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John of Patmos by Matthew Scotland

Acrylic on canvas the island exile John is on the beach writing when a surprise visitor comes with out of this world revelations “I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven”
Akuti - A real Gypsy Princess, and her people need you! by TREVOR IRWIN

PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO READ THIS. I am an Irish artist and missionary working with extreme poor in Africa and India. In this one camp 52 children suffer from Intestinal worm infection, and the death rate is very high. This is due to lack of clean water. The is Akuti, an Indian gypsy girl aged 11 years. Her name means ‘Princess’ and she really is a Gypsy princess. But she, like almost all of her people, the Nara_Kar-Avars (gypsy children), are treated with contempt and rejection, and denied even the basics of life. To be born a Gypsy under Hindu religion is to be born into the lowest of the lowest casts. / Known as Outcasts and treated as Untouchables, Akuti and many millions like her face a life with little hope. / She has never gone to school, as her parents barely earn enough to feed her, and cannot afford the £70-$130 per year they need for school fees, uniform and text books. My passion and mission in life is not just to pray and preach to these precious people, but to provide clothing, and the cost of school fees, medical care, and provide tools to help them earn or make a living. / The Philadelphia Mission is a small underfunded, yet effective British charity doing just that in India and Africa. We need you, my friend, to help us do much more. Become part of this mission today! Sow a seed into the life of Akuti and other children in real and terrible need. All PROCEEDS from the SALE of my ART, or DONATIONS made VIA our CHARITY WEBSITE GO to HELP EXTREME POOR and SICK in ISOLATED and RURAL VILLAGES in AFRICA and INDIA. / We TAKE NOTHING out of what YOU GIVE to the Philiadelphia Mission Charity for our Overhead or Support at all. We are NOT SALARIED and we each COVER our OWN expenses, so ALL that YOU GIVE GOES to these CHILDREN To make a donation, or find out more, Please visit our Charity Mission website* / (http://www.philadelphia33.org/) “See 4 DVD CLIPS of our work in Africa and India“:http://www.youtube.com//PhiladelphiaMission(http://www.youtube.com//PhiladelphiaMission) Camera: Canon EOS400D. Lens: Canon EF70-300 IS USM. WB: Auto. ISO:400. [Taken in natural light].
Woman by Shoshonan

A Christmas image of a Mary the mother of Jesus in a pensive mood. Looking to the futire. The item she is holding a can either be a water pot or the resmblance of a child.. / I painted with Winsor and Newton watercolours enhanced with a watercolour paint that has beeswax in it. The paper used is Bockingford.
Lo, I am with you! by loramae

I dedicate this to my friend BB. One who has a heart for God…and most special to me :O) May you be lifted up my friend!
IN THE BEGINNING... by Jael

As it goes… God Created….it ALL!! This is the tiny leaf of a tree, that has just barely leafed out in the spring. So small, yet so beautiful! It IS a leaf, came from it’s TREE… and has all the genetics of a TREE…. Everything is programed by God, to be and to do… what it was programmed to do! Imagine if sin had not come along and spoiled “nature”... As beautiful as it is NOW.. there is NO way to imagine how it looked before the fall of humanity, and sin was brought into the world. Even “creation groans in sin, waiting for it’s redemption”!! Storms, earthquakes, fire… floods! We are all waiting, for our redemption by God when there will be no more storms, evil, sickness, war! All of creation KNOWS their Creator! But the greatest of God’s creations…is MAN!! If a PLANT KNOWS who created it.. HOW, I ask you, can man turn Him down? Go back then, to how we got in this mess… when man was disobedient…and was then separated FROM God. At the same time, the beautiful creation was effected also….and thorns, and thistles and pests appeared. Heretofore, Man tended a beautiful garden, in paradise. NOW, by the sweat of his brow, he works until he is worn down, and worn out. One of the greatest promises is a NEW body, just like the one that Christ has at this moment! It won’t bother me a bit, to get my new body! What a day, “glorious day, that will be”. /
Silent Night . . . by Rosalie Dale IPA

Christmas is almost here again! / Two photos blended – one of the music, the other of rust. More Christmas cards here Featured in Living Christianity Group, Nov 09 Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM
He is My Rock by Kristen Coleman

I will never be shaken
Welcome home! by sunshine0

Background – http://destiny-stockdeviantart.com / Jesus – My own stock Edited in photoshop CS3
God's Promise by Caroline Lembke

watercolor / quoted from King James Bible 21thcentury version,copyright by King James Bible 21th version
Witness to a real Miracle! by TREVOR IRWIN

PLEASE READ THIS. “This was the exact moment in time when the Power of almighty God and his great compassion and love, touched a dying Child”. Taken in Kaban Muslim village in Nov 2008. I was ministering in the village along with several mission staff, and a mother brought her almost dead child to me and asked for Prayer. As I held the still body of this little boy in my arms, my thoughts went straight to Jesus. I spoke to teh Mother and all around me that the only one that could save this child now as Jesus. I said I will pray in Jesus name. There were a few unhappy elders around, but decided to agree that I should pray in Jesus name, just to see what would Happen. This was the breakthrough. Kaban village is a Muslim village and under Sheria Law. I simply laid my hand on the child and commanded life and divine health to enter the child and that God would fill this child with his spirit. In Jesus name I prayed. Instantly the child because to move his arms and legs and began to cry. I told the mother Jesus had healed her son, and to take her son and breastfeed him as he was hungry. All saw the Power of Jesus and was witnessed by all in the village. Others then came and many were healed and some openly give their lives to Jesus. others followed us on our way to Ungwa/Fada village and received Jesus in private. Jesus is alive and works in and through his people. He loves you, and that is a fact. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART, PLUS DONATIONS MADE TO PHILADELPHIA MISSION CHARITY, GOES TO HELP EXTREME POOR AND SICK IN REMOTE AND RURAL VILLAGES IN AFRICA. WE NEVER TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR GIVING. ALL CHARITY OVERHEADS ARE COVERED BY OUR MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS. I invite all to Please drop in and visit my Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Camera: Canon 400D. Lens: Canon 70-300 Zoom. [AS IS]
JEHOVAH-RAPHA~ HEAL OUR LAND! by Jael

Pray, pray PRAY! / Using a cosmos, with bowed head~ / May God shake us loose, / From the world and the dead, / Fruit of the devil everywhere… / No time to pray, or IS there…. / Who will be the first to awake / Is any one listening— / DEAR G-D is it too late????
Love Never Fails by George Lenz

Passage 1 Corinthians 13:7: / 3 -7 (Message Bible) – If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. / Love cares more for others than for self. / Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. / Love doesn’t strut, / Doesn’t have a swelled head, / Doesn’t force itself on others, / Isn’t always “me first,” / Doesn’t fly off the handle, / Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, / Doesn’t revel when others grovel, / Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, / Puts up with anything, / Trusts God always, / Always looks for the best, / Never looks back, / But keeps going to the end. This passage is not just meant for religious people, rather for everyone to practice in their association with others. They say fight fire with fire, that only makes a bigger fire. You can fight fire with love because it will always endure and not fail. Yes it can be hard sometimes, but don’t loose hope. / / Hope you like! Add me to your watch list now / My Bubblesite / Copyright © by Lenz Photo Shop, All Rights Reserved. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without written permission.

Recent Work

Susan, a True Miracle Girl by TREVOR IRWIN

Saved from Death and worse than death, / Another soul to live! / Our Sister Susan, here, draws breath, / For you were kind to give. Poem® 19 Nov 2009, Dayonda Stribling / www.redbubble.com Photo ed’s note: This pic is deliberately darkened aound Susan’s eyes to bring them out in all their beauty. Susan’s face has been electronically edited in the tradition of old-fashioned oil paints-on-a-print enhancement. If you’re using a laptop and you can’t see Susan’s face, tip your screen toward you, that should do it. / __ When we first met Susan on a mission to a rural village in April 2007, she was in the later stages of death. Her body was infested with intestinal worms. Medicines would not work. I prayed for her in the village, along with two other mission volunteers. We left to continue our journey. But God spoke to me, and we returned that evening and put her in our old battered vehicle and brought her to our mission centre. We continued to pray and command death to leave her alone. 5 days later and God completely healed her. Now as you see, Susan is completely healed. She shares her testimony with us on missions into other villages and many have also received healing and hope. Praise God! Please help us to continue to reach others in need and extreme poverty. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART, PLUS DONATIONS MADE TO PHILADELPHIA MISSION CHARITY, GOES TO HELP EXTREME POOR AND SICK IN REMOTE AND RURAL VILLAGES IN AFRICA. WE NEVER TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR GIVING. ALL CHARITY OVERHEADS ARE COVERED BY OUR MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS. www.Philadelphia33.org Painted over Photo. (R) 19 Nov 2009 to / www.Philadelphia33.org
A Time and A Season by StacyLee

The Lord determines the times and the seasons in our lives. 1 There is a time for everything, / and a season for every activity under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, / a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, / a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, / a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, / a time to embrace and a time to refrain, 6 a time to search and a time to give up, / a time to keep and a time to throw away, 7 a time to tear and a time to mend, / a time to be silent and a time to speak, 8 a time to love and a time to hate, / a time for war and a time for peace. / ~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Stock Credits: / http://nightstock.deviantart.com/ / http://serapstock.deviantart.com/ / http://steppeland.deviantart.com/ / http://janedoestock.deviantart.com/
Writing

THANK YOU LORD…Very heavy hearted, and forgetting one certain thing; / Like not to dwell on myself, and the strife it all can bring. / I never thought…
A Swirl of Colored Flakes by MaeBelle

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Writing

Calender ~ A Year In The Boat…Just wanted to share the new calender I have for sale with all of you. 12 captures from Steamboat Springs, CO / !http://images-0.redbubbl…

Just wanted to share the new calender I have for sale with all of you. 12 captures from Steamboat Springs, CO /
Oasis of peace calmness ... by kindangel

” He gives power to the weak and strength to the / powerless .” / Isaiah 40:29
In the sea of chrysanthemums by kindangel

” Since everything God created is good ….” / 1 Timothy 4:4
Light of the World by Caroline Lembke

silk painting with dye and gutta
Near a source ... by kindangel

“Lord, You will grant us peace ; / all we have accomplished is really from You . / Isaiah 26:12
Eiderdown Pillows by aaeiinnn

Framed by Australian native frangipani (hymenosporum flavum) in Ian’s back garden in Perth, Western Australia, the poem was written separately by Annie – and the two just seemed to mesh.
Softly by Anna Larson

Sometimes in life our biggest problems in life come from the fact that we only ponder upon ourselves, our problems. Self pity, fear of our situation, feelings of low self worth and sadness. But if we look to others and think about them and thier needs, by reaching out and spending our thoughts upon them, our problems do not seem to be as big, actually sometimes we forget about our worries for a time. Our hearts are filled with happiness, contentment, and we feel needed. So in turn our fears, self pity and sadness have no room left in our own lifes, as helping others make us feel more complete. This poem is for those that reach out, that take the time to look to others and thier needs. / God see’s all, it is up to us to paint the picture of our soul to the Lord each day… † † †… / My prayers with all…xxx

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