept coming up to the point of agitation in my spirit, like I couldn’t get it off my mind. Tonight I asked if the Lord wanted to say something about it, cause again it came up. It would seem a song for the prodigals of this hour. So I asked the Lord what He wanted to say.
Here are the lyrics, then the words I heard…
Old Man
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life, Twenty four and there's so much more
Live alone in a paradise , That makes me think of two.
Love lost, such a cost, Give me things that don't get lost.
Like a coin that won't get tossed , Rolling home to you.
Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true.
Lullabies, look in your eyes, Run around the same old town.
Doesn't mean that much to me , To mean that much to you.
I've been first and last , Look at how the time goes past.
But I'm all alone at last. Rolling home to you.
Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes and you can tell that's true.
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were
The Lord began to speak:
“ Many of you are looking at your children, wondering what happened. You over-evaluate sometimes things you may have done wrong and need to forgive yourself for any mistakes you have made. Still I AM GREATER STILL than any mistakes you have made. I AM the GREAT I AM. I AM honoring your love for your children, many of whom are grown, and have gone a totally different way than you would have for them.
Some have said even in my church, evaluating statistics, that they are unsalvageable.
Some have said, focus on the younger ones, because it’s too late for the older young adults. Some have gotten youth into programs that are purely performance and or entertainment oriented. They are jumping through hoops to try to be like those around them, never realizing that I WANT RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM…personal relationship, not just airtime. NO ONE IS UNSALVAGEABLE because of age. Age is not a factor for ME. Why would anyone give up just before breakthrough. I tell you I WILL HAVE a REVIVAL among the youth unrivaled in this nation heretofore !
There is so much fluff in the teaching of the youth, and simplification that is too much watering down of truth, to be truth anymore. THE WORD STANDS ON IT’S OWN. MY WORD IS TRUTH. MY SON IS TRUTH. HE IS THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE THEY NEED TO KNOW AND YES, EXPERIENCE ME !!!!
They have seen so much hype and phoniness, many of them, that they don’t even want to enter a church. Where are those who will GO for ME into the streets, into the highways and byways and make a point of reaching out to those who are lost ? They aren’t going to come to hype and sensationalism. Some will come, but what will they become if they only see pretense and striving to be like the rest of the world. They want to see something REAL. They want something that works. Many of them care for the poor and broken. They see that the church has spent it’s wealth on themselves and hasn’t fixed what is broken in people. THEY NEED THE REALITY of MY SON. WILL YOU DEMONSTRATE TO THEM MY LOVE, MY POWER, MY PATIENCE, MY GRACE ?
Stand at heightened awareness My beloveds, when you go into the stores, and markets, and doctor’s offices, and drug stores ! I have work for you to do out there in the marketplace. I am not a man that I should lie, nor a son of man that I should change My mind. I am coming like a mighty rushing wind again and I will destroy the wisdom of the wise in their own opinions. I will destroy all the ways of man, the towers of Babel in your midst. I will invade coffee shops, and college campuses and I will take hold of a generation that others have X’d out and bring them to their knees.
I will not only do it for them, but for all in your generation ! RISE UP IN THE POWER OF MY MIGHT ! TAKE HOLD OF YOUR SHIELD OF FAITH ! RISE UP AND DEMONSTRATE THE TRUTH OF MY WORD, AND I WILL FOLLOW IT WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS, AND I WILL TAKE THE OLD MAN IN A PERSON AND MAKE THEM INTO A NEW MAN OR WOMAN, BOY OR GIRL.
IT WON’T MATTER WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST. I WILL SET THEM ON A NEW PATH , THE PATH OF LIFE IN THE SPIRIT ! They will know ME ! THEY WILL KNOW ME and WALK WITH ME ! They will leap forward in faith and demonstration of My love and giftings and they will be a force to contend with ! DO NOT GIVE UP on your families ! ARISE and take hold of the horns of the altar and plead your case.
It is time for Me to arise in hearts that have blockages, and brokenness, and I will heal and deliver them !
2 Cor 5:17-21 NIV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation ; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
