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Jessica's Story
People tell me all the time how secure and confident I seem. What they don’t realize is that I’ve struggled for years to figure out just who I am.
I grew up knowing only abuse from my earthly father. I grew up in a hyper-religious movement that told me I had to earn God’s love and blessings. But no matter how hard I worked, it never felt like enough. I thought I needed to change who I was just to fit in, To give myself away to whatever guy would have me, And to do things to the point of not knowing and not being able to recognize myself. it felt like anxiety, depression, insecurity, abandonment, and unworthiness were my identity.
After years of church hurt and a life I so badly wanted to end, God brought me here. Today marks two years since I walked into Journey Church for the first time. In that time, not only did God restore everything that the enemy had taken from me, he broke the cycle of shame and rejection in my life and affirmed my identity in him.
I can stand here and sing and declare that his spirit changes things because I’ve experienced it for myself firsthand. Romans 8:15 says, “for you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry Abba Father.”
So while I was rejected and abandoned by my earthly father, God chose me, and he calls me his daughter.
So today, I can say, I know full well who I am. Being a teacher, that’s my career. Being a wife and a mother, that’s my calling. Being a friend is my privilege, and singing and leading worship is my ministry. But my identity is found in the promise that my “yes” to Jesus resulted in the father grafting me into his family, never to question who I am again.
So hello, I’d like to introduce myself:
My name is Jessica, and I am a daughter of the most high God.
I grew up knowing only abuse from my earthly father. I grew up in a hyper-religious movement that told me I had to earn God’s love and blessings. But no matter how hard I worked, it never felt like enough. I thought I needed to change who I was just to fit in, To give myself away to whatever guy would have me, And to do things to the point of not knowing and not being able to recognize myself. it felt like anxiety, depression, insecurity, abandonment, and unworthiness were my identity.
After years of church hurt and a life I so badly wanted to end, God brought me here. Today marks two years since I walked into Journey Church for the first time. In that time, not only did God restore everything that the enemy had taken from me, he broke the cycle of shame and rejection in my life and affirmed my identity in him.
I can stand here and sing and declare that his spirit changes things because I’ve experienced it for myself firsthand. Romans 8:15 says, “for you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry Abba Father.”
So while I was rejected and abandoned by my earthly father, God chose me, and he calls me his daughter.
So today, I can say, I know full well who I am. Being a teacher, that’s my career. Being a wife and a mother, that’s my calling. Being a friend is my privilege, and singing and leading worship is my ministry. But my identity is found in the promise that my “yes” to Jesus resulted in the father grafting me into his family, never to question who I am again.
So hello, I’d like to introduce myself:
My name is Jessica, and I am a daughter of the most high God.