Open Heaven, Art Inspired by the Lakeland Fla. Outpouring and Todd Bentley

The Painting: Open Heaven, A Picture of Prayer

9" x 12"Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

$300.00 Original; Signed prints on Demand $25.00 each

Painted 5/15/08 during live five feed of the event: Lakeland Florida Outpouring

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by Linda L. Martin copyright©2008
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Back Story of this Painting:

Open Heaven

I wasn’t able to paint on Wednesday night because I had to work. But tonight the Holy Spirit didn’t just inspire me to paint one painting. He inspired me to paint two paintings in the spirit. The second I will tell you about after I post this one. This first one is the one I painted early in the evening.

I have to admit that I was really confused by it. I did hear someone relating a vision about a dome being over cities and God pouring out his Glory on those cities. I didn’t hear the entire prophesy because there was a lot of Lag on Wednesday Night. But when I tried to paint the dome, when I tried to paint the person bent over prone on the floor with arms out stretched.

God seemed to have other ideas. First as you know this type of painting can only be accomplished in the Spirit.. Meaning when you are completely yielded to the Holy Spirit.. Not just thinking or planning out of your head. I’m worshiping when I do mine. And I saw visions of the images as they need to be. Visions come from a completely different place in my brain than my imagination by the way. Next time I use my imagination I will have to focus so I can tell you where that is.

I can only say that visions come from outside… sometimes like a great window opening up and everything seems fuzzy or dark in the real world.. That’s an extreme description sometimes visions aren’t that dramatic.

I was seeing a vision of this person rocking on their knees and sometimes their hands were lifted others touching their face. They were pleading, feeling the humility of being in the presence of God. Angels were coming all around.. angles who were ministering to the person. Angles who were witnessing to the attitude and intent of the petitions, who were carrying the petitions to God, and even waiting to be assigned a job related to the petitions. The person was in the glory, the cloud.. the royal priest hood, the reason I think that there was so much purple. The angles with the turquoise were healing angels and those with purple were angels that brought wisdom. The angels, in white, brought power and boldness and purity.

I thought this painting was finished. But I kept seeing the light shining down from above on the intercessor, the petitioner. After I painted the light of purple.. and turquoise and white.. I saw.. Something that I had heard Todd say on Wednesday… the anointing.. The anointing of Holy oil of fire. The Holy Spirit poured it out on the petitioner.

This is anointing. This is open heaven. This is what happens when the Holy spirit surrounds a person who loves God, Angles come while the person is abiding, worshiping, crying out,.. And the angels minister, and they report, and they go out to make ready as God directs them. This is a picture of praying down the will of God and receiving his Glory in the process.

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UPDATE: I missed the first part of the Outpouring coverage this evening(5/17/08). A friend told me that Todd was back after being in California. She said he told everyone that the Spirit and the Glory were not strong in California, like they were in Lakeland. The reason was because in Lakeland they were experienceing an open heaven. How strange that I should paint it two days before he pronounced it in Lakeland. Glory to God! His mercy endures for ever.

Lakeland Outpouring inspired Art: Nothing but the Blood

Nothing But the Blood Of Jesus

9" x 12"Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Original $300.00; Signed prints on Demand $25.00 each

by L.L.Martin copyright©2008
All electronic, world and North and South American rights reserved.

May 9, 2008

It was so awsome to see on live feed vid all those people across the grass at the air field, the hungry, the poor, the rich in the spirit of God, those who needed spritual healing , those who needed physical healing.. thousands... spread out across the darkened field and off in the distance were white flags of worship waving in the dark and reflecting the light of the stage like beacons in the dark, covered in the blood of Jesus, fired by the anointing fire of the holy spirit, and the glory falling upon them like a blanket of love and power to take with them.

Its in the atmosphere. In the praises of the people, It filled the place. Glory to the Living God. My favorite moment was when the people sang the name of Jesus in worship and adoration. Its so amazing that the people of God for that breif time.. are unified in the worship of God. Isnt that a prophetic hint of sorts..that the way we are truely united as a body.. past physical limits, racial, cultural, denomination is not through some concious act of deciding to come together, but in the total abandonment to the worship of the Lamb. Whew! Thats not emotion thats the Atmosphere God abides with us in.

Pouring Out: Lakeland Outpouring Revival Inspired Art

This is the promise of Christ, that in the last days he Will pour out His Spirit on all Mankind.
If you haven't seen on TV yet please please go to www.god.tv at 7pm edt or better yet read about it and go to Florida. Any questions about the art email me at contact@llmartin.com

The Gift of the Holy Spirit: Lakeland Outpouring Revival Inspired Paintings

This ACEO is to symbolize all that Christ offers us in his love, and to show that he sent His Spirit as a gift to all believers so that we would know that he loved us, will never abandon us, and that he will return! The Glory of God wraps around those who love him. His fire burns with in them.

The King Is Coming: Lakeland Outpouring Revival Inspired Paintings

Prophetically speaking many believe that this Revival with Todd Bentley and Crew is the last great revival before the King of Kings returns for his people. These paintings are loosely biased on a vision I had in 2005 at a revival conference in Penn.

That Healing Touch: Lakeland Outpouring Revival

These three ACEO's are inspired by the Lakeland Ourtpouring Healing Revival. If you have seen it or been there you will really appreciate these.

Healing Fire: Art inspired by the Lakeland Fla Outpouring

Healing Fire #1

"No High like the Most High", Todd Bentley

Take a Coal:

No this is not the buring man celebration!

Healing Fire #2

Ok now I admit these look a little weird. But most of the testamonies at the Lakeland Revival talk of burning and fire of God flowing through them.

Is there Biblical presidence for this?

Absolutely. In Acts 2 the is a testamony of the Holy Spirit falling on people and appearing like toungues of fire on each person's head.

Once this appeared on the people waiting for the Holy Spirit to come, they went out and thousands were presented the good news of Christ Jesus and received him. In this case this represents the Healing fire. (yes most of my figures here wear baggy jeans and t-shirts. If you remember the old "GoodNews for Modern Man" Bible with all its stick figure illustrations these seem to be a step up from that.)

Eagles and Fish: Lakeland Florida Outpouring Inspired Art

The first night of the venue change to the Tiger's Stadium in Lakeland, Florida as the opening announcements were being made, suddenly three eagles with fish in their mouths astonished the crowd by flying over the ball field. The God TV camera panned to the trees the three had landed in and like some amazingly timed prophetic symbol all the world could see them sitting in the trees on the other side of the stadium.

I wasn't a first hand witness, I watched it on my computer with 100 million people in 156 countries. Its an interesting end time twist. That we can see this amazing outpouring in a History making proportion on line, over the air ways, linked by satellites. But its not the same as being there. I'm there in spirit until God changes something in my life. I'm there praying for everyone concerned, partnering a widows might of intercession. and Sitting here in Remington Virginia painting my heart, documenting what I see and what I experience. Crazy...maybe .. but in reality God has no limits. I'm so loving it. The back log of commissions I am working are getting daily attention too. My painting is getting better for it.

Here are the three eagles with three fish. In three ACEO sized One of a Kind paintings one eagle and one fish in each. You can contact me at: contact@llmartin.com or watch the revival on www.god.tv 7pm to 11pm edt.