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There’s a moment that changes everything. For Juels, it happened in the middle of a sermon in the shape of a terrifying vision of a woman with iron bars in her mouth, not even speaking. The Holy Spirit said five words that would alter the trajectory of her life: Go home and draw that.

“I don’t do that,” Juels argued. “That’s not in my skill set.”

He said it again: Draw it.

So she found some charcoal and sat down to draw. She was obedient.

What came out of that ordinary piece of paper was so far beyond her natural ability that her husband went out the next day and bought her watercolours to keep her going. Three and a half years later, Juels is an artist running solo exhibitions, healing workshops, and prophetic intensives. And she still calls herself green!

Her story isn’t just inspiring. It’s a prophetic invitation for every creative who is waiting until they feel ready.

Say Yes Before You Know How.

I’ve drawn these 7 Truths for Prophetic Artists from The Prophetic Artist Community (TPAC) March, 2026, coaching call with honoured guest Juels Pellow. 

Obedience is the only prerequisite

Juels didn’t start with talent. She started with a yes.

“The practicality of it was that I was just willing to say yes to everything that he gave me and asked of me. And through that, it was very much on-the-job training, and it still is.”

This is perhaps the most confronting truth of prophetic art: God doesn’t wait until we’re skilled. He builds the skill through obedience. The initial picture Juels drew was so supernaturally good that it captured her attention precisely because it was beyond her ability. But everything that came after was learned in the doing, one commission, one exhibition, one workshop at a time.

If you’ve been waiting until you’re “good enough” to say yes, you may have it backwards.

What you carry into the studio comes out on the canvas

Before Juels was about to paint for her very first exhibition, the Holy Spirit gave her a specific instruction: Come to the canvas in joy and peace.

She asked why.

“He said, ‘It’s because I’m laying down anointings on the canvases that will permeate atmospheres. And if you come in in anything other than joy and peace, then it’s going to permeate what I am trying to produce.'”

This isn’t just good creative advice. It’s a theology of the prophetic. I’ve always said, whatever is in your spirit becomes part of what is deposited in the work. So now, even when brushes are flying and there’s urgency in the painting, Juels has learned to stop — breathe — return to rest — and then continue.

Like a prophetic word, the instruction is simple: don’t add to it. Just deliver.

Have boardroom meetings in heaven

One of the most practical and profound shifts in Juels’ life came when the Holy Spirit showed her a new way to run her business, her art, and her days. The Spirit said: Come meet with us.

“The Holy Spirit showed me that I needed to come and meet with them for my businesses, all of them. So I go to heaven, to heaven’s boardroom, and we have back-and-forth meetings. I write out what I want to ask, and they tell me what I need to put in place in the natural, and what I need to declare and speak out in the spirit.”

The results were startling. She asked everything from “what do you want me to paint next?” to “how many times should I post on social media this week?” and found that following these instructions gave her hours back in the day by cutting out all the frantic, headless-chicken activity she’d assumed she had to do.

It changed her art. It changed her other businesses. It replaced the hustle with intention.

The boardroom is open for all of us.

Often, you don’t know who the painting is for

Juels was painting live at a local revival tent when the Holy Spirit told her to paint a portrait: a woman with oil being poured over her head, laughing, face upturned. She’d only ever painted one portrait in her life. She had half an hour. She finished in twenty minutes.

At the end of the night, a man approached her. His wife had stage four brain cancer. They’d come to the tent believing she would be healed, but she’d had a turn and been hospitalised instead. That morning, a team had visited her ward and poured anointing oil over her head.

Then he pulled out a photo.

It was his wife. Juels had painted her. She said, “Surely this painting is for you!”

A second prophet approached, independently, and declared that anyone who looked upon that painting in the hospital would be healed. The painting brought the woman peace, permission to let go and go home to Jesus, and healing to others in her ward.

We never know the depth of what God is doing through a painting. We can’t see the end from where we’re standing. That’s why obedience matters more than outcome on the canvas.

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy

There’s a temptation, when hearing a story like Juels’, to think: That’s well and good for her. He downloaded it for her. But I’m different.

The word for that thought is comparison, and it’s one of the enemy’s favourite tools against prophetic artists.

Here’s the counter: The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. [Rev 19:10] When someone tells you what Jesus did for them, it is not a trophy in a glass case. It is an open invitation. He will do it again. Maybe not in the same way or on the same timeline, but we are all equal. He is no respecter of persons. [Acts 10:34]

“If the Lord can do it for me,” Juels said, “He can do it for you. And if He’ll do it for you, He’ll do it for me. He has no favourites.”

It’s time to stop looking at someone else’s canvas and ask what He wants on yours.

The valleys are building something

Juels’ journey to her art didn’t begin in comfort. It began through a period in which her husband received a cancer diagnosis, she was running three businesses simultaneously, and she ended up with four autoimmune conditions. The morning routine that now anchors her days — barefoot on the grass, sun on her skin, time in the boardroom — was learned out of necessity in that hard season.

During our online meeting, one of our artists, Jeanette, shared her own story with quiet courage: painting a piece called From Grief to Glory after the passing of her beloved husband, Charles. She’d gone to the graveside the day after the burial and heard the Holy Spirit speak: Your healing is going to come through helping others to heal.

“We actually acknowledge that the hard things are what pushed us from behind to go in the direction that God wanted us to go to get what we needed,” Juels reflected.

The valleys aren’t detours from your calling. They are the formation of it.

Ask before you paint

Before the vision. Before the canvas. Before the brushes come out. Ask Him!

The framework for entering a painting session goes something like this:

• What is it that you want me to paint?
• How do you want me to paint it?
• What is the anointing you want inlaid on this piece?
• What is going to help people when they see this?
• Who is this painting for?

This turns a creative act into a prophetic one. It moves you from self-expression to Spirit-led expression. And it gives you direction, which is exactly what counters the blank-canvas-panic or the “I don’t feel in the flow” frustration.

“Just seek. Then apply. Come back and seek again. Then apply.”

A final word

“Lord, we just ask for an impartation of complete partnership with you, that you would ignite our hearts and our minds and our hands to be able to share what you need people to know in this time.”

That is the heartbeat of prophetic art. Partnership.

You don’t have to know how before you say yes. You just have to say yes.

The Prophetic Artist Community is a like-minded group of prophetic artists who meet online monthly. To join the conversation and access replays, resources, and community, visit the TPAC page on The Prophetic Artist website.

Illustration depicts the main ceiling in the Hall of Mirrors (Galerie des Glaces) at the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, painted by Charles Le Brun between 1678 and 1684.