Tidalwave 2 over San Diego

I believe "TheTidal Wave 2" is being activated by the Lord for the San Diego region, "for such a time as this." (Esther 4:14). In November,1996, I was sitting in front of the Pacific Ocean by the Oceanside pier on a rainy day and the Lord had me paint a wave so big and so full of colors. I asked the Lord what that wave meant and He indicated it was about revival coming to our region.

In the course of many years since, a sense grew in me and in the hearts of a number of prayer leaders in Oceanside, that when revival comes to the San Diego region it would very likely start from the north. We take note that both the visions of the "Warrior Bride" painting-word and the "Tidal Wave over the World" painting-word came to me by the ocean of Oceanside.

Last weekend, I drove up to Oceanside to attend the first Prophetic Intercession School for San Diego led by Pastor Joanne. Actually, Joanne has been pastoring a small prayer group for at least 10 - 15 years, training intercessors how to hear well what is on God's heart for that day, and once they hear, to pray as one for God's agenda. No other agenda but exactly His agenda.This year, the Lord is asking them to take this Prophetic Intercession School to the four regions of San Diego - traveling prayer training school to train San Diegans to pray as one the very heart of God.

I remember during the early years after the tidal wave painting came, why the wave had not yet come. An answer I was given by my pastor was, "It will come when the church is in unity." That unity seems impossible to come by. Still so much division among churches, so much church politics. So how could that oneness come in? Ah! The unity is not so much in the realm of "doings," but in the realm of "being," as in praying as one. As I sat in the prayer meeting last Saturday praying with the others, I received a key understanding. The unity comes when God's people pray as one. This is what God treasures. Here is a paragraph describing "oneness" from my second book, The Rising Up of the Warrior Bride of Christ, A Prophetic Journey:

When that breakthrough comes, we are no longer separate people sharing a room and time singing together or praying together. We are suddenly one person. It is the bride of Christ functioning as one - one mind, one emotion, one spirit. We know as one, hear as one, and receive His Word as one.

In 2007, I painted a second tidal wave. This wave is painted as looming over the Oceanside pier, so gloriously imminent. Even as God's people continues to pray deeply in the spirit realm the very heart of God with every heart praying as one with His heart, I believe the tidal wave will fall upon us.

Praying as one is just one version of why San Diego is due for revival. Many, many have stood and kept vigil through the years doing what each person, each small group, each church is called to do to bring in oneness. I like to mention the ministry of Carol releasing worship to God and bringing down such a heavy sense of His Presence with songs given to her, pounding, pounding on Heaven's door with the beat and rhythm and sound of earth calling to Heaven. I like to mention that for many years the Messianic dance ministry of Jackie has been leading us into such high worship to the King of Kings . Alma and Beth's weekly ministry of healing and deliverance near the southern border of San Diego and Tijuana have been going on for 15-20 years or more. They faithfully minister to the sick and oppressed and signs and wonders and healing miracles are regular occurences. How about Lisa who has faithfully been prayer walking/running by the ocean in the city of La Jolla and other locations the Lord sends her to, for some seventeen years now. Her heart pounds in sync with the Lord's heart for our region as she runs, her ears cocked in readiness to hear His voice.

I like to mention that many leaders in San Diego have fought for this region and the toll on their health, family, relationships, ministries have been heavy. Inspite of the high cost to themselves, they are still standing in San Diego, not with heavy, bowed heads, but rather standing tall, their faces set like flint, glowing, with badges of honor on their chests, actually moving now into greater anointing and receiving what they have been patiently praying and contending for - revival for this region. Not only for this region, but beyond. Way, way beyond. Joanne's feet get to step on the "lion and cobra" (as in Psalm 91) in China for the past some five-six years bringing in true revival to the region of Fuzhou. Gary Goodell and his vision of doing church differently, that is, doing house churches, is seeing his vision multiplying in India, Philippines, and other nations.

A key prayer leader in the North County of San Diego region was recently given the death sentence of stage 4 cancer in her lungs. But she declared, " I don't see myself dying yet. This is not supposed to be how I go." Many stood with her and claimed her healing with her. Last week her doctor was astonished and befuddled! Where did the cancer go? Cancer has disappeared from her lungs! The He-Laughs-at-Fear Horse laughs - Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I like to mention the arrival of Robert Herber to San Diego four years ago from Waco, Texas Antioch Church because the Lord said to him, "Go to San Diego and start a church there!" He and his family came not knowing anyone in San Diego. Today the All Peoples' Church is doing church in a ghetto part of San Diego. Five hundred people of diverse ethnic groups and diverse ages and economic backgrounds are joyfully congregating in a public school not far from the San Diego State University. Gangs and college students and athletes and the homeless are welcomed to this church. They even took 250 people to Tijuana for four days to infiltrate their streets and bring the poor and the gangs into the kingdom. It is a Jesus' church.

What is happening here in San Diego is a love affair with the Lord. He is so good to us, and we are prospering in Him, and our joy is attracting many to run to Him, wanting to know who He is. That is revival.

I am sharing my perspective.

"Tunnel of Love on Jesus' Lap"

 April 16, 2012

I believe we are in a very fast moving season. I am writing on the "Tunnel of Love on Jesus' lap" (previously named "Going through the tunnel to sit on Jesus' Lap"),but another painting-word is already waiting for my next report to you. Of course I can only speak from my own journey through these thirty or more painting-words. Since they are prophetic paintings, they move in God's kairos time. Remember two weekends ago I was in Los Angeles region twice on assignments for the Lord and wrote that the painting-word was so profound it has already affected my inner life but that it would be difficult to report it. Today I am ready to share this word with you.

Basically, the Lord revealed that I had been believing and living in some cancerous lies and did not even know it. In November of 2005, I recorded in my book, Out of the Wilderness, that cancer was over and now the Lord was taking me on a new journey, the journey to discover "the others". I wrote in my book, "Sometime on this journey I will come to love and appreciate the bride of Christ that He loves so much." I was molested as a small child and grew up believing that no one would love me if they knew this shameful thing had happened to me. So, I withdrew into a cocoon and my personality did not develop properly. The result was a woman who could not feel love nor give love. So God began the process of re-parenting me by giving me these paintings-words. I am amazed and totally surprised that "Tunnel of Love on Jesus' lap" is a powerful painting-word for getting me into love - love from Him, love for others.

What I am sharing here is how the enemy works to trick us into believing lies about ourselves and our relationship with Jesus. He studies us and our background, and know what kind of lies we will receive as truth about ourselves. Beyond the enemy, the bottom line is we simply do not know God enough nor know His power to hold us in His strong arms through thick or thin. We also disqualify ourselves rather easily, thinking we are being humble in seeing how unfaithful we are to God. Rather we fall right into the trap of disqualifying ourselves as lovers of Jesus. The enemy lives for that - our disqualifying ourselves.

I had been believing the lie that in the past few years because of relentless attacks of the enemy to try to steal my healing of cancer that I had gotten so tired and no longer had the joy of the Lord in His Garden. An even more damaging lie was that I had fallen out of love with Jesus because I had become a "ministry" machine. Outwardly I could still write and paint and speak for the Lord, but secretly wondered if I was still in love with Him. Warfare had been horrendous within the circle of the bride of Christ, and I found myself falling into wanting to fight "the others" with tools of anger and bitterness. I felt I have failed. He had wanted me to learn to love the others, but I felt I had failed.

Praise God! Jesus came to scuttle the enemy and He brought me into the banqueting hall and fed me. He applied ointment on my wounds and spoke lovingly to me (this scene came out of the play version of my book, His Garden). I am living in that scene right now. He used the painting-word of "Tunnel of Love on Jesus' Lap" to speak the truth to me. That painting with the whirlpool or whirlwind had always stood for devastation of all sorts. I always thought it meant that we are safe from such devastations as long as we stay hidden in His arms. What a surprise that He said the tunnel is the tunnel of love - overwhelming, beyond comprehension, unreasonable, unlimited love of Jesus for me. He also told me that my writing for hours on end, going out to share wherever He sent me, and taking much risk to go out and pray for others who are sick and in torment, that in His eyes I was bringing a cup of living water to the least of these ones, and that I was really doing it out of love, for Him and for the others.

He reassured me, saying that I had never left His Garden and that our love for each other is as strong as ever. In fact, He practically shouted out for me to declare Romans 8: 35 - 39, "Who shall separate me from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?...No, in all those 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."

Yes, the whirlpool or whirlwind means devastation to the world; yet, in Jesus, I and my house ("as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"), we get to be whirling through the tunnel of love, being carried on Jesus' lap, from here to there to there, to proclaim His goodness in the land of the living, day in and day out, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, until we see Him face to face.

While I was speaking at the Cerrito Aglow, His Presence and His anointing was so strong that I broke out in prayer for my dear friend, who had unexpectedly fallen into the grip of mental illness. I declared that even now, in her condition, I see her sitting on Jesus' lap in the tunnel of love. For indeed, who can separate her from the love of God in Christ Jesus? Not even mental illness. The power of God will bring this child of God to know His love in the deep places of her heart, beyond her mind, and that her knowing will break the power of torment, in Jesus' name.  Amen! 

update about my fall and my thoughts on healing

April 12, 2012

  

Two weeks ago when I fell at the bottom of our stairs, I could have catapulted into major worries that I was going to LA to speak twice that weekend and this fall could be serious.  I remember a moment of choice - to get all upset and worried or to check in with the Lord right away. I decided to do the latter and immediately "heard" in my spirit -  "and after all that, to STAND."  I declared Ephesians 6: 11 - 14.  Boy!  Did I ever feel boldness come onto me. I could picture me go from a crouching position to standing fully erect and whipping my new weapon out.  Ephesians 6 was fully activated for this situation.

In fact, this is how I get a new weapon (scripture) from the Lord.  When I use the weapon and the enemy is scuttled, in my spirit I know that I have just been given a new sharp sword or arrow. I also did a wise thing - I went to write the email to you, so I would be backed by you.  It's not really about the fall, it was about my going to Los Angeles on Easter Sunday to share about healing.  Interesting that the Life Group (or home fellowship) that invited me to share is having their meeting at the home of a Christian oncologist in Los Angeles. There will be cancer patients there as well as non-Christians.

As you can see, this is bad news for the enemy.  He does not want me going out to talk from what I learned in fighting cancer.  A large portion of that book I wrote about my cancer experience was hearing God's voice telling me what fighting cancer is all about. The second half of that book was God revealing how to fight cancerous lies that are imbedded in our culture and belief system, even in church system. 

I do see that God has purposed to send me out this year as there seems to be an epidemic of cancer.  However, I am not trained. I almost want to say, Are you sure you want me to share on healing?  Are you sure you want me to pray for the sick?  I really don't know if I am anointed or not. But I am willing to share and to pray. The result is up to God and the person He is wanting to get really close to.  I can pray for this person to discover who God is in the course of fighting cancer or other sicknesses. This person can become so intimate with Jesus as never before.  This person can end up flying high as an eagle getting to see things from such a vantage point instead of cowering in fear and worries about his sickness.  This person can turn into a warrior in the course of learning how to fight cancer and other fearful situations. These were the things that happened to me.  In the course of getting to know God intimately I learned to agree with His word and used His words  as weapons to fight my fear. I ended up partnershipping with God to take authority over cancer.  Wow!  What brilliant thoughts of God on our behalf!

These are the things I like to share and pray for others to receive from Jehovah Rapha.  It isn't about being so desperate and begging and begging like a beggar for God to heal me and wondering if I am worthy of being healed. No, healing is not about that. Learning to fight cancer and other diseases and cancerous lies is a part of walking and talking with God in the cool of the day in His Garden - getting to know Him, getting to trust Him, getting to see how good and kind and compassionate He is.  Rising up and becoming an overcomer is a part of the abundant life, and we know that Jesus said He came to give us life and life abundant.

Yes, healing is a part of standing as in Ephesians 6:13, "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand."  This Saturday there is a memorial service for Sheri in Los Angeles. I believe that Sheri stood her ground against cancer and other diseases, and after she did everything, she stood, as did her family and friends and church and doctors. I believe she was standing when the Lord came to take her to her reward.  She was an overcomer and she enjoyed the abundant life.

My visit with Jennie(stage 4 cancer) in Los Angeles-Feb 28

Like to share my trip to Los Angeles to pray for Jennie who has stage 4 cancer. As my sister and I were driving up to her home on February 28, I thought to myself, Would I have anything to give?  I hardly knew her. She hardly knew me. What would be the point of connection between us so that the door would open for me to share with her?  I did not know.

She came out of her bedroom, a picture of one who had nothing in her to respond to anyone.  My cousin had given her my Out of the Wilderness book (my cancer book), so I thought I would use that as a point of connection. When I asked her if she had read the book, she looked at me and I saw in her tired eyes as she said "No" that what she really wanted to say was "where would I have strength to read a book. I can barely keep my food." I saw the anguish in her eyes that there was no strength in her for anything that people with good intention wanted to give her. Doctors already pronounced that there's very little hope for her, or, no hope at all, even though they are putting her through the treatments. Can it be that it was so wearying for her to see people who come with good intentions to cheer her up, urge her to eat, counsel her to live, and yes, to pray for her? Can it be that inside her mind all those prayers can be tiring for her because she needed to show her appreciation and she needed to show faith?

I brought my 2012 calendar with the "Two Trees and the Valley of Decision" and I handed it to her.  In a split second I knew I was given a door by the Lord. I pointed to the painting and showed her that Jesus showed up in three places - Jesus was an ink blot on top of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Jesus was the Tree of Life singing to one and all to come eat of the fruit of the life; Jesus was the Key Witness among the cloud of witnesses in the sky who are urging us all to finish the race. I said to her: "This painting tells us that the Presence of Jesus is everywhere, that He is supreme over all power and authorities in the air,(Colossians 1) which means that He is surpreme over cancer. He is with you now in your situation. He is more powerful than cancer." She looked at me and I saw a glimmer in her eyes.  She nodded her head.

I felt the floodgate opened inside me, and the river of living water flowed out from my inner being to her.  I talked about my doubts and fears and how that year of fighting cancer God talked to me about Who He was for me and how He gave me scriptures which I would "eat" like they were fruits from the Tree of Life. The back drop was that six oncologists and one radialogy doctor were freaking out that I was not hurrying into treatments; and how by three months into the fight with cancer I was speaking at an Aglow meeting declaring that God said I was healed.  Impossible situation! Too ridiculous!  Doctors declared I would die. God declared I would live and not die and proclaim what God has done (Psalm 118:17).  I told her how my cousin Marsh urged me to get medical proof that I was healed. But I did not get the OK from God to do that. So, Marsh said, "Well, I suppose if you are still alive in a few years, then we will know that God has healed you."  Everyone knew how blunt Marsh could be at times, so we all laughed. Jennie chuckled, appreciating the funny story. Her mother exclaimed, "Look, you are laughing, Jennie!"

At that, I felt the Lord wanted us to do something together. There were four women gathered around her - her mother, a friend, my sister and I. I asked for a Bible and we opened to Psalm 91. I told her we were going to read Psalm 91, and we were to personalize it.

I asked Jennie to read the psalm and change the pronouns to herself.  So, she started to read it,  "I, Jennie, who dwell in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I, Jennie, will say of the Lord, 'You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.'  Surely you will save me from the fowler's (evil one) snare, and from the deadly pestilence (cancer). You will cover me with Your feathers, and under Your wings I, Jennie, will find refuge: your faithfulness will be my shield and rampart. "

I asked my sister, representing the bride of Christ, the church, to declare the next few lines over Jennie:

"You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.  A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked."

Then I asked Jennie to declare the next portion of Psalm 91.  By now, I sensed her declaring the words with her whole being:

"If I make the Most High my dwelling - even the Lord, who is my refuge -

then no harm will befall me, no disaster will come near my tent.

For He will command his angels concerning me to guard me in all my ways;

they will lift me up in their hands,

so that I will not strike my foot against a stone.

I will tread upon the lion and the cobra;

I will trample the great lion and the serpent."

I hastened to say to Jennie, "Jennie, you are the bride of Christ. This is our heritage. We have power and authority to stomp on the evil one." She added, "to trample."  I saw in her eyes the eyes of a warrior. It was a moment to behold, for what was transpiring was the anointing coming upon Jennie to have courage to rise up as the warrior bride of Christ - from being a harassed, scared, oppressed bride, to that of an overcomer.

I asked her to go on and read the last portion of Psalm 91. With strong and steady voice she read,

"Because you love Me, Jennie," says the Lord, "I will rescue you; I will protect you, for you acknowledge my name. You will call upon me and I will answer you; I will be with you in trouble, I will deliver you and honor you. With long life will I satisfy you and show you my salvation."

After she read that, it dawned on me that God was making a covenant with Jennie. I exclaimed to her, "Jennie, God is making a covenant with you." She nodded her head.  The room was quiet with peace and rest.  I looked at her and she looked at me. Around us was a cloud of witnesses. Jennie repeated the last verse to us, "With long life will I satisfy you and show you my salvation."

All praises to Him who loves us so and through Jesus we have life and life abundant.

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

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  http://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

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)

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.