Entering His Presence Through Art
with Pennie Strople
Pennie Strople, a prophetic artist originally from Colorado and more recently from Redding, California, recently moved to northwest Iowa and has been getting involved at HOME.
Pennie started with explaining that prophetic art positions us to see into what we don't yet comprehend. She explained that it's about furthering intimacy. "Into - me - you - see". It is a way to see deeper into Him - true intimacy. But it is not just for artists! Just like music is not just for musicians. We all use music. We all listen to it or hear it through out the day, but we are not all musicians. We use music to interact with God in worship, but we are not all worship leaders. The music is a tool for intimacy. It is the same situation with prophetic art - we can all use it because it is a tool for intimacy.
How does it create more intimacy? It is a visual experience with the Lord, it brings us back to child-like play where we take ourselves less seriously, and it opens us up to risk taking!
The intimacy is vertical (with the Lord) but also horizontal (as a body of believers). We can interact with the Lord to bring intimacy between ourselves and the Lord, but also we can share our prophetic art with others which can feed into others' intimacy with the Lord. We're offering a glimpse of the Lord to others through our prophetic art. We can prophecy with words, but sometimes giving a visual can have deeper meaning. It is similar to Jesus using parables. For example, with the parable of the prodigal son, Jesus told this whole story to give them a visual when he could have simply said "The Father is one who will always love and take you back". But when we see that picture, we can sit in that and go deeper.
Pennie then led the group through a couple activation activities. Feel free to try this activity at home!
You will need two pieces of paper and three different colors (crayon, marker, colored pencil, etc.)
1. Ask the Lord to show you one quick thing. A scene, an object, something you know. Just ask the Lord to show you something and then draw it on one side of the card. It's like Pictionary with the Holy Spirit.
2. Ask the Lord to show you it again, and something about the image will have changed. Ask "What do you want me to see now?" Part of it may have moved, or something is covered, or something is added. Draw what you see now.
3. Ask the Lord to bring to your mind an issue in your life right now. Something that you need the Lord's insight. Ask him what that is and write a word or phrase that represents that issue.
4. Turn the paper over and ask the Lord two questions, 1) Lord, how does the first picture you gave me represent the issue in my life? and 2) How does the second picture you gave me represent the solution to the problem? What is the change you want to bring?
The second activity was creating a piece of prophetic art for someone else.
1. Ask the Lord to show you what to create. You might see it in your spirit, or you might know it in your heart, or the Lord may just reveal it to you step by step.
2. Ask for a word or phrase.
3. Ask the Holy Spirit to show you who to give the image and words to.
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