In the midst of my doubt and unbelief, Jesus gives me relief. When I fall, He picks me up. He is so so patient with my distracted mind. He is so glorious. He is a good good Father. Thank you for transparency, Jess.
I love love love your devotionals, please do as many as you can. God bless. We need to say an extra prayer for those who gave a thumbs down they need more Jesus in their lives.
Your ministry is your obedience to God in teaching the things he's told you to teach to all of us. Your ministry is teaching people to grow and grow their gardens ❤️ and to minister to your children and your husband by being a good wife and mother. There is nothing more beautiful than these things.
Thank you! I really needed to hear this THIS evening. I am surrendering my dream for my marriage to the LORD, giving it to HIM. He gives, He take and I praise HIM through it all.
Jess this is AWESOME. I'm a worship leader and lover of Jesus..I try hard to keep HIM present in all parts of my life but after listening to this I realize I'm still battling self sufficiency in my homesteading dreams as a single woman for twenty odd years. The Lord my maker is my husband and after this I am reminded that He is the one who put these dreams in my heart and if I just stay in a heart of worship and love He will bring everything He has dreamed for me. Thank you for this beautiful release of God's heart to us today.
It continually blows my mind that someone I never met someone who doesn’t even know I exist could play such a huge part in the process of my healing … even your tears spoke to me… And unbeknownst to you you sang with me you cried with me you comforted me you reminded me of the truth that is eating away at the lie inside of me here in the place of my grief loss and crushing … Jess… Thank you from all my heart for being you for all of us
Thank you Jess. I'm in my car at lunch watching your channel crying. You moved me today. God bless you and your family for touching our lives thank you.
I just want to tell you how much your journey with God has touched my heart and stirred up my faith. I too love my garden and God meets me there in such gentle ways. Thank you for every one of your yes’s to God.❤️
you do minister everyday when you raise your children and on your vlogs, just letting people know how you give glory to the Lord for your family , friends and garden and your life in general and with these devotional vlogs. God bless you and yours
If you knew how many times I loop infinitely more and devotional. My tragic loss of my husband and our heartbroken family...He helped me and encouraged my garden and chicken keeping and places I try and fail and grow food and kove.. Allowing for God, Ruth asks why have you faound favor. My chickens look at me when I sing his praises in the morning and don;t judge my tears. His throne of grace allows my heart to breathe more slowly if I feel broken by sadness because like love if we kn the source and give him praise he can lift us up from any depth of tragedy. Bless you abd your lovely family-Sheri God's love is bigger than our fears and our joys and our sorrows all the fruits of the spirit tgat grow beyonbd one little voice or tomato reninding us not to shorten the hadn of God with our plans..
There are no words to say how you have changed my life in the short time I have been following your channel! I have just started to garden, I started last year in two small raised gardens but squirrels ate all my tomatoes... I have been binge watching your video’s and love them. I have had terrible health issues including breast cancer and then ended up having what is called Gastroparesis after having my gallbladder removed. Then my daughter has struggled with chronic Lyme Disease. It has been so difficult and I have lost my faith in God, but I have rediscovered him listening to you and and your channel has lifted my spirits and my heart. I laughed so much listening to your live stream when you reached 100,000 subscribers!!! I just wanted to say thank you, and I love this song you sang, “Even When it Hurts”
Jess! This was beautiful!! I came to your channel as a brand new suburban gardener dreaming of property to homestead. After divorce and financial struggles, I have just gotten my first chickens and learned so so much from you as I watch in amazement for the first time in my new garden. I have found your devotional tab and wow Jess! Thank you for speaking so deeply to my heart. Good luck prepping for the move!!
I just thinking... you have come to those who are sick and to minister to them. Especially right now. Many people are homesteading because they are literally sick from our food and farming. You have a door open to them. I love how God positions each of us uniquely to reach people.
Jess, once again thank you. Thank you for obedience. I hope you peek back at these video comments years later to see that your efforts were wise and lasting and anointed. Praying for your health. Thankful for the wisdom from your friend to scooch you to tend to yourself. Peace.
Tears literally poured down my face watching this tonight. You posted this 2 years ago, but God is still using it for His kingdom now. Thank you for your surrender and obedience because it led you to a place where your voice for Christ has a much larger platform. I love this mission and I resonate so much with you. God bless you as you continue to lay your hopes and dreams down beneath the feet of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. How fitting this time of year between Palm Sunday and Easter. ❤️❤️🙏
I love searching your old videos and finding these messages from you. But Oh how I wish especially right now that you could just come and sit and have tea with me and just talk. You are a truly salt and light in my life.
I have a neighbor, a sister in Christ, named Kay who is in great need of prayer. She is a retired vocal music teacher who has given her life to her students and the people in our community. She has been hospitalized for several months and has been diagnosed with dementia/alzhiemers's. The prognosis is not good. She has been taken off intravenous feeding and only eats about 2 or 3 teaspoons of a meal. Kay needs a miracle. I ask everyone to pray for that miracle. In Jesus' name, I ask that you would pray for her.
God is glorious and I am beginning to learn that he has an amazing influence in my journey. Sometimes with the loss it is hard to reach out to him. I am preparing for the loss of my husband due to cancer and I am blown away with how God has placed your voice in my life at the most crucial time. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I guess this is an old video, so I hope you see this.... WOW!! Thank you!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Praising God today for your willingness to share this! There was a season when my world...the dream of my world, completely fell apart. Sometimes those fallen apart pieces remain for many years, cuz my dream world was not an island....it involved many people including little ones that aren't so little now. Even though the shattered world was not all my fault, I am sure I made plenty mistakes. God has given me new people to rebuild with. Thank you Jesus... But I have been searching for....I don't even know what actually. He used you to bring some clarity for me....thank you! ❤️ My daughter toe about you devotionals....she was right! 👍🏻👍🏻
Imagine I subscribed because I wanted homesteading info and yours were so awesome and then God blesses me so much more, He shared you with me. This is more than a devotional girl it’s a call to Honor Him in all we do. Thank you Jess for your obedience because through you I am moved beyond words and smiling through my tears! Hope their are no typos I’m crying and can’t see to edit!
Jess, you brought me to tears and greatly encouraged me to continue seeking God in all situations. Praise Him! He is all I need and hunger for. I’ve been so stressed, worried, and wanting to control things out of my control to the point of making myself and myself sick. I know in my mind all He’s provided in the past. I had been so afraid for the future, of failing Him to create and leave a beautiful legacy. I understand all I need to really do is seek Him and humble myself to allow Him to change me, not grow weary of waiting for breakthrough and blessing. I’ve always been a believer. Now is the time to grow my faith even more of hurting to grow my family homesteading legacy dream. Yes, Jess, I am trusting and worshipping in this sacred time. So much of me is dying but I’m hopeful this is a process of healing and truly living in communion with our kind, loving Divine Creator. It is hard process like you said. Thank you for sharing and you vulnerability. It blesses me more than you know. God is good. God blesses us.
Going thru a time of transition again, where it is challenging to hold my faith that there is purpose to the chaos and loss of a security I thought I had. And to embrace the new scary path I am being led on. It is amazing to me how you do have a video to fit the need of the moment, and how the message here is spoken in different words but is repeated in Vlogs and podcast recently. Thanks for the guidance and the consistent message thru the years.
I love and appreciate your devotionals more than you know. You are real and you're deep, just what I need. I understand that your words and "testimony" is who you are in everything you do. You can't separate it. Please continue! God bless you!!!!
"Even when it hurts, I will always sing your praise." Sister, I am crying. Our God is SO very mighty! This has been out for months and I just now find it, when I needed it most.
I didn't know you do these devotionals. I didn't even know you knew God till today. What a blessing. I came here to learn how to garden. and got so much more. Thank You. I'm gonna be here a lot more often. Why am I crying? lol
This is just beautiful thank you for sharing this with us. This song and message were a blessing to me and you have a beautiful voice and are more talented in this than you think. I love your heart, your message and your song. Thank you.
I’m a little blown away that I found this older vid today. We do not share the same faith but your devotionals have deep meaning for me and are what I need to hear today, this moment. Perhaps I wouldn’t be so open to hear it if I received it through formal Ministry, I don’t know. But I do know for sure that you have been called to share, as I, too, am a sharer of a different kind. Whether you share on skills or recipes or seeds or the word of the Lord, it is sometimes a single word or an entire message that resonates, because that is your gift-the ability to share. I get that not everyone will respond to you, or me, or whoever. Remember that for those who hear and feel your words in ways that are critical to their own understanding of the season they’re in, for those new learners, for those old and stuck like me, discovering it’s the death of a dream that sticks me, for those there is perpetual fruit. Seeing things, understanding circumstances in a different light, not a better light, nor worse, but different, enables people to stand up tall and regroup, which in turns effects their ability to bear fruit of their own. You and your perpetual fruit; I call that legacy. My children and I, and the grandchildren I don’t know yet, thank you for it. You are a sharer, you’re meant to share-whatever the subject may be, what’s in your heart, what you think and feel, just share it. It is effective because you are genuine. You don’t know me, don’t know my faith, may not agree with it or me on anything. But when you bless me, I know you mean it. 4 years old and this video is bearing fruit. Keep sharing, Jessica. It will have impact long after you and I no longer walk the Earth. Thank you.
Sister! It doesn't matter whether anyone on this earth thinks your voice is beautiful!! God made your voice...He LOVES it...and any one of US who loves HIM...will love it as well. It is HIS beauty....your voice is HIS. I personally, believe you did a wonderfully beautiful job and that your voice matches your sweet soul! Your heart comes out through your words...and that is a talent not everyone can say! Hugs to you! Thank you for this devotion. It was much needed for me today!
Thank you for sharing! I have definitely felt some of these dreams dying in these last few years. They may be seeds in the ground or God may have others plans. Thanks for the reminder that we need Him on the throne in every aspect of our life!
Jess, this reminds me of the day my husband went to heaven. When the nurse told me they could not bring him back, I fell on my face and praised God. Not because I was happy, but because He is good, even when terrible things happen. The following spring, God did a work in me that totally changed who and what I am. He taught me that it is through loss and pain and becoming broken that He is made real, that He is allowed to be powerful in and through us. If in the midst of pain and loss, if we can open ourselves up and allow God to flow through us in all His glory, strength, healing, life, power, etc, this is when we are truly transformed. Thank you for sharing your heart with us once again. You are a blessing to so many and I greatly appreciate your transparency. Many hugs! Kim
I have sat before many great preachers. I have listened to bible scholars in College, I have heard countless testimonies from countless men and women about the great relationship that our loving father offers. But... never before have I heard such a beautiful and apt picture of "creating a throne" and accepting God's kingdom government to rule our lives. best devotional on Psalm 22:3 I have ever heard. I am moved to tears, convicted and uplifted. Thank you for being a vessel.
I feel led to tell you how much this video was meant for me to hear today I’ve seen this video before but today I look at it in a new light I lost my husband in October we were married 28 years I also have a strong faith but some days are harder than others. God really spoke to me through this video today thank you for being the vessel for him💜
Thank you so much for sharing your heart of worship. I learned something a few years ago...I used to be nervous to sing loud in church bc I was afraid I would sing off key or the wrong words, but then one day in my daily reading...I saw something deeper than I had before in 1 Samuel 16 & 1 Chronicles 28:9. God doesn't hear what people hear with physical ears...He hears your heart with spiritual ears. Don't stifle the Holy Spirit because of a fear of what man hears. Sing your heart out to God & don't be concerned about the "right" key or lyrics.
Your devotionals are such a blessing to my heart. Thank you for your willingness to be so transparent. May I share with you that I lost my Mom at a young age, during the holiday season and just before I turn twelve years old. My brother, two years old than I, also pasted at the same time. But my mother give me the most wonderful gift in those short twelve yours. She lived out what it was to Love the Lord above all else. She told me how much he Loves us and will Never let us go. No matter what, he holds us. Her gift is what carried me through those dark days. God has held me and carried me through more times in my life than I could ever count. I can not even fathom how people navigate this life without Him. Not when all else fails, but first, and in everything may my heart and my mind raise to Him. Rest in His Love, Grace, and Mercy, and He will restore our soul.
Jess, I so wish this was 40 years ago (I'm 58)... when I ventured out into the world and found out the hard way that there are people in the world who don't have our best interests at heart - I was brought up to believe but lost my faith. Since then ALL of my dreams have died, except for that I was allowed to drive a truck for a living, and that has been gone for 5 years now. I have been watching your videos because my last dreams in life are to live the life you are living and to find someone similar to you to live it with. Thanks for all of your videos.
Hello dear one, I've just viewed your site on your collection of your seeds and the excitement you feel about the planting of them. This I believe our Father is saying to you, "sow the seeds of God's Word, as you sow the tiny little seeds into your garden". When you sow God's Word into the lives of others, it is equal to planting into the souls of the same. Enjoy your planting of the physical seeds and the planting of the spiritual seeds. God bless you. I'm 711/2 from Virginia
Hey Jess I Love Your Devotionals. Everyone I have been privileged to watch has shown me over and over that Our Beloved, (Our Creator) Is Truly Revealing Himself To His Creation. Here, There, Everywhere Across The Globe. I Truly Enjoy When You Share Your Insight. More Should Stand Up, Stand Firm, and Let His Word Shine, Let Him Be Manifested Within Each Person. That Seed, His Life Giving Seed Is Within Each Person Whether We Realize It Or Not, It Is There, He Is There On The Throne Within Everyone. Keep Em Coming As He Gives Inspiration To You... darlene
I thank you so much for this powerful testimony. I have been struggling in my worship with God lately, over a struggling 23 year marriage. I hear His voice again and again saying hold on, don't give up. I know the enemy doesn't want us to pray for our families, or worship our Creator. We all need encouragement from the body of Christ, and I am thankful for you. May our heavenly Father continue to grow you, for the equipping of the saints. I bless you, and your beautiful family! 💕❤💕
Amen! The struggles grow us. In my most desperate moment, I asked God if He still wanted me, I would serve Him all my days...he turned tragedy into triumph and sustains me always. Never let go of Jesus!
I know that I'm not the only one that felt like God was speaking to me, through you. I've believed for a long time that God only makes two things 1. Blessings 2. Those that deliver them. Thank you for being both.
Thank you Jess for your devotional today, I needed that, as always. It's good to be reminded about the love of our Lord, Jesus Christ and remembering the Holy Spirit is with us always to guide and walk with us as we pray and ask for His guidance. Praise be to God for His grace and power helping all His children. Through great sorrow has always come blessings to me that were impossible to comprehend and understand. I am humbled by His very spiritual presence. May God bless you and your family on this most beautiful day. :-)
I used to get frustrated when things got deterred too, but now I believe God knows the future, I don’t, so maybe He knows there’s something better, a better choice for me that he is going to bless me with, or maybe there is danger ahead that I’m unaware of and he is delaying things, or moving me in a another direction to avoid that. I now say, Lord thank you for whatever your plans for me are because I know that your ways are higher than my ways and you will bless me with it.
There are no words to express how much I needed this word. I lost my husband a couple of years ago and have had such a hard time worshipping since. I've been looking at the hurt and circumstances, felt completely lost and asking God how? Is it even possible to get where my dreams are and where I feel I'm being called to? A woman alone and almost 60? It's 5am and I was about to pull out my bible when I felt the need to watch TH-cam. Weird right? Then, that's God. There you were. Speaking as if directly to me. Thank you being obedient. 💖
Dear Jess, appreciate your message so very much. I can testify to keeping God and Jesus in the front of our lives. Story.....we were in the process of moving back home to be close to our family. Packing my beloved books 50 + boxes I injured my back several. The moving burden rested on Michael. I stayed in the Lord and the constant message was ‘Do what you can’. So I got on line found a new doctor and scheduled Physical Therapy. Moved....continued in relationships with God’s message ‘Do what you can’. Our moving and finding a new home was harrowing. I stay in the Lord and the message is still ‘Do what you can’. Back is healing, moved into our new home 18 minutes from family.....God is Good all the time....all the time God is good. Blessings to you and your family.
So beautiful , thank you for being so brave as to sing for us , I can't imagine how hard that was , but you really do sing so beautifully , I hope you realise how many lives you touch every day , you have made my life brighter and put such a smile on this sad face....thank you
You had me in tears. This touched me so much. I have 4 kids. 3 of them have disabilities. Defeat is the name of a train that repeatedly runs me over. I needed this this morning. Thank you.
I totally agree. This helps put what we're doing in perspective. It is hard to watch our kids suffer and it's physically exhausting. But God has a plan and if we can share that with Him and trust that He really does love us and He loves our kids even more than we do, we gain more strength to continue this journey. Keep the faith sister. You are not alone. God bless you and your family.
I am thankful for the delays on posting this, had it been posted any sooner my bitterness would not have let me hear the message God clearly wanted me to hear today. Thank you for being authentic.
Thank you so much for this. I know I'm not the only one sitting through this and just shedding tears. Thank you for being raw, open, obedient . God bless you
I did not read the title closely and was thinking it was another farm video. What a blessing this video was. I just keep saying "YES!" throughout. My God bless you as you are transparent in your walk with Him, to be used. You have a ministry Sweetie, it is just different during this season of your life. Have a wonderful day.
Thank you Jess. This is just what i needed to hear. My precious Daughter Linda died on March 28 2014. she was the picture of what a christian should be. Kind loving and forgiving with a strength in the Lord like i have never seen in anyone. Every where she went she witnessed. She was born with a disease that crippled her for life. Her Birthday is valentines day. I have been plagued with Heartache sadness and illness every since she died. I had a heart attack cancer and many surgery's scene her death. Now i face with possible breast cancer. My dreams have shattered. But in the mix I have felt GODS loving arms around me. In every case he has protected me from evil. True I wont ever get to have a real homestead with Linda working side by side as she did here. But in heaven we will run when she couldn't here and what ever is in store for us God will always have my back.
You broke my heart!!! My daughter, 38, has cancer and I cry everyday. Some days I can't even breathe. I cry for uou, I cry with you!! You will see your precious daughter again Forever!!! Hold on!!! God has His arms around you too so believe that all be be okay. God Bless you
Sweet, sweet girl - I love your heart and this WRECKED me this morning. This week one of my dreams died and I have not been handling it very well. I feel lost and directionless and this spoke to my heart BIG this morning. Thank you for being real and transparent and raw. -Brittney, Worthewait Farmyard, AZ
Thank you so much for being obedient to our Father, and giving these encouraging devotionals they help me so much.. I having such a hard time praying and praising and I’m so hurt and I just want to give up.. But I know He’s there and I know He’s watching and waiting for our worship no matter what we are going through.. Thank you again Jess for this reminder.🙏🏾❤️
Wow. This is my heart exactly right now. I’ve kept saying “I will make THIS PLACE an Altar!” Even when it’s hard, that’s what my heart keeps coming back to. Thank you thank you thank you. 🙌💖
Hi Jess, I just wanted to tell you that your ministry is reaching people in magnificent ways for the glory of our God. Your message here really spoke to the broken parts of my heart for the dreams He planted in me as a child and I am still in the classroom of waiting, but be encouraged that your messages are lifting up those of us who need to hear it. God bless you and your family.
Established a place for Hope! That is the message I hear here!!! Thank You!!!! I have been so terrified of Hope and Dreams for sooooooo long, because all they have brought me in the past has been heartbreak. Thank You for providing community for hopes and dreams to thrive!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your devotionals. I feel like you are talking right to me. You truly are a powerful minister of God's word. When you share, I get it, and I FEEL more connected to Jesus. Thank you for sharing all of this. We all experience loss and disappointment. I am a pretty new believer. About 4 years now. But I think because of that, I am more eager for knowledge and "instruction ", if you get what I mean. I think that this devotion could help me to remember to stop when I am feeling sadness, loss, elation, or even contentment, and praise God.
We had your devotional as we traveled to San Antonio, my husband and I listened to your words- What a Blessing. What beauty there is all around while we worship our Lord. We loved your song. It was beautiful Thanks for this devotional, I needed it so much. I cried tears of joy as I heard the words that God bestowed upon your heart to bring to us all. God Bless, dear.
Thank you so much for this. I have been so focused on learning how to be a homesteader that I have neglected the purpose of it all, to honor God in all that I do. Thank you for changing an evening of watching videos into a time of refocusing on God.
I resonate so much with this. I lost my mom in September. I really thought the Lord was going to heal her, and so it has been a difficult time trying to wrap my head around the whole situation. That song and a few others have been my crying out to the Lord for so many months now. I look forward to see what the Lord is going to birth out of this death. Thank you for this devotion.
It is of great help your words, today i told myself and God no more of what i do that saddens You God i will stop doing. I have always told myself no one is watching you and although i know God knows i still do that, and i turned my eyes and i read (public). I got the courage to write something. Why was the word public a word for me, because all that know me have me as a great man but i know that i constantly sadden God. But today i stop.
Thank you Jess, the Lord shines through you! I bless you! Psalm 34 1-4 I will praise the Lord no matter what happens. I will constantly speak of his glories and grace.I will boast of all his kindness to me. Let all who are discouraged take heart. Let us praise the Lord together and exalt his name. For I cried to him and he answered me! He freed me from all my fears
His ways are Higher than our ways! I love being able to look back and see how He has worked in times I couldn’t see what He was doing. It’s always for our good! ❤️ All praise and glory be unto our great God!!
So true Jess, if we never suffer loss or disappointed how would we ever feel or recognize abundance and joy. You are God' light and love. I am grateful for you for sharing
Thank you. I cried as you sang, as I still my miss my mama... even tho she lived over 70 years. The message you shared is beautiful. Worship.... establish a throne in all circumstances through praise and trust.... and grow in Him. Our plans may not be His. They may need crushing. His plans will thrive as we trust and THAT is true hope. Kinda an Easter message.... dying to LIVE. He loves us so and what He leads us into is beauty.... worthy of our love and trust.
Mail delivered. I wept from the beginning to the end of the video. Praying The Lord even when dreams die, and yet even so I will praise His Holy Name. Thank you!
Who is here in 2024? Still receiving Word!! So good and we get a treat of her singing and playing ❤
In the midst of my doubt and unbelief, Jesus gives me relief. When I fall, He picks me up. He is so so patient with my distracted mind. He is so glorious. He is a good good Father. Thank you for transparency, Jess.
I love love love your devotionals, please do as many as you can. God bless. We need to say an extra prayer for those who gave a thumbs down they need more Jesus in their lives.
Our hope & eternal reward of a home in Heaven....Heaven is beyond anything we can imagine! Hallelujah!!!
Your ministry is your obedience to God in teaching the things he's told you to teach to all of us. Your ministry is teaching people to grow and grow their gardens ❤️ and to minister to your children and your husband by being a good wife and mother. There is nothing more beautiful than these things.
Thank you! I really needed to hear this THIS evening. I am surrendering my dream for my marriage to the LORD, giving it to HIM. He gives, He take and I praise HIM through it all.
Jess this is AWESOME. I'm a worship leader and lover of Jesus..I try hard to keep HIM present in all parts of my life but after listening to this I realize I'm still battling self sufficiency in my homesteading dreams as a single woman for twenty odd years. The Lord my maker is my husband and after this I am reminded that He is the one who put these dreams in my heart and if I just stay in a heart of worship and love He will bring everything He has dreamed for me. Thank you for this beautiful release of God's heart to us today.
It continually blows my mind that someone I never met someone who doesn’t even know I exist could play such a huge part in the process of my healing … even your tears spoke to me… And unbeknownst to you you sang with me you cried with me you comforted me you reminded me of the truth that is eating away at the lie inside of me here in the place of my grief loss and crushing … Jess… Thank you from all my heart for being you for all of us
Amen
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for your devotional. I pray that all who listen feel Jesus entering their hearts. God bless.
I needed this today, three years later. Thank you Jess, for submitting to Gods will, and allowing Him to use you. God bless you and yours big time.
Thank you Jess. I'm in my car at lunch watching your channel crying. You moved me today. God bless you and your family for touching our lives thank you.
As always thank you Jess.... I really needed to hear this message this morning. ❤️❤️😇😇❤️💕
Oh My God Jess!!! Your voice!!! This is your calling... you move my heart en strainghten my faith... truely
Amen! Thank you for being an instrument for sharing God's love. Blessings back to you!
Communion with Him is KEY ! It is so important ! God bless you and thank you for sharing >
Absolutely beautiful!! O Jess, don't you know it causes HIM great joy to hear you -- coming from your blessed heart!! May God bless you and keep you!
Bloom where you are planted. God is the Master Gardener.
I loved the revelation of pearls being something you wear, not what you feed others. I had never thought about that before
I just want to tell you how much your journey with God has touched my heart and stirred up my faith. I too love my garden and God meets me there in such gentle ways. Thank you for every one of your yes’s to God.❤️
Every time you choke on your tears, you bring tears to my eyes Jess. God bless you and your family.
you do minister everyday when you raise your children and on your vlogs, just letting people know how you give glory to the Lord for your family , friends and garden and your life in general and with these devotional vlogs. God bless you and yours
You bless me so. I need to slow down n worship the Lord every day. My heart needs Him.
If you knew how many times I loop infinitely more and devotional. My tragic loss of my husband and our heartbroken family...He helped me and encouraged my garden and chicken keeping and places I try and fail and grow food and kove.. Allowing for God, Ruth asks why have you faound favor. My chickens look at me when I sing his praises in the morning and don;t judge my tears. His throne of grace allows my heart to breathe more slowly if I feel broken by sadness because like love if we kn the source and give him praise he can lift us up from any depth of tragedy. Bless you abd your lovely family-Sheri God's love is bigger than our fears and our joys and our sorrows all the fruits of the spirit tgat grow beyonbd one little voice or tomato reninding us not to shorten the hadn of God with our plans..
There are no words to say how you have changed my life in the short time I have been following your channel! I have just started to garden, I started last year in two small raised gardens but squirrels ate all my tomatoes... I have been binge watching your video’s and love them. I have had terrible health issues including breast cancer and then ended up having what is called Gastroparesis after having my gallbladder removed. Then my daughter has struggled with chronic Lyme Disease. It has been so difficult and I have lost my faith in God, but I have rediscovered him listening to you and and your channel has lifted my spirits and my heart. I laughed so much listening to your live stream when you reached 100,000 subscribers!!! I just wanted to say thank you, and I love this song you sang, “Even When it Hurts”
I needed this. I just found this. And thank you for helping me to bring god back to my heart. He lives in my heart. I want gods kingdom.
Your interpretation of the “pearls before swine” saying just blew my mind. Like wow. Your videos just keep blessing me.
Jess! This was beautiful!! I came to your channel as a brand new suburban gardener dreaming of property to homestead. After divorce and financial struggles, I have just gotten my first chickens and learned so so much from you as I watch in amazement for the first time in my new garden. I have found your devotional tab and wow Jess! Thank you for speaking so deeply to my heart. Good luck prepping for the move!!
I just thinking... you have come to those who are sick and to minister to them. Especially right now. Many people are homesteading because they are literally sick from our food and farming. You have a door open to them. I love how God positions each of us uniquely to reach people.
Jess, once again thank you. Thank you for obedience. I hope you peek back at these video comments years later to see that your efforts were wise and lasting and anointed. Praying for your health. Thankful for the wisdom from your friend to scooch you to tend to yourself. Peace.
Absolutely beautiful!!! Beautiful!!! Thank you!!🌟
Tears literally poured down my face watching this tonight. You posted this 2 years ago, but God is still using it for His kingdom now. Thank you for your surrender and obedience because it led you to a place where your voice for Christ has a much larger platform. I love this mission and I resonate so much with you. God bless you as you continue to lay your hopes and dreams down beneath the feet of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. How fitting this time of year between Palm Sunday and Easter. ❤️❤️🙏
I love searching your old videos and finding these messages from you. But Oh how I wish especially right now that you could just come and sit and have tea with me and just talk. You are a truly salt and light in my life.
I have a neighbor, a sister in Christ, named Kay who is in great need of prayer.
She is a retired vocal music teacher who has given her life to her students and the people in our community.
She has been hospitalized for several months and has been diagnosed with dementia/alzhiemers's.
The prognosis is not good.
She has been taken off intravenous feeding and only eats about 2 or 3 teaspoons of a meal.
Kay needs a miracle.
I ask everyone to pray for that miracle.
In Jesus' name, I ask that you would pray for her.
God is glorious and I am beginning to learn that he has an amazing influence in my journey. Sometimes with the loss it is hard to reach out to him. I am preparing for the loss of my husband due to cancer and I am blown away with how God has placed your voice in my life at the most crucial time. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I guess this is an old video, so I hope you see this....
WOW!! Thank you!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Praising God today for your willingness to share this!
There was a season when my world...the dream of my world, completely fell apart. Sometimes those fallen apart pieces remain for many years, cuz my dream world was not an island....it involved many people including little ones that aren't so little now. Even though the shattered world was not all my fault, I am sure I made plenty mistakes. God has given me new people to rebuild with. Thank you Jesus... But I have been searching for....I don't even know what actually.
He used you to bring some clarity for me....thank you! ❤️
My daughter toe about you devotionals....she was right! 👍🏻👍🏻
Imagine I subscribed because I wanted homesteading info and yours were so awesome and then God blesses me so much more, He shared you with me. This is more than a devotional girl it’s a call to Honor Him in all we do. Thank you Jess for your obedience because through you I am moved beyond words and smiling through my tears! Hope their are no typos I’m crying and can’t see to edit!
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Jess, you brought me to tears and greatly encouraged me to continue seeking God in all situations. Praise Him! He is all I need and hunger for. I’ve been so stressed, worried, and wanting to control things out of my control to the point of making myself and myself sick. I know in my mind all He’s provided in the past. I had been so afraid for the future, of failing Him to create and leave a beautiful legacy. I understand all I need to really do is seek Him and humble myself to allow Him to change me, not grow weary of waiting for breakthrough and blessing. I’ve always been a believer. Now is the time to grow my faith even more of hurting to grow my family homesteading legacy dream. Yes, Jess, I am trusting and worshipping in this sacred time. So much of me is dying but I’m hopeful this is a process of healing and truly living in communion with our kind, loving Divine Creator. It is hard process like you said. Thank you for sharing and you vulnerability. It blesses me more than you know. God is good. God blesses us.
Thank you! I needed this song tonight, even 3 yrs after you posted. ❤️
Going thru a time of transition again, where it is challenging to hold my faith that there is purpose to the chaos and loss of a security I thought I had. And to embrace the new scary path I am being led on. It is amazing to me how you do have a video to fit the need of the moment, and how the message here is spoken in different words but is repeated in Vlogs and podcast recently. Thanks for the guidance and the consistent message thru the years.
This was just so touching and beautifully said 🙏💗
Thank you for that God-inspired message of the focus of praise and the connection it is to "seeking the Kingdom of God". The Lord bless you!
I love and appreciate your devotionals more than you know. You are real and you're deep, just what I need. I understand that your words and "testimony" is who you are in everything you do. You can't separate it. Please continue! God bless you!!!!
So beautiful !!!
Thank you for your beautiful messages, God is using you from right where you wanted to be.....he is so clever that way !!!
I closed my eyes when you sang and worshipped with you. Gods presence was so powerful.
"Even when it hurts, I will always sing your praise." Sister, I am crying. Our God is SO very mighty! This has been out for months and I just now find it, when I needed it most.
I didn't know you do these devotionals. I didn't even know you knew God till today. What a blessing. I came here to learn how to garden. and got so much more. Thank You. I'm gonna be here a lot more often. Why am I crying? lol
You are so used by God, you reach in soothe and feed the spirit. Bless you and your family
This is just beautiful thank you for sharing this with us. This song and message were a blessing to me and you have a beautiful voice and are more talented in this than you think. I love your heart, your message and your song. Thank you.
I’m a little blown away that I found this older vid today. We do not share the same faith but your devotionals have deep meaning for me and are what I need to hear today, this moment. Perhaps I wouldn’t be so open to hear it if I received it through formal Ministry, I don’t know. But I do know for sure that you have been called to share, as I, too, am a sharer of a different kind. Whether you share on skills or recipes or seeds or the word of the Lord, it is sometimes a single word or an entire message that resonates, because that is your gift-the ability to share. I get that not everyone will respond to you, or me, or whoever. Remember that for those who hear and feel your words in ways that are critical to their own understanding of the season they’re in, for those new learners, for those old and stuck like me, discovering it’s the death of a dream that sticks me, for those there is perpetual fruit. Seeing things, understanding circumstances in a different light, not a better light, nor worse, but different, enables people to stand up tall and regroup, which in turns effects their ability to bear fruit of their own. You and your perpetual fruit; I call that legacy. My children and I, and the grandchildren I don’t know yet, thank you for it. You are a sharer, you’re meant to share-whatever the subject may be, what’s in your heart, what you think and feel, just share it. It is effective because you are genuine. You don’t know me, don’t know my faith, may not agree with it or me on anything. But when you bless me, I know you mean it. 4 years old and this video is bearing fruit. Keep sharing, Jessica. It will have impact long after you and I no longer walk the Earth. Thank you.
That was just beautiful! Thank you for sharing your heart for God!! That is the heart that connects us all!
Sister! It doesn't matter whether anyone on this earth thinks your voice is beautiful!! God made your voice...He LOVES it...and any one of US who loves HIM...will love it as well. It is HIS beauty....your voice is HIS. I personally, believe you did a wonderfully beautiful job and that your voice matches your sweet soul! Your heart comes out through your words...and that is a talent not everyone can say! Hugs to you! Thank you for this devotion. It was much needed for me today!
Thank you for sharing! I have definitely felt some of these dreams dying in these last few years. They may be seeds in the ground or God may have others plans. Thanks for the reminder that we need Him on the throne in every aspect of our life!
Jess, this reminds me of the day my husband went to heaven. When the nurse told me they could not bring him back, I fell on my face and praised God. Not because I was happy, but because He is good, even when terrible things happen. The following spring, God did a work in me that totally changed who and what I am. He taught me that it is through loss and pain and becoming broken that He is made real, that He is allowed to be powerful in and through us. If in the midst of pain and loss, if we can open ourselves up and allow God to flow through us in all His glory, strength, healing, life, power, etc, this is when we are truly transformed.
Thank you for sharing your heart with us once again. You are a blessing to so many and I greatly appreciate your transparency. Many hugs!
Kim
I have sat before many great preachers. I have listened to bible scholars in College, I have heard countless testimonies from countless men and women about the great relationship that our loving father offers. But... never before have I heard such a beautiful and apt picture of "creating a throne" and accepting God's kingdom government to rule our lives. best devotional on Psalm 22:3 I have ever heard. I am moved to tears, convicted and uplifted. Thank you for being a vessel.
I feel led to tell you how much this video was meant for me to hear today I’ve seen this video before but today I look at it in a new light I lost my husband in October we were married 28 years I also have a strong faith but some days are harder than others. God really spoke to me through this video today thank you for being the vessel for him💜
Praying for you now Meredith ♥️
@@RootsandRefugeFarm thank you🙏💜
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I love your devotional videos. Do more.
Thank you so much for sharing your heart of worship. I learned something a few years ago...I used to be nervous to sing loud in church bc I was afraid I would sing off key or the wrong words, but then one day in my daily reading...I saw something deeper than I had before in 1 Samuel 16 & 1 Chronicles 28:9. God doesn't hear what people hear with physical ears...He hears your heart with spiritual ears. Don't stifle the Holy Spirit because of a fear of what man hears. Sing your heart out to God & don't be concerned about the "right" key or lyrics.
Your devotionals are such a blessing to my heart. Thank you for your willingness to be so transparent.
May I share with you that I lost my Mom at a young age, during the holiday season and just before I turn twelve years old. My brother, two years old than I, also pasted at the same time. But my mother give me the most wonderful gift in those short twelve yours. She lived out what it was to Love the Lord above all else. She told me how much he Loves us and will Never let us go. No matter what, he holds us. Her gift is what carried me through those dark days. God has held me and carried me through more times in my life than I could ever count. I can not even fathom how people navigate this life without Him. Not when all else fails, but first, and in everything may my heart and my mind raise to Him. Rest in His Love, Grace, and Mercy, and He will restore our soul.
Jess, I so wish this was 40 years ago (I'm 58)... when I ventured out into the world and found out the hard way that there are people in the world who don't have our best interests at heart - I was brought up to believe but lost my faith. Since then ALL of my dreams have died, except for that I was allowed to drive a truck for a living, and that has been gone for 5 years now. I have been watching your videos because my last dreams in life are to live the life you are living and to find someone similar to you to live it with. Thanks for all of your videos.
Hello dear one,
I've just viewed your site on your collection of your seeds and the excitement you feel about the planting of them. This I believe our Father is saying to you, "sow the seeds of God's Word, as you sow the tiny little seeds into your garden". When you sow God's Word into the lives of others, it is equal to planting into the souls of the same. Enjoy your planting of the physical seeds and the planting of the spiritual seeds. God bless you. I'm 711/2 from Virginia
Hey Jess I Love Your Devotionals. Everyone I have been privileged to watch has shown me over and over that Our Beloved, (Our Creator) Is Truly Revealing Himself To His Creation. Here, There, Everywhere Across The Globe. I Truly Enjoy When You Share Your Insight. More Should Stand Up, Stand Firm, and Let His Word Shine, Let Him Be Manifested Within Each Person. That Seed, His Life Giving Seed Is Within Each Person Whether We Realize It Or Not, It Is There, He Is There On The Throne Within Everyone. Keep Em Coming As He Gives Inspiration To You... darlene
Great encouragement, thanks Jess
I thank you so much for this powerful testimony. I have been struggling in my worship with God lately, over a struggling 23 year marriage. I hear His voice again and again saying hold on, don't give up. I know the enemy doesn't want us to pray for our families, or worship our Creator.
We all need encouragement from the body of Christ, and I am thankful for you. May our heavenly Father continue to grow you, for the equipping of the saints.
I bless you, and your beautiful family! 💕❤💕
Amen! The struggles grow us. In my most desperate moment, I asked God if He still wanted me, I would serve Him all my days...he turned tragedy into triumph and sustains me always. Never let go of Jesus!
I know that I'm not the only one that felt like God was speaking to me, through you. I've believed for a long time that God only makes two things
1. Blessings
2. Those that deliver them.
Thank you for being both.
Thank you Jess for your devotional today, I needed that, as always. It's good to be reminded about the love of our Lord, Jesus Christ and remembering the Holy Spirit is with us always to guide and walk with us as we pray and ask for His guidance. Praise be to God for His grace and power helping all His children. Through great sorrow has always come blessings to me that were impossible to comprehend and understand. I am humbled by His very spiritual presence. May God bless you and your family on this most beautiful day. :-)
I used to get frustrated when things got deterred too, but now I believe God knows the future, I don’t, so maybe He knows there’s something better, a better choice for me that he is going to bless me with, or maybe there is danger ahead that I’m unaware of and he is delaying things, or moving me in a another direction to avoid that. I now say, Lord thank you for whatever your plans for me are because I know that your ways are higher than my ways and you will bless me with it.
There are no words to express how much I needed this word. I lost my husband a couple of years ago and have had such a hard time worshipping since. I've been looking at the hurt and circumstances, felt completely lost and asking God how? Is it even possible to get where my dreams are and where I feel I'm being called to? A woman alone and almost 60? It's 5am and I was about to pull out my bible when I felt the need to watch TH-cam. Weird right? Then, that's God. There you were. Speaking as if directly to me. Thank you being obedient. 💖
Brave, sweet Lamb. God must be so proud of you! Thank you for continuing to inspire us all. We love you and embrace you for it.
Dear Jess, appreciate your message so very much. I can testify to keeping God and Jesus in the front of our lives. Story.....we were in the process of moving back home to be close to our family. Packing my beloved books 50 + boxes I injured my back several. The moving burden rested on Michael. I stayed in the Lord and the constant message was ‘Do what you can’. So I got on line found a new doctor and scheduled Physical Therapy. Moved....continued in relationships with God’s message ‘Do what you can’. Our moving and finding a new home was harrowing. I stay in the Lord and the message is still ‘Do what you can’. Back is healing, moved into our new home 18 minutes from family.....God is Good all the time....all the time God is good. Blessings to you and your family.
So beautiful , thank you for being so brave as to sing for us , I can't imagine how hard that was , but you really do sing so beautifully , I hope you realise how many lives you touch every day , you have made my life brighter and put such a smile on this sad face....thank you
Oh my heart needed this tonight ❤ Thank you so much for your insight and willingness to share your tears.
I bless you my dear!
You had me in tears. This touched me so much. I have 4 kids. 3 of them have disabilities. Defeat is the name of a train that repeatedly runs me over. I needed this this morning. Thank you.
I totally agree. This helps put what we're doing in perspective. It is hard to watch our kids suffer and it's physically exhausting. But God has a plan and if we can share that with Him and trust that He really does love us and He loves our kids even more than we do, we gain more strength to continue this journey. Keep the faith sister. You are not alone. God bless you and your family.
You're stronger than that train. Your family & faith is the proof. God Bless You Always. Much Love.
Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I needed to hear what you had to say today. Thank you.
I am thankful for the delays on posting this, had it been posted any sooner my bitterness would not have let me hear the message God clearly wanted me to hear today. Thank you for being authentic.
Thank you so much for this. I know I'm not the only one sitting through this and just shedding tears. Thank you for being raw, open, obedient . God bless you
I did not read the title closely and was thinking it was another farm video. What a blessing this video was. I just keep saying "YES!" throughout. My God bless you as you are transparent in your walk with Him, to be used. You have a ministry Sweetie, it is just different during this season of your life. Have a wonderful day.
Thank you Jess. This is just what i needed to hear. My precious Daughter Linda died on March 28 2014. she was the picture of what a christian should be. Kind loving and forgiving with a strength in the Lord like i have never seen in anyone. Every where she went she witnessed. She was born with a disease that crippled her for life. Her Birthday is valentines day. I have been plagued with Heartache sadness and illness every since she died. I had a heart attack cancer and many surgery's scene her death. Now i face with possible breast cancer. My dreams have shattered. But in the mix I have felt GODS loving arms around me. In every case he has protected me from evil. True I wont ever get to have a real homestead with Linda working side by side as she did here. But in heaven we will run when she couldn't here and what ever is in store for us God will always have my back.
You broke my heart!!! My daughter, 38, has cancer and I cry everyday. Some days I can't even breathe. I cry for uou, I cry with you!! You will see your precious daughter again Forever!!! Hold on!!! God has His arms around you too so believe that all be be okay. God Bless you
And through your heart for Him comes His love and beautiful message for us....thank you Jess and Thank you Jesus💕
Sweet, sweet girl - I love your heart and this WRECKED me this morning. This week one of my dreams died and I have not been handling it very well. I feel lost and directionless and this spoke to my heart BIG this morning. Thank you for being real and transparent and raw. -Brittney, Worthewait Farmyard, AZ
Thank you so much for being obedient to our Father, and giving these encouraging devotionals they help me so much.. I having such a hard time praying and praising and I’m so hurt and I just want to give up.. But I know He’s there and I know He’s watching and waiting for our worship no matter what we are going through.. Thank you again Jess for this reminder.🙏🏾❤️
Wow. This is my heart exactly right now. I’ve kept saying “I will make THIS PLACE an Altar!” Even when it’s hard, that’s what my heart keeps coming back to. Thank you thank you thank you. 🙌💖
Thank you and God bless!!!!
Hi Jess, I just wanted to tell you that your ministry is reaching people in magnificent ways for the glory of our God. Your message here really spoke to the broken parts of my heart for the dreams He planted in me as a child and I am still in the classroom of waiting, but be encouraged that your messages are lifting up those of us who need to hear it. God bless you and your family.
3rd comment on this post! Dear God girl , I needed to hear all of this. Thank you so much.
my hope . . . my hope in Jesus only. continue to tell your testimony for others. Praise you LORD. thank you Jess.
Established a place for Hope! That is the message I hear here!!! Thank You!!!! I have been so terrified of Hope and Dreams for sooooooo long, because all they have brought me in the past has been heartbreak. Thank You for providing community for hopes and dreams to thrive!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your devotionals. I feel like you are talking right to me. You truly are a powerful minister of God's word. When you share, I get it, and I FEEL more connected to Jesus. Thank you for sharing all of this. We all experience loss and disappointment. I am a pretty new believer. About 4 years now. But I think because of that, I am more eager for knowledge and "instruction ", if you get what I mean. I think that this devotion could help me to remember to stop when I am feeling sadness, loss, elation, or even contentment, and praise God.
We had your devotional as we traveled to San Antonio, my husband and I listened to your words- What a Blessing. What beauty there is all around while we worship our Lord. We loved your song. It was beautiful Thanks for this devotional, I needed it so much. I cried tears of joy as I heard the words that God bestowed upon your heart to bring to us all. God Bless, dear.
Thank you so much for this. I have been so focused on learning how to be a homesteader that I have neglected the purpose of it all, to honor God in all that I do. Thank you for changing an evening of watching videos into a time of refocusing on God.
Yes Jessica! Our faith is our every heartbeat and breath in our lungs. God is our very life! I love your testimony and authenticity 😊❤️
I resonate so much with this. I lost my mom in September. I really thought the Lord was going to heal her, and so it has been a difficult time trying to wrap my head around the whole situation. That song and a few others have been my crying out to the Lord for so many months now. I look forward to see what the Lord is going to birth out of this death. Thank you for this devotion.
It is of great help your words, today i told myself and God no more of what i do that saddens You God i will stop doing. I have always told myself no one is watching you and although i know God knows i still do that, and i turned my eyes and i read (public). I got the courage to write something. Why was the word public a word for me, because all that know me have me as a great man but i know that i constantly sadden God. But today i stop.
Thank you Jess, the Lord shines through you! I bless you!
Psalm 34 1-4
I will praise the Lord no matter what happens. I will constantly speak of his glories and grace.I will boast of all his kindness to me. Let all who are discouraged take heart. Let us praise the Lord together and exalt his name.
For I cried to him and he answered me! He freed me from all my fears
Thank you so much for making this video. I can not find the words to say other than this video has truly touched my soul.
His ways are Higher than our ways! I love being able to look back and see how He has worked in times I couldn’t see what He was doing. It’s always for our good! ❤️
All praise and glory be unto our great God!!
So true Jess, if we never suffer loss or disappointed how would we ever feel or recognize abundance and joy. You are God' light and love. I am grateful for you for sharing
YES
Thank you. I cried as you sang, as I still my miss my mama... even tho she lived over 70 years. The message you shared is beautiful. Worship.... establish a throne in all circumstances through praise and trust.... and grow in Him. Our plans may not be His. They may need crushing. His plans will thrive as we trust and THAT is true hope. Kinda an Easter message.... dying to LIVE. He loves us so and what He leads us into is beauty.... worthy of our love and trust.
Also loved the pearls analogy. I'd always kinda wondered... and that made more sense than ever! Thank you!
Mail delivered. I wept from the beginning to the end of the video. Praying The Lord even when dreams die, and yet even so I will praise His Holy Name. Thank you!