Portals of Ireland
by Mike DeLorenzo
(12 x 171/3)
This painting depicts five different scenes of Ireland. When first praying about the painting, I felt for several months that there were to be three archways of different places in Ireland.
XXVI. The first scene on the left right is the "Rock of Cashel ". The Castle is
61 meters high. Cashel has long been a place of importance. St Patrick arrive in
about 432 AD and converted King Aengus, who became the first Christian Ruler. ST
Patrick is alleged to have used a shamrock leaf to illustrate the Trinity,
during Aengus’s baptism.
A. I feel it is significant that this is where the first ruler got saved.
Patrick had a kingly anointing to reach the leaders of his day. This is also an
ancient ruin, and when I was in Northern Ireland waiting upon the lord in 94, at
the Christian Renewal Center when the Lord began to speak to me about the
ancient pathways, and ancient ruins.
B. Isaiah 58:12 (New King James Version)
1. 12 Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
2. Jeremiah 6:16 (New King James Version)
16 Thus says the LORD:
" Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Lord once again let the rulers of Ireland come to know the Lord, place an open
heaven over your people once again. The archways above the castle speaks of an
open heaven, God wants his people to seek the Lord Jesus with all their heart
and soul. The different colors of each archway display possible the glory of the
Lord. We go from glory to glory, from grace to grace, from faith to faith and
from Strength to strength the Bible says.
XXVII. The Blarney Castle
Blarney Castle is a medieval stronghold in Blarney, near Cork, Ireland and the
River Martin. The castle originally dates from before AD 1200. It was destroyed
in 1446, but subsequently rebuilt by Cormack McCarthy, the King of Munster. It
is currently a partial ruin with some accessible rooms and the battlements. At
the top of the castle lies the Stone of Eloquence, better known as the Blarney
Stone. Tourists visiting Blarney Castle may hang upside-down over a sheer drop
to kiss the stone, which is said to give the gift of eloquence. Photographs are
taken of the "magic moment". There are many legends as to the origin of the
stone, but some say that it was the Lia Fáil —a magical stone upon which Irish
kings were crowned.
This Castle has personal importance to me. My friend Glow Bonnette who has gone
on to be with the Lord took a team of intercessors to the castle back in the
90’s as they went to the top of the castle they began to prayer and the power of
God came down. They prayed and prophesied over several tourists, many of them
wanted prayer. One of the men who would hold the legs of the tourist as they
bent over to kiss the blarney stone was drunk at the time and Glow had a special
burden for him. She prayed for him for 8 years every day that God would to a
miracle in his life. As we went to find him some 8 years later we found out that
he had gotten fired from the job for personal reasons. We tried to find out
where he lived, after asking several different folks we found an address, as we
went to the house a lady answered the door we ask is John here? She looked
surprised, like who are you. After Glow began to tell how she had prayed for him
all those year the lady and daughter began to weep at the door, she invited us
inside, and there was John. We found out after being let go of his Job that he
tried to commit suicide with poison and almost died. He was living on the
streets I believe as an alcoholic. During his recover he found the Jesus as his
savior. He got a new job and a car. When we met him at his home was just after
the Lord restored him to his family. The moral of the story is when we are full
of Blarney; God can take the life and make it his own.
This is why you see and open heaven over this place, because of the presence of
God is where ever you are, because Christ the hope of Glory lives inside of His
Children.
Jacob’s Vow at Bethel
10 Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. 11 So he came to a
certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took
one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that
place to sleep. 12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the
earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending
and descending on it.
13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham
your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you
and your descendants.
A. In this painting you see a ladder going into the heavens, there are 24 stars
symbolic of the 24 elders before the throne of God, and the larger star being
the Lord Jesus, the Bright and Morning Star. My heart is that the heaven will be
open to us as we wait upon the Lord.
XXVIII. St Patrick’s Cathedral
A. This Cathedral is in the city of Armagh, the place where St Patrick built his
Cathedral in AD 445. This particular cathedral dates from the middle of the 19th
century.
B. This picture shows and open heaven between the pillars, we need to come out
of religion, and have a relationship with Jesus. There are many beautiful
churches in the world, but some just become institutions, and many of the great
cathedrals and churches of Europe have gone empty. God is calling us to come out
of the world, and come up into His presence.
C. Revelation 4
(1) The Throne Room of Heaven
1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And
the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come
up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One
sat on the throne.
3 And He who sat there was [a] like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.
4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns [b] of gold on their heads.
D. God in this last day has an open heaven for us to come up into. We will all experience God differently in our lives, but bottom line, the Lord is asking us all to come up higher in Him.
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I am inspired to paint this art which gives insight into the heart and mind of our Lord and Savior.
