Follow me To Where JESUS IS LORD

Ocean View Church -- where CHRIST JESUS IS LORD...

rLn...

If I speak with the eloquence of men and of angels, but have no love, I become no more than blaring brass or crashing cymbal. If I have the gift of foretelling the future and hold in my mind not only all human knowledge but the very secrets of God, and if I also have that absolute faith which can move mountains, but have no love, I amount to nothing at all. If I dispose of all that I possess, yes, even if I give my own body to be burned, but have no love, I achieve precisely nothing.This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience—it looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. It is not touchy. It does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails. Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen. (1 Corinthians 13:1-8a, PHILLIPS)

JESUS IS LOVE.

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Know JESUS -- Know GOD...

PSALM 119 -- The MESSAGE Translation

Ocean View Church (San Diego) is doing a study on Psalm 119 -- the longest chapter of the entire Bible with 176 verses! Psalm 119 is all about the persecutions and afflictions of the man/woman of GOD. The writer of the psalm also reiterates again and again the profound TRUTH that the WORD of GOD is ALL-sufficient.

The artwork was taken from photos of the front section of my 9-month+ art project (June 2013 to February 2014) in Naselesele Village's Catholic Church, located in Taveuni, Fiji -- with an additional mural which i worked on for two weeks in July 2014. 

Paint.NET was used to create the "new" art as background for Psalm 119 -- with the Message translation used for the Bible verses.

LOVE NEVER FAILS in Fuschia

LOVE is patient, love is kind.

LOVE does not envy,

is not boastful, is not conceited,

does not act improperly,

is not selfish, is not provoked,

and does not keep a record of wrongs.

LOVE finds no joy in unrighteousness

but rejoices in the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.
LOVE NEVER FAILS.

Now these three remain:

faith, hope, and love.

But the greatest of these is LOVE.

Love never fails -- front...

Lover never fails -- back...

If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love,

I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 

If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries

and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains

but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,

and if I give my body in order to boast 

but do not have love, I gain nothing.

(1 Corinthians 13:1-3, HCSB)

(This one-and-only, one-of-a-kind handpainted tshirt is for my sister Myrna -- a very kindhearted and very generous original -- whom i love SO much...)

Just One Rock

ALL human beings are a one-of-a-kind, one-and-only original...even twins (or triplets, etc). The people closest to us -- our spouse, family members, friends, co-workers, acquaintances only see but a facet of this original that we all are. Only GOD sees the whole being that we are -- He even sees the parts we don't see...those parts we ourselves don't want to examine. GOD sees our hearts...GOD knows our thoughts... GOD KNOWS the entirety that we are...from beginning to end -- He knows!

Peter, a solid rock indeed -- a faithful disciple of CHRIST JESUS -- who serves with sincerity and integrity at Ocean View Church...displaying his handpainted rLn rock in front OVC -- a church founded on the solid rock of faith in CHRIST... a beacon of light in the South Bay community.

O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when i sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when i’m far away. You see me when i travel and when i rest at home. 

You know everything i do. You know what i am going to say even before i say it, LORD. You go before me and follow me. You place Your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!

i can never escape from your SPIRIT! i can never get away from Your presence! 

If i go up to heaven, You are there; if i go down to the grave, You are there. If i ride the wings of the morning, if i dwell by the farthest oceans, even there Your hand will guide me, and Your strength will support me. i could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—but even in darkness i cannot hide from You. To You the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to You.

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well i know it. You watched me as i was being formed in utter seclusion, as i was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before i was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. 

How precious are Your thoughts about me, O GOD. They cannot be numbered! i can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when i wake up, You are still with me!

Search me, O GOD, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends You, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. (Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24, NLT)

a Labor of JOY -- for maia, my miracle child

This one-and-only original was created with much love and JOY -- especially for my miracle child from GOD, our Father in heaven...

Jazmyn's Song...

Bless the LORD, the Lord of our lives--
for the gift of Jazmyn...

Our bundle of JOY...
From GOD's lovingkindness and tender mercies, she came
bringing abundance, blessings of love, healing and eternal hope.

...whose very presence brightened her mother's world.

Jazmyn -- our Filipina sampaguita...

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