Sunday, August 8, 2010

Older Art






Top: Washing of the water and the blood.
We are cleansed by the blood of the lamb and the washing of the water of the word.
Acrylic on small canvas.

Refabricking your heart.
Broken heartstrings being reforged and reinforced with gold, causing the entire fabric of your heart to be strengthened and restructured.
Acrylic, oil pastels and gold leaf on small canvas.

Get in touch if you want to purchase any of these. All profit goes towards funding second year of ministry school at Bethel.

New Art!







The painting to the top I call: New Day.It is a reminder of Jesus' words in Revelation 21 "Behold I make all things new". There is new light, and illumination entering our lives at this time. It's a dawning kind of illumination...the kind of light one beholds as a new day begins to emerge from the shadows of the night. This kind of illumination is so bright that it causes us to forget the former things. We come to a place where we realize that "the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining" 1 John 2:8). In Him is life and that life is the LIGHT of all men. John 1:4

The image below it is a duplicate of one I created on a recent ministry trip and I was inspired to give away. The original picture captured an open heaven over the congregation we were sharing with. But it also revealed God's eye in the middle of the storm. In a similar way, I feel this depicts a storm of activity. But in the 'eye' of the storm, we find God. He gives us peace in the middle of the storm. Indeed, "I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye", Psalm 32:8. With His eye directing us and keeping watch over us we need not fear the storms around us.

Both pictures are 16 x 20 with acrylic and oil pastel mixes.
I am selling them to raise funds for ministry school.
$100 each, not including shipping.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010


Permission granted

You have permission to create. You have the capacity to capture what you see, think, feel, hear, taste and believe. On any canvas, on any medium that you so wish.

You can paint, draw, capture, release anything you want. You are an artist.
This creative ability is hardwired into the very fabric of your being. It exists in you on a cellular level. It is a huge part of your identity.

Since we were formed in the likeness of God, who's very nature is creative and artistic, it follows that we too have that same bent.

Genesis spells it out to us clearly:
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness,
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

We were fashioned after the image of one who is ultra creative, meaning that our creative potential is unlimited.

Sadly though, it is common for man to shut down this creative well and never ever tap into it or release it.

In this last year attending Bethel School of Ministry, I've learned that I am an artist. I've started to re-dig the wells of my God breathed and inspired creativity to collaborate with Holy Spirit to capture pictures that affect the atmosphere around me and cause others to come into an encounter with Jesus.

I used to think that just because I am not a very skilled drawer that my artistic attributes were limited and of not much use. However, one of the consistent words I've heard God say to me in this season is "permission granted". I have permission to create with Him in whatever way I so lean, without having to fear judgment or criticism. Whether I draw a stick figure which points to an area of the body that God wants to heal or create an abstract image demonstrating what's going on in the spirit, God says I have permission and I am anointed to create. That it is part of my DNA to be artistic.

So what will you create with Holy Spirit today? After all the possibilities are limitless, you were made in the image of an artist, and you have permission!
The pictures below demonstrate what I have created as I have collaborated with the Holy Spirit, and tapped into the wells of my creativity.
I am selling my artwork, so if there is anything that interests you let me know. All funds go towards supporting myself through ministry school-tuition and living expenses.
Top-Bottom:
When Heaven invades Earth
Open Heaven
Spirit fuelled Intercession