LIVE ART!! 3.31.24 @hopewdm 5pm Easter Service!
The artist couldn’t make it to paint for the last service so with 40 mins notice to prepare I jumped for Jesus!!! This is in honor of my faithful mother Pat Jacobs @pj713 who loves Jesus with all her heart. Even as I started painting the woman became purple my moms favorite color. And she wanted to be remembered by butterflies.
I’m in awe of God and how he can make a way so spontaneously. That was the shortest notice I’ve ever had to paint live for worship. What a gift to have that opportunity to be completely inspired and obedient in the moment on the day that our Lord and Savior was raised from the dead.
Your name is power and healing! I’ll praise you anywhere and everywhere!
In the painting the woman represents the freedom, healing and power of renewing our minds with God’s word.
”Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.“
Romans 12:2 NIV
The sermon was based on the verses in John 20:1-8:
The Resurrection
20 Early on Sunday morning,[a] while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. 4 They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. 8 Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed.
I painted this live for Hope + Elim’s 1 yr anniversary November 14, 2021. Two churches, one being primarily African American and one being primarily Caucasian merged together during the challenging times of 2020. This very same weekend 62 years earlier Dr. Martin Luther King Jr preached on the very same stage in this amazing historic 1886 church about a beloved community. It was the only time he visited Iowa. Leading up to this celebration service I had been in an 8 week book/series study The Chosen with the creative arts ministry at our church. INCREDIBLE!!!! It’s so incredible that my husband and I watched both seasons in a few days. This is my second time around watching for the book study and now my husband wants to do the book study so we plan to watch it again. Watching The Chosen has helped me understand on a more real and deeper level who Jesus and his disciples are. It makes the fire in my heart grow and I just get excited for the next thing that I’m called to do. Unbelievable job to everyone involved ☝🏼🙏🏻thank you to everyone for following your passion!! Thanks Be To God!!!
When I finished painting and the service was over one of the speakers asked me if I had watched The Chosen…so exciting to connect!! God Is On The Move!!
Find out more about the artwork and watch the real-time service also a time-lapsed video of the live painting at renae-zanella.com
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