Through the Eye of Her Heart
By Jeris L. Cribbs

A new wave of God’s Glory is being felt and expressed today through the prophetic arts—and there is nothing more beautiful than when God chooses to release it through a child. Increasingly we are witnessing a phenomenal release of prophetic gifts through children who are becoming the very essence of God’s voice today. It’s a Joel 2, Acts 2 demonstration of prophecy articulated through His sons and daughters—our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on. Such prophetic expression is found in the paintings of a little girl named Jordan.

Jordan, now six years old, says that many times she “paints with Jesus”—but many times she paints alone, with the “eye of her heart.” She says that, “most of the time I need my heart eye for seeing what I want to paint.” And her heart eye is what you experience when you search the depths of her paintings—the very breath of God expressed through these tiny hands.

“Jordan is a little girl who simply loves Jesus with all her heart and has an extraordinary gift of spiritual expression and maturity through her paintings,” says her mother, Michelle. From her first “high chair painting” at the age of two—a very colorful hand print with a heart-shaped blood spot in the palm—to her most recent painting, “God’s Mountain,” Jordan’s art expresses “the unseen hidden in the seen.”

Sometimes the simple innocence of a child can best express God’s heart towards His children. You can hear His heart through the words Jordan writes in her journal:

“When God paints a picture, He doesn’t let you see all of it at once. He likes to watch your eyes see each new part. It’s like they are talking to Him. Sometimes, God hides behind His work and listens to what you say about it.”

“One of the reasons God hides is so we can have fun finding Him. God is invisible, so you have to look for His clues to know where He is, kind of like Blue’s Clues. He does little hints so you know it’s from Him.”

“God also hides because He really likes surprises. It’s one of His favorite things. I think He likes surprises because He can’t get surprised. That’s why it’s fun for Him to se me get surprised! You never know what He will do; that’s why it’s always a surprise.”

Michelle’s advice to other parents, whose hearts are to see their children have the same gifts and experiences, is, “Just lay hands on them and pray that they would know Him—that He would reveal Himself to them—because we don’t know how to reveal Him to someone else. We can’t! He has to reveal Himself. God would not resent that kind of prayer, because it’s in-line with His desire for us. There isn’t anything we can do to change someone’s relationship with God or desire for Him—it’s something He has to do.” Michelle adds, “Jordan and others like her have been given incredible talents, but people should look past the things that stand out, like these incredible paintings, so they can actually see what gifts other kids carry.” She uses an example of a little boy who attends her church—“He lifts up his hands, worshipping and praying for people, but he doesn’t have a special gifting in the eyes of man—he doesn’t read well, or spell well, so people have a tendency to just gloss over him. The gifts need to be recognized as an extension of what’s in the child, rather than something that identifies them.”

Michelle is very cautious not to mention to Jordan that she is an artist because, she says, “if Jordan grows up thinking that she indeed is an artist and God has something else in mind for her, I could impair the plans He has for Jordan.” Right now Jordan says that she wants to become a botanist—and Michelle says, “that’s alright, because to confine her to one apparent gift or talent at this point in her life could keep her from what God’s destiny is for her.”

God is miraculously releasing His Glory through our children. Jordan’s gift of prophetic expression is but one of many emerging from this next generation—one tiny voice—an expression of the beauty of God’s Glory on earth, through the eye of her heart.