What is a Prophetic Artist? 👨🏼‍🎨 🙏🏼 🕊️

A Prophetic Artist is simply a person who lives their lives in active devotion to Jesus who intentionally processes and communicates what they hear and learn through visual expression.

As Artists we commonly process the world through a beautifully unique lens. We live in such a colorful world full of lines, shapes, and color. We can learn from anything because we value all the little things that God has placed in this vast universe. That’s why artists are such free and fluid-thinkers and open to so many different view points/beliefs; even to a fault. What sets apart the Prophetic Artist is the foundation by which they create. Our muse is not simply just creation but our inspiration honors and aims to please our Creator.

If I call myself a Prophetic Artist it is not because I can tell the future, or read people’s minds. It means, whatever I create points back to JESUS. Here’s the evidence:

Revelation 19:10 ESV states, “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

John 1:1-5 ESV “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

John 1:14 ESV “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

John 1:17 ESV “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

As we read the whole chapter of John 1 we see a direct correlation between Jesus and the Word. Therefore, having a relationship with the Jesus depicted in the Word (Holy Bible) is our foundation. Personally I find, that if I’m creating more art than I am connecting with the LORD I begin to get more and more cryptic and abstract with my concepts. This does not mean I resist being exploratory in the way I create but rather that I constantly evaluate if I’m being clear in my concepts and honoring to Him. Is my intention rooted in Him? Now, pointing to Jesus does not always need to be obvious. Jesus often told parables to hide kingdom concepts in everyday life for those who had “ears to hear”. We can do the same through our artistry.

Matthew 13:10-11 ESV “Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.”

Prophetic Art is not bound to subject matters like doves and lions. It can be as mundane as pickles or as abstract as a wash of colors. Sometimes even your process is what’s prophetic. For example: Ezekiel was a Prophetic (Performance) Artist.

Ezekiel 12:4-6 ESV “You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile. In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it. In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”

He was a prophetic sign through his performative actions. And God used him to do creative prophetic acts multiple times.

The last example I’ll give is the well known story of Bezalel and Oholiab in the book of Exodus who were commissioned to build the tabernacle which was a foreshadowing of Jesus.

Exodus 31:1-11 ESV “The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent, the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.”

These 2 men were used to create items that would later be used to reveal the grand role of Jesus in our lives.

What an incredible call!

In our generation the word “prophetic” has been so mysticized and even viewed as a superpower related to spiritual witchcraft or manipulation. Perhaps after reading this blog you will have a pure understanding that being Prophetic is the natural outcome of simply being in relationship with GOD.

John 15:15 ESV “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.”

Today begin your prophetic journey by resubmitting your heart and craft to the LORD and see how it begins to flourish. This is not a call for a few but a free gift for anyone rooted in Christ. If you got skills, great; if you dont got skills, great. Just go create!

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