I Know the Plans I Have For You Declares the Lord

I Know the Plans I have for You Declares the Lord {New Painting}

This is a painting I did for my daughter when God was restoring are... more

by Mike De Lorenzo

Title

I Know the Plans I Have For You Declares the Lord

Artist

Mike De Lorenzo

Medium

Painting - Oil

Description

I Know the Plans I have for You Declares the Lord {New Painting}

This is a painting I did for my daughter when God was restoring are relationship. I believe this will bless you.

I've shared with people about this painting a few times, and I've seen the Lord heal the hearts of the broken.

Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Last year I had just finished a painting called: We Shall Be Hold Him, and I was asking the Lord what my next painting would be. I heard that still small voice of the Holy Spirit saying, "I will tell you when you're away with your daughter for a few days". My one daughter has had her share of difficulties, being born with a tumor. And in her later years she further experienced some hardships. So as we took a trip to Eastern Washington and one of our stops was Lake Chelan, I took her to a vineyard.

We happen to run into the owner who was a doctor by trade, but he always had a passion to have a winery to make his own wine. He asked her what she wanted to do. Well it was in her heart to want to be a doctor, Lord willing. So he was talked to her about pursuing her passions. At the end of our conversation he asked if he could give her a bottle of wine from his winery, and if she is old enough. Well I said, next year she will be 21. Long story short, he wrote on the bottle about pursuing your dreams and your passions. As you know I love to preach, paint, and share the Gospel. It's in me. It's my passion.

I had some prints of Italy that I gave him also. I was able to share the Lord with him a bit, and how the Lord uses the art as a medium to share His love. So our next stop was Leavenworth, Washington, a town at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains that was made into a town to look like the Swiss Alps, an authentic Bavarian community. It is a really beautiful tourist destination. It has many shops, restaurants, art galleries and so on.

I went to one of the stores which had a bunch of art, and I brought in some of my prints to share. My kids hate when I do this, but it's my passion what else can I do? So I just go with it. I have had numerous Divine Appointments sharing my art like this. One of the ladies wanted to buy some. My daughter sees this painting about Cinderella, called, WISH UPON A DREAM, by a well-known artist. If you recall, the theme that day for her was: "pursue your dreams; your passions". She got all excited. and implored me: "DAD, DAD WILL YOU BUY THIS FOR ME"? Sticker shock then hit me. It was $1,000, just for the print. It also had some things I didn't care for in the painting. But out of my mouth came: I will paint you my rendition of that painting. There it came out of my own mouth. Remember, God had already told me He was going to speak to me about a new painting when I was "away with your (my) daughter for a few days". But I had no idea it had to do with her, at that time the Lord spoke to my heart in that 'still small voice'. The Holy Spirit had just said that He would tell me THAT He would tell me, not WHO it would be about.

The name of our ministry is My Father's House Ministries. The hearts of the fathers turned toward our sons and daughters, out of Malachi 4:4-6.

As I was painting the angel; my daughter would say, "Dad, soften it". But I kept feeling, no, I need to make the angel blatant. I have plenty of paintings where you have to find the angel, but this wasn't to be the case. She had a period this last year that one thing happened after the other, and she ended up in the hospital a few times. Yes, she needs to know that her angel is brightly present!

Jeremiah 29:11 is written below the bridge, and in the sky above the house you will see a hand. The Bible says: in Isaiah 49:16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands. Your walls are continually before Me. God holds us in His hands, and He is our strength. God's walls are His protection around us. He puts walls of fire around us to protect us. God is watching over us.

I left out the wicked stepsisters that were in that Cinderella painting. They are symbolic of our accuser, satan; telling us that we're no good, and that we will never amount to anything.

Revelations 12:10 - "Then I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death".

The castle has crosses on top, and there are faces and crosses in the mountains. Like Cinderella we need to see ourselves as God sees us: wonderful and precious. How does Jesus see you? He LOVES you!

Look at what He says about YOU! Isaiah 43:1-5 - "But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. 3 For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. 4 Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your life. 5 Fear not, for I am with you."

Psalm 139:13-18 - "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully (carefully) and wonderfully made;[b] Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You."

God has a wonderful plan for your life. Does your soul know what the Lord has in store for you? Do you see yourself as the Lord sees you? I pray for our sons and daughters that the Lord would set them free in Him. I pray that they would know who they are in Christ, and to see themselves as God sees them. And I also pray that they would know their destiny.

Amen!

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May 19th, 2013