The Roar in me

15th December 2019

There is a ‘Roar’ within all of us. Most of our roars are in preparation and nurturing mode until it takes a vision to bring together into the alignment of God for a unique season and time. 2020 shall be a very significant year for many of us. It shall be a year where God’s presence become very prominent in many areas of our life, many shall see and know the Lord and His will shall be birthed through those who loved Him.

This special project ‘The Roar 2020/5780’ was initiated by God in 25 Dec 2018. It was a dream I had about the lion roar that I decided to paint a roaring lion titled “I heard the Roar”.
(you can read about to the dream and painting : https://tiroshjourney.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/i-heard-the-roar/ )
I thought God was speaking to me about my personal journey initially since I have always been a lion painter and the dream was just one of those many weird dreams I had. As 2019 progresses, many prophetic words came forth from many parts of the world declaring 5780 (Sept 30 2019 onwards) as the year of the Roaring Lion. Something ticked in me. I started to seek the Lord what He actually wanted to do. It was not until Aug 13th 2019 that I received the understanding to gather artists to declare God’s destiny over Singapore on her 55th birth year 2020 with a Roar!

I started to invite artists to participate in this assignment without sharing with them about my dream (some of them may have heard and read about it). Those interested artists were given 4 months to create the artwork based on roaring lion. The purpose was not to influence their decision to participate but for those artists who truly resonate with the theme and they felt called to respond. I believed the artists who have responded with the ROAR are those who have heard from the Lord and are determined to pursue their escalated destiny God has instored for them in 2020.

A similar exhibition called ‘The Gathering of the Lions’ in 2014 was organised by 2 friends Georgina, Patsy and myself 5 years ago. We managed to gather 24 participating artists age 6 to 60s from 12 different churches. It was a physical exhibition with 49 lion paintings declaring over Singapore 49th Jubilee held at Goodman Arts Centre. This next ‘The Roar 2020/5780’ will be virtual/online exhibition and it seemed to be a followup on the earlier one though it was never my intention. I really appreciate and thank God for those artists who responded to both exhibtions : they shall receive double blessings!

I want to say a big THANK YOU to all artists who have participated in this extra-ordinary journey…. let your voice be heard and your God given inheritance be manifested to serve the people and this nation into greater heights. Let the Sound of Heaven declare :

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
(Isaiah 60:22 KJV)