Prophetic Painting

What do you get when you have 200 children, 12 colors of paint, 100 degrees of humidity, and a blank wall?!  Glad you asked, 2 words:  Heavenly Chaos!  I have been asking the Lord to reveal something to me for over a month, and tonight He gave me the revelation.  My heart is stirred as I try to pen the words that He has inscribed on the walls of my heart.  About a month before heading to Haiti, the Lord gave me a vision for something we would do in Haiti with the children.  I didn't understand the significance or fully grasp the impact of what we would do, but I longed to be obedient.  Now nearly 2 months later, I get it.

While in Haiti we did a childrens outreach in which we ministered to about 200 children, a majority of whom still sleep in tents a year after the quake.  We sang with them and danced, laughing as we held hands and spun around in circles.  We learned Scripture together, shared a meal each day and lived in their world, a world so vastly different from our own and yet a world that felt strangely familiar.  The best part?  We were able to share God's Word with them, teaching them about how God chose them to be different since before they were born (Romans 12:2).  We used the story of Josiah as a model and it was so parallel to their history as a nation, their culture as a people, and their world as a child.  Funny how God can do such an incredible thing like that.

The Lord gave me a vision about doing an art mural on a wall in Haiti in which it would say, "Chosen To Be The Difference" with the theme verse at the bottom.  At the end of the week, the children would have an opportunity to "sign" their names on the wall if they wanted to, as a sign of their commitment to the Lord, their peers, their community, and themselves to be the difference, to be the change within their world.  All week long as we learned together, precious hands would go up in the air as children began to catch the vision of what they could do with the Lord.  There were so many world changers in that community, I'll never forget their beaming smiles as their hands shot up in the air with great anticipation.

On our last day there, I watched with great joy as the principal and teachers began to paint the white backdrop with such pride and dignity.  We shared with the people there the vision and why we were painting a cement wall of the church.  As a team we were praying over that wall and asking for God to use it for His incredible goodness and glory!  My spirit was stirred, and I felt silly for being so excited about a simple painting.  Of course we took pictures and tried to keep the painted hands of the children off of each other, and we walked away from that place satisfied.  Little did we know at the time what the Lord was actually up to!

(I know this is getting long, PLEASE forgive me...but hang on, it'll be worth it in the end!!!)

So today as I was thinking about the mural, the Lord gave me a verse:  Habakkuk 2:2 (The Mesage):

And then God answered: "Write this. Write what you see.  Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run.  This vision-message is a witness pointing to what's coming.  It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait!  And it doesn't lie.  If it seems slow in coming, wait.   It's on its way. It will come right on time."


Wow, I am blown away!  Think about this, read it again...let it soak in your spirit!  It's coming, it's coming, it's coming!  People of Haiti, take hope for your change is coming!!!  God has heard the longing of your hearts, the rumbling of your spirits for a generation to rise up and be the difference!!  Hundreds of children and adults solidified it with their very fingerprints, prints that were crafted by the very hand of God and yet unique to each individual.  The crazy part?  God was showing us in advance what He was up to in that small community, a prophetic painting of what is happening in the spiritual realm!

Yes God, we say yes to you!  Raise your people up oh God, awaken our hearts to your truth and glory!  Oh sure, that wall may one day crumble but the Word of the Lord stands forever!  They may paint over that mural one day, and that's ok.  Because the mural that God is painting on each of the hearts of the children will last through eternity!  I am excited beyond words for the people of Haiti...there's a shaking in the spiritual realm over that nation and I could see it, I could hear it, and I could feel it while I was there!  King of glory, have your glory!  Greater things have yet to come to the people of Haiti...take heart, it's coming!!!  -Tara