"Lay Hold" (Mixed media on 30x40in on canvas)

In prayer for a DEI prophetic art workshop, I saw what looked like a lazy susan, on it were opportunities, action steps, healing, freedom, even Salvation…

These good things appeared to be presented right in front of a person, within reach, but they kept pushing the lazy susan away. The word “defer” came strongly and I felt God wanting to address the reason behind the deferment.

He said it was trauma that opened the door for being fearful, procrastinating laying hold of what God had for them.  

Felt the Lord say, this is not a time to defer, but seize what I have for you!! 

God is bringing things back around not for you to be stuck in a negative cycle, but to lay hold of complete freedom!!! Embracing God’s work is going to release you into the fullness of destiny like you’ve never known. Maybe you’ve had a certain distance of reach in your life, but like a tether ball you fly back to the pole you’re tied to. 

God is wanting to cut you free by the Power and Authority of Jesus Christ!!! IF you don't know Him yet, now is the time, don't put it off anymore, come to Jesus and allow Him to set you free!!!

1 Corinthians 9:24

24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours.

2 Corinthians 5:20

20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.

Philippians 3:12

12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own.

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and [for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses.