Feathers

 It is 11/11/11 the global day of worship, and Bethel Church in Redding is having a 48 hour House of Prayer event, with continous worship that started last night and goes on until tomorrow. I love creative expressions, and always wanted to worship through plastic arts. I remember that when I was little I thought it would be cool for someone to paint on stage while worship was going on... that was way before I ever saw it happen through other people. ha,ha! Yesterday, my friend Janelle and I got invited to sign up to paint at the front of the Twin View Campus, where the House of Prayer is event is happening. Honestly it was a bit intimidated and I said no at first; but she knew it was something I'd been wanting to do and offered to do it together. Yay!! 

We signed up for today on the 10am-12pm, which meant that in this glorious day of worship, we would be doing prophetic art at 11:11 am on 11/11/11, how cool is that?? We wanted to do a test run, so during last night's worship we asked Papa for a picture. He gave us the concept of rain down, feathers and gavel; and together we painted the picture on the right that I feel stands for Papa's justice with a rain down of feathers in colors that represent glory, revelation and healing... it was so much fun! 

So today we went for the real deal, right at the front, with another 4 artists we took position before the canvas. By now I was no longer scared but excited and with anticipation of what Papa and Holy Spirit would do. It was so much fun!! I felt an explosion of creativity in worship the whole time. It was so good to partner with Holy Spirit and connect with my friend. Isn't that what life is about? Relationship with God and relationship with people that brings forth beauty and speaks life to this earth. That's exactly what we did, and God spoke so much, and it felt like such a life & love giving experience. My friend and I kept sharing what we felt God was speaking and painting over each other's work, and this was the result; fun worhsip! We actually did two pictures, the one on the left of this paragraph is one of them, we felt God wanted to release a continuation from last night's painting with the feathers... and then refining fire, gold of joy and beauty.

I can't get over how fun it was to do this; listen to Holy Spirit, worship Jesus, honor Papa, paint with a friend... I'm so thankful that we had this opportunity and that creativity is released in His presence.