”The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.”
/Psalms 23
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SAFEST PLACE
”God is our refuge and strength,an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains
fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the
mountains quake with their surging.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day…
…He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”/Psalm 46
You crown me with love
Praise the Lord, my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.Psalm 103
Acrylic and oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm
THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN & EARTH
”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?”/Psalms 8
”You surround me with your song
You sing over me.
Songs of joy rooting in my heart
Makes my heart bubbeling – Wow, that I am loved by you!
And to know that you love me,
This, I can’t contain -I just have to bring it all back to you!”
Acrylic, 90×70 cm
You know me By Heart
THE JOY OF SALVATION
”There is a joy, welling up, like rivers, unstoppable!
Beautiful and lifegiving rivers. This beautiful gift of salvation.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! My hope, my love, my peace.”
”Look! God—yes God—is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid.
For the Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
You will draw water joyfully from the wells of salvation.”/Isaiah 12
”Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”Philippians 4
”I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in
Me should not abide in darkness.”/John 12:46
LIVING WATER
”Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
/Jesus in John 7:38
“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.”
/Isaiah 55:1
”The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.”
/Isaiah 58:11
Acrylic on canvas 100×100 cm
WONDERFULLY MADE
”For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well!
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!Were I to count them, they would
outnumber the grains of sand when I awake, I am still with you.”
/Psalms 139
Acrylics on canvas, 20×20 cm
NO WORRIES
”And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”
/Matt 6:28-33
”Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”
/Hebrew 13:5
Acrylics on canvas 20×20 cm
SUMMER RAIN
”The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy…
… Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”
/Isaiah 35:1, 3-4
Mixed Media on canvas 50×50 cm