"I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland" - Isaiah 43 : 19 Abstract Poster 13" x 19"

I don’t know why Jesus Christ chose me to run this ministry for him. I was a nobody, that desperately needed a Savior to save me from myself and the poor choices I had made in my life. I am Thankful to Jesus every single day for Saving My Life, For Changing It, Making a Way When There Seemed To Be No Way, For Blessing Me More Than I Ever Could Have Imagined as I Desire to walk closer to him each day. Jesus had me make this Abstract art piece a while back and then recently he called me to open this online store. I may not know what the future holds, but I serve a God; Jesus Christ who knows what Today, Tomorrow and Every Day after will bring and I can Rest and put my Faith and Trust in Him.

Isaiah 43 : 19

Became on of my favorite Bible verses when I made the choice to Follow Jesus and Only Jesus what feels like only a few years ago. To me this verse means that Jesus CAN do the impossible and WILL do the impossible, If we Love Him and Seek Him with our Whole Heart! I have watched that play out play out in my own life time and time again. Thank You Jesus!!!

In Mark 11 : 24 - 25 it says:

“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” : Red

This reminds me of when I prayed to Jesus that the woman that I wanted to marry would become My Wife before we ever started dating. I had to take Jesus at his word on this. I had to pray that this woman would become My Wife, Believe that Jesus would make it come true even if there seems to be no way. The woman living on another continent at the time that I didn’t know how I was ever going to see again; I had to Believe Jesus; that Whatever I asked for In Prayer, And Believed With My Whole Heart that Jesus would make a miracle happen in my Life. And he did; because Jesus Loves and Cares for Me very much; just like Jesus Love and Cares for You!

This made Jesus very personal to me. Who am I that he should love me?

Who I am that the God that made the Universe would make a miracle happen for me?

Who am I, but a rotten sinner. But even while I was a dirty sinner Jesus Loves Me Still.

In Romans 5 : 8 it says:

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

In Psalms 8 : 3 - 5 it says:

“When I consider your heavens,

the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which you have set in place,

what is mankind that you are mindful of them,

human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than

the angels

and crowned them with glory and

honor.”

1 Thessalonians 5 : 16 - 24 says:

“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Do not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is Faithful, and he will do it.

This brings me to the second thing I trusted Jesus Christ on in that time of my life. Pray Continually. In the ESV (English Standard Version) it is literally says “Pray Without Ceasing’; and I would pray all day, throughout the day and night that Jesus would make this incredible woman My Wife Forever.

In Matthew 18 : 19 - 20 says:

“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” : Red

This marked the third promise of God that I declared to make this woman My Wife. Not because of anything I could do, but because Jesus was going to ‘make a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland’ of my life.

Here we are at least four and a half years later and Jesus is having me tell my story for the very first time.

It has been incredible all along the way trusting in Jesus more and more and watching Jesus perform miracle after miracle in my own life to give me a HOPE And A FUTURE.

The Bible says in Jeremiah 29 : 11 - 14

“For I know the plans I have for you,“ declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give Hope and a Future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with All of your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all of the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

This is the greatest promise I have claimed over my life from the author of life himself; Jesus Christ.

“Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me — just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” : Red

-John 10 : 7 - 18

Jesus is the good shepherd and we are all his sheep.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened to you.

Which of you, if your son asks for bread, would give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you., for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” : Red

-Matthew 7 : 7 - 14

In the testimony of my own life I can say that Jesus gives the greatest gifts; gifts even greater than we could imagine or even ask for.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”

-John 3 : 16 - 21

“See, I am doing a new thing!

Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

The wild animals honor me,

the jackals and the owls,

because I provide water in the wilderness

and streams in the wasteland,

to give drink to my people, my chosen,

the people I formed for myself

that they may proclaim my praise.”

-Isaiah 34 : 19 - 21

"I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland" - Isaiah 43 : 19 Abstract Poster 13” × 19” inches