Prophetic art reveals the Father God’s heart of love, thoughts, intent, strategies and timetable. It comes with form, line, texture, colors, and symbols, which enter through the human eye and is then expressed through creative painting.
Most of the paintings on this site were done during worship at WOCIC.
“Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.” (Psalm 42:7)
“The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.”
-Isaiah 58:11
When I painted this, I envisioned music bars. I thought of how we can live our lives as a song to our King. He is the one who creates and brings the notes to life. In the painting, you can see that the music is flowing into a river. The words clarify the meaning of the whole painting: “You play the notes of my heart [,God].”
“Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.” Psalm 42: 7
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.” Matthew 5: 6
“The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.” Psalm 34:10.
On this particular Sunday, I laid down on the ground before our meeting began. While I was there, I felt the presence of God surround me. I saw this blue colored light coming out of my stomach and reaching like hands toward God. Then I saw a light from Heaven come down to meet those hands. This is what I painted.
We also sang a song that morning that you can find here; it is also relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJN4aS9uEBo.
The blue hands represent us, reaching up toward God, hungering and thirsting for His righteousness. Beneath us are little specks, which represent ashes. The idea for the ashes came when we were singing “Our God” by Chris Tomlin. I thought about how we move past all the issues of life (the ashes) and just worship God for who He is and His goodness.
When I painted this picture, the white color coming from Heaven changed a little. The light became colorful and started to look more like hands. The colorful hands represent God, who is gladly receiving our love and adoration. You can clearly see this if you turn the painting upside down. It looks like our hands and worship is flowing into His hands like water.
If you turn the painting sideways, it sort of looks like an eye. I thought about how we seek the face of God. If the painting is upright, with the colors on top, they look almost like wings. Wings represent God, as in “the shadow of His wings (Ps. 91)” or angels. Angels are sent to those who will inherit salvation.
I have been hearing people ask hard questions.
My college students ask, “How can we pick a major if we are not sure if there will be a need for us when we graduate? Are we doing all this for nothing considering the current state of the economy?” I ask, “How do we reach out and love people who have no current confidence in God because of their disappointment? How do people fall in love and follow a King beyond false pretenses that the issues of life will disappear?” I was praying for some of my friends that He would “make the crooked places straight” in their lives. In a couple of days, He showed me Isaiah 45: 2-3: “I will go before you and level the mountains [to make the crooked places straight]; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron. And I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, Who calls you by your name.” I believe that God wants to show us “great and mighty things [we] do not know.” When He tells me that He will make the crooked places straight, I believe that He will offer solutions. I also believe that these solutions will not just be short-term solutions for long-term problems, but long-term solutions to overwhelm short-term problems.
Hi Pastor Vin, You mentioned last Sunday about “pain in the night and joy in the morning” … I had painted a picture about that a few weeks prior. I feel the painting represents a coming season but also reaches back in time to remind us of the pain Christ experienced before His resurrection. The time in the Garden of Gethsemane, the days leading up to and enduring the cross were His “painful night” but there was oh so much victory in the “morning”! On one side there is the night with a stormy sea (representing life with it’s storms and waves), blood dripping from the moon (representing pain) and the crown of thorns (representing what Christ went through). On the other…a beautiful sunrise…the dawn of a new day. The dove with olive branch, not necessarily representing Noah’s journey and the Ark, was more about the evidence of a “new land”, a “new time” and the Holy Spirit. I felt that there would be a lot of pain in the coming season for a lot of people but that there is a horizon…a morning that holds joy, victory and a life lived with power through the spirit. We are in need of endurance and faith to get us through the pain in the night so we can experience the joy in the morning.
I believe there is a lot of growth happening in this season. The seed has been planted and it must be nourished and watered to grow. The growth process is not always easy, but it is beneficial and valuable. It is worth every minute of budding and stretching to see the Harvest!
I don’t have an extensive explanation for this painting, other than the title. The object in the painting is a lantern. The light coming from the lantern is blue, which signifies revelation. The lantern is gold, which symbolizes glory. Putting all of that together, I believe that God will reveal his glory in a field of dreams. God will plant His seed in a field of dreams. That seed will grow and fulfill dreams.
