An anointed creativity is required for power in your life as an artist, author, graphic designer, musician, or any form of creative expression. It also applies to people called as craftsmen and craftswomen. Just like being born again is required for a new life in the Messiah, the power of the Holy Spirit is necessary for the creative anointing.
So, how does anointed creativity apply to my work?
It helped me a great deal since 1974—when I met Jesus. For you, that’s between you and the Lord. This page is the home page for my writings, articles, and whatever about what the Lord provides for creatives—people called to produce creative content in various forms. It makes no difference if you determined you were an artist, author, graphic designer, musician, or whatever. What matters is did the Lord create you for that purpose, and has He called you to use it in your life and ministry?
An anointed creativity is required for power as you create
Power to do what? That’s not my problem. The most common place I’d heard it in my work was in comments starting with, “How did you know…?”
How do you add creativity to your writing?
Beauty drives a believer’s creativity
Power in the Kingdom is not what people expect. Our power in the Spirit is for service. It’s the same power as is mentioned in Hebrews four. This power is alive, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Of course, that’s one of the basic attributes of the power of the Holy Spirit. He anoints us to minister, to serve people—like Jesus said, “I am among you as He who serves.” The best service we can provide is helping people come to know Jesus and make Him Lord over them. It’s the power to change lives. After you come to know the Lord for a long time, you will realize the basic truth. You can’t talk anyone into changing their mind about anything. You can’t bring anyone to salvation. You can’t fill them with the Holy Spirit.
Only the Lord Jesus can do that, by the power of His Spirit. All we can do is share what we’ve witnessed. The Holy Spirit can use that and convert it to a powerful message that will deeply touch your reader, viewer, and/or listener—to the point where that individual’s life is changed forever.
That’s the power I’m talking about.
Presenting my books as fine art
Presenting my books as fine art has become the delight of my life. But as usual, my way is unusual. Writing in InDesign makes fine art ePUBs possible and I love it. Of course the limitations of HTML are always going to be a problem. But InDesign can do a lot. Another part of the problem is that you never really own your ePUBs. Kindle, Books, Nook, and Kobo plus all the rest of the distributing companies only give you a lease for your ePUB. They can cut you off at any time, your license reads that you only have … Continue reading →
We must be who we are
We must be who we are in the midst of the assault. The barrage of lies tempts us, with its confusion, to give up and let someone else do the deed. Our focus must be on Truth. Truth is a person, the one who we accept as the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. Yeshua Messiah is Truth. He defined it when He created everything in this 3D universe. Jesus defined truth, beauty, love, holiness, and reality when He created it. I could give you dozens of scriptures, but you know them and you know Him. If you … Continue reading →
Reckon yourself dead
Reckon yourself dead was one of the first things I learned when I met Jesus in 1974. It was the core of my Dad’s teaching, at the time. He was my full-time mentor for the first year and a half as the Lord began my transformation from drug-crazed hippy. It was a major part of my foundation: Jesus did it all, I was dead, the Lord had a plan, I could trust Him. The death was the core teaching of Romans 6. Reckon is just an accounting term—mark it down in the register. It happened. Do you not know that … Continue reading →
Expanding the millennial vision
Expanding the millennial vision helps me to prepare for the coming changes. For the church, they won’t be painful yet still massive. Try to get your head around the idea that within a decade or so we will be living in complete spiritual union with our fiancée, Yeshua Messiah. Judging by Jesus’s priestly prayer before He and His disciples headed down to Gethsemane, it is clear that when the marriage is consummated at the marriage supper of the Lamb we will be one with Him in the same way as He, the Father, and the Holy Spirit are one. John … Continue reading →
Procedure or satisfaction — Bible or Word
Procedure or satisfaction seems to be the crux of this problem I’m seeing. It’s not recognizing where the life is coming from. A large problem is my tendency to see importance without thinking things through. But this has been going on for a long time. I finally learned what the core problem is. Part of it has surfaced again recently as I have turned to evangelical pastors on YouTube for teaching scripture. At least they are covering scripture and running their lives by what they learn in that study. It’s a real joy going through scripture verse by verse. That’s … Continue reading →