The Matrix, 2014

The Matrix

I started this painting on December 31, 2013, while web streaming the OneThing Conference from IHOP-KC during Matt Gilman's worship bringing in 2014. It has evolved, layer upon layer, since that New Year's night. A little like our lives, the times we live in, our memories, our understanding of truth, our transformations, as we grow and experience this life. I got the name from the movie "The Matrix," (though my son thinks that's a silly name for it). But I feel it fits. The movie is really about two realities... or should I say, the world that we think we live in, and the world that is Truth... It is the realm of the "totally other than" that I am exploring, expressing, and hoping to interest you, the viewer, into pondering. And I am realizing that in every artwork I do poses a question. And I know now that it is the way that the Lord, my God and Father, whom I most affectionately refer to as Abba, communicates with me. The question. Not because He is in need of an answer, for He is the Creator of all things, and knows our thoughts before we do... but because He created us to be critical thinkers, and wants us to connect to Him through wisdom and understanding. There is nothing hidden from His sight, there is no searching His understanding, as Isaiah 40 puts it. 

A Glimpse of Color...

Here are just a few things I've been working on in the last year, or years. It's been a difficult year transitioning to California from Kansas City. I thought I'd throw up a few glimpses of different things. There are so many more in the works. Eventually I'll get them up too. 

This is a painting still in process that I started in 2007 in Kansas City. Some paintings take time to season, and for the right season of release. This is a good example of that.

 A corner shot of a painting I ended up re-doing. I love the splash here

 Here's another corner, living in the River of God!

"Holy"

Qadosh (Holy)
36x36 inches, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
2011

^{1 “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”}

^{2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne...}

"Awakening", 48"x36" acrylic on board, 8/8/11

"Awakening"
Original Artwork
created 8/8/11

This piece was inspired by the worship music of Jonathan David Helser. I was listening to, and worshiping the Lord with, his CD called "The Awakening". I had enjoyed this many times before, and even worshiped with Jonathan's music live (which was so awesome), but this time I was touched in a new and deeper place in my heart. 
The tears began to roll down, and through this music the Holy Spirit of the Living God dug deep into a place of despair I'd been experiencing for some time (due to the results of a car accident a few years ago). 
I felt a river of pain, discouragement, despair, and sadness pouring out with each tear as the River of God's love and hope and life began to touch me anew. I was washed afresh with the Father's love. I listened again, worshiping my Beloved Creator... And once again the River began to flow from out of me... Awakening!
And here is a glimpse on this piece of board, the Awakening... 
Behold the wind, the water, the oil, and the fire of God's immeasurable, unstoppable, undeniable, unshakable love for you and me!

Original Artwork Prints!

"Rivers of Living Water" Prints of this original artwork are now available for purchase. Click on the menu to select your print type and size to purchase your beautiful print!

Print Sizes/Prices

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My Painting is part of the CBS Sunday Morning Sun Art Library!

"Let Your Light Shine" 2011 Sun Art
16x20" acrylic on stretched canvas
January 2011

This is my latest art, 16x20" acrylic on stretched canvas, can also be seen at The Artist Challenge: http://artchallengegallery.com/?attachment_id=4557 

If you're interested in the original or a print feel free to contact me through my blog, or through my Consecrated Art Facebook page.

"Let Your LIght Shine" aired on CBS Sunday Morning on the January 27, 2013 show.

Earthen Vessels, II Corinthians 4:6-7

"For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves"

II Corinthians 4:6-7

We are His earthen vessels, emptied as a result of the broken places in our lives... but through His mercy we are filled with His love, His beauty, and His glory... 

And through the cracks and broken places in our lives His light shines forth, His power is revealed, His glory is made known, until we are transformed into the same image... and out of our belly flows rivers of living water...

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

II Corinthians 3:18

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

John 7:38

Let us be a living sacrifice for His glory today... He is the Worthy One

Whirlwind, The Wildness of my God

Whirlwind ~ The Wildness of my God
8/31/2010
30x40", Acrylic on canvas

"the wildness of my God"

"The Wildness of my God"
August 2010
acrylic; 30x40"

rivers of living water, John 7:38

"Rivers of Living Water"
Original Artwork
24"x36" acrylic on stretched canvas
2007

Broken & Spilled Out

This was a vision the Lord gave me as I sat before Him, in the prayer room at Zadok House of Prayer (ZHOP), Fort Mill, South Carolina in 2006. I painted in in 2007.