My Journal entry for today! February 3rd, 2010

Sorry for the lack in communication; Smile! My computer has been giving me grief. Life has also tried to give me grief, yet that is determined in me to overcome. I must say however that I am very happy that January is done. There where too many memorials in one month for me.

I know that the Lord is doing amazingly, abundant things in this season, and I know that when God moves it does not always feel very good. Yet I also know that He will have His good and perfect way in the end!

Thank you Lord! So all I can do then is hold on, and trust. All my frustration and complaining will never get me anywhere other than depressed, so why waste the effort on any of that!

This all has challenged me to diligently seek after discipline in areas that for so long where lacking. So it is all good!

Transgression "The Lure Of Sin"

Let me be Honest. I do not yet quite understand as to why I felt I should blog!
My words are best expressed through my art work. Although; my work I feel grows and then takes on it's own voice.
As my two followers can see? (Maybe Not) I was away, and working on what I love to do best sit and doddle...

Gold Mining

Gold Mining
January 11th 2010-01-12


Lately I have been getting visions, (best I can describe them anyway) they are more thought pictures? “if that makes any sense” New territory for me.
So I saw in this vision, the Lord gold Mining. So as I broke it all down, WOW!
Oh Our Lord is amazing, ALL THE TIME! "I feel this must be an art Piece down the road"!

I believe in this New Year it seems that God is building precept upon precept, in way of the words or plans He is sharing with me.

Have you ever had one of those “Ah Ha”! Moments, when you can not help but dance with excitement at something you’ve just experienced or saw, something that is so amazing! Well I am having one of those moments, in this.

Okay follow closely: “I know you will” Laugh!

Gold panning is a mostly manual technique of sorting gold. Wide, shallow pans are filled with sand and gravel that may contain gold. The pan is submerged in water and shaken, sorting the gold from the gravel and other material. As gold is much denser than rock, it quickly settles to the bottom of the pan. The panning material is usually removed from stream beds, often at the inside turn (bend) in the stream, or resting on the bedrock bed of the stream, where the density of gold allows it to concentrate. This type of gold found in streams or dry streams are called placer deposits.

Manual= God is doing by hand in order to pay close attention to the fine detail work involved in this time.
Sand = sands, moments of time or of one's life! WOW!
Shaken = “Everything that can be shaken, WILL be shaken”
Denser=intense; extreme; “synonym but very apropos”= impenetrable/ Mathematics. of or pertaining to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.
“As if to say; dotting every I, and crossing every t”.

Then that part there that says” gold is much denser than rock, “So all those hard areas are being forced out, from the swirling motion,” as the precious gold settles. That is funny also because it is going to feel at times that our lives and heads are swirling, sorry I have to Laugh…
Bend = okay the bend is literally where the river bends, (duh) BUT… Get the definition/ to cause to submit or yield; to direct or turn in a particular direction; to incline mentally. “Ha; God is so amazing how He shows me stuff. AMAZING”!
Bedrock = bottom layer; lowest stratum/ the fundamental principles, as of a teaching, or belief. (Back to the basics)


As in gold mining, if you have not done this you need to. They give you this dish that has no holes, so not a sifter, (that in it self is interesting) it is a dish that has ridges, so as to not allow everything to slip out. So as you begin to swirl the pan the gold being denser settles to the bottom, quickly, as the rock and sand are swirled away.
So what I see God showing me here is very timely and very amazing!

So the times of our lives that have been heavy due to events and circumstances, are being washed away. Those things even that are now coming, (Everything that can be shaken) that are hard WILL be washed away in the swirling motion that is upon us. If… we allow the process.
How Awesome though to be mined (excavation, a place where such minerals may be obtained, by the washing of the soil) by the Lord’s hand. For in each of us the Lord see’s a rich abundant source. Man this is so very powerful… make that, that is coming exciting!
I also find it very intriguing that the place of the richest source in found in the bends of the steam. Those very places He is bending us to yield, and submit. Man it is hard to type through the tears of excitement… It is also shown above that He has to dig down to the bedrock, those fundamentals of our being, to drudge up our Identity in Him. It is there hidden away for such a time as the NOW process.

Now I may have not hit fully on all the points here, but you can see (I hope what is being expressed in this season) OH MY! WOW>>>

This is a piece that I created for my daughter. I think it is my biggest joy to create art pieces for my family. They always say you should sell this stuff, however I do not think it would be fully appreciated as it is from those who love me dear.
I really do not thing I get as much pleasure out of creating with a price in mind.

Hope any who trip in to read or look will enjoy!

"Thought on The Year 2010"

January 2010

This number alone is powerful……….
2010= 20; tried and approved- 10; measured, and tested. Thinking of the reference for the number ten, to measure, this quote comes to mind. “You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting...”

This is hard to put in words, because this year is going to be so beyond our scope of the imagination. My saying has been "Today Things Are Going To Change” I believe day to day we are going to see things change right before our eyes, and it is NOT going to feel good at all, we will feel so undone. What ever that may be or look like, in our individual spheres. Hold on tight to His ever surpassing grace and Mercy.

I know that there is nothing new under the sun, but when we have only heard of certain things and never experienced, then it is as if we have never seen. That is what keeps coming to mind also, “It will be as we have never seen” His grace will be as we have never seen, as well as the discipline that is long over due. EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE SHAKEN; WILL BE SHAKEN>>>> I think of the process of threshing the wheat. FUN? I think NOT!

That thought in my own life is really nerve wracking, as I think of the things most dear, or giving thoughts to habits that I have, and to think that those very things will have to be shaken to have my full attention to the ONE and only true TRUE GOD! I do not consider myself to idolize any thing, yet do I hold some things to tightly? Yes.

I feel in this season COMMUNICATION is IMPARATIVE. I also feel we need To keep alert, and watchful, and to be as real as we can be. Let others know what is really going on. Prayer will be essential, deeper levels of prayer. When we think we have prayer all that we can pray, go deeper, (we do not do enough of this.)

The Lord will have His perfection (pure and spotless) in us as His bride; remember a year back or so, the word on this point? We should really consider it an honor, yet the work that has to be done is grueling. EVERYTHING that Can Be shaken will be. I see many falling away, because the shaking is too strenuous. The ones falling will be those who have held out for the experience, and not the heart of the matter. Yikes!

I believe that this is going to be an Amazing year of victory for the bride, yet victory has a price (unfortunately) EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE SHAKEN, WILL BE SHAKEN.

Here is that phrase again “Today Things Are Going To Change” one definition for the word change is: “to make the form, or nature, content, future course, of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone, to remove or replace, to be altered. HUM? I like the underlined part, See already his Grace (He will not leave us alone)

Man, oh Man, a lot of this is not going to feel so good. Yet we must then hold all the more onto His Amazing Grace and Mercy, I have a death grip on His amazing Grace, and Mercy. Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.

We will be aligned, into perfection. I really should be excited, again sitting here with that sheepish half smile.

Some of the reading that God has had me in are:
Hosea
Amos 4 and 5
Revelation 21:2-5 the part here that caught my attention is verse 2 “as a bride ADORNED for her husband” adorned= to put in order, arrange, make ready, prepare. Wow.
Ecclesiastes; vanity of vanities, To take a look at what is really important in our lives. These are just a few.

"Transformation"

Before reading take a look and allow the art to speak to you.
I draw these to be a prophetic word to the individual looking on.
However each piece is done with a thought in mind.



“Transformed”

Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”

The tower= Christ Jesus sending out a frequency that draws us in, and directs our lives.
The vine= John 15:4 we must be grafted in Him, that is what truly brings transformation. We can not bear fruit on our own.
Musical notes, wind= His song over us His breath that is the wind beneath our wings; the updraft that helps us to soar.
Gauges in bottom corner= “The Bottom Right” is a term used for narrow minded individuals who think that their way is the only RIGHT way. They are intellectual in their own right. So to me it was apropos to put these gauges in the bottom right to remind us that we do not know it all, and in that place we are set up for failure.
Chrysalis= I used butterfly rather than a bird, because the chrysalis of a butterfly is an important part of development. So to remind us that that time of protected growth, in an isolated stage of development. New Christian mentored under those stronger in their walk; “Process of growth.” The chrysalis then hangs on a ladder
Ladder= the rungs of development going higher. First an empty bow needing to be filled with the truth of God’s word. The next rung the long and narrow road, along that path is found growth and strength. Each rung in-between is empty, awaiting the next stage of development, the quiet places of needing to press in and seek the Lord, for direction. Next on the ladder comes the window of opportunity, at the top a shooting star. Of which God desires for each and every one of us, to be amazing in Him.
The plane= is the community of believers soaring to new heights, enjoying the ride.
As they pass the many transformed butterflies, who have broken out of their shells. And are now Transformed.
The sun= another representation of Christ Jesus the son, reigning down love.

FINAL FOR "Today Things Are Going To Change"

Well as I finalize in Hosea, and the third and final part of “Today Things Are Going To Change.”
In the final chapters of Hosea, it seems rather grim, Hosea 9 begins; “DO NOT REJOYCE, O Israel, (America) with exultation like the nations! For you have played the Harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved the harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.” I continue to compare Israel with America, some may be offended, but… at many points in God’s word choose one for yourself, any time God’s people turn their back on the Lord, things come undone, so why would we think ourselves so undeserving of God’s discipline? Maybe you would be one to say: “well it is because I do not believe.” That is another topic altogether. However I can assure you it does not make any of this any less true.
So is it not apropos, to consider the discipline that must come? Hosea 9:7 “The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come, let them know this. The prophet is a fool, the inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of their iniquity, and because your hostility is so great!” Oh that we would have ears to hear, what the Lord says to His people…
As I continue on there is one verse that caught my eye it is in: Hosea 13:9 “It is your destruction, O Israel, that you are against Me, against your HELP.” God Almighty is our help, and desires to be that at every point, in even the smallest of our circumstances; yet we continue to run and seek our own means.
So Again I say: “Oh let us know, let us press on to know the LORD.” “Today Things Are Going To Change” or should I say; today things can change. The Lord desires to be our ever present Help, will we allow Him, or will we continue to seek our own means and our own ideals? I love, love, love how it finishes off in Hosea 14:9 “WHOEVER is wise, let him understand these things; WHOEVER is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous will walk in them, but transgressors will stumble in them.”
It is so very simple for my words to be, “oh yes I am righteous, and follow the Lord. I am a Christian because I gave my life some 30 some years ago; YET do I live it? Do you live it?
People “Today Things Can Change”.