so many people have been asking about the vows Jesse and I said to each other on our wedding day, and i’d love to share them with you all! I know this is a really long video, but the vows start at about 1:05 and go for a few minutes!
thank you again for all the warm wishes and prayers for me and my new marriage.
so much love.
_jacqui :)
I can not thank you all enough for all the kind wishes and “miss you” messages i have received in the time I’ve spent away from Tumblr. So much has happened and i cannot wait to share with all of you the amazing things God has been doing in my life!
For starters I am MARRIED! It still sounds so crazy to me. So many of you have been asking about the big day, and I would love to share everything i can with you.
Wish i had more time but for now a quick hello and i love you, and some pictures of the big day!
peace and love in abundance to you all <3
Let me see what he longed to see.
Lately it’s been back to the basics for me, and I’ve really beed meditating on the story of Moses lately. So much has been revealed to me through the same story I’ve heard a million times.
The Word says that Moses was the most humble man on the planet (numbers 12:3), and begged to see the glory of God even though he knew it could be detrimental to himself (Exodus 33:20). Moses wanted the presence of the Lord more than he wanted life. And God could not deny that kind of hunger. And God showed Moses His glory. or His goodness (Exodus 33:19). God is so eager to show us His goodness now, imagine the glory of God that we would witness in our lifetime if we lived with such longing for the Lord’s presence like Moses!!!
Perhaps my favorite part of the story of Moses is the part that we hear most around church. 5 simple words that truly explain who God is in our lives. “I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14). God is indescribable. It’s impossible to label Him as this, or that, because He is everything we need.
In need of healing? God is healer.
In need of provision? Gos is provider.
He is satisfier, friend, father, lover. In all and of all.
Thats what I love so much about God. The enemy has spent 21 years of my life shouting his lies in my ear. I’m not good enough, pretty enough, talented enough. I’m not loved, abandoned, alone. But with these 5 words I am reminded that I am enough, I have enough, and I will never be inadequate or in need when i have the grea I AM inside me. The same power that brought Jesus back from the dead lives inside of US. We have complete victory over the enemy and his lies.
Let us not stay at a distance. Lord, make us like Moses and help us to press on to see Your glory, to know Your GOODNESS.
be blessed friends <3
was one of the hardest days i’ve had in a long timeee.
As many of you may know, my dad was an addict/alcoholic for many years of his life. By the grace of God, he was cured of his addictions about 7 years ago, and never once picked up a drink or drug since then… until—
Today, my dad showed up at my older brother, Jeremy’s, apartment completley intoxicated. My mom had him put into a detox center right away, and he is now going to be spending 30 days in a rehab facility.
I don’t know what triggered my dad to pick up a drink today. I don’t think i ever will. But i am praying that he will once again offer this up to God and accept God’s will over his life. Please, please, please spend a minute praying for my dad and my family if you have the time.
be blessed <3
I’m not quite sure who. But I have the overwhelming feeling that this if for someone here, so i’m just going to leave it here and rely on God for the rest.
Tonight, God showed me a picture of a balloon. One red balloon, floating high above the clouds and continuing up, up, and away. Nothing to weigh it down, to keep in on Earth. That is exactly how God wants us to be. He has already broken the chains that hold us to this world, lifted the things that weigh us down. But we buy into the things that keep us feeling heavy.
the L I E S.
Every struggle, every addiction, every obsessive thought and action. We need to see these as they really are; illusions from the enemy, who does not want us to reach our full potnetial in Christ.
But God has other plans for us. And He spoke to me so clearly about that tonight.
“I’m going to cause you to be one who is like a lantern to many people, full of the oil and the annointing of God, full of the presence of God…I’m going to use you to be one that speaks words of hope…that leads people unto their Savior…I’m going to use you as a worshipper in my house…I’m going to cause you to have healing flow from your hands concerning those who have been disappointed and those who have been wounded and those that have been broken…I’m going to cause you to have an anointing to be a strength and a word of life and bring light unto those that are in darkness and those that have been wounded and broken…I’m going to cause you to be one who is successful in both the natural and the spiritual. I’m going to cause your words to have influence…I will situate you in a place where people will begin to notice that there is something different about you…I would have you to know that I have a plan for you even in your future adventures in the Kingdom of the Lord…there will be seasons and doors that I will open up to you…you will say Lord could it be? and I will use you in the realm of worship, there’s an anointing…you’re going to bloom in the things of the Lord and there’s going to come a greater confidence and a greater expression of all that you have inside you…I have a plan for you and for your future.. you shall not walk alone, I have a plan. You need to trust me…and you’re going to stand with new strength, you’re going to stand in new courage, you’re going to accomplish things and finish things that you thought you never could. matter of fact, you’re really beneath your potential. even what you’re trying to do right now and what you’ve planned to do, it’s beneath your potential. There’s so much more in you, child, and so much more the Lord wants to do with you…you’re not going to fail, you’re going to succeed. You believe the word of the Lord, and you’re going to see the good things of God come to pass for you…”
Praying for each and every one of you tonight <3
Got the chance to play and sing at a youth group tonight, and it was such a blessing. During worship God just focused my heart on a young girl in the front row. After the service I just let her know what i felt God had put in my heart to say to her, and we had a great moment together. God is so awesome to me. He has never, ever, needed a single person in order to do anything, yet he choses us to do extraordinary things in His name.
God has always used “whimps”. Nobody’s and nothings. People who ran from Him and others who blasphemed against Him, to do great things in His name.
And I really never understood why until tonight. I am nothing. A nobody. So when i spoke that word over that girl and when she told me it was exactly what she needed to hear, what she’d been feeling for the longest time, she HAD to know that was all the work of God.
Tongiht, I got to pray with a young girl who had given up on ever truly knowing the God who loved and made her, and got to hear he pray as she asked God into her heart as the LORD of her lifeee! And I couldn’t feel more blessed to have been chosen as the “nobody” who got to play a small part in God’s amazing story.
