"How Awesome is This Place!"- By Gail Vass 2008
Genesis 28:17 - "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the
gate of heaven!"
John 1:50, 51 - "Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,'
do you believe? You will see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Most
assuredly, I say to you hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."
Through the back roads of the countryside, I found an awesome place tucked away in a warm blanket of
tranquility. An abandoned lilac grove presented its sweet lavender flowers all around the grassy field. Near
the gravel road was one large pillar made of the local fieldstone. Along with the lilacs, the old mortar
crumbling pillar gave the hint that a farmhouse rested upon the property in years gone by.
I sat down in the overgrown grasses next to the pillar and thought of Jacob's awesome place.
After he had seen the gate of heaven in a dream opening up in the sky to the earth with the angels going
up and down and the Lord standing at the top, he poured oil on the stone pillar that was at his head when
he slept. He was anointing the awesome place of God and made a vow to serve Him.
While I was painting my awesome place showing myself sitting next to the stone pillar and underneath
the blossoming apple tree, surrounded with lilacs, suddenly Jesus said the name, "Nathanael," to me. He
was bringing my attention to the time when Jesus saw in His Spirit of Nathanael sitting under a fig tree.
Jesus told Nathanael he would see greater things- the Son of Man, Himself, as the gate of heaven and the
angels ascending and descending upon Him. He became the Door, Gate and Bridge, the only way for
man to connect with God in heaven and life for eternity.
I also discovered that the lilac is of the genus, "Syringa" which means a pipe, tube or reed for cleansing
with water or wind through it. The word, "syringe" comes from this. Next to me in the painting is a watering
can and the open Bible as the living water, the Word of God, pours out freely and continuously. The Holy
Spirit comes down from heaven as the Dove, carrying a white ribbon, "rib-bone", connecting us to God like
the rib bone connection of Adam and Eve in marriage. At my head, like Jacob's oil, He releases His
anointing through His holy "Syringa"!
How awesome is God's Place of life! How available it is for anyone who makes a covenant with Him!
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18" x 24" - Original in collection of the artist
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18" x 24" Original watercolor
Genesis 28:17 - "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the
gate of heaven!"
John 1:50, 51 - "Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,'
do you believe? You will see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Most
assuredly, I say to you hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."
Through the back roads of the countryside, I found an awesome place tucked away in a warm blanket of
tranquility. An abandoned lilac grove presented its sweet lavender flowers all around the grassy field. Near
the gravel road was one large pillar made of the local fieldstone. Along with the lilacs, the old mortar
crumbling pillar gave the hint that a farmhouse rested upon the property in years gone by.
I sat down in the overgrown grasses next to the pillar and thought of Jacob's awesome place.
After he had seen the gate of heaven in a dream opening up in the sky to the earth with the angels going
up and down and the Lord standing at the top, he poured oil on the stone pillar that was at his head when
he slept. He was anointing the awesome place of God and made a vow to serve Him.
While I was painting my awesome place showing myself sitting next to the stone pillar and underneath
the blossoming apple tree, surrounded with lilacs, suddenly Jesus said the name, "Nathanael," to me. He
was bringing my attention to the time when Jesus saw in His Spirit of Nathanael sitting under a fig tree.
Jesus told Nathanael he would see greater things- the Son of Man, Himself, as the gate of heaven and the
angels ascending and descending upon Him. He became the Door, Gate and Bridge, the only way for
man to connect with God in heaven and life for eternity.
I also discovered that the lilac is of the genus, "Syringa" which means a pipe, tube or reed for cleansing
with water or wind through it. The word, "syringe" comes from this. Next to me in the painting is a watering
can and the open Bible as the living water, the Word of God, pours out freely and continuously. The Holy
Spirit comes down from heaven as the Dove, carrying a white ribbon, "rib-bone", connecting us to God like
the rib bone connection of Adam and Eve in marriage. At my head, like Jacob's oil, He releases His
anointing through His holy "Syringa"!
How awesome is God's Place of life! How available it is for anyone who makes a covenant with Him!
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18" x 24" - Original in collection of the artist
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18" x 24" Original watercolor