Welcome To a Life Changing Art Experience

From the artist

No one likes being deceived. We all like to think we are smart enough to recognize and avoid a trick. But I will admit I came very close to falling into a temptation as it looked like something helpful and life sustaining. Yes, our wish is to help one another. But God’s wisdom is needed. Satan is very clever at appealing to our desire to appear as the hero. I have learned when something demands a quick decision, to be extra cautious. The fact was that what looked so right would have landed both parties to end up in bad shape. The short answer is we need to take time to hear God’s wisdom!

From the artist

As a pre-teen reading verses about being in a pit did not seem realistic. But later experience in Asian countries woke me up to the real world!  Entire societies have been taught and live out the view of life that says survival of the fittest is the only way humans can make it! Seeing and meeting women who had been rescued from child slavery made me realize that we, who have been taught the about God, must tell the world how God is able to free them and keep them free from Saten’s bondage!

From the artist

“He Did It For Me” began as friends and I were teaching a man who, beginning at the age of five, had been in reform school and prison all his life. He said “No one ever loved me.” We told him how Jesus died on the cross so we could be free of Satan’s bondage, but he was just not getting it. Then I tried sketching Jesus on the cross and people walking across the bridge it created. That did it! It was like a light went on and he got it! I was convinced this scene would cause many others to understand as well and decided to paint it. It became “He Did It For Me” which has been distributed in six foreign countries in three foreign languages. God be praised!!

From the artist

The descriptive language in Revelation 8:5 caught my attention, and was begging to be painted. “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out His name from the book of life.” Studying about the censer being used to symbolized cleansing, I was excited to prophesy through this painting that God would send his angel to us to cleanse our earth! Are we at that place in history now? God, how we need your cleansing!

From the artist

Elijah was challenged to prove that the Lord God of Israel, whom he served, is real. Elijah commanded Ahab to gather 450 prophet of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah and all the Children of Israel for a show-down. They then agreed on Elijah’s plan to test each of their gods. Two bulls were prepared sacrifices and laid on the wood with no fire under them. Each would call on their god and the one who answers by sending fire, was God!

Worshippers of Baal began dancing wildly around their sacrifice, cutting themselves to show their passion for him. Nothing happened. Elijah mocked them saying, “Cry louder. Maybe he is busy or on a journey or sleeping.” They continued until evening with no results.

Then it was Elijah’s turn. He repaired the broken-down altar of the Lord, laid the bull on it, and poured water on it to assure there was no fire there. Then he prayed, “Hear me, Lord, that this people will know that you are the Lord God, and that you have turned their hearts back to you again.” Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering, and wood and the stones! 

From the artist

Looking at this painting it would be easy to assume God’s anger is directed toward His children who have been disobedient in some way. But what a surprise to discover that is not the case! His anger is toward the enemy of His children! (Psalm 18) I had to paint this picture because everyone needs to know this side of God!  He is truly a loving Father to those who choose Him as their Father! We must make a conscious choice between battling life alone or with a god who is all knowing, all loving, and all powerful. I like being on the side of a Father who created me, protects me, and has plans for me to spend eternity with Him in heaven!

From the artist

This story makes me both happy and sad. I am always happy when any person is wise and prepares carefully for their eternal, forever life in heaven with Jesus and friends in the body of Christ. But I shed tears for those who carelessly ignore or do not know there is pain in loneliness in the place they are headed for! I want to tell everyone to read the Word of God, confess their sins, ask Jesus to forgive them, obey God’s instructions so they will be ready to go with Him to heaven when He comes!

From the Artist

I know a dad who teaches his three little boys how to recognize poisonous snakes because he takes them hiking and wants them to be safe. I thought of this as I read Ephesians 6:11-18.  Those who follow Jesus have a Father who also cares deeply for His children and wants to keep them safe. He designed an armor to protect them from what He knows will try to come on them on their journey toward heaven.

From the artist

Are you tempted to live in pursuit of selfish goals, ignoring the Invitation God extends His invitation to become His child? History has proven that is a very dangerous road to travel! God, our creator, knows what brings true, lasting joy and peace in this life, and ending in a perfect, eternal place called heaven! Find a body of believers and enjoy this life together, encouraging and helping one another!

From the artist

As a child I remember putting my feet in my dad’s big work shoes, trying to walk in them, thinking these would be great if I ever met up with a snake or a huge spider! So now we can put on our heavenly Father’s spiritual shoes by taking authority over the powers of darkness! “You spirit of lawlessness and deception, we lose you from us, casting you into the pit, in Jesus Name. We bind ourselves to the Spirit of truth that sets us free!”  John 15:26

From the artist

Paul Septer’s teachings, introduced to me by a friend, were lessons I needed to keep my heart guarded. I could see some of those sins were on the drawbridge of my heart that had led to some undesirable actions! God knew I needed the lesson of Jesus blood and how it can protect us from being overcome by evil, destroying our love, joy, & peace. This teaching needed to be displayed in an easy-to-understand way. God allowed me to be the one to paint it.

From the Artist

What “things” can be important enough to cause me to abandon my walk to the promised land? My whole goal of eternal bliss in that awesome place called heaven cannot be interrupted or even slowed a little bit by “stuff” …things that do not help me get there. The book of Revelation is a complete and finalized story of Jesus Christ. I vow to not let anything get in the way of my arrival to the promised mansion!