The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Picture

    When Marc and I opened The Promise last year, a friend of ours who is a prophetic painter, gave us a beautiful piece of art of the first cut of wheat in a field. There are some single stalks of grain that are falling into a basket that is placed on a tallit in a field. The cut of wheat is the furthest to the left and you can see a farmhouse and a barn at the far end. Further than that you can see a small range of mountains.
    One of the things that I believe is that God will show you the things of heaven if you ask Him to do so. What is going on right now in heaven that I need to be aware of Father?
    So the other evening, our daughter was visiting our home and it had been a big week. We were all tired and the grand babies were sleeping. We were still visiting about the things of God and talking about heaven and how to see the things that are happening there.
   I started to say, well, lets just ask the Lord to show us... when all of a sudden Becky points to the picture and says the stalks of wheat are bobbing up and down in that picture. And then the next thing she said was I hear the dry sound of the wheat in the field.  She said is that wheat field in heaven? I said no, but I have seen the road to heaven before and this looks like it is on the way there. I said why don't you just follow the cut of the wheat like it is a road and see if you can see what is up the road by the farmhouses and maybe beyond.  I told her that the part that would be like heaven's door would be the yellow color reflecting off of the top of the mountains. 
    So we sat still and just looked at the picture for a moment, watching the wheat bob up and down and hearing the dry sound of the wheat field. I asked what did you see? And she said there is another house further up beyond the farm house in the picture and it has an octagon for a window... it looks like a log cabin hobbit house.  That's as far as she got.  I only got to the first farmhouse where an angel came out to greet me with a message. 
    I have a saying that I have gotten from the C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia series. The Professor tells it to Lucy when she is poking around in the wardrobe, hoping to go back to the Land of Narnia the way she did the first time for all the great adventures. He states, you can't go back the same way twice.  So the second time that they go it is because they fell into a picture that suddenly came to life and now they were on the boat The Dawn Treader and out on the high seas.  What does this mean? It means that if you want to go to heaven, you have to keep your eyes open for the heaven portal or gate. Of course the only way to go to heaven is through the salvation of Jesus Christ, but I am talking about visiting the place while here on earth.
    So I think that in a way we fell into the picture and we were taken on an amazing journey to the Promised Land! Some pictures are just painted pathways to the throne room! Think about it!


This is Pastor Susan ...Living the Everyday Prophetic Life and falling into heaven!