I want to share a Testimony and word about a personal struggle with Spiritual Battle and the gift of creative art coming together — A Holy Spirit revelation and beautiful reminder of where we are with The LORD, but also where we are in this moment.

It felt like a seemingly long time since I painted and a few weeks ago, I began to have a deep and urgent desire to paint a Vision I had in Prayer, of an ocean scene with storm clouds moving away to reveal a beautiful sunset and rainbow.

I spent a couple of weeks, for several hours a day trying to finish this painting, yet I found myself starting again three times.

It got to the point last week, that I was so unhappy with the clouds, that I wiped the canvas with white spirits and stripped back the painting, and proceeded to scrape the rest off with a scalpel.

I turned the painting around in my conservatory, not wanting to look at it, and decided to leave it there.

A few hours later, I found myself sobbing to The LORD in the conservatory, asking if I had lost my gifting, or that I was doing something wrong, since I still had that urgent desire to paint those clouds coming away.

I was basically asking if I was okay with The LORD and immediately my husband parked on the drive.

He phoned me to tell me to open the door. I wasn’t sure why he was ringing, but as I opened the door, there before me was a most beautiful double rainbow.

I then spent another ten minutes blubbing on the doorstep, thanking The LORD for always keeping his covenant promise that he is always with me.

It was later that I realised, I washed away the storm clouds at the exact time there was a storm of thunder and torrential rain outside.

Several days later I attended a ministry zoom and one of the team was speaking of carving wood and using the tools to refine into the deeper details.

As he spoke, I was picturing The Cross of Christ and felt a need to go into the conservatory, turn the painting around, and place it in my living room.

As I gazed at this painting, I was in awe that I was looking at a golden Cross and what looked like Flames covering this Cross.

It was like my eyes had been unveiled to a whole new picture.

I was reminded that on my morning walk that day, I declared that he is the Bright morning star.

It was something I haven’t declared for a long time, yet here I was looking at what was meant to be a sunset, now spiritually in my heart, I knew it was now a sunrise, a dawning of a new day.

I realised that he had allowed me to spend several weeks working out what he was trying to strip away from my thinking, and that was what had dawned on me, that I had made an idol of trying to make a perfect painting, and that I had been comparing myself to other artists.

The joy of creating had left and striving had taken its place.

The zoom was centred on God’s creation, how we are created in his image, and that ALL people carry creativity.

Some might say that I simply scraped and revealed the back bar that supports the Canvas frame.

This is indeed the back support that somehow aligned perfectly with the sun’s position. Yet what we need to remember, and what he was showing me, was what would normally be hidden yet structurally important, has now been elevated and become the feature of the message in all its beauty, The Cross of Christ.

His message to us is that we are created in his likeness as vessels, to carry HIS likeness and His light!.

You who have clung to the support of The LORD, who have prayed and decreed as supports over your brothers and sisters, the leaders, the nations — you are now being elevated to the forefront, as a sign to the world that even though we may feel the storms will never leave, Jesus has a new Joy and hope for his children, and as he said it on The Cross — “IT IS FINISHED!”

The living room is darker than the conservatory, and just as the world is getting darker, The LORD’s will shine brighter in us and reveal himself to the lost and hurting.

It’s not the painting and taking time on the painting that made the idol, it was the perfectionist spirit. He wants us to be and create as children.

The light of the world cannot be hidden where there is darkness.

This painting was covering over another I had done called Psalm 23.

I had spent a while considering that it needed to be covered over. I believe The LORD has allowed this to make a direct statement in this testimony— that His Glory fire is kindling and building for Psalm 24.

Remember my husband told me to open the door? God’s covenant promise has never left you beloved!

I also realised today that The LORD had taken away those clouds for me, by stripping away the striving force, and reminding me to go back to the basic gospel.

The painting had to die because the spirit behind it needed to die in me, just as The Cross of death and Resurrection power, to reveal the life of Christ in me and you is always his desire. Amen!

“The earth is The LORD’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of The LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from The LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.” Psalm 24:1-10 KJV.

 

~ Yvonne Coombs

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Yvonne Coombs. Please also see Yvonne’s Prophetic Art here at “Yvonne’s Paintings” on Facebook and on Instagram @y.coombs.art.

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