He had a dream from God about a musical instrument…his obedience to the dream brought the gospel to a little known tribe. This is a testimony of prophetic art. It’s not a matter of whether God is speaking–the question is, are we listening? Are we obeying?
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The Prophetic in Many Arts
A friend recently asked, “What about non-visual art through spontaneous songs (prayers, blessings) from the heart?”
Non-visual art can definitely be prophetic too-anything that says what God is saying can be prophetic. Spontaneous songs, prayers and blessings are lovely—and can be powerful prophetic creativity. Theresa Dedmon, in her book Born to Create, writes a lot about these forms–and an amazing variety of other arts God uses. I emphasise the visual here because that’s what I do and know best; visual art needs a voice in Christian circles these days, but yes, the prophetic can take lots of forms. When I was on an arts outreach in Albania, a dancer danced a blessing over me.
You Are Creative!
As a reader recently commented, since God created humans in his image (male and female!), every human being is in some way creative. Sadly, I often hear, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.” When we do what God, The Creator does, we’re being creative! When we do what God tells us to do, we’re being creative! We often use the term “creatives” to describe visual artists, musicians, songwriters, actors; while this does have some benefit, it’s incomplete since everyone is creative. Creativity comes in many forms such as creative problem solving, cooking, communicating, and so much more. Creativity has been used for wonderful purposes but also for heinous ones. It originates with God but not all of it is of God. The goal of prophetic art is to receive our creativity from God and present it back to him for his glory.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
Visually Prophetic 