~Your Daughter~

I am your daughter, a lover of you, my Father.
You died for me, for my sins.
You have washed me clean with your blood.
You have me in your arms
And have never stopped loving me
You take amazing care of me
You have been so faithful to me

When I call on you I know you are there
I wait for the day that I can sit on your lap.
I look around and see the creativeness you have.

Who would have thought of clouds so white and fluffy?
Only You Lord
Who would have thought of the different seasons in a year?
Only you Lord
Who would have thought of all the different animals and their names?
Only you Lord.

I want more of you.
Change me inside and out
Clean me
I love you

I want to dance with you
I want to laugh with you
I want to run with you
I want to sing with you
I want to walk with you
I want you to be the center of my life
I love you, I want you.

Here I am, your daughter Jessica.
Use me to your will. I am your servant
I worship, I will live every inch of my life
for you, You are the King of Kings.
I find joy in walking your path of light

Thank you Jesus
You are the ultimate Father.

I love you

Your daughter

Jessie

~The Healing Power of God~

Last night we had youth group here at the college. There were about 8 of us in total. It was the most amazing night ever. We began by going around the room and encouraging each other. It was so moving to hear what these youth had to say about each other.

At the end of the night we decided to pray for healing on those you needed healing. We sat together in a tight circle. One of the youth sat in the middle of the circle so we could pray for her. We didn't lay hands on her or anything we left that we wanted to first wait on the Lord to find what He wanted to do and if there was a certain person that God wanted to use to pray over this girl. After waiting on the Lord for a little while,we asked if anyone was getting anything. Two girls said they were feeling tingling and heat in their hands and another felt the same but she also felt oil in her hands. It was amazing. One of these three girls prayed for the girl in the middle and she was instantly healed from her neck soreness and cough. God totally lead youth group and move in the way He wanted move. Praise the Lord for is good.It was amazing watching these young people be used by God.
1Timothy 4:11-13
Command and teach these things. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.

God is so good. No can say that children or youth are too young to hear from God. God is a powerful God and He can do anything and work through anyone He desires. Praise God for is healing power!! :)

~When I am weak, then I am Strong!~

My thoughts right now are flowing. I cannot get over all the things God is doing for me lately. I want to thank him for the great forgiveness he has for me and everyone. I am in such awe of Him lately. I feel like he stripping me away. It's a good thing. It is really hard but I know it’s rewarding in end. It enjoy in my sufferings. Who am I to say 'I am suffering though?' Have I never suffered like Jesus or even Paul? No. What God is having me walk through is nothing to what Jesus did for e on the cross.Thank you Jesus for being my friend and holding me close you in every area of my life.

Lately people have saying to me "Jess you are so real." Honestly I really do not see that in myself. I can tell you that I am not hiding anything and I will be honest with people. I speak the truth in love. I guess it's just one of those things that I never saw in myself .... real. Hmmm maybe it's something to think about. It's something I continue want to be better at with everyone.I feel weak and helpless. I look to God for strength.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I am so in love with God right now. I cannot get over how much He has done for me. How great is the love God lavishes on us! I am a sinner, I do mess up. I don't want to pretend I am someone that I am not. My desire is to be transparent. I want to be a carrier of God's glory. I also do not want to hide my sufferings. Remember we share in our sufferings. Some days it can really suck to be real with someone. I can sit and say though it encourages me. God doesn't call us to frost things over with the word 'nice'. He wants us to be imitators of Him. In doing that we must be real and speak the truth in Love and be obedient to His calling for our life!

Thank you Reed Flemming for all you have taught me through your sufferings. You have no idea how much you have enouraged me. You are a blessing. Thank you. May the Lord himself bless you richly

~Interview with God~

Hey everyone a friend of mine sent me an e-mail with a poem. I want to share it with you. No she didn't write it. It's from a website -http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/presentation.html
There is a presentation of the poem if you go to that website. It's called Interview with God. Click view presentation. It's a really simple poem. Anyways enjoy.

Blessings

~What is Love?~

Yesterday I went to KVHS with Allan and Dan. We were apart of the health fair. Haha we were the “the spiritual” table. We were there to talk to the students about love. We talked to them about the four Greek words of love. Many of you probably already know these words but they were….

Storge- this means affection. It’s the affection you get from your parents. It’s a love we are born into.
Enos – this mean physical, sexual love. Something you would share with someone after you are married.
Phila- This is is taken from the city of Philadelphia. That city stands for the city of brotherly love. So Philia is like the love you would have between yourself and a best friend, that tight connection.
Agage- This means unconditional love, selfless love. We all know the great example of this love is Jesus dying on the cross for us. He gave his life us on the cross.

It was really interesting because some of the questions we would begin conversation with students was …..When you think of the word love what do you think about? What does love mean to you? Has anyone told you they love you? What does someone mean when they tell you they love you?

The reaction of the students was interesting. I know we got some of them thinking, because they never thought about the word love before. One of them said “Love is love, no one thinks about it.” Another person said that “Love is word that is misused too much.” I would have to agree with this person. Then still many people said when asked the question what do you think someone means when they say they love you? They responded by saying “Ah I don’t know…. That they care about me.”

What blew my mind is that they students don’t even know what real love is. They don’t even know what it is to love. Many of them I bet were coming from broken homes. Spilt families, and divorced parents. I bet many of them don’t have the chance to experience love even at home from their family. It was so sad leaving that place and knowing that these students don’t know what REAL love it.

One thing I didn’t mention was that the Challenge for both Allan and I was that we were not aloud to mention what we believed in unless they asked us and we were not aloud to ask them. Also we weren’t aloud to talk about Jesus. We couldn’t pray for them or prophecy. I found it to be a big challenge to evangelize to a group of people with using the name of Jesus. WOW! It really opened my eyes to what some cultures have to do to spread the word. I couldn’t believe it. I learned so much just in that time. I got the chance at just watching students and looking at them and seeing where they are at. God showed me show much. I do know that they definitely need love. They need to know what real love is. Remember God is love and if we don’t know God then we don’t know love.

~His Bleeding Heart~

I look up
And see
This beautiful
Heart
From it
I see it
Bleeding
Drops of
Blood

Looking
More closely
I saw clear
Spring water
On the outside
Of the heart
The spring water
Began to
Drop
With the blood
Side by side

Who’s heart
Is this?
I thought
To myself

It’s my Father’s
Heart
His heart
Bleeds
For his people
His love
We will never understand
His agape
For us.

My heart runs
And jumps
For my Father
I want to
Know Him
More.

My thoughts and
My feelings
Are not even
Making sense
Right now

I feel like
Diving
Into deep water
I feel like running up
To the highest
Mountain
And calling out to
God “I WANT MORE GOD!”
With my
Arms stretched
Wide open.

I love You
My heart yearns
For You
Oh God You
Are amazing
I trust you
I give you
My life.

I am here
Your daughter
Jessica
Here I am
I am Yours
I am listening
To You.
Take me as I am.
I want more.

For the joy
Of the Lord
is my strength

Thank You Jesus
For dying
on the cross
for me
So I could have
A relationship
With You.

Thank You
For your
Heart
That bleeds for me
And all your people.
Thank you.

~Compassion For God's People~

Read - Luke 7:11-16

Now imagine this huge crowd following Jesus into this town. There is probably lots of talking going on. I bet there is children laughing and running in and out of the people around them.

When Jesus arrives at the city gate He sees a widow and not far from her he sees people carrying her dead son. She had already lost her husband and now she has lost her only son. Her heart is torn. She clearly has gone through a lot. Imagine being like this woman, losing your husband or wife, and then not long later losing your only child.

What would your heart be feeling?

Would you be mad?

Would you be confused?

I know it’s awful to think about it but this real. This woman was probably feeling these emotions. I bet she probably doubted if God even loved her, because her son and her husband have both been taken away from her.

Instantly Jesus’ heart went out to this woman. He went to up her and said “Don’t cry.”

Here I like picture Jesus walking up to the woman and looking at her straight in the eyes and giving her this loving and compassionate smile while saying don’t cry.

After saying this to the woman Jesus walks over to the coffin and touches it!!!

The touching of the coffin was uncalled for. It was very uncleanly for someone to touch the coffin of a dead person. By Jesus touching the coffin He risked being made “unclean”. Obviously that didn’t matter Jesus.

The story is not even over and Jesus has drawn people to watch what is going on.

1.He goes the widow and says ‘don’t cry’. Who says that to someone who has lost both their husband and their son?
2.He goes and touches the coffin of a dead person.

No one asked for help from Jesus, but Jesus saw the problem and acted upon it, because He loved them.
Now as He is touching the coffin He says “Young man, I say to you get up!”
As soon as Jesus said those words, the young man sat up and began to talk. Then Jesus handed Him over to his mother.

Now this would be number 3. Jesus raises someone from the dead.

Now I imagine the crowds heads turned and are wondering what just happened.

Don’t you see when Jesus said “Young man, I say to you get up!” He was giving an order. That order completely destroyed and defeated death.

This story is incredible. You really get a feel of Jesus’ heart for the people.

Why does it seem so hard sometimes for us to reach out to these people?


God has been teaching a lot lately about outreach. I know sometimes when we think of the word outreach we think of gathering together people and doing some sort of organization to reach out to a certain crowd of people. Yes this is outreach…..but I believe that outreach should be way of life not something that we do as we gather together to organize something. You see, Jesus constantly reached out to the people and showed real love and compassion for them.

Why are we so afraid to show love and compassion?

One thing God has lain on my heart in last year or so is love. He has been teaching me what love really is. He has been teaching me about real agape love.

Agape is unconditional love. He has been teaching to agape people who don’t agape me.
Love is one of those things that we think we know what it is all about but it’s probably something we don’t look into enough.

We constantly need to be asking God to show us how to love, teach us what love is and what does love look like. These are all simple questions but important questions. I believe as we reflect on questions such as these we build a stronger relationship with Jesus and then He will us a heart to reach out, just as Jesus did. But we must not be afraid.

2 Corinthians 1: 3-4

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

~Little Update for October~

October has come and I am well into the school year. I am placed at Grace Harvest Church. I am really excited about being there and being apart of that community. I am excied for all the things God has planed for me this year.

The month of September was great. I really got to know the rest of the students. There is a girl in my house named Hilary. She is a first year student and she come all the way from B.C!! She is crazy. I am also living with Susan who is from Newfoundland. I lived with her last year. I love her. Then I am also living with Rachel who is from Ontario. She is really nice. Yes that is right there are 4 girls living together from all different parts of Canada! It's great!

Most nights guys with call our house and we will all hang out. Sometimes we will watch a movie or play dutch blitz. If we don't do that, we normally head to the chapel to worship as a community. I love it because we know each other so well. We are able be open and honest with each other. Things are going great around here and I am happy we are such a tight group of people. I know I can say this a mean it in every way, that we have such a tight bond with each other we are like a family. We are a family.

Here are some pictures....

Erin (second year student), Myself (second year student) and Hilary(first year student). Erin and I dyed our hair and Hilary cut her bangs. We cut Erin's as well.

Katie( first year student) and I being silly in her car! haha Hilary( first year student) relaxing in our living room

Susan and Rachel ( both 3rd year students) at a bonfire.Christian(3rd year student) and I at the bonfire at mispec beach

Well that is all for now friends. Just wanted to give you a little update of what has been happening.

Peace out