I just wanted to share a word that the Lord gave me at a conference I attended in July.

There was a prophetic painter there for the duration and as I watched her paint the result was three paintings that linked the word together and spoke to my heart in a very deep way. I have had a hard time speaking this word to any assembly I have been since, which I don't quite understand but I have told a few people and I also told the artist herself what the Lord was saying to me through the paintings.

The first painting was of a full term baby about to be born. He was fully formed and perfect and had a mop of red hair. He had not turned head down yet so was not quite ready for the birthing process but ready in every other way. As I looked I was very excited as my husband and I are about to become grand-parents for the first time and I couldn't help but say, look there is our baby.(As I write this, that is what I can hear the Father saying, Look there are our babies). The Lord began to speak to me about the people in the room, ( and I believe it is for people everywhere), that the baby represented the callings, longings and desires in the hearts of God's people that had not yet been realized. I felt the Lord say that many people have been carrying these things for a long time and that the birthing process was about to take place. Some had had a very long and heavy pregnancy and that they were tired and some very discouraged. But He said that the things about to be birthed will be totally spirit, spirit filled and spirit led. The red hair in the picture represented the fire of the Holy Spirit and the Lord said with these new births there will be no room for anything else. It is all for His glory and honour. I could hear and sense the wait is almost over.

The next afternoon at the conference as we were in worship, the Lord gave me a vision of a woman dressed all in white. She had a white cloak on with a fur lined hood over her head and she was walking through a garden toward a man that I knew was the Lord. The garden was not flowering but like one asleep in the winter, early spring (the time just before new birth). As she moved toward the Lord I could see that she was very pregnant and she carried a red flower in her hand. I remember that the red in the flower stood out. She laid the flower in front of the Lord and as I looked I saw it was a poppy. I asked the Lord, why a poppy, that is a flower that represents death. One used as we commemorate the fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day. He said this represents the dying to self that needs to be done in the body of Christ before the things that are ready can be birthed. She presented the poppy to the Lord to show that she was indeed willing to die to self. This is a heart issue. Even if we don't know how to do this, are our hearts willing to go there and allow Him to deal with these things, so when the birthing comes, it will be all Him, all Spirit. Again I heard, the wait is almost over.

The picture the artist painted that evening was something that unfolded to confirm the pictures the Lord had given me in the afternoon. It was a series of blue lines at first but as she continued I could see a pregnant woman right in the centre of the painting. At one point, again in blue, a bare tree appeared in front of it so that the woman was partially obscured. It was like she was hidden behind the cross of Jesus. Good place to be. I could tell that the artist was really stuggling with this picture and at the end I felt that she didn't quite know what it was. However, I think that because it carried such an important message of dying to self, again being seen in the woman being hidden by the cross, it was clear to me why the artist had such struggle with it.

Also that evening the Lord continued to talk to me about our need to deal with our "stuff". There are offences and divisions and logs in our own eyes that need to be addressed as part of dying to self. I had a picture of the throne room and could see the throne, the Lord, the Father, the hosts of angels. As I looked a black square came in front of my eyes blocking part of my view. I could still see, but parts of my view of the throne room were blocked. A bit like sitting and watching a play and someone with a large hat comes and sits down in the seat in front of you.You can still see the stage but the person's head is in the way and blocking part of the view. The same with our view of heaven and heavenly things. If we hold onto our stuff, hold onto our offences, hold onto the logs in our eyes, we might be able to see parts of heaven but our vision will be blocked by the blackness that comes from our own "sin". We need to see all of heaven, the whole thing, no hindrences. God wants us to see the whole thing. "Get rid of the hindrences".

The last picture that was painted at this conference was a collaboration of three artists working on the same canvas. It was a so uplifting to watch them work together to create something that was a delight to the themselves, the people there, and ultimately the Father. The body working together. It was a beautifully, colourful painting of greens, yellows, blues, and reds, and as I looked at it the Lord said "Heaven Touching Earth." What an amazing thing. You see this is what happens when the body of Christ dies to self, deals with stuff, sees the whole of heaven, and heavens plans are birthed in and through us. Heaven Touches Earth. How we need heaven to touch earth in even more dramatic and amazing ways in these last days.

God is awesome.