"Night With the King" by Denise Neel, 2023©. 18"x24" acrylic on canvas

"Night with The King" by Denise Neel, 2022. ©18"x24" acrylic on canvas.

Our church had a prayer night, lifting families, our region, our nation, and the nations of the world. I sat in the parking lot and wanted to look up a scripture, but my phone would not work. I smiled, quieted my heart, and He just whispered, "Just spend time with me..."

While painting, three young kiddos come up to me and watched. I invited them to help me paint. They picked their paint color, their brush and set their hand to the work in front of them.

The first one wrote her name, "Hosanna"  inside the lion. Her name means, "save, I pray." Holy Spirit whispered, "it's all about identity."  The other girl wrote her name over the lion's head, "Olivia," which means peace. She also painted a cat. My other Helper, Nehemiah, whose name means "God helps," painted a man, but then he just said, "I painted green."

We are to enter His presence as little children. We can learn so much about Him and each other if we are just present. God, the Prince of Peace, is doing a new (green) thing in the earth as we come, humble ourselves and pray.

Amen.

There are infinite facets of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah--The colors, shades, expressions, fierceness, tenderness, majesty, peace, strength, warfare, comfort, weightiness, security, wisdom... There is a depth, a story, an awakening, an unshackling, a roar in each of us, which can shatter things in the atmosphere, and shift something in your inner man that is going to be powerful. It will rattle the heavens.