The Gospel

                                   John 3:16-17

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Gilbertlouise Originals: What I learnt today... 31 May 2019

Gilbertlouise Originals: What I learnt today... 31 May 2019: God is Faithful... Ya know...I have been waiting on God for a while now, for fulfillment of something massive in my life. I believe...

What I learnt today... 31 May 2019

God is Faithful...

Ya know...I have been waiting on God for a while now, for fulfillment of something massive in my life.

I believe he will come through. He will do what he says he will do.

It's been touch and go...a bumpy ride. 

I'm quite shamed to say, as soon as something good, something indicating it was possible happened, I would be in belief mode, but when something happened which made it look like it wouldn't, or perhaps a lack of happening or maybe even attacks from the enemy which pulled me down...I have to be honest and say...I allowed my faith to be rocked. Sometimes I became quite down and unbelieving. in the possibility of it ever happening. 

He told me to believe and don't doubt.

Even when I totally believed it would happen...the closer I become, the more I would come under attack and have my faith tested and I struggled. I would flap.

But you know something that I learnt today?

God does what he says he will do because he is faithful. He is a good God. He doesn't lie.

It isn't dependent on our good behaviour...You know the story of Abraham? He laid with his wife's handmaid Hagar, doing what his wife suggested, thinking they needed to help God to achieve the baby God told them that he would bless them with...Not cool, huh? But thing is...when you are waiting on God, sometimes, esp when it goes quiet and we think that we're all alone in our wait...it's hard and we think that we have to help God out. We think that we have to do things to make it happen..

Thing is...God is God and he is a faithful God and will do what he has said he will.

Not because of what we do or don't do, but because he is who he says he is. And he is faithful to his word.

I just feel like there's someone out there that needed to hear that today.

Don't quit...Never ever quit.

Ours is to obey God. Thing is, he knows the end from the beginning...He sees what we can't. If he tells you its going to happen, it will.

God doesn't start, what he can't finish and anything he tells you ahead of time, he will provide for.

He is faithful...just obey, wait, be patient...and expect...not easy, but worth it.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.... 

He created the world, parted the seas...I'm sure he'll come through with what your waiting for...because nothing is impossible for God and ...

Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord will fulfill his promises to her...

Stand by the cross, Anchor yourself to God and Buckle up...

I am a work in progress...

First time ever of painting a lamb, oils on canvas, and I didn't look at nor copy another picture.
For Nothing is impossible for God.
And God is simply Amazing! 

The story about how...

1..Me

Clay, daughter...

I have been/am loved..

Since being seated in the Lord's hand, he has been cleaning me, healing me, teaching me, guiding me, using me, loving me, protecting me...etc..and proving the word of the Bible as truth in my life by presenting me with certain situations which are there in the Bible for me to read...simply awesome. It's one thing to read the Bible as a book but it's another to see it in my life and then read of it in the Bible. Mind blowing!

I have developed through learning with the Holy Spirit. He shows me things that are not right, behaviour wise and he works with me to correct the issues. He has blessed me with personality traits that I didn't have before and puts me in situations which create character strengths in me which shape me as a person to be used for the Glory of God. 

These things have happened step by step over time. At such a pace that I wouldn't necessarily realise it was happening myself, but when I think about the differences and what I have lived through, I then notice what has changed in me.

There are some things that are necessary, such as being humble, and accepting that I am a mere vessel for the Lord to use, but he is a kind, compassionate, caring maker and Father, who loves and has lots of patience as these changes take place within. Sometimes its hard work and we will walk the same walk over and over until I get the lesson right and changes occur. At other times its easier and just happens.

The toolbox:

Belief

Trust

Hope

Faith

Forgiveness

Love

Patience

Deliverance

Changes are made in me to make me more Christlike...as is written in the Bible...The old is gone. He teaches unconditional love along with many other branches stemming from...He is amazing. He has filled me with a passion and I just don't want to stop talking about him.

I love being used by my God and also ask him to, for the Kingdom of God and to help others. He has shown me so much and each thing he shows me, creates a new understanding and change in me. 

2..A paintbrush and Prophetic Art

I cannot take any of the credit for the artwork which is created. God is completely in control and has taught me everything I know. He uses me as a paintbrush and over the years I have learnt much through the artwork too. Not only the techniques used, but life lessons too. Such as trust. Although this is an awesome testimony, this is for the Glory of God, it is not about me. Obviously, I cannot escape the fact that this happened to me but I am merely a tool. It's about God and what he does through people. What he can and does do and unfortunately a lot of people put him in a box within their belief but NOTHING is impossible for God and he is still very much working in peoples lives today as he always has.

I have not studied art since school age. I have always enjoyed drawing and art but was never really any good at it. 

To show the difference in my capabilities compared to what God does through me and with me:

This picture of Jesus was drawn in the conventional way. I wanted to draw this picture and set about doing so. It's my own capabilities. I knew in my own mind what I wanted to draw and the whole process of doing so was all me. It was drawn when I was going through a really hard time.

This picture was the first Prophetic piece I did with knowledge and understanding that the Lord was using me to draw it. It was drawn within two months of the first picture. None of it was under my control. The mental process was not my own. My hands were moving so fast, there was not time to stop and consider how...it just was. When his eyes were being drawn, I had my eyes very nearly closed because there was a bright light coming from the page, I could barely see what I was doing.
He also gave me a vision in my mind that he is eternal. It was when I found out that Jesus and God are one in the same.
The whole thing just blew me away.
He is incredible.

This picture is a photo taken part way through, it shows the first lesson I learnt from the Holy Spirit...Half and half.
When drawing someones face, look at it as half and half.

This was the next drawn. I wanted to draw it as a gift to my Christian counselor.
Dorothy is a lovely lady and I asked the Lord if we could do a picture as a Thank you.
I set about drawing it and nothing happened. It was me doing it. I wondered why the Lord wasn't helping. I got frustrated because it wasn't going right. I was about to give up and tear it up when I heard a voice in my ear, "Oh ye of little faith."...and then, wooz wooz wooz! He used my hands and corrected the part of the picture which I was struggling with...
I realised that it was like a child being taught how to write the alphabet at school. The teacher holds the childs hand to begin with and then allows the child to try on their own. When they get stuck, the teacher helps. Jesus, The Holy Spirit is a teacher.
He is awesome. I couldn't have done it myself.  What I was struggling with, he used my hands to correct within seconds...Simply amazing!

This is the same picture as above, at the stage that I was going to give up and tear it up. I simply couldn't get it right. Without him, I can do nothing.

3..Sharing the Gospel through Art, for the Glory of God

The Lord gave me a vision in my mind of my artwork on a barn wall. I received the words 'Church' and 'Barn' I searched on Google  to see if I could find the place where he wanted me to exhibit. I didn't have a collection of pictures yet, they still had to be painted and I had no money yet, but I knew the Lord provides.

I couldn't find the place tho and tucked the idea away in the back of my head. I had to go to the Church where the Lord had spoken audibly to put some tything money in, but the door was shut. It wasn't usual that it was closed, so I walked across the road to the Church offices. As soon as I entered the building, straight ahead of me was a sign above the door of a room...the sign said 'The Barn'.

Ohhh...I thought...This must be where he wants the exhibition. I spoke to the lady in the office and found out that the room would cost about £200 to hire for the exhibition. I couldn't afford that. I didn't have that much money and thought, if the Lord wants the exhibition done, he will provide.

Within the next week, a guy advertised in my local area for an oil painter. He wanted a picture of Africa painted. A friend of mine from Church, because I hadn't seen the advert and  gave him my contact info and he contacted me. It turned out that the money he would pay me for painting the picture he wanted, £200, would be used to pay for the hall.

This is the picture of Africa that was painted to specification.

God provides for what he tells you ahead of time.

I was shown that I could sell calendars with the artwork in, at the exhibition, so that meant at least 12 pictures, I assumed. One per month. All of the pictures for the exhibition were prophetic. Some of which, I didn't know what were to be painted until they were finished. The Exhibition was to be on the Gospel. 

It took place on 23 June 2018.

Each painting had a different technique and taught me lessons as I painted. There were things going on my life which ran parallel and it would teach me what I should do, such as, have patience, wait with trust and belief.

One of the techniques used:

 I see spiritual lines appear in front of the canvas and it is my job to put a paintbrush where i have seen the lines appear and copy what the Holy Spirit has shown me and simply follow him. I have a 'knowing' of when the colours need changing or I might see a colour appear in my mind. I get a feeling of what object to use to paint with, such as a brush, or cloth/baby wipe etc.

Sometimes i am told what to put background colour to put on the canvas and then step by step the picture appears. There have been things/places that have been painted which I had never seen and the Holy Spirit prophetically tells me things as we paint. Things I never knew. He guided me to paint blood around the finger nails of Jesus when we were painting a crucifixion piece...thats when I found out that when Jesus was being tortured before crucifixion, they lifted his nails as a form of torture...they didn't remove them, but they lifted them...did you know that?

I will never forget painting the Judgement Hall picture, of how he impressed his emotion on me for me to 'feel' the painting as we worked. I am so honoured. It was of the time when he had been tortured and had to wait to see what they were going to do with him, although he actually already knew they were gong to crucify him. Often, people are told of how Jesus was crucified for us, for our sins...but have you ever thought of what he humanly went through for you? How he had to be strong through his human emotions...the way he must have felt, knowing what was coming...

Not only is my God an amazing God...he displayed awesome strength of character as a man and was an awesome human.

There was one picture we did which really made no sense to me, it just looked like a jumbled mess, but it turned out that it was a template, we had to paint back over which made the painting then obvious of what it was. I also found that the picture of the Gihon springs which we painted, has photos online of what it looks like now as an archaeological  site. Therefore, the painting we did is what it looked like in Bible times.

When painting the Sea of Galilee, it was really scary because I know nothing about boats and had to have complete trust that the Lord knew what he was doing...which sounds obvious, but is harder in practice. Sometimes its easy to say things but harder to do.

I learnt about the certain parts of the boat we were painting. The Lord told me prophetically words such as, 'Brace lock', 'Sail control ring' and 'Canyon rope'. He really is awesome!

When we begin painting, I now have a process I follow. 

1. I get together the bits I think I'm going to need, I listen to see if theres something else the Lord wants me to get...such as colours, brushes etc..

2. I get my headphones and get my worship music ready.

3. I pray and ask for the Lord to use me and help me paint the picture.

4. I put my headphones on and paint where I either see in front of me or feel led to.

5. I stand back and view from a different perspective when God gives me the desire to do so.

It has been a recent thing that I have collected together the artwork in a leaflet and am sharing the leaflets around so there is a visual way of seeing the gospel, learning of what Jesus did for us.

The pieces in the exhibition are all of God. Although the one piece, Covered by the blood of Jesus, I was given a bit of freedom to do bits of my choosing too.

He's so cool. I love the way he uses me and what we do.

He has picked me up, cleaned me down, turned me round and given me focus, and shown me that I can trust the words in the Bible.

He is as real today as he has always been and will be forever more.

But don't take my word for it...Seek him and ask him yourself. They that seek will find...and don't lean on your own understanding, believe in him.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him would have everlasting life.  

 Please feel free to share the pictures of the Gospel exhibition to others, take his message far an wide, but never worship or pray to a picture, not even the ones of Jesus, because although they have meaning, purpose and share truth, they are just images and not God. He is the only one you should worship or pray to. God is not an object. He is real. My life is testimony to that.

Thank you for your time. 

God bless.

 

The Gospel Prophetic Art Exhibition 2018 By Gilbertlouise Originals.

                                           1.Gihon Springs.

                                           2. Conception of Jesus.

                                           3. Birth of Baby Jesus.

                                                         4. Baptism. 

                                           5. Capernaum (Kfar Nahum).

                                           6. Sea of Galilee.

                                           7. Bread and Wine.

                                           8. Judgement Hall.

                                                         9. Committed. 

                                           10. Incomplete Pic.

                                           11. Resurrection.

                                                    12. Covered by the Blood of Jesus. 

                                           13. Free Will.
                                           Your choice. Which way will you choose? The wide gate leads to destruction. You have been given free will because Jesus died for you and the forgiveness of your sins...Believe or don't. Follow or not. It's a personal relationship with the Lord. He gave you choice. It's between you and him...

Up to YOU

TESTIMONIAL.

Jesus is awesome!!

Before I began this picture, I didn't think I was capable of it. I didn't want to paint a picture of my Lord suffering, but as usual, Jesus steps in where I fear to tread and makes a masterpiece of it. I can guarantee you that no matter what I go through in life, if I call on Jesus, he is there to help me.

I want to tell you of one such occasion.

In 1992 I had a termination. I lost my baby. I felt a huge sense of guilt as this went against my faith and I found it very hard to get over this. I am not going to go into all the gory details, but when I picked up the pieces of my life, I never stopped thinking of the baby I lost, as with many ladies following an abortion. It is a very harrowing time. Even as my life progressed I had the event swimming around in the back of my head.
I would get depressed around baby's due date and the anniversary of the event. If I saw babies in the street, I would think about how old my baby would have been, what he would have looked like.

Around this time, I spoke to a few vicars and other religious people and they would tell me that God forgives me and I would think, 'How can you tell me that? You are not God, you are just a person, just like me. How do you know what God is thinking?' I could never forgive myself so how could God forgive me after what I had done? Even if I didn't even want my abortion, what had happened was horrendous.

For sixteen years I felt bad and missed my baby but hid it away in the back of my head. Sometimes it would peep to the surface and I would talk about it and then it would hide away again.

I kept myself away from Church for many years. I felt like a hypocrite. Sure enough I tried to attend Church. I sat in on a few services but I never felt like I should be there because of what I had done.

Sixteen years later I had contact with baby's dad and all of my emotions which I had shut away came flooding out. I was traumatised with grief. I had no idea where it came from because I thought I had been ok. I thought that locking it away in the back of my head and just getting on with life was the right thing to do. I had developed a new me. I was successful. I had a new family; the Lord had blessed me with more children. I couldn't understand where the grief was coming from.

I attended post abortion stress counselling. I had a fantastic counsellor. It felt like God was cleaning me from the inside. Counselling was hard though. Very distressing. But, I had to persevere because I needed it.

I came out of counselling on one occasion, early because I found it too distressing. I went straight to the town Church. I was crying. I first saw someone in there and I tried to keep my crying quiet. When they had gone, the Church was empty apart from me and I felt lead to go up to the front of the Church. I could see the picture of Jesus being crucified(not the one above) and at that point, it felt like someone was stood next to me and they were saying to me(in my mind), 'You have never actually kneeled before the Lord before, have you.'
No, I don't think I had, even though I was in my thirties. Right there and then, I got down on my knees on the stone floor and cried. I cried like I couldn't cry any deeper and I said 'I'm so sorry.' over and over again....
Then it happened.
I heard a voice. Not in my head but out loud. it came from so close beside me. I didn't see anyone. There was no body to look at, but I know I heard a voice.
I was not drunk. I hadn't been doing drugs. I wasn't delirious. yes, I was crying. I was distressed. But I knew without a doubt that this voice was not in my head, it was audible. "Get up my child your sins are forgiven."
In response I got up. I stayed there for a couple of minutes and I don't even remember if I said 'Thank you.' and then I came out, feeling rather disorientated and spooked out.

I kept going over it and over it in my head, what had happened. What was said. There had been no one else in the Church. It couldn't have been anyone else. Who would have called me, 'my child' apart from my parents? They weren't there. It must have been God.
It was incredible! God is awesome! He had forgiven me!

It wasn't a vicar who spoke to me. Not a person. It was the Lord. I had been forgiven.

I am so thankful.

My Lord has picked me up, cleaned me from the inside out and has given me purpose and direction. He has opened my life up and given me new friends. I now attend an awesome Church(TRC, The Revival Church).

God has changed my life. He can do that for you too. If like me, you find it hard to believe what a person says when they tell you what God thinks or feels, get on your knees and pray. Tell him how sorry you are, from the heart. God knows you. He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows when you are faking it.
Open up to him and ask him to take the stress from you. Ask him to forgive you of anything you may have done wrong In your life. Give your life to him and find yourself a good church, one you feel at home with.

God is with you in Church and out of Church, but by going to Church you have direction and support and friendship.

My God is a healing, all powerful God and if he can do this for me...he can certainly do it for you.

I heard him He spoke to me. Without a doubt. God is most definitely real.

I am not saying it is right to have an abortion. Abortion kills. No matter how we, as people may justify it. Whether you consider it to be a blob of cells or consider it to be a baby. Abortion is killing. It is not right. But if you confess to God that you are sorry, I am living testimony...God forgives.

God bless you all, stay safe, stay healthy and have a good day.

Gibertlouise.

What will be will be whether I take my part in it or not.

Now, I know that there are many different religious systems in place in our world today and also those that say it's a load of caphooey, but, what I know is the stuff I talk about to people who want to listen.

Did you know that the Bible is our guide and is full of information explaining many of those questions that people ask?  I can't believe that it has taken me so long to actually read it cover to cover.  I used to dabble and just open it up at different pages.

Those people who tell me that God does not exist or that things did not happen the way the Bible says it happened....I challenge you....have you actually read the Bible?  Do you actually know the book?  Are you in a place of knowledge to make that statement?

You know what I see?

Jesus was born and died and raised a long time before I ever existed and the Bible was written a long time before I ever existed and whether I preach the Bible and it's contents or not...The Lord still has done what he has done and will do what he will do and will carry on forever. Amen.

I am one of the lucky ones who has experienced the presence of the Lord....he uses my hands to draw.
Believe it or not...irrelevant...I know it's true.  Those that say that the Bible was not written by God...is wrong.  Having experienced him using my hands to draw pictures, I can quite believe how people's hands  have been used to write the Bible....again, irrelevant if you believe or not.

So...As the Bible is here for all to learn from and God is here whether I have anything to do with him or not...I don't see how picking at me can give you an advantage point and make a slightest dent to my faith and religion or my God.  Having a go at me will not erase a single letter from the Bible.  Imprisoning Christians will not delete the past and present existence of God.  Therefore I openly declare that I am a Christian and actively want to be involved with encouraging people everywhere to read the Bible and learn from our God....and don't sit in silence...in his words....(Matthew 28:19) "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (and then Matthew 28:20) and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Can you not see?  The Bible will be around a long time after you are dead and gone and has been around since before you were here.  How can it all be fake?  You only have to do your research to find out that Jesus is Jesus, was Jesus and always will be Jesus who lives and loves and forgives forever.  Amen.

Gilbertlouise. x
Have a good day!
God bless.