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.
22”w x 28”h x 1.5”d original mixed media on stretched canvas.
New Work!!! The most amazing thing happened while working on these the last couple weeks!
“House of Faith” and “House of Healing” are inspired by the “House of Grace” I just created a couple weeks ago. I used this same song “That’s who I Praise” by Brandon Lake. In the song he mentions several people from the Bible including Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. I’ve heard the names before but I did not know the story until 2 days ago. That part of the song with the 3 names has been playing over and over in my head the last couple weeks.
2 days ago I opened my Bible randomly like I always do before I start creating right to Daniel 3, the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego!!
“Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you refuse to serve my gods or to worship the gold statue I have set up?”
Daniel 3:14 NLT
But they get thrown in the firey furnace and don’t get burned up so the king was convinced of God’s goodness and ordered the empire to worship Him instead of their former false gods and idols.
Absolutely incredibly!! These are not accidents!! God is speaking to us through his living word!
The numbers on these paintings have so much meaning.
#9 represents faith, renewal, Gods faithfulness, transformation, nine fruits of Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Also finality or judgement but something ending can be a new beginning.
I love digging deeper and discovering how God has weaved so many things together and reveals them to us at the perfect moment. I love exploring the symbolism and significance of numbers in scripture.
Pray leads to a relationship with God which leads to transformation, healing and eternal life.
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