Abiding Overflow

31/10/2022

Holy Spirit, it is such a delight to create with you 🤍🔥

Painted Hope Community Church yesterday

Artist: Susan Hatchett
Acrylic on canvas

06/10/2022

The gold for you isn’t hidden
It pours out new from heaven each morning

26/09/2022

‘Freedom’

Thank you Jesus, that you set captives free! Thank you Lord for your freedom!

I pray that chains holding you in hopelessness, fear, darkness or despair will break and fall right now in Jesus name. I bless you with the freedom of Jesus.

‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound’
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭61:1‬

Artist: Susan Hatchett (acrylic on canvas)
Painted at Hope Community Church during worship

15/05/2022

‘Stay Ready’

Keep those lamps filled with oil! Keep watch!

We need to be ready for Jesus’ return but I also felt the Holy Spirit reveal that if our lamps are full and we’re keeping watch then we are also ready for the moves of the Spirit. We’re ready to catch the fire of the Lord.

Matthew‬ ‭25:1-13‬ - The parable of the ten virgins

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire. Deuteronomy 4:24a

Artist: Susan Hatchett (acrylic on canvas)
Painted at Hope Community Baptist Church during worship

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27/04/2022

Be still, and know that I am God
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭46:10‬

Take a moment today to breathe, to wonder at His majesty and exalt His name in your heart above all else. He is God all powerful.

Painted during worship at Hope Community Baptist Church in 2019 by Susan Hatchett

19/12/2021

‘Christ Alive in Me’

When the Christmas service combines with baptism Sunday Hope Community Baptist Church there is a lot to celebrate! This piece is a celebration of Christ alive in us when we are followers of Jesus and get baptised, and that God gives us fullness of life and the nourishment we need.

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2:20‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey”
‭‭Song of Songs‬ ‭5:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬

The palm leaf and the gold represents our precious King Jesus. The blue is the waters of baptism, the water of life. The honeycomb is the nourishment and life God gives us through his Word.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you that not only do you save us but you stay with us - alive in us!

11/12/2021

‘Prayer Arrows of Victory’

Elisha’s Final Prophecy
“When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” he cried. Elisha told him, “Get a bow and some arrows.” And the king did as he was told. Elisha told him, “Put your hand on the bow,” and Elisha laid his own hands on the king’s hands. Then he commanded, “Open that eastern window,” and he opened it. Then he said, “Shoot!” So he shot an arrow. Elisha proclaimed, “This is the Lord’s arrow, an arrow of victory over Aram, for you will completely conquer the Arameans at Aphek.” Then he said, “Now pick up the other arrows and strike them against the ground.” So the king picked them up and struck the ground three times. But the man of God was angry with him. “You should have struck the ground five or six times!” he exclaimed. “Then you would have beaten Aram until it was entirely destroyed. Now you will be victorious only three times.”
‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭13:14-19‬ ‭NLT‬‬

This passage about Elisha’s final prophecy led me to think about what those arrows may represent for us now. Ultimately, the battle over sin and grave has been won by Jesus Christ and we walk in that victory but we still face smaller battles in our everyday lives.

I feel like the arrows represent our prayers. With each arrow, with each prayer, we declare the Lord’s victory over our lives.

King Jehoash was obedient, doing as Elisha instructed - just as we should be obedient to God’s instruction to us. The problem was, he stopped too soon! I feel like this passage is inspiring us to have faith that God is a God of breakthrough. He can give us big victories!

Declare God’s victory 3 times... 4,5,6 times... don’t stop praying!

Acrylic on canvas : prophetic art piece for Sunday service at Hope Community Baptist Church (Jan 2019) ‘Prayer Arrows of Victory’

08/10/2021

It was such an honour to preach for the first time recently, check it out 😊

Guest Speaker Susan Hatchett speaks from Romans 8 about what it means to follow Holy Spirit.

25/07/2021

We are made to reflect God’s glory

“So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3:18

Thank you Lord for the opportunity to worship you and reflect your glory today Hope Community Baptist Church with the gifts you have given me. It’s all from you, through you and for you King Jesus.

22/07/2021

“But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.” Malachi‬ ‭4:2‬

‘Because he loves us’ painted for Hope Community Baptist Church for 2020 Easter Sunday service on YouTube. We weren’t able to gather together at Church due to COVID lockdowns. Our hearts were breaking, for so many reasons, for all those suffering so much during that season.

The Lord gave me this vision though, a picture of hope. He wanted to remind us that Jesus is still sovereign Lord over all. That he is the same yesterday, today and forever (see Hebrews 13:8). He is the light of the world (John 1:5) and if we keep our eyes fixed on him we can persevere through any trial we face - with hearts full of hope!

God gave us this hope in Christ Jesus, because he loves us (see John 3:16).

God sent His only Son

because He loves us

Jesus died for us

because He loves us

We have hope

because He loves us

I pray that you will feel the warmth of the love of Jesus in your heart like the dawning of a new day. His light is breaking through and lighting up even the darkest of nights, Amen

10/07/2021

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians‬ ‭3:14-19‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Painted at Hope Community Baptist Church during worship in February 2020.

The Lord’s glorious riches never run out or fade away, they are for eternity!

08/07/2021

'The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves' Zephaniah 3:17

'But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid' John 14:26-27

True peace comes from Jesus, he wants to give you peace and it far surpasses anything the world offers.

Why don't you try asking him...
.. "Hey Jesus, it's me (insert name here), what's happenin? Can you show me how to find the peace I've been looking for?"

Whatever pain, trial, illness, struggle or heartbreak you may be experiencing, it is never too big for God. He is the mighty warrior who saves!

// first posted on Instagram 6 Oct 2018... one of my first ever drawings with Jesus 🤍