Jean Shen Prophetic ArtInvitation to His Garden

Message of the"Two Trees and the Valley of Decision" for 2012

2012-01-05T11:51:00.000-08:00

January 3, 2012

This is the message the Lord gave me for the year 2012 through the "Two Trees and the Valley of Decision" painting-word. Just think, this painting came in 2006 with the prayer collaboration of student prayer leaders at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). Only now is this painting-word activated and the message given.

One night, in April of 2006, I woke up and knew that I was to go down and paint the Tree of Life as Christ with His arms outstretched, singing to all to come and eat of the Tree of Life. I painted this tree as standing on the Mountain of God with the River of Living Water flowing out from the Tree. I remember that in 1993 He said to me, "I want you to be My court painter, painting for the King, and I will provide for your every need." I realize now that covenant word is a fruit from the Tree of Life which I have been eating these eighteen years and it has kept me alive through depression, bankruptcy, cancer. A sense of gratefulness wells up inside me as I realize afresh that He can keep His people alive in perilous times as we eat daily from the Tree of Life.

The Holy Spirit is referring to a heart to heart communion with the Living God where in our spirit we eat of Him and drink of Him. Not a day must pass without our sitting on His lap, laughing with Him, crying to Him, gaining a deeper knowing of who He is, hearing Him tell us who we are, burrowing deeper into Him, flying higher as an eagle, and actually laughing at fear afraid of nothing. Ha Ha Ha Ha! Ha! I also notice that when I eat from the Tree of Life that I can turn to my husband, son and daughter and friends and share the fruit with them, and they can go out and share it with yet someone else, and all our spirits will be nourished.

When I was painting the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, my brush moved over the crumpled and wrinkled rice paper with Chinese ink creating a large dark foreboding tree. Interestingly, back in 2006, the intercessors who came to see the painting saw many demonic faces embedded in the tree as ink blots (ink blots just show up without the artist painting them). But wait! Behold! At the top of the tree is an ink blot which shows Christ with one hand held high. Do you see Him? That image tells us that even though there's overwhelming evil and unprecendented threats in this world, nonetheless Christ has supremacy over all powers and authorities. Colossians 1:16-17 tells us: For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

All humanity stands in the Valley of Decision, painted as covered by mist or fog - some to choose Christ as the Tree of Life, thereby gaining life and life abundant; others to choose the enticing Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They do not see this tree as dark and ominous, rather, they are addicted to it believing it will lead to success and prosperity. Alas! Eating from this tree leads many into delusion, lies, addiction, loss of freedom, fear, control and death. The nations, especially our nation, is in the Valley of Decision in 2012 making critical choices that determine our future. How we must all pray and content for our nation!

For each of us, we must choose to live each day in the delight of the Lord, believing what He says is true. Not looking to circumstances and to our hearts' clamor and demand for solutions, but looking to Him who is more than willing to share His brilliant ideas with us. Yes, do look at painting #30, gallery section of www.jbrushwork.com. which shows a child sitting on Jesus' lap with Him holding the world in His hand. He is showing the child (which is you and me) what He is doing in the world and what part each of us will play in His brilliant scheme of things. To get His idea, His plan and purposes, is to eat from the Tree of Life.

The cloud of witnesses painted above the Tree of Life are those who have run the race and are now watching us from Heaven.Take note of the bearded Witness, which is Jesus. Moreover,they are urging us to run our race in our time and we are to declare with every fibre of our being that If God is for us, who can be against us?...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:33, 37-39)

Today, January 3rd, 2012, the Lord is showing me that with Jesus showing up in three different places in this painting that His Presence is everywhere. Look at Psalm 139 - "Where can I go from your Spirit?..If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there...even the darkness will not be dark to you...for darkness is as light to you." From Psalm 139 the Lord gave me Exodus 33: 12-19 to eat, as it is like a fruit from the Tree of Life to give us hope for our future. Moses said to the Lord, "If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.The Lord replied, 'My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.'"

O Lord! May it be so! Amen!

How Chinese writing validates the story of Creation

2011-12-30T12:14:00.000-08:00

November 5, 20ll

When 2011 came in, and with that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March, I felt that God was urgently calling one and all to come into His Garden of rest. It was amplified by the picture of the warrior child(representing us) sitting on Jesus' lap and He was talking to the child about what is occuring in the earth and the preparation that the child needs to be His agent on earth. All around them is a whirlpool of troubles and hardship for the earth. Psalm 91 was given to show us that He is our hiding place, our shelter, our fortress, our Garden. Yes, the Garden is our safe place. It is our only safe place.

The Lord is now stepping up in talking to us about His Garden. He is bringing in Chinese characters which are 700 - 1000 years more ancient than Mose's writing of Genesis, to validate and affirm that there was a Garden where He put the first man and woman and there were two trees in the Garden and the devil hid behind the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and he was the deceiver. Let me share briefly about our writing system. We do not have the system of the alphabets. Each character consists of a pictographic-ideographic image which has different parts to make up a whole word. We must commit each picture word to memory. These characters were in existence two thousand years before Confucius time, around 2500 BC. In the course of my teaching, a book came into my hand called The Discovery of Genesis, How the Truths of Genesis Were Found Hidden in the Chinese Language, written by Rev.C.H. Kang and Dr. Ethel R. Nelson. Because I teach Chinese calligraphy as art, I am keenly interested in these characters.

From studying this book, I began to learn about such characters as "righteousness" which is composed of two parts - the top part is the character for "lamb"; the lower part is the word for "I" or "me". Thus Lamb over me is righteousness. Another is the character for "Blessing". It is composed of four parts which put together says that "A person who walks with God in the Garden is blessed." The character for the deceiver, the devil, has six parts. In studying each of the six constituent symbols and adding them up, it tells of two trees in the garden, and that the devil is camouflaged and hiding behind one of the trees and that his purpose is to deceive. The character for "to create" has five parts. Together it tells of the creation of the first man from the dust of the earth, and that God breathe life from His mouth into the "dust man" and this man came forth, not as baby, but as an adult, able to talk, and also to walk. These are but four samples. There are many such amazing characters. *See below for actual Chinese characters

It is surmised that from the Tower of Babel a group of people traveled to the land which is now China and there our written language was invented which told of what they knew about the creation, Garden of Eden and the flood. It is the one remaining language which has been passed down intact for thousands of years. Unbeknownst to linguists and archaeologists and to most Chinese, Christians or not, God has left an important source that validates the book of Genesis: our Chinese characters, which gives a picture about the first Garden of Eden.

Note: to be continued - the "Two Trees and the Valley of Decision" painting: a picture of an end-time Garden of Eden.

Blessing

To Create

Deceiver

Righteousness

The amazing Chinese character "Glory" (Yong)

2011-12-30T11:57:00.000-08:00

November 28, 2011

Since I last wrote about our Chinese characters and how they validated the early stories of Genesis on creation and the Garden of Eden, I have been waiting to share about one more character that stands out to me - the character "Glory" (Yong). When I went to do a workshop for the Waves of Glory Women's Conference just three weeks ago, Lo and behold! the Lord woke me up two nights in a row to remind me of a painting He gave me back in 1996, "Tidal Wave Over the World" (see http://www.jbrushwork.com/, gallery section) and that this painting and the Chinese character "Glory" are linked up. You can understand the excitement I felt over this revelation.

The character "Yong" or "Glory" has three parts.

The top part shows two persons who look like fire with a bright and shiny appearance. They are standing on a covering over a tree, and this tree is the Tree of Life. From this character "yong", it seems like the Chinese ancients knew how Adam and Eve looked before the fall - that they were covered by light, had a glory about them and that they stayed close to the Tree of Life, eating the fruit of the tree and drinking from the river of living water. When they succumbed to the temptation of the evil one and ate the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the covering of light left, and they saw that they were naked.

When Jesus came, He first declared that He was the light of the world (John 8:12), and later He declared that we are the light of the world. I believe that indeed when we accept Jesus into our hearts, and the Godhead came to dwell in us, never to leave, the light, the glory of the Lord once again emanates from His beloved sons and daughters. We are the light of the world, so let our light so shine, that those who see us will give glory to God (paraphrase Matthew 5:14, 16). It is the enemy's intention and ploy that we be tainted and covered with shame and a sense of unworthiness so that we will hide our light under a bushel, believing that we are failures in God's eyes. Not so! We are the apple of His eyes.

Even though Satan tricked the first man and woman into losing their glory, God had inspired our ancient Chinese to invent a "character," a pictographic word, to foretell the emerging of another "new man" or "new race" who would be carriers of His glory. What brilliant thought of God! How He saw from the beginning of time that He would prepare a people who down through the ages would altogether become the glorious and shining bride of Christ, through what the Son of God did on the cross!

How does this character "yong" link up with the "Tidal Wave over the World" painting?

On the morning of the workshop,November 5th, the Lord had me reread what I wrote in The Rising Up of the Warrior Bride of Christ concerning the Tidal Wave painting. "In November of 1996, the Lord brought me to Oceanside, California, and while sitting in front of the ocean, on a rainy day, He gave me the Tidal Wave painting. What surprised me was the rainbow colors that came forth. Most interesting was the crest of yellow light that the tidal wave carried, with areas of fiery colors as well... I became very conscious that we were all carriers of His light. We may not see with our naked eyes, but light is emanating from us."

I went on to read about how I had gotten badly hurt in a church situation and had wanted to subtly put up a wall between me and the others. I thought that as long as I was walking with the Lord myself, I would be fine; really, nobody would even know. He intervened and spoke to me, "Jean, this is not the time to walk away from the tidal wave; it is the time to walk into the tidal wave. Revival is coming and you want to be in the revival. You must be one as We are One. You collectively are the bride of Christ, not the brides of Christ. You must act as one now. The light from all of you coming together as one light will collapse darkness with the force of a tidal wave, overwhelming it with light and love." This is a word for NOW. He is urging us to put away all our differences and get into oneness and collectively shine for Him. John 17:33, "I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you send me and have loved them even as you have loved me." Amen, Lord Jesus.

Entering into His rest concerning our finance

2011-08-17T10:43:00.001-07:00

August 15, 2011

Two days ago, as I sat on a high bluff in front of the Pacific Ocean listening to the waves, with my eyes closed, I was so aware of my friendship with God. For so many years, more than eighteen, I have sat with Him there. Our friendship has been forged through fire and water.

As I am writing this email, I know that Peter and I have come through another huge testing in the arena of finance. You see, the down-to-earth threat is that when Peter's unemployment checks stop in a few months, and if he still cannot find work, we may no longer be able to make the heavy mortgage payments which will lead to the loss of our home of 40 years. The fabric of our lives as to my teaching art in our wonderful art room, as well as Peter publishing my books and prints in our home office, and the many years of housing our house church where so many have come and are still coming to eat and worship the Lord together, all that will be gone.

BUT GOD...Since the beginning of this year 2011, the Lord has instructed us to daily declare Psalm 91 over ourselves and our home. Through Psalm 91 He promises us that His faithfulness will be our shield and rampart and that no disaster will come near our home. In fact, He commands His angels to guard us in all our ways as we learn to take power and authority over the devourer and the enemy's lies, in the name of Jesus and by His shed blood. He says that because we love Him and acknowledges Him, He will answer us when we call out to Him for help. He will deliver us from troubles and honor us and show us our salvation. This is not written lightly. Over and over we are being trained and tested on this. Do we believe His word in Psalm 91? Do we trust Him? Is He Who He says He is - Jehovah Jireh (the God who provides) and Jehovah Rapha (the God who heals)? He asks us to enter into rest as in Hebrew 4. He invites us to to live in His Garden of Rest (reference His Garden at http://www.jbrushwork.com/, book section). Can we rest when the whole world is falling into economic woes and disasters of all sorts? How can we find rest when we are sitting on the brink of possible loss of our home? Yet, both Peter and I are truly coming into our rest regarding our financial quandary. Our spirit is learning to say "Yes, Lord, we will rest. We choose to rest."

I am sharing this because this training is coming to all of us. The bottomline is that He's got to train His bride now to keep our eyes on Jesus and to walk on water. We are all in the school of the overcomer.

As I sat there at the bluff by the ocean, I opened my journal and began to re-read the notes I took of Graham Cooke's teaching at the Aglow conference in Ontario on July 9th this year. (see "You have lost your first love" July 28, 2011 on my blog http://jeanshenart.blogspot.com/ or the journal section of my website or read Graham Cooke's book, Prophetic Wisdom). As I was pacing on the bluff wondering how to get it, that is, Graham's teaching, suddenly I felt the Holy Spirit nudging me to take courage and say to the Lord, " You painstakingly carved those truths on Graham Cooke's heart which brought him to live profoundly in Your rest, without even one worry in the last so many years. That man has gone to live in the Garden of Rest and he has not left, and that's what I want, Lord. You gave me the book His Garden, and You are sending me out to share the story, but I still have unrest in my own heart. Lord, I am desperate for Your Holy Spirit to transport those words of Graham Cooke into my heart so that I too, like Graham, will truly live in the Garden of Rest and never leave it again."

I sense that He was pleased with my request and that this was His response: "I have been doing that in you for many years now, dear Jean. Many, many years. You are simply being processed differently from Graham. But the goal is the same for you and him and all my other beloved ones who delight in Me. I am calling one and all to enter into My Garden of Rest. There lies your hiding place, your shelter from all storm. It is also where I will walk and talk with you in the cool of the day as in the Garden of Eden. Do not fear. Remember, all things are possible with Me. If I ask you to do something, it means I will empower you to do it. There is no other way you can do it but by My power.Take heart and trust in My faithfulness to provide for all your needs."

What it's like to live in the position of "first love"

2011-08-17T10:40:00.000-07:00

July 26, 2011

In July, 2011, I went with six of my paintings to exhibit at the West Coast Aglow Conference in Ontario, California, not knowing that this was set up by the Lord for me to hear Graham Cooke speak.  As soon as I heard him speak, I knew God wanted to tell me something critically important for my own walk with the Lord. On the second session, Graham was addressing "You have lost your first love," and that was when I knew I had lost my first love. Only, the way Graham Cooke used these words in Revelation 2:4, "You have lost your first love" concerning the church in Ephesus, it was different from how we normally hear it - a scolding that we no longer want to serve God as passionately as when we first become Christians.To illustrate what "first love" really meant, Graham had four people come on stage, one to be Father God, the second one to be Jesus. These two stand facing each other. The third person is a woman representing the bride of Christ and the fourth is the Holy Spirit. He placed her in the middle of Jesus and the Father. He had the Holy Spirit stand behind her.

The term "first love" is the love that exists between the Father and the Son from before time. When Jesus returned to Heaven He sent the Holy Spirit to be on earth to usher the bride into the space between the Father and the Son. When we stand in that space, we receive the first love that flows between the Father and the Son unceasingly going through us. The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. They are unceasingly speaking loving words with each other. We, standing between them, get to be the recipient of the flow of their love one for the other. We are privileged to hear their conversations with each other. The Holy Spirit's job is to stand there behind us to help us stay in that space of the flow of their first love. Anytime we believe the lie from the enemy that we are not worthy of being in that space between God the Father and God the Son, but we must work for it, we move out of that space of first love. (Revelation 12:10b, "For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night..." The enemy works day and night to rob us of our rightful place in the embrace of the Father and the Son through subtle religious lies, which unfortunately comes through many performance church teachings.

The year that cancer was found on me was both the most difficult year of my life and yet the highest level of living as the beloved of God. In that one year of keeping a journal of every exchange of words between God and me, I went from a scared human being to being an overcomer daring to fight cancer with God's word and full of the joy of the Lord.

You see, the words I wrote down from Him to me in my journal during that cancer year which are now in my book Out of the Wilderness were amazingly loving and powerful.   I always wondered how come He could love me into being healed of cancer. I never had treatments and the doctors said they were sure my lymph nodes were all infected and I did not have a minute to lose in getting chemo and radiation treatments. In fact, part of the strain of cancer was aggressive. Yet I am alive today because the Holy Spirit ushered me into that space between the Father and the Son and for a year I was bathed and washed in the first love of the Trinity. It is now seven years and I am alive and still testifying of His healing power.

A friend wrote me a few days ago that she is rereading my Out of the Wilderness book, only this time she is using it as a daily devotional. She shared that she is getting to know in her spirit the person of God as Jehovah Rapha and Jehovah Jireh (the God who heals and the God who provides) and that every word speaks to her spirit. I am glad she is doing that. I know now that every word I wrote during that one year was written from being sandwiched between God the Father and God the Son, with the Holy Spirit beaming at me.

The Lord brought me to hear Graham Cooke because He wanted me to know that I did experience and live in that first love for several years, but gradually through repeated attacks from the enemy to discredit my healing I began to grow weary. I fought back hard and continued to stand for my healing but it did take a toll on me. Read my blogs http://jeanshenart.blogspot.com/ or http://www.jbrushwork.com/html/journal.html to see several reports I wrote last year to alert people that the enemy was hitting leaders especially hard to bring them into sickness and weariness of spirit.  When I wrote those reports I did not know I would also get hit.

I had suffered from chronic heart palpitations for many years, but got healed of it when I was healed of cancer. In the last two years as the wiles and schemes of the enemy raged strongly against my mind, emotion and body, I began to forget how it felt to live in His Garden of Rest, how to sit on the lap of Jesus, how to enjoy being in the position between God the Father and the Son where I was loved unconditionally. I had opened the door to receive packages from the enemy telling me how unworthy I was to be painting for the Lord. Subtle lies upon subtle lies snucked into the door of my mind. No more did I see myself as the beloved of Jesus with the beautiful gown of incredible lightness and the slippers I could dance in. I started to carry a sack full of urgent cares, fears and griefs of all sorts, and I was beginning to believe it was time to go be with the Lord. So tired. Heart palpitation came back to me with a vengeance. Last week I was put in the hospital to get an angiogram done as the doctors were quite sure that an artery must be getting narrower and I would need to have a stint put in. To their huge surprise, the surgeon exclaimed, "Her heart is as clean as a newborn!" Ha Ha!

Last night as I was in between consciousness and sleep, I heard the word "the supremacy of Christ." I knew that the Holy Spirit was alerting me to rise up and fight to stay, to abide, to remain in the position of first love. Just as His Garden is a state of mind and heart, and sitting on Jesus' lap is to return to childlike faith and trust, I must guard myself from giving in to lies of all sorts which he uses to rob and steal my inheritance and destiny, especially the lies that I am unworthy and third class citizen. I have learned that step first step toward losing the Garden in our hearts is to allow the cares of the world - worries, fear, stress to grow subtly over our hearts like weeds.We must declare the supremacy of Christ over all things in our lives and render null and void threats and intimidations he uses to undermine our position as His beloved.  In taking authority over every single lie of the enemy (take time to identify the lies one by one) we will gain strength in knowing that we are the beloved, because indeed Christ lives in us, the hope of glory.

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Through the Tunnel to Our Destiny

2011-04-06T10:59:00.000-07:00

This painting was birthed on March 26, 2011 at a prophetic worship intercession event for Japan and the Middle East. As the worship team with Carol Kiger-Rice was singing "Open The Heaven" (written by Carol Kiger-Rice with Voice of the Bride Ministries ) my spirit was soaring with the sound going up to heaven. I felt so alive and full of joy and thanksgiving to this great, good God who loves us so. In His greatness He honors us tiny humans to play a part of bringing down His will to earth as it is in heaven through worship and intercession. Do you see there's gold coming from Heaven that is blotting out part of the black line which is the second heaven? Do you see the seven horses who symbolize the angelic hosts coming to earth to help us? I marvel at how immense is His Presence in the heavens, how limited the power of evil in the second heaven compared to God's realm, and how tiny, tiny is the earth. I thought to myself, "Surely I can trust this great God with my worries and fear!" More revelation has come: I see that the tidal wave looks like the beginning of a tunnel. I sense the Lord saying, "Through your heartfelt worship and intercession, earth will move out of the tunnel of chaos and confusion into a place of seeing into the heavenly realm." This painting encourages us that we are closer than we think to the fulfillment of Joel 2:28-29, "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days." As we go through this tunnel of confusion and chaos at this time He is saying to you and me that we will emerge stronger and seeing more clearly than ever before. Moreover, He will take us all the way to fulfill our destiny. Thank You, Jesus, for giving us this painting-word!

Pray Psalm 91 for a world in crisis

2011-03-28T11:41:00.000-07:00

Recently I received an email with a video of Rick Joyner giving us a very sobering message. He said that Bob Jones (whom he considered the most accurate prophet today) prophesied the Japan earthquake twenty-some years ago. He is prophesying the beginning of economic meltdown for the whole world as well as the next earthquake which will take place on the West Coast of the United States.

In light of Bob Jones' prophecy about the West Coast being the next place for an earthquake, in my spirit I see that we who live on the West Coast (as well as elsewhere) must now step into the realm of "we live by faith not by sight." (2 Cor.5:7) In other words, we are to live by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God. Jesus said in Luke 4:4, "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." The thought came to me: Yes, the spiritually laid back lifestyle will no longer work for us. We are going to have to live by every word that comes from God, which means, we need to develop an intimate relationship with Him whereby we can hear His voice with clarity.

In September 2004, I was invited to get a painting-word for the United Nations at a 24-hour prayer meeting in New York City. While there I received a vision of a child sitting on the lap of Jesus who is sharing His heart with the child concerning the world. Little did I know that it would be seven years before God's kairos time for this painting to emerge.

From this painting we see this child listening to His voice, and we know that he is kept alive by what Jesus tells him. For in truth in this time of the earth shaking and economy shaking, and nations warring, and hearts melting in fear, we know we must learn to sit on His lap in total childlike trust to be safe.

This morning I felt fear knocking on the door of my heart from Bob Jones prophecy, so I asked the Holy Spirit to help me overcome my fear. Psalm 91, which Peter and I read every morning, came to my mind. I sat down with pen and my journal and began to copy Psalm 91 down, except I was rewriting Psalm 91 with the help of the Holy Spirit to meet my heart's need and, I believe, the need of all our hearts for the days ahead.

Psalm 91

We who sit on the lap of Jesus will rest in the protection of His arms that enfold us. We will cry out to Him, "You are my safety and my source for food and water. You are the One I can trust." We declare that You, Jesus, will save us when the earth shakes and houses crumble and mountains fall into the sea, and when the tsunami waves rise three-story high. We declare that You,Jesus, will cover us with Your voluminous gown as You bundle us up and take us to higher ground, and tuck us away by the strong Rock. We know You will faithfully guard us and You will be our shield and rampart when all hell break loose on earth.

We will not be tormented by the fear of when the earthquake will strike, nor how we can stay alive when the economic system of the world falls into total chaos. Thousands and tens of thousands may be hit, but we will be hidden in Your embrace. We will watch it from afar and we will also see how God powerfully turns everything to good for us who love You. Not only that, but we will laugh with the He-Laughs-At-Fear Horse(see www.jbrushwork.com) when tens of thousands will run to Jesus and the enemy will gnash his teeth, helpless to hang on to them.

If we learn to sit on Your lap as little children, and if we proclaim You are our very own safe place, then no harm will befall us, no disaster will come near our home, because You will command Your angels to guard us wherever we are and whatever we do. These angels will be our guardian angels.( see the horses in the "Tidal Wave over the World with Wild Horses" painting who are being sent to the earth to assist us). We will walk in His authority and peace and boldly step on the lion who is the devourer and on the serpent with the deadly forked tongue. We are being trained even now to use our authority over them in Jesus' name.

Jesus tells us - the child on His lap - "Because you love Me and trust Me and you declare My name, I will respond to you when you call Me. I will be right there for you in whatever circumstances you are in, and I will deliver you out of your troubles. I will turn things into blessing and bring honor to you. With long life I will satisfy you and show you the way I will save you - through signs and wonders, dreams and visions and miracles."

How do we pray for Japan? By praying for the Holy Spirit to come down upon Japan - the nation with 1 1/2% Christians. God wants to counter the tsunami of death and destruction that hit Japan on March 9th with the tsunami of the Holy Spirit of Joel 2:28, "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions."

Last year in December I got the impression that two painting-words were coming for 2011 - the "Tidal Wave over the World with Wild Horses" and the "Warrior Child" painting-words. I am not wrong. Please pray for the release of these two words over Japan. And may God's "wild horses", human and angelic, be sent to Japan to release the Holy Spirit there. Amen!

In the School of The Overcomer

2011-02-15T12:13:00.000-08:00

February 7, 2011

A couple of months ago, a friend let me know that the Lord wanted her to purchase an original painting from me. I asked her which painting, she said she did not know and that I was to ask the Lord with her. This sure is a new way for God to be my Agent for my paintings.

So we got together and before you know it, we both were getting the sense that it might be the large LOTUS painting. This is an important painting in my life. It carries the anointing of the Overcomer spirit. It was to accompany the chapter called "In the School of the Overcomer" of my second book, The Rising Up of the Warrior Bride of Christ, a Prophetic Journey. I would like to lift a portion from that chapter to share with you:

For twenty some years I lived in anticipation of the fulfillment of Psalm 40:2, "He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire." Yet it was in the very slimy pit, in the mud and mire, that the Lord gave me those beautiful, gentle, sweet, and powerful painting-words. How can that be? I think of the lotus flowers growing out of the mud and water: their stems push their way up through the mud into the air to bear these pearly white flowers. John 16:33 b says, "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." Jesus overcame the world; we are told to do likewise. This is the overcomer's principle that we live under while we are in this world.

The Book of Revelation constantly exhorts His bride to be overcomer. Revelation 2:7 says, "To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life."....Verse 26, "To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations."

...There is no getting around it. We are in training now. Our faith muscles must grow stronger by use; our patience must turn into long-suffering. This is seen in James 1:2-3, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

God is developing the overcomer's spirit in His bride. We are in the overcomer's school. The paintings He sent me, and the messages that came with them, are calls to us to be overcomers. It is He that is training us up into it. When He does it, it is with wisdom, grace, and effectiveness. He compliments us when we overcome another hurdle. He forgives us when we fall. He lets us know He is with us. He protects us. He shares His thoughts with us. Through it all, He is always stretching us to make us ready for what's coming in. He is prodding us to get on quickly with His lessons. Dear friends, we must heed what the Spirit is saying to us. His timing is perfect.

.In this difficult time for us all, Andrew got the word that we are to joyfully praise and thank Jesus for the great things He has done for us; moreover, to proclaim the greater things He is planning to do through us. No matter what the obstacles - finance, health issues, depression - He is calling us and is equipping us to be overcomers.

Feb. 7, 2011

God gave me another word today - "Come Up Higher"

2010-07-12T13:04:00.000-07:00

written July 9, 2010

San Diego had a jolt and some shake yesterday - 5.9. Peter and I ran downstairs and out to the front yard, just in case. I wrote in my diary that even as the earth is shaking, so are God's people being shaken in their lives. Yesterday I received at least three news of "troubles" or obstacles coming to His people which caused them to be troubled, angry and worried, a natural human response. I looked up to the Lord and asked, " Is the All is well word timely? (see my July 7 blog, God's net of blessing) If it is, what more do you want to show us?"

All I know at this point is that God is going to show us new things. The word I got today is Revelation 4:1, Come up higher and I will show you... Every challenge or trouble only presses me to go higher - to see, to hear, to know what our Father God/Commander-in-Chief/Comforter-Friend is preparing for us all. He is training His bride in the art of "coming up higher" so we can have clarity.

This is the clarity that I sense is from Him: that indeed all is well and that God is preparing us to take dominion or authority over the earth for Him. He had asked Adam to do that, but Adam forfeited his call. I don't see us like Adam losing our inheritance, or getting victimized. Instead, I sense that He is calling us to take a bold step forward, come up higher to seize hold of our inheritance.

I see God taking us into greater glory as in Isaiah 60:1-3, Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

I see Him showing us how to leap across chasm and accomplish unusual feats. Or I see Him taking us on unexpected twist and turn and suddenly our vision expands before us. But most of all, I see us coming into what we are made for. That is just about the most powerful thing to happen to us - when we know who we are in Christ with all our talents and gifting, and then we present ourselves to Him as living sacrifices. That's when the kaboom! takes place in our being and we become fully passionate towards God.

This is the year of breakthrough, and many are coming into their breakthroughs in so many ways. God is all about such breakthroughs. The Bible is full of stories of God in partnership with humans to bring us into unbelievable success stories - Joseph, David, Moses, Abraham, Ruth, Peter, Paul, John all reaching their full potentials. When I use the word "success" I mean "bearing much fruit." I have been experiencing the sense of success and favor as my gifting and talent come into fuller use by Him. He wants to do that for every single child of His - musicians, surfers, jewelry maker, inventors, investors, bankers, businessman, postman, cook, wife, mother, doctors, scientists, all. He so wants to be the wings that carry us higher. He has brilliant ideas to share with us, no, to put in us, to give to us. He wants to help us to implement these ideas. He wants to open doors for us, get us connected to the right people, bring us the loan we need, because He is in all these endeavors. He created us so we can be creative like He is. We are like Him when we are being passionate with our talents and gifting. He rejoices over us with singing and it gives Him such joy when we succeed in all our enterprises. By doing what we are gifted to do we are fulfilling the Lord's prayer, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven because we are His sole agents to take dominion over the earth.

But first He must train us to know Him, recognize His voice and not the voice of the enemy who poses as angel of light, which produces the religious spirit, a counterfeit spirit. He needs us to be so in love with Him that we are one with Him. That's how He can take us higher - when we are so in Him and for Him that we would move as one with Him in all our endeavors on earth. No longer will we be split up inside us - swayed by the system of the world, and driven by selfish ambition, tormented by fears and doubt. We will be so still in Him, gazing into His eyes, all our being in sync with His Spirit. When He moves up into the air, flying high, we will be in Him, enjoying every move and every nuance of joy and exuberance that He feels. We will see what He sees. We will hear Him telling us things we have never known before.

Jesus said, I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)

God's net of blessing

2010-07-12T11:16:00.000-07:00

written July 7, 2010

I last wrote about the enemy's net of troubles (see my June 21st blog) which he has put over many, especially leaders; today I am writing about God's net of blessing.

Five years ago I fought cancer with the weapons God sent me and not with medical treatments (refer to my book, Out of the Wilderness) Last year the doctor said mammogram test showed that possibly cancer had come back to the lymph node. Thus started the enemy's attempt to wear down my faith in God's miraculous healing. He was hounding me with "Did you hear Him right when He said you will never be ravaged by cancer again?" That's it! - Did you hear Him right?

The enemy knows that it is all about hearing His voice right so we can function right in this dark and confusing world. So it helps the cause of the enemy greatly for the bride of Christ to doubt her ability to hear His voice or to doubt whether she hears Him right. Instead of being the warrior bride, we become the hesitant bride. You see, a lot of the weapons He gives us - declaring, proclaiming, taking authority - all require that we be bold and daring and confident, which can only come from our ears being trained to hear His voice accurately, our eyes to "see" into the spirit realm and not the natural realm, and our hearts to KNOW the Bridegroom so well we just know what He would do and what He would not do.

All this comes from being in the School of the Overcomer. Even as the enemy seeks to confuse and demoralize us, in reality we are in His classroom and being trained in the art of fighting against the principalities and power of the air. Some of these classroom projects can be of long standing (repetition helps us to "get it"), but humanly we may get weary and lose strength. But wait, what is the Holy Spirit saying to us? Do I hear right? Is He actually saying "All's well!"

How can it be all's well when evil is rampant and we seem to be losing the war? Yet it is possible because we actually live on two planes - we live in the world, but we are not of the world. We do not fight the humans that we see with our eyes of the flesh. We fight the enemy that is in the air, or behind humans and behind circumstances.See 2 Corinthians 10:3-5. The school of the overcomer trains us to discern the enemy, and to take our eyes off the world (including people and circumstances and what the media tells us). He is training us to see not with our physical eyes or hear with our physical ears, or understand with our human understanding and wisdom, but to see through our spirit eyes and ears and heart. I tell you, it is absolutely amazing who we are and who He is for us. If only the people of the world - the governmental leaders, the religious leaders, the power movers know what we have with God and the power and authority we have in Christ - they would beg us to show them how to live the way we live. Our bodies may be under attack and we may be going through hardship, yet our spirit ears can hear Him saying, "All is well."

I experienced this dichotomy in a clear,sharp way about two months ago. One morning I was pacing at the bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, my heart greatly troubled, waiting for guidance, when out of the blue I began to sing the song "How Great Thou art" and then I found myself singing the old hymn "It is well with my soul".My spirit knew that I had hit just the right song. Boy! I sang and sang "It is well with my soul, it is well with my soul, it is well with my soul, with my soul" until my whole being was filled with KNOWING that all is well. From that day on, every time I was going under, I would sing this song. Not only me, but Peter began to get it too. When we discuss problems or worries, Peter would bellow out, "All's well!" and that would be the end of our worries. Over and over this Holy Spirit's antidote to the net of troubles would come to us until our spirits own it. We would whip out our swords and declare to the enemy "All's well!"

For indeed as the Psalmist says, "You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemy, my cup runs over, and surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house forever." (Psalm 23) We are declaring the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. We are also fighting with the enemy by declaring that all is well. That is faith in action. Not seeing, not hearing, not experiencing changes in circumstances, yet knowing that all is well. It is a done deal, so to say. All's well became a canopy over us.

Circumstances and people in my life began to come under the canopy of All is well Relationships that have troubled my heart for so long began to transform into His Garden relationship. Life's many complex troubled situations began to change.The best news to me was that on our wedding anniversary June 28th Peter declared that indeed we must celebrate because for the first time ever he is experiencing the peace and faith in God no matter what the circumstances are. Jeremiah 29:11 is now a life transforming verse to him, For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

In other words, All's Well!

The enemy has set a net of troubles

2010-07-12T10:16:00.001-07:00

written June 21, 2010

It's become clear that there is a dastardly net of the wiles and schemes of the enemy over the bride, especially over leaders who carry an anointing for healing or new man-new marriage, or creativity and joy. The net has been thrown over these ones for long duration, in terms of years, bringing troubles of all sorts to their families, including serious health issues, financial issues, relational issues. Troubles upon troubles to their loved ones and themselves, until all their time and attention are spent trying to solve these problems, with seemingly no end in sight. And when they sleep there is no real rest.

These leaders know how to go deep into the cavern of God's heart in their hearts and they know how to fight with the right weapons, having experienced many wars and won many wars, but these troubles are such that they wrench the roots of their hearts, and hit the fiber of their lives.They exhaust all the avenues of prayer help and all the weapons of war, such as standing on scriptures, praying, praising, declaring, repenting and forgiving. Yet the attack is so insidious that the very fiber of their lives begin to fray at the seam and they begin to change. The way they change no one can blame them. When it's their sons and daughters and grandchildren, and husbands or wives, whose troubles and pain would not go away,and there is no break, no solutions in sight, and the pain is not only physical, but mental, emotional - they begin to change in such a way they are not aware of.

They can still carry on their ministries, and their prayer still is powerful and anointed, but inside their heart of hearts, they begin to lose their joy. They begin to carry worries, day and night, it seems, and from worries they slip into tinge of anger and tinge of bitterness, tinge of being sour, which they quickly push down deeper because it won't do for leaders to be worriers and hostile people. They guard their tongues, or try to. To people they minister, they are still so right on and strong. But their exchanges with their families may carry barbs and suspicion and put-downs and defensiveness. Most of all, they are tired, so very, very tired. And the passion for Jesus seems so hard to sustain.

Oh but they are leaders! Much depend on their faithfully standing on the wall and praying for their region, their city, their nation, their church, their loved ones. So they continue to minister. When they are leading a prayer meeting, the anointing is still there, and they are still seeing and hearing, so doing ministry is a respite from worries and other negative thoughts. But once they are alone, the weight of their tiredness is over them like a blanket. Where is the peace and joy and lightness and freedom that are their rightful inheritance? What is going on? Where have they gone off? They search their hearts and guilt and condemnation snake in and out of their thought and emotional life.

Some who were healed of cancer and other major diseases supernaturally are told that these diseases seem to have come back. This round they are not up to contending for their healing. Still believe in it, and still praying for themselves and others who ask their help, but somehow they are not the same "wild horses" anymore. The fire seems to have gone out of them. So they do what everyone does - they set appointments and get tests and scans and prescription and their schedule is filled up with doctors' appointments. However, the problem is the doctors seem to dig up more possible health problems. The prescribed medicines pile up, plus side effects. And that wonderful thing called intimacy with God seems to fade into the background, put on the back burner for better days when they will have time, lots of time, to spend with the Lord. But not right now because there's so much distractions.

There is a film, a black film, a fog, a mosquito net, whatever it is called, over the bride, so subtle, so insidious, so dastardly. The enemy knows that just by stealing our joy in the Lord, and what God calls "rest" (Hebrews 4), he can render the bride to be ineffective. How? By putting in the place of joy and rest his offerings - guilt and condemnation and sadness and works, lots and lots of human efforts (striving) and good intentions and figuring things out. He knows his time is short, and the bride is rising up to be the trained partner of the Lord who knows how to exercise the power and authority He has given to us. This is so key to the bride's well-being. So the enemy's plot is to sabotage us all by wearing us out, zapping our passion, our focus, our hope and joy.

I have more to write, as He has been speaking of marvelous antidotes. Some leader friends and I are exchanging information and wising up to the net that is over so many. Some are getting the breakthroughs now or some are seeing some breakthroughs. This one is not so easy to break free from because it involves the fiber of our lives - the who-we-are-in-Him and the Who-He-is-for-us. Praise God He is exposing it. Your prayer is very important for the bride, especially for those in leadership to be set free from the "snare" the enemy has set for us and our loved ones.

Trees by the River

2010-06-16T10:31:00.000-07:00

written December 18, 2009

I sat with the Lord by the Pacific Ocean this morning, and I received a word about us, those who have a long history of going to the cavern of our hearts in His heart - walking and talking with Him in the cool of the day in His Garden, those who are seasoned warriors. Yes, those ones. This has been a hard year and things have been happening that should not have happened to God's leaders who pray with authority - grandchildren hit with strange sickness, a teen son walking away from the Lord, possible serious sicknesses coming on, loss of jobs and financial desperation.

I hear accusations, condemnations, warnings for past mistakes, past offenses, blah blah! I see weary leaders losing strength, disheartened and confused What have we done wrong?

Yet these are seasoned warriors, even generals all waiting on Him, the Commander-in-chief to take us into victory. Victory? Why does that word "victory"sound slightly hollow to our ears presently? The enemy has been playing with our minds; on the other hand, we have never left our post. We still are putting everything, all our hopes and dreams and faith, on our Supreme Leader, our Beloved Lord Jesus. In fact, the truth of the matter is that we cannot leave our posts because our feet have grown roots where we stand, and the roots are holding us fast to the very soil, the very ground where He has planted us.
Not only that, but our arm, our hand which have been wielding our swords, like that faithful warrior in David's army (see 2 Samuel 23:9-10), our swords have fused into the hands that hold them. No longer can the sword leave our hands. Our eyes may seem blurry and teary, our backs killing us, and accusations of past mistakes demoralizing us, yet the roots are growing deeper and deeper, ever searching for the Living Water, ever drinking from the River. We are still loving Him, adoring Him, enjoying him, still seeing, hearing, declaring, praising, interceding, no matter in small ways compared to the past glory the Lord gave us. We have not given up on any place or any one. We are each growing into fine trees, and our branches are growing side ways and up ways, linking arms with other trees, becoming a forest in the Garden, a community, standing and guarding the young little saplings, nurturing them, protecting them from harm.

The Lord gave to us Psalm 1 (with slight paraphrasing)

Blessed are the leaders who do not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

But our delight is in the ways of the Lord.

We are like trees planted by streams of water,

which yield fruits in season

and whose leaves do not wither.

Whatsoever we do prosper.

Not so the wicked!

They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

Worker-Bee vs. Weaned Child

2010-05-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

written May 2, 2010

Last night leg cramp and heart palpitation woke me up. Took me two hours of lying in bed quietly until the palpitation went away. I asked God why this happened. I felt He said it was the "Worker-Bee" syndrome. I had come back from DC with it and now this engine inside me says I have to do this or that, or else I will disappoint others. I must grab opportunities or I will be sorry. The voice of the "Hard Taskmaster" with the whip was spurring my mind to dart about thinking how to please, how to succeed, how to win favor, how to be important in the eyes of others.

What happened? The Lord had sent me as a "Weaned Child" agent to DC, and I got waylaid by the religious spirit and could not hear His voice. Rather, I had heard so many versions of His voice and that brought confusion. DC is a Land of No-Rest, and my spirit had no rest when I was there. I came back and did not know who I was in Him and I could not remember what it was like to be an inhabitant of His Garden. The acidic air of DC had turned me into a prune, and now the worker-bee poison is in my blood stream, and the danger of that is this spirit numbs me so I am not aware of it.

Today I sense the Lord saying, "Enough!" and I began to hear His wonderful, familiar voice. He is calling me to come be alone with Him, to drop all chores and labor, and re-discover the beauty of His Garden. He is saying, " Just Me, Jean! Just Me! You don't have to set so many things up. Just come be with Me. Remember to be 'Mary,' and not be 'Martha'". You see, when the worker-bee syndrome is on me, I find it hard to be the Mary who sits quietly at Jesus' feet while her sister Martha is all upset trying to cook and serve everybody (see Luke 10).

Now I have been home for a week, and I still cannot just "Be." "Doing" seems more attractive. When I am doing,doing, doing I have momentary sense of importance. It covers up my feeling of neediness and fear and worries. I feel OK, accepted, important when I am engaged in "Doing." "Being" seems so lame. Or so it seems.

This morning I picked up a piece of paper from my table and looked at it. Why, it was the email I had sent out just before I left for DC! It was called, "Weaned child is going to DC tomorrow." dated April 20th. I had totally forgotten I wrote that. When I re-read it, my spirit seemed to come face to face with Jesus.

I said, "Hi! Jesus!" and He said, "Hi! Jean!" Whoa! I felt like I had stumbled into His Garden!

Whenever I am in the Garden, I would know things. I would know what is what. I would not be confused. I knew that was why I went to DC, to declare and decree "weaned child" word over DC. Come to think of it, in 2004 He sent me to New York City to get a painting-word for the United Nations through the invitation of the New York City Intercessors. That trip was murder. I came home dangerously ill. The word I got there was, you guess it...the "weaned child." I did a sketch there of a child sitting on Jesus' lap, and He was saying that He longed to pick up the important leaders of the world, and ordinary people like you and me, and put us all on His lap, so that we would be enfolded in His voluminous white gown, pressing ourselves deeper, yet deeper into His body, resting in His care. And the verses for this painting were, I have stilled and quieted my soul...like a weaned child is my soul within me.(Psalm 131:2) and A little child shall lead them. (Isaiah 11:6) (see painting at my website gallery )

So now I know why it was so hard for me in DC. Because the message of the "weaned child" is dangerous to the religious spirit as well as to the spirit of the "worker-bee." It seems the enemy may not be as threatened when God's people go out to fight causes as he is threatened by us going out as the "weaned child" carrying that word deep inside our hearts. Why? Because he does not know how to fight the weaned child. The weaned child plasters his/her ears against the Father's heart, and gets instruction straight from Him. The "weaned child" knows he/she is weak, so Jesus the Lion of Judah has to fight for and with the weaned child. The "weaned child" comes from the Garden where he/she receives weapons that the enemy can't fathom - weapons such as He laughs at fear afraid of nothing (Job 39:22),for the joy of the Lord is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10) and byHis wounds we are healed (Isaiah 53:5) and many, many more. (I picked up a good number of such weapons while fighting cancer and cancerous lies:see my book, Out of the Wilderness.)

I really believe that the "Weaned Child" word is a key word for the church and for those in high places. In this time of much darkness and confusion, His Garden is His provision to one and all. I hear Him calling out, "Come to Me, all you who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, for My yoke is easy and My burden light... Come and walk with me in the Garden in the cool of the day, and I will share My secrets with you. This is where you gain your authority. I give the weaned child authority to take dominion over the seven mountains of the world: mountain of government, mountain of business, mountain of law, mountain of education, mountain of media, mountain of arts and entertainment, and mountain of religion, bringing these mountains back to Me."

So good to be back in His Garden!

Breakthrough word for us all

2010-05-14T11:20:00.000-07:00

written April 12, 2010

In this season of breakthroughs, I am seeing "gates" being formed or are already formed for each of us by the Lord.

As we stand before these "gates" to our future, we ask ourselves - Are these gates really formed for us? What if nothing comes out of our obedience and faith walk? Will we succeed? We do not know what our future holds. We do not know if indeed these are gates prepared by God for us. No matter our perspective concerning our circumstances, all that is required of us is to be obedient and position ourselves before the gates and walk through them when they open. Because we are in the season of the Breakthrough Horse. Micah 2:13 says, The Breaker (the Messiah) will go up before them. They will break through the gate and go through it, and their King will pass before them, the Lord at their head.

The Lord tells us - keep things simple; focus; no more trying to figure everything out, no more striving, worrying. There's nothing to be fearful about. God is equipping us all to be overcomers and we are overcoming many obstacles in our way. We will not be deterred. Many things are happening on earth and there are a lot of movements for God's people, a lot of new placements. He is out to make us sharper overcomers. I am seeing that we are getting healed up, getting braver, putting our arms out to take back the "land" for God, ("land" being our health, finance, marriage, children, projects, dreams, visions). We are praying for each other more and connecting in deeper and more meaningful ways, getting rid of our prejudices and judgments and religious spirit. We are hearing His voice better, going deeper into the cavern of our hearts in His heart. Most of all, we are learning to laugh at fear afraid of nothing; we are trusting the Lord so much that we laugh and laugh and are full of zest and enjoyment. HO! HO! HO!

Can you see yourselves in your mind's eyes ? Yes, you are warriors positioned at the gate of righteousness, with thanksgiving in our hearts. We are in this all the way now with each other. We do not live for ourselves, but for His kingdom, to bring His kingdom down on earth as it is in Heaven. We war by laughter, by trusting, by loving, by the joy of the Lord, determined to enjoy our lives here on earth, taking dominion, and being creative in all kinds of ways.

We are now becoming the "new man/woman", yet we are like the warriors of old, their names mentioned in Hebrew 11:32, And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jepthrah, David, Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escapes the edge of the sword, whose weaknesses was turned into strength, and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.

Cultivating the lifestyle of living in His Garden

2010-05-11T19:43:00.000-07:00

written May 11, 2010

My presentation of the story His Garden at a La Jolla church Mother's Day Garden brunch was simply delightful and so beautifully set up, where fifty-five women and young ladies seemed to be transported to another place. In our spirit, we were transported to a heavenly banqueting hall as in He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love because God had set up a banquet to dine on His story of the Garden. Many came afterwards to thank me for delivering the Heavenly delicious "food" and that they were nourished and strengthened.

Interestingly, it has been a few years since the Lord called for the presentation of His Garden and it was very powerful. But now, the world has changed. All over the world people's hearts are deeply troubled and distraught. So many are out of work. Natural disasters - earthquakes, floods, volcano eruptions - are occurring in many lands. In this setting, His voice is more urgent now, saying to one and all, "Come into My Garden! Come in! Come in! Do not stay out in the Land of No-Rest. You must come in now." I am reminded of Noah's ark. How Noah asked everyone to come into the ark that God instructed him to build, but people scoffed and declined his urgent warning.

What is His Garden? It is not a devotional time every morning. It is not a favorite retreat place. His Garden is inside our hearts where He walks and talks with us in the cool of the day as in the original Garden of Eden. He is cultivating a relationship with us so that we know His voice more and more as in they know his voice (John 10:4b) and He has become very dear to us. We grow to love Him so much we want to hang out with Him. We are no longer double-minded, belonging to Him and yet still influenced by the system of the world and our flesh and the lies of the enemy which brings us into turmoil and confusion. He is calling us to allow the Holy Spirit to transform our minds into the mind of Christ. Garden living is a lifestyle of living by childlike faith and communing with Him constantly. Garden living strengthens us in the inner person as we learn how to rest. We are to carry His Garden inside us wherever we go whoever we are with. In truth we are Garden agents or carriers who know how to impart His peace, love and joy to our home, work places, neighborhood, schools, government, cities, nation, and the world, changing the world one step at a time. And all that starts with our cultivating the lifestyle of living in His Garden. Garden living is living the abundant life, which Jesus says He came to give to us (see John 10:10)

We videotaped my reading of His Garden, with music, and now this story can go out as DVD so that more hearts can be processed into His Garden.

The Soaring Eagle - A call to intimacy

2010-05-11T13:36:00.000-07:00

written in March, 2010

In March 2004, the Lord called me to paint a soaring eagle as a word to the President and to the praying church. The verse is Jeremiah 33:3: Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. The Lord wants to give the President an encounter with Him in the secret place and carry him up high on His Wings. He is asking the praying church to be the thermal wind that lifts him up with our prayers. Note the faint white lines under the tail of the eagle which strangely showed up when I was painting the sunrise. I sense that the Lord wanted to show us how much our prayers are needed to lift the eagle up.

On March 22, 2010, I received another word for the church pertaining to the "Soaring Eagle." Psalm 131 says, My heart is not proud, O Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonder for me. I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. Hebrew "weaned" means be still, deal bountifully or rewarded. The Lord is calling His bride who has been alarmed and distraught, fearful and angry, to return to the place of stillness and abiding, a place of quiet confidence, of hope and expectancy, of knowing that He is sovereign and good and nothing is impossible with Him, and He can do more than we can ever hope or ask for. We have been zealous for the cause of the Lord; yet He is asking us to come and lie against His chest, like a weaned child with its mother. It is in the mode of the weaned child that the church can hear and pray the heart of God into the President. May it be that we the church will agree with Him and our prayers will lift the President up to where he will have an encounter with Him and be able to hear and pray the Lord's heart into our nation.

I Timothy 2:1-2 : I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in authority...

What happens when I lose the Garden...

2010-05-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

written in January, 2009

My heart tells me I have lost something special. I have become so sad.The world is such a dark place and getting darker. Emails come to warn of many things, and rightly so, and everywhere there's so many needs. But what good am I when I let concerns pile up on top of my head, and every thought is what am I not doing but should do, or what more should I be doing to help? Ah! I know what has happened to me - I have lost the art of going into His Garden. I am carrying a sack of heavy concerns, worries, forebodings. I am wearing heavy boots instead of the slippers of lightness. The clothes of my spirit are of such somber colors and the material is practically made of sack cloth. I have forgotten what it is like to put on the gown of incredible lightness that the Gatekeeper is waiting to put on me. No, I can't remember the feeling I get when I put that gown on. (this is in my book His Garden)

Four years ago when I was hit with cancer, I had to find out how a person with cancer can enjoy His Garden - a place of childlike faith and ridiculous laughter in the face of death-causing cancer. But I got to go there. I spent one year in the Garden, day in and day out, hanging out with God, acquiring weapons of His word to fight cancer with. He sent His creatures that are in the Garden - the He-Laughs-At-Fear Horse, the Butterfly, the Lion of Judah, the Wild Bird, the Breakthrough Horse, to teach me, teach me, how to laugh at cancer, how to fight fear. I believe that by being in the Garden for a year, cancer was wiped out of my body. Praise God! I came out stronger, lighter, bolder.

And now, there may be another sort of "cancer" I must watch out for. This one will cause me to forget His Garden. It is the "cancer" of worrying and worrying about everything, so many issues crowding in, of health, finance, relationships, our nation, God's kingdom, sense of inadequacy,eating away,burrowing into my spirit, the spirit of a bride of Christ. Suddenly I know that I need to pursue the Garden again. I must! I miss my Beloved! I have forgotten His fragrance, His sweet voice, the feel of His voluminous shining white gown against my face! What good am I wanting to be a light to the world if I am not able to laugh and play and dance with Him. I must have HIM! I am desperate to see His face and hear His voice again.

I miss hearing Him tell me, day in and day out, "I love you. You are important to Me. You are the apple of My eye. I will take care of your every need. Do not worry about anything, but in everything, by praying and asking, with a thankful heart, tell Me your needs, and My peace which is beyond your understanding, will guard your heart and mind as You abide in Me." (paraphrase Philippians 4:6-7)