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My answer to cloud game 3/21
Answer to, ‘What do you see 2/18/2024?’
Here are a couple of responses I received regarding my post, ‘What Do You See? 2/18/2024?’
The day I took these photos, I was out behind my apartment when a large shadow came over me. I turned around because I thought someone had come up behind me and was the source of the shadow. Trying to figure out where the shadow was coming from I looked up to see the direction of the sun and see what was causing the shadow. That is when I saw what I captured in these photos. I had to take three photos to capture all that I was seeing.
The shadow on the ground matched what looks like the blue shape of an angel. Then I saw the face behind it which reminds me of the face of Jesus. It was like God Himself was telling me that He has His angels watching over me. It gave me a comforting feeling.
I am still looking forward to hearing what you see when you look at these photos.
Answer to ‘What do you see?’ 2/17/2024
The reason I don’t say what I see when I first share a picture when I ask what others see is because I don’t want my answer to influence what others see. I want to hear different points of views. See through the eyes of others and even see something that I might have missed.
In this photo of clouds I circled a few things that I see.
In the red circle I thought of God breathing life into man. (Ezekiel 37:5-65 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.” ) In the three blue circles I see what looks like three warring angels. In the light blue circle the cloud looks like a group of heads reminding me of the cloud of witnesses.(Hebrews 12:1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,) In the grey circle I see a lions cub.
I will never tire of looking at the beauty that God has created all around me.
Answer To What do you see? 1/30/2024
I got some wonderful answers to what people saw, so I figured it was time for me to share my answer. Everyone saw a horse and I do too. Here is the scripture that it made me think of.
Revelation 19:11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
Thank all of you for sharing your answers.
ANSWER to ‘What does this picture make you think of?’ 1/29/2024
I have received some wonderful answers to my previous post. When I painted this painting some years back I had no idea what I was going to paint. I just had the colors impressed upon me. To be honest my best paintings are spiritually inspired where I just have what colors I will be painting with, then I just start painting. As if I am the brush in the Master Artists hand, When I saw the woman emerge from the water I loved her. She hung on my living room wall, until the day that God inspired me to donate it to a fundraiser being held at the church I was attending. I never found out who purchased her and I was sad to see her go, but I was happy to give her to a good cause. The photo of this painting does not do her justice, but she is still beautiful to me. Resting peacefully as she floats in the water. It reminds me of Psalm 23:2; He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. Even though the scripture says laying down in green pastures, it is the still water, that I relate to. In a world and life filled with troubles, and feeling as if under constant attack, the still waters, reminds that Jesus calms the storms in our lives.
Art by Reiko Chinen/Julie Sheppard
Here are some of the answers others have shared;
Hi Julie, This painting makes me think of Psalm 69:1-2 – Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
A woman in water
Isaiah 43:2 When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! (TLB)
Jonah
I think of when we face hard times and it seems like we are drowning and waiting on God and Jesus to rescue us and just when we are at the very verge to completely go under they come and help us out!
I want to thank all of you for sharing your thoughts with us. God bless each of you.
Answer to question 1/24/2024
The scripture that had inspired me to draw and paint this picture was Revelation 12:4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.
Mother and child are in his sight
To devour her child will be his delight.
Poem and art by Reiko Chinen/Julie Sheppard
As I look at this picture and read this scripture I think about the children who have been aborted. Yet my thoughts do not stop there. How many lives have been taken by hatred, violence, prejudice, crimes and war? I know the scripture that inspired this painting is about Jesus and how the enemy had set out since the fall of man to kill the Child Who will bring his end, but I am seeing that he is also trying to destroy Christ in us, by having us turn against each other. This of course is just my thoughts.
I am looking forward to the scriptures and thoughts you have to share.
My answer to the question, ‘What scripture does this picture make you think of?’ 1/20/2024
Art by Reiko Chinen/Julie Sheppard
This is the scripture I thought of;
Isaiah 43:2
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.
Answer to Question 1/15/2024
I previously aske what scriptures does this painting make you think of, and here is the scriptures on the story of Gideon and the army of 300. It inspires me because it reminds me that it is not me but what God can do through me that matters.
Judges chapter 7
1 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ 3 Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’ ” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.” 5 So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” 6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. 7 Then the Lord said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his [a]place.” 8 So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
9 It happened on the same night that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, 11 and you shall hear what they say; and afterward [b]your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who were in the camp. 12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were [c]without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.
13 And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”
14 Then his companion answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.”
15 And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.” 16 Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet into every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. 17 And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, ‘The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!’ ”
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” 21 And every man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. 22 When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to [d]Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 And the men of Israel gathered together from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.
24 Then Gideon sent messengers throughout all the mountains of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan.” Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and seized the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan. 25 And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.
Thank all of you who have shared the scriptures you thought of.
Answer to Question 1/14/2024
Here is the scripture I think of when I look at this old picture. Being short I can relate to having to climb to see some things, and who better to see, than Jesus.
Luke 19:1-6
Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. 2 Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up [a]and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, [b]make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 So he [c]made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.
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