Fulfilling a Prophecy, Creating Beautiful Paintings to Adorn God's Temple
Several years ago God placed it on my heart to yield up my artistic talents. It was prophesied that I would live to a ripe old age and paint many beautiful paintings for Jesus. God sent a crazy young artist named Nathan Brown to help me on my way. Now we paint during worship service wielding our swords of color. I hope these paintings are as much a blessing for you as it was for me to paint them.
Focus
40x48 oil on canvas
currently on display at Antioch Fellowship Sedalia, MO
In this painting God was telling us to stop worshipping the idols of this world and concentrate on the harvest.
Where Is the House You Would Build for Me?
40x48 oil on canvas
Rishi Muni Ram, the subject of this painting is a native missionary in Bikar, North India. He lives on $90.00 per month. He was born of Hindu parents on February 10, 1978. His face is line, wind burned and intense. The great depth and character molded into it, comes from deep conviction and pain.
Rishi has no charisma and has never written a book, but he has found the Pearl of Great Price and has given up all, even family, to buy it.
His worldly goods fit into a woven bag with a strap. They include rice, water, an extra shirt, his Bible and tracts printed in Hindi. His clothing consis of a long shirt, trousers and a pair of sandals. He carries a wool blandet. Rishi endures sweltering heat by day and cold nights. Sometimes villagers feed and shelter him. Other times they beat and stone him. Witch doctors try to place curses on him. Weariness, loneliness and discouragement try to get hold of him. The lines and furrows in his face draw a roadmap between villages of Bikar. They were carved there by his devotion to Jesus. Rishi is building a house for the Lord.
Each of us is a body part in His body. None is greater; none is less. We are equally servants of the Lord;exalting Him by the house we build Him.
Prophet
18x36 oil on Masonite
We see from scripture that there was no greater man born to women than John the Baptist. A wilderness dweller eating locusts and wild honey, he wore camel's hair clothes bound by a leather belt. His life style was simple and his complete focus was on his very reason for existence
After 400 years of prophetic silence the New Testament suddenly bursts upon the scene. The airways are crackling and God is once again speaking to His people through a new prophet. The message is direct and simple. It also travelled across the centuries to us today like an arrow.
His voice was that of one crying in the wilderness; saying prepare the way of the Lord...
The Word
18x24 oil on canvas board studio painting
It's God's love and grace revealed. It's absolute, eternal, infinitely powerful, true, sovereign, unbendable and changeless.
It can't be broken, but you can break yourself against it. You can try to add to it or take from it to make it fit your own theology, but in the end, it will judge you.
It will vindicate and or hold you in derision on that day.
It alone separates light from darkness, and truth from self deception.
You will either press it against your heart or you will live your life as you please.
What you do with it will either put you in heaven or hell forever.
What you do in life is what you really believe.
It's our freedom of choice that has the power to activate God's love and grace if that choice is the right one.
John on Patmos
sold
It's thought that John was about sixteen years old when he joined Jesus. He was the disciple who outran Peter on the way to the tomb of Jesus. It was he who rested his head on Jesus' chest at the last supper. John was also standing at the foot of the cross with Mary, mother of Jesus. From the cross Jesus asked John to take Mary as his own mother. Jesus also conferred special favor on John, in his being the only disciple not martyred; he was indeed John the beloved. When we read John's letters, his gentle nature is evident
We now find John, over ninety years of age, banished to the island of Patmos for preaching the gospel. How much freedom he enjoyed there is an open question. Because of limited physical strength due to his age, he may have been watched more than guarded. I'd like to think of John's guard as more of a companion to him and I'm sure John shared his faith with him.
Whatever John's exact circumstances were, we now see John, on the Lord's day, rapt in the power of the Holy Spirit. Suddenly, a great voice like the calling of a war trumpet is sounding behind him, saying,"I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, Write what you see...."
The Burning Bush
18x24 oil on canvas board
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I Am Ancient Of Days
18x24 oil on canvas board
currently on display at Antioch Fellowship Sedalia, MO
Look at me. I've always existed. I had no beginning and I have no ending. I was, before there was anything else. Before I framed a doorway, I made galaxies a thousand light years from where you're standing. I chose my own appearance and name. I created my mother. I can do anything. Can you? For one moment I surrendered my power to you, when I gave you the choice to prefer and choose me. Some of you will. I created the tree that I died on. I nailed myself to that tree. Then, I began to breathe again. Can you do that? You can take my name in vain and I'll let you do it, but when I continue on forever, where will you be? Yes, I've given you the power to make that choice. I am love, and that is what I ask of you.
Hand on the Cross
18x24 oil on canvas board
The Vessel
18x24 oil on canvas board
Ahorah Gourge
18x24 oil on canvas retouched worship painting
Eighteen or twenty years ago, I saw a mental image of the ark of Noah. I thought, I've got to draw this before I forget it. That was long before my oil painting days. Days blurred into years and the image faded. The drawing wasn't made.
This morning, September 11, 2005, I sat by my easel asking the Lord what I should paint. I got absolutely nothing and since this was my 45th wedding anniversary, I didn't really care if I painted or not. All at once, the image of Noah's Ark, which I had seen decades ago, once again came into sharp focus. I thought, I don't have the time to paint that and there are technical art problems there that I've never handled before. I'll make a mess of this painting. The Lord said, paint it today on 9-11! Today, this painting speaks to me. It proclaims divine judgment, both past and present! The world of 5000 years ago, laughed for 120 years while this Ark was being built. Today, on 9-11 the world is still laughing...
In 1840, a volcanic blast took out hundreds of thousands of metric tons of earth and stone from Mt. Ararat. It was the full equal of Mt. St. Helen. Villages, the town of Ahorah and a monastery were erased in an instant. This was the mountain of Noah. I see spiritual significance and relevance in both the subject matter and timing of this painting. God's Ark of safety around America has been broken, as Noah's Ark is shown broken
Holy Holy Holy
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Resurrection
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