Jesus Saves To The Uttermost Timelapse Video Painting
Jesus Saves to The Uttermost is a Timelapse painting video using my left ((non-dominant) hand to paint with.
The music on the video is an instrumental song from my recent album Behold The Lamb. The video is very short so you will only hear but a snippet of the music.
The Lord Jesus has been blessing me with many portraits of Himself as I have been doing this physical therapy.
This painting began with what I assumed would be horses all the way through it! You never know where the Lord will lead you though. All He asks me when I paint is that I trust Him and follow His inspiration.
When I paint right handed however, since that hand has all the training and thinks it’s so smart and is it’s own master, it wants a to do list in hand and seems to plot out everything. I never get half the things done that hand plans for me to accomplish. I end up in bed with a migraine.
I hope my experience helps others who are like me and need to learn to lean on the Lord for His strength and trust Him. God is truly no respecter of persons. He will help anyone who trusts Him. He saves to the uttermost all who come to God through Christ. That means that the Lord will do anything according to His will to help that soul when they put their faith in Him.
I want to share these painting practices with you in the hopes that they will encourage you as much as the Lord is encouraging me through them.
“We should think about each other to see how we can encourage each other to show love and do good works.”
Hebrews 10:24 ERV
May our Heavenly Father bless you, in Jesus Name, amen.
Jesus said, Of That Day And Hour No one Knows_ not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32
This is the third video in a series of Time lapse prayer paintings I’ve done since Sunday. I published them on YouTube.
I rarely publish my Timelapse paintings. But these I felt inspired to share because they are for the most part, efforts to paint with my non dominant, or left hand. I’m normally right handed and have always done everything with that beloved instrument. But after I broke my left humerus my left hand was weakened.
The Lord inspired me to write and draw with my left hand to strengthen it. This was humbling act of faith. When I have a bad migraine, it is well nigh impossible. But the three efforts I’ve published since Monday show my progress since I began doing as the Lord directed about a month ago. My hand has become stronger.
I encourage all who are timid about trying something challenging because it seems impossible. The Lord will help. For He truly has helped me and He is no Respecter of persons. His Word never lies.
I pray the short video will encourage you. The other two are also on YouTube should you want to watch them.
Angels are important to us spiritually for we learn what God desires in the hearts of those who love and serve Him as we study His Word and reflect on what it teaches us.
From Psalm 103 we learn that one of the most important things about angels is that they are primarily God’s servants who hear God’s voice, and are always obedient to do the Lord’s will.
“Bless the LORD, ye His angels, that excel in strength, That do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word. Bless ye the LORD, all ye His hosts; Ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure.”
Psalm 103:20-21 KJV
From the Bible we learn that an Angel of God always hears God’s voice and obeys His will. God’s angels love God and trust Him.
But wasn’t the devil once one of God’s Angels?
Ezekiel the prophet wrote in reference to the anointed angel who became the devil: “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”
Ezekiel 28:15 KJV
• What does that word perfect mean?
תָּמִים
tâmı̂ym ~taw-meem’ Concordance)
(From the Strong’s Bible Concordance
From H8552; entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth: – without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright, whole.
Strong’s Bible Concordance
What turned this Angel’s heart against his Master and Creator?
One of things the Bible mentions was enormous vanity and pride. “Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”
Ezekiel 28:17 KJV
Concerning the devil, Jesus had a few things to say. In speaking to the religious authorities who appeared perfect and flawlessly righteous outwardly, yet inwardly, in their hearts they were very corrupt.
Jesus said to them, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
John 8:44 KJV
Perfect is to God an altogether different concept from what is conceived by the devil and those formerly holy angels the evil one deceived into joining him in rebelling against our Creator.
God’s idea of perfection is a far cry from what humans imagine who have been seduced by the enemy into focusing on themselves and their appearance, on what they do, and if they do it better than others; how much money they earn, and how they can earn more, and then how they can best show off their success to others.
Depending on their age many souls are absorbed with either their popularity, their looks, their health, their jobs, school, career, their family, social media, etc.
Since they can’t see or hear Christ, they simply dismiss Him as irrelevant to their lives. They will value everything the world prizes rather than believing in what the Bible says is true.
They will not seek to know and love God for themselves in a vertical, personal relationship. For deep down they have a mistrust of spiritual, unseen things.
However God treasures those spiritual qualities in the soul who willlisten to His voice, trust, and obey Him regardless of what anyone says or thinks about them, or what their obedience to Him might cost them.
It is a heart that completely acknowledges who God is, seeks to abide every moment in total submission to His sovereign authority, and to the Lord’s rightful expectation of worship that is due Him from their spirit, soul, mind and body.
It combines those attributes into a heart that passionately loves and desires to worship Him more than anything else.
God is their whole reason and motivation for living.
Such a heart looks like Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The Gospel of Matthew relates that on the Eve of His Crucifixion, in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was praying to His Heavenly Father and sweating great drops of blood, His temptations were so dreadful.
“And Jesus went a little further, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt.”
Matthew 26:39 KJV
The first commandment states, ““You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 ERV
God tries the heart His Word says. He tests us to see what we are made of. “For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.”
Psalm 66:10 KJV
Therefore we undergo trials and afflictions according to His Word. And when we suffer we are to rejoice.
“In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;”
1 Peter 1:6-7 NASB1999
“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
James 1:2-4 NASB1995
No human will ever reach complete perfection this side of heaven. Only Christ was perfect. But Christ is always working on the hearts He redeemed with His spotless blood, and who have committed their lives to Him.
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 1:6 NASB1995
Though the Christian is saved by God’s grace and given Christ’s righteousness, the Apostle Paul reminds us that we must not continue to live in sin once we ask Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
“So, my brothers and sisters, we must not be ruled by our sinful selves. We must not live the way our sinful selves want. If you use your lives to do what your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life. The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them.”
Romans 8:12-14 ERV
It is the Lord’s work in our lives to sanctify us within. We participate in this process through our obedience to Him. Our will must always beto do Christ’s will.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 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.”
Romans 12:1-2 KJV
God wants a soul to care what He thinks about them more than what the public or their family or friends think about them.
God is more interested in knowing that we esteem His honor, affirmation, and encouragement than the popularity, honor, and esteem of the world.
If we must have the world’s favor rather the esteem and honor that the Lord wants to bestow upon us for obeying His will, then we show Him that we neither love, fear, nor truly have any real faith in Him.
“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matthew 16:24-26 KJV
If we do not really believe that we can hear and discern Christ’s voice so that we can learn to know His will for us, then we do not really believe that the teaching of the risen Lord Jesus Christ is true.
“Jesus answered them…My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”
John 10:25, 27-30 KJV
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”
Ephesians 5:17 KJV
The holy Angels of the Most High God live to worship and obey the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind and strength.
Like the Angels who sang over the fields in Bethlehem on the first Christmas.
“Glory to God in the highest…”
Luke 2:14 KJV
They worship and glorify God always in the way He directs them.
God’s Angels exist to extol the perfections of their Creator, not their own.
For the moment an Angel’s mind becomes self focused it is no longer holy, and is transformed like vain Lucifer into a devil and must be thrust from the Lord’s presence.
Perfectionism is self focused, ever working to please humans. It never glorifies God, but exhausts itself trying to appear as if it had no visible flaws.
Jesus warned the Pharisees (religious rulers) that even though they appeared morally flawless outwardly, that in their hearts they were filled with dead men’s bones. He called them hypocrites.
Satan, the once beautiful, upright anointed Angel of God, a creature who seemed perfect and without fault, until “… iniquity was found in him, ” once beheld the beautiful face of God and worshiped Him.
So also did the third of the Angels whom the devil led into a rebellion against the Almighty.
They did not remain in their position with God because they trusted and believed an unholy lie.
What had been light became dark and corrupted with evil.
Whatever we might imagine we are outwardly, if we don’t truly know the Risen Lord Jesus Christ, if we do not seek His face in private personal prayer, humbly abiding in continual fellowship with Him, listening for His voice, and know and understand by faith His Wordand will, and obey it, then we are in danger of offering our Lord the outwardly perfect sacrifice of the Pharisees and of Cain, instead of the sacrifice God has asked us for, which Cain’s brother Abel, and which Christ gave to the Lord, and which found favor with God.
Both Abel’s and Christ’s sacrifices involved the absolute submission of their entire wills to God. In both cases it was not necessarily the gift they desired to give to God, but the gift God desired from them.
Jesus said, “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.”
John 17:3
Prayer
Heavenly Father, may You give me a humble, holy heart just like the Angels, that exists to hear Thy voice and obey Thee, to worship and extol Thy perfections, and those of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, thank You, I love You, in Jesus’ name, amen.
I drew this whimsical rabbit writer several years ago when I was doing a lot of pen & ink work before I came down with the virus that caused my auto immune illness. In those days I drew and painted or wrote incessantly; from the time I woke up until I went to bed at night. Like the rabbit character in the illustration I was always thinking of something to draw, write, or create. I was certain that the Lord had put me on the earth to make things.
That is until I got sick with a mysterious debilitating virus and could neither write or draw, or even walk or do anything for almost four months but sit in a darkened room. I experienced excruciating migraines.
I prayed fervently and listened to the Lord. He spoke to my heart. He told me that I had value apart from my gifts.
The Lord said that if I never drew or painted or wrote another thing, but just sat in my chair in the dark and prayed to Him I was still glorifying Him by living for Him.
For to live for Him as He chose for me to, even if I had no gift or talent to display, was to glorify Him, as long as I was doing His will, and not my own will.
He told me that I thought I had no value apart from my gifts and He needed to assure me that my value did not rest in what I could or could not do, in my gifts or talents, in my occupation, in my role as a mother or wife, in what I did for any church, in where I lived, or what kind of car I drove, or my economic status, and so forth.
My value as a human being came from Him, for I was His creation made in His holy image. I needed to understand that. Nothing I did or did not do could or would change His love for me.
Christ had redeemed me apart from my merits, I did nothing to earn His salvation, His grace, His forgiveness. God loved me for me.
The Lord spoke these things to me every day. And all I could do was listen. It was very hard to go from someone who had walked six miles a day and created all the time, to someone who could do nothing.
As much as most might tend to avoid such verses, I clung to scriptures like those penned by the prophet Jeremiah below:
“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because He hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
He giveth his cheek to Him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
For He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. Lamentations 3:24-26,28-33 – KJV
We take for granted that if we have many talents then it is the Lord’s will that we use all that energy like mad and think we are doing it for His glory.
In my case the parable of the talents haunted me. I didn’t want to get to Heaven and have Christ say to me that I had hidden the talents He had invested in me.
I’d had that parable drummed into me since I was a child. But when I got sick I discovered He wanted me to sit at His feet and worship Him and love Him and listen to Him and get to know Him.
He wanted to be my God, not art and writing and creating things. For all those things I was making were going to burn up some day, but only those things I did that were truly His will would abide forever.
(“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” 1 John 2:17 – KJV )
For the things that are God’s will bear eternal fruit. But the things that I manufacture from my own plans, purposes, and goals are born out of my own worldly desires.
Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 – KJV
When the Lord finally restored me, He never gave me back the health I had enjoyed before I got that simple virus that changed the whole course of my life back in 2007.
He promised me back then that He was going to heal me, but that my healing was going to be a journey.
It was like I had fallen from the top of a great mountain and now the Lord was going to walk with me every day as we climbed together back up.
But this time I would go with Him, I would be getting to know Him, and holding His hand every day, and learning His voice and doing His willand not my own.
He had to knock that false god out of my heart that I had not known I had. For indeed I had believed I was worshiping Him and doing His will.
But through my illness He showed me that the light within me was very dark.
God is indeed merciful. We can be completely blind to our idols.
How I thank Him now that He came along and set me straight. As the Psalmist wrote: “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.” ~Psalm 119:67 – KJV
I lost track of my Rabbit Writer Illustration for many years, then when I was going through my files recently I found him again and thought he’d make a great gift for my Peaceangelsong’s shop.
So I asked the Lord if He would inspire a good digital card from this illustration and He gave me this one.
If you identify with this poem, then it’s simple to download, print and frame and add to your office. Thank you for visiting my blog! I hope you will come visit us at my new Peaceangelsong’s Gifts Shop! (My Shopify Store) https://peaceangelsongsgifts.com
Whether you choose to just browse or purchase anything, I’d love for to visit us. May you be encouraged by the gifts the Lord has given me to share with you!
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