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- 2019 Art Crawl - St. Cloud, MN Cream City Tattoo & Art Gallery
FANTASTIC 6 WEEKS!
- Get Empty to Fill Up
I was talking to a friend and I was led to put a feeling into words. A feeling of true hope. Emphasis on true. “As I look back on all my lessons and trials, there are the same constants that always rise to the top. I was never without Jesus. My own willfulness prolonged my lesson. Many times I thought I let go, but there were things I clung to like ideas, beliefs, hopes, desires, lots of ego stuff, etc. As soon as I let go of everything, it was over. Luke 9:23, Jesus looks at his disciples and tells them, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." Loses their life… is incredibly profound and hard. It encompasses everything.” You want prayers answered? You want to really follow Jesus? Get empty. Trust God to care for you as you are broken back into dust.
- Supernatural Cooties
Among children, cooties are an imaginary germ with which a socially undesirable person, or one of the opposite sex, is said to be infected. If I remember right, it was often instigated by a young girl who liked a certain boy but could not let them know lest they be found out. Much like a young boy pulling the hair of his intended sweetheart, showing off to the guys lest they think he was weak and "innnnn lo-o-o-o-vvvve" with her. And on occasion, the bullies would use this form of psychological and sometimes physical torture to ostracize one who was different, be it wearing glasses, being small, being big, mostly just being. But I digress; this is about just the cooties themselves. Imaginary or not, there really are supernatural cooties (aka demon's darts), and the closer you walk with Jesus, the more one becomes the target of them. I came in contact with them on a recent road trip vacation. Each night, whether it was the same room or not, I was inundated with the worst dreams. And each night, should I forget to turn my dreams over to God and ask Him to capture my thoughts and make them His own, I would wake up in a cold sweat, for I had been infected with these cooties from hell. Did I lie there in the stink? No! I called upon my God and my Protector. "Oh, Jesus, I am so sorry I forgot to ask you to bless me this night as I slept. I was so tired, and I did not think. Forgive me. Protect me. I ask you to capture my thoughts and make them your own. Tell me your stories and talk to me of your love as I sleep. Thank you, Father." And I would go back to sleep and dream of good things. Yes, these rooms are in a constant state of collecting supernatural DNA from its multitudes of travelers. Ewwww. Those embracing the dark side leave their cooties where they live eat, breathe, sleep... and these bugs wish to live and propagate on new material. Protect yourself! Wear the armor. Satan and his demons are your enemies. And they will use everyone and everything they can to distract, discourage, and destroy you. Cleaning removes nothing. Demons laugh at our antibacterial attempts. They will seep through any mask to invade anyone's thoughts, and the Holy Spirit just gave me a vision of the feeble attempts to "sage" a room. The vision was of a cluster of demons fighting for first place to inhale this sage smoke like an aphrodisiac. Yes, I caught supernatural cooties by someone I never saw or ever met. Someone who was a sinner or just evil who had left their calling card. But God cleansed me and protected me. I believe the reason He allowed it was to tell me about this trap that many of us fall victim to. Ignorance and forgetfulness give no one a pass. The demons are ruthless in making their quota. I am also made to learn that if a mere stranger can harm you like this, just imagine the harm caused by being in the vicinity of the one you may know personally. Be cautious with whom you share your space. We are not to be giving attention to evil but to focus on the face of Jesus. "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4 NIV). The Bible tells us that God is stronger than any evil power and we can find protection in the presence of God. Staying close to our Shepherd keeps us safe. Sarah Koontz said, "We were so focused on what we could see, we failed to account for the unseen." This is huge! We get so wrapped up in their story we miss the effects it can have on ourselves. We let our guard down because we love them, and contrarily enough... did not love as God commanded us. We bit what the devil offered. We are not to plead, coerce, beg, argue, judge, make assumptions, etc. We are only to love. Even though. Even if. Hmmm... maybe I should not have rolled my eyes at my husband's attempt at humor. Maybe. Lol. It says in Deuteronomy 23:14, "For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you." How does it get unholy? Our thoughts. Our words. Our actions. I leave you with Ephesians 6:12, "For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens." Till the other side then. Be blessed. Denise.
- I wonder
I wonder when we get the heaven if we will be aware of those who didn’t make it? Will Jesus know who didn’t? John 2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. But when all is said and done… and the choice was not made… this we can count on… Matthew 7: 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
- No carrot. No stick.
Three times yesterday The Holy Spirit brought to me “the carrot on a stick” mentality many of us succumb to as if we are reliving a childhood cartoon over and over running our Christianity like a gauntlet. There is no carrot dangling in front of us, we already have our reward, Jesus here and now. The only thing we should be running to is in becoming more like Him. There is no stick as God does not punish as He knows who He is dealing with. He is kind and gentle and as He knows the plans He sets for us, rest assured all is right on time. Yeahhh but… when we think we are praying enough, saying the right prayers, thanking Him for answers in the making and disaster and folly loom, our pulses quicken. Our minds shriek “Delay! Delay! Delay!!” so then we double down on our prayers and praises and our soul focus is now on the delay itself. Even David in Psalms went from “My soul waits in silence for God only; from Him is my salvation” (Ps. 62:1) to see if zipping his lip and exercising more faith would produce results. And when it didn’t He went in with reverse psychology when he went all in on “I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God” (Ps. 69:3). The delay itself became the idol replacing the answer and it will trip a new lesson in what it means to let it go. If you want your prayers answered, give the entirety of them to God. The need, the want, the expectation, the results, the timing, etc. and step out of the “you know better than God” persona and realize you have other things to do in the meantime.
- The devil and its darts
wanna hear of what you get when you make God your consistent focus? Exactly what it says in the Bible. For the past week I have had this “ball of foot pain” and I had no thought as to why. It just showed up and was incredibly painful. I talked to God about it as recently He had made me aware that it was important to sustain a routine. That my life needed a balance to my creating vs living. It was decided that both my dog and I would benefit with prayer walks with Him. And then my foot started hurting, threatening to end our walks. I told Jesus thank you for this, if you wouldn’t mind healing whats wrong I would really appreciate it, and let’s still go. So we went this morning again. The more I walked the less I thought about it. And now its fine. Praise the Lord! Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14
- Its raining now
2 things to ponder on… 1/ It took Noah 120 years to build the arc. 2/ Everyone saw. And yet did not grasp the thing that was happening right in front of them. Can you imagine their thoughts the last 3 days? The Noahic Covenant From Genesis 9, this is a covenant God establishes with Noah after the flood in which he resets and renews the blessings of creation, reaffirming God’s image in humanity and the work of dominion. This covenant promises the preservation of humanity and provides for the restraint of human evil and violence.
- be a lily
Rise up in the bible denotes a spiritual ascent resulting from shifting your thinking towards a closer relationship with the Lord each and everyday, in all choices and decisions. Isaiah 60, “Rise up and shine, for your light has come. The shining-greatness of the Lord has risen upon you. prints available at https://www.propheticsgallery.com/store-warehouse/art_print_products/store-warehouse-9xs-xb8teds
- the weight of roses
This took months and months to create! and is called The Weight of Roses. The story only is about the price of love. Are the petals rising? Or falling? Does the rose brings tears of sadness or joy? We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 #artontheoutskirts #theweightofroses #thepriceoflove 🎶… and I think to myself, what a wonderful world… Original and prints available @ www.propheticsgallery.com/dahlheimer 24x30 wrapped canvas.
- how did I know that
Thoughts ruminating around for a third book... There are downsides to being a seer. First, most think you are nuts or off the chart by a click or two, and that's fine because I don't work for them; I work for God. His opinion is the only one I am interested in. And because of that comes the second downside, a seer simultaneously works in passing along messages from the spiritual realm. One of the most important guardrails we need to embed into our thinking is listed in 1 Corinthians 12:10, "to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing (discerning) between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues." About this discerning... "To discern spirits is a supernatural ability enabled by God's Holy Spirit that allows a person to determine the source of a spiritual manifestation, whether it emanates from God, the devil, the world, or humans. If we have this gift, God will reveal information about the presence or absence of spiritual entities. Usually, people regard this gift as useful for detecting evil spiritual forces or influences. It can also detect the presence or absence of angelic intervention or the prompts of God's Holy Spirit working within us." I John 4:1, he writes, "Beloved do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." We are commanded to examine any spiritual teaching thoroughly with our critical faculties to see whether the presenter is accurately handling the Word of God. Because evil spirits have the capacity to produce paranormal phenomena, the Scriptures exhort us to prove or test the spirits, proving all things, holding fast only to what is good (I Thessalonians 5:21). Now then... you are most likely aware that demons/curses can, or will, dog a family. It is in the first paragraph of their job description to create dissension and chaos from things said, claimed, gossiped about, tattles, etc., and to share it with those who make their job more difficult, like me and others like me, who can see them and pray them to the sanctions imposed by God. Of course, I eventually catch on to "the who said what to who... whom..." after the stinging of my feelings subsides but not before dissension rose up under the guise of "why do I even bother?" even knowing that these demons operate in the shadows of lies. However, the thing about really good liars is that there is enough of the element of truth in the lie to make it believable. So yes, when "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I (meaning God) with them.” from Matthew 18:20, also know that demons lurk to tell on you. So keep it clean! Remember from my first book, Trade Secrets of a Seer, the story in Mark of the man who was healed because of his friends' faith... The devil wants you thwarted and even better if its from your own mouth. After all, the bible warned us of this in 1 Corinthians 4:5, "Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops." The bible really does have all the answers and warnings.
- All ye! All ye! In Free! Ready or not here I come!
There I was minding my own business and on a long distance errand run that took me through the flatlands of my youth. I was singing along to the radio and enjoying the ride when I was drawn to a crow perched upon a street sign called Crown Way. Crown Way? Out in the area with lovely road names like 139th Street SW? Okay then Lord you have my attention. Note to self! I continued to see crowns and crows everywhere. So whats the deal with the crows? I read that they are known to spend much of their time feeding greedily upon carnage. That their color of jet black is linked as a symbol of darkness and represents Satan in some religions as unrest and ill-fortune and reinforced as a direct link to the presence of crows at battlefields, ready to dine upon the dead. Yet God has a fondness for them and as in I Kings 17: 5 it is said "So Elijah did what the LORD had told him, and he went and lived by the Brook Cherith, east of the Jordan. 6 The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from the brook. 7 Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land." I have to share "do you know why you never see a crow dead on the road? well because his buddies are up on the wire watching out for him and calling car car car" Ba-dump-bump. Sorry not sorry ;) "Okay then Lord I am always your willing vessel". And so this piece began. And then came the skewed pocket watch lassoed to the church steeple being pecked to pieces by another crow. All being swept into the portal made up of the blood drops of Jesus. I found it interesting that the crow is perched upon the Crown Way signage and not the Church Street. Watching. Observing. Revelations 13:13 "...fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people." Curious that there are eight crows pictured here... there is a nursery rhyme that tells: One for sorrow, two for mirth, Three for a wedding, four for a birth, Five for silver, six for gold, Seven for a secret not to be told. Eight for heaven, nine for hell, And ten for the devil's own self'. As I am painting this one I hear in my thoughts the song that Paul Simon sings... Slip slidin' away You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away God only knows, God makes his plan The information's unavailable to the mortal man We're working our jobs, collect our pay Believe we're gliding down the highway When in fact we're slip slidin' away... And if that's not enough going on Revelations is also in the house! In particular Revelations 3:7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. 11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. 13 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches." And with that comes here is Slip Sliding'. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrJ7kZbthz5/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
- a one one two punch
John 1:12 states... "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God"Whoever said… “we are all Gods children” was misinformed… where does this idea come from? because we are not. Being a child of God is not a given nor is it accomplished by osmosis. Further explained at https://www.facebook.com/55355636529/posts/10160200506831530/?mibextid=tejx2t “People who make this statement really mean, “God created us all,” which is accurate. God is the Father of us all in the sense that he formed us and gave us life. We are not, however, all God’s children. Because God is a relational being, until we accept his gift of eternal life by confessing and repenting of our sin, accepting Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross on our behalf, and surrendering our lives to him, we cannot be his children in the truest, most biblical sense of the word. We are just one of his created beings.”
- something changed
I dreamed last night of a person I know of causing me great distress. They stopped after I prayed a blessing from God upon them. See what happens when you change your prayers to “what would you have me do for you this day?” And did you know that when dreams are a spiritual experience they manifest into our reality. This I know… something changed. Was it her? Was it me? Probably. Thank you Jesus🌹 from Numbers 12: 6 And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.”
- fool me once
fool me once is too many times when it comes to my soul... sooo… more from my path… I was reading the other day the story of an elderly couple who had loved each other deeply for decades. The husband was ill and on his deathbed with his wife holding his hand telling him over and over tolook for the light, to not get lost, and to enter only into the light. Sounds lovely doesn’t it? I thought on it and realized how duped they had been. Do you know why? because… 2 Corinthians 11:14 “no. wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” know your stuff! I want all of us to not just see paradise from afar like a prisoner with a view but to step into it when our task here is done. why do I put “this stuff” out there? My reasoning is this… 2 Corinthians 11:3 says “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.”
- A peacock inspiration
The idea board The steps And then... The before and after!I But is it done? I don't think so... A peacock feather swirling this would be amazing