Hello Xanga people! I'm now on multiply! jensomeone.multiply.com but wanted to share this here anyway!

-Jen

Happy New Year to all and Happy Fasting to friends and spiritual family! Fourth day! Wuhu! 2006 was a year paired with many breakthroughs (…arranging songs, recording… getting a well-paying part time job as a Berlitz International Language Instructor… Meeting God’s best! Wuhu!) and trials (Our producers and heads leaving for the States and deciding to stay, details in getting the record done, striving to see some goal and direction for our music despite our leaders absence.The death of my uncle and the close call with my sister’s Dengue right before Christmas!) But God is in control as always… and despite the darkest moments and scenarios that attempt to loom and threaten the promises, the vision and the dreams… I refuse to accept that these things were done for nothing. But I also know that our God is a God of seasons…who plants and uproots when needed. Definitely I know I was partnered with my indie label for production but for local release and career paths, I know God will provide someone who has the time, resources and presence to work hands on in sending me out as an artist into the mission field He has called me. These days of fasting have been intense and even in the midst of it, breakthroughs are already overwhelming.

           God is already opening doors for other opportunities in my professional life and I know He will continue and give me the wisdom that is needed with it. God has given the man I love the confident expectancy of complete restoration and healing of his physical condition. ..and also the salvation of his family. I’ve been freed from plaguing fears and doubts about my future…. Relationships in spiritual family have been restored and bridges have been rebuilt. God has taken Leo and I into a season of courtship and friendship that is even purer and more amazing than ever before. God has given me peace and excitement about my future as I face it in faith and hope in HIM. God’s Word has come alive in a more powerful way. God has birthed a powerful prayer circle with two sisters in Christ that I’ve grown to trust and love… and God has birthed a greater hunger and desire to seek Him in prayer this year.

            There are oh so many more dreams and visions that sprung forth just this prayer and fasting that I’m hiding in my heart and holding on to them. One thing is for sure---I’m holding on to my God as He molds me and works on my behalf…and I know HE holds me and the whole world in the palm of His HAND! God is powerful, great and REAL….and HE is a God that will provide you inexplicable peace, joy and hope in the midst of great trial! HE is our source! But the thing is, God never forces Himself on us…we must desire to seek Him, to know Him and His good, pleasing and perfect plan for us! And HE WILL TAKE YOU ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF WALKING BY FAITH!

But I’m confident that as I walk with the “shoes of the gospel of peace” …I will walk on FIRM GROUND. AND I WILL CLIMB THE HEIGHTS! Friends, these shoes are far greater than the NIKES that tell you to “Just do it” and the adidas that tell you “IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING”. Although amazing slogans, I believe they are incomplete! NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD. And as you DO IT WITH GOD, AS YOU ALLOW HIM  TO “DO IT” through you… BE BAFFLED! BE AMAZED! BE EXPECTANT FOR HIM TO SHOW UP AND TAKE YOU FROM GLORY TO GLORY, FAITH TO FAITH AND STRENGTH TO STRENGTH! J

Lord, I love you! Truly you are BEYOND AMAZING! And even if I still can’t see beyond the step I am on… I WILL PRAISE YOU and TRUST YOU!

Amen!