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God’s Promise
A Prophetic Painting by Amy Heath
The story of Noah’s Ark rolled around in my brain as I was thinking about trusting God and obeying him even if I don’t understand and look foolish and flaky to the natural eye and practical mind. My obedience is better than sacrifice or my pride. And Samuel said, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22 (ESV) But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. 1 Corinthians 1:27 (ESV)

“God’s Promise” acrylic by Amy J Heath

I was working on a visual project with the students in my preschool class. We briefly studied Noah’s ark, which inspired me to create and cut animal patterns from construction paper to recreate Noah and some of his many animals. The students assisted me with gluing the animals
together. creating individual looks. As I worked on this project, I thought about all the upheaval in our country and multiple prophetic words going forth warning you to be prepared in your home for months as the shaking will increase while God is shifting and sorting out the world. I
thought, Am I prepared? I then realized that you can only be prepared so much! Then I thought, Is my heart prepared? Do I trust that Father God will provide and protect my family. and me?
Amy, are you trusting God when you feel anxious about being prepared? Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV) says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

“Noah’s Ark” paper

The preschoolers loved the paper collage but wanted to know where God’s promise, the rainbow was. I knew then that I wanted to paint a rainbow to take to class to visually complete Noah’s story for the preschoolers. As I designed the rainbow painting in my mind, I thought about all the preschool children, and how they are the NOW future. The enemy is attacking our current generation with so many perversions and confusion.  I thought about the influence God’s Kingdom People need to have on this generation to help shape their future. For we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (ESV 6:12)
God’s rainbow has seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, indigo blue, and violet. Each color represents a different aspect of God. Interestingly, the light blue, which represents the priesthood of God, is missing from the current counterculture rainbow flag. I thought about Lance Wallnau’s coined Seven Mountains of Influence teaching: Art, Media, Government, Family, Education, Science, and Business. Many of my paintings and drawings have the Seven
Mountains painted in the background as I know that God is raising up champions to fight for these influential high places once again. In this picture, I painted the mountains under the rainbow. The mountains are pink because pink is the color of righteousness to me. When you
mix red, which symbolizes the blood-shedding and covering of sins by Jesus Christ, and the color white together, which represents purity and Holy Spirit, they make pink which represents
being made whole in righteousness.

Originally, I had in mind the song Jesus Loves the Little Children. I painted the red, yellow, black, and white people in the front of the rainbow representative of the song. A thought occurred to me , Where are the brown people though? I was not finished and had the opportunity to paint the following Sunday. Holy Spirt was sweeping through the congregation during worship. Another prophetic artist came up jokingly wondering where the brown people were. I explained the reasoning but as I painted, the thought, You know, this song is dumb! crossed my mind. Racism is dumb! Then, I thought, What do the inside colors of God’s people look like? This scripture came to mind: But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on
the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” I Samuel 16:7 (ESV)
As we shape the current generation, may we remind them that God’s promises are not inclusive based on outward appearances, preferences, or the season they’re in, His true colors are reflected
from the inner beauty of a heart that models unconditional love, trust, and hope for the future.

Below is a short clip from Lance Wallnau’s “7 Mountain” teaching.

Amy J. Heath (Sonrise Magazine Art Director, Magazine Manager) Author. Grew up here in Everett, Washington and graduated from Mariner High School. Author of Creative Heart a 31-day devotional inviting you to join Amy’s journey with Father God in a Creative way. Each day has a painting with the thoughts she shared with God about the meaning of the picture and then invites you on the next page to write or draw the inspiration you gathered while reading and viewing Amy’s painting. The goal of this book is to help you express creatively your thoughts.

Art Director and Magazine Manager amyjheathdesign@gmail.com

Creative Heart can currently be found at the Sonrise Christian Center bookstore.