God placed us all together in his own timing, and I cannot
express how wonderful it is to have such a strong Christ centered friendship
with Jamie, Nicole, and Savannah. Before I go any further please allow me
(Jessica) to talk about how precious and absolutely amazing that my friends truly are, but honestly there are not really words to express how great they are. . . I will try my very best :)
Savannah and I are actually more than just friends we are
first cousins. We were inseparable during our childhood. We LOVED being
together (still do). We spent so many countless hours together, and whether it
was time outside riding four-wheelers, fort making in the woods or at the tree
house, running out naked in our grandmother’s yard spraying each other with
water hoses (haha we were only little kids ha), or playing house with our American
girl dolls, it did not matter because we simply loved each other’s company! As
we grew older, our friendship faded because we started becoming involved in
other activities and lifestyles, which kept us from one another. However, we
never lost our strong bond that we formed as children. During college we became
much closer!! Savannah is one of the sweetest people that I know, and she loves
and cares for so many people because her heart is HUGE! Best of all she loves
God and he deeply instilled into her heart!! She has been such a great Christian
role model in my life.
And here is the second connection to our amazing God bonded
friendship. . .
Savannah and Nicole became really good friends through their
personal blogs. They would constantly comment and e mail, text, twitter, back
and forth about life, love, and
everything in between! Here is a quote from one of Savannah’s personal blog
posts, “My new friend, Nicole, is one of the sweetest friends I've ever had.
Even though we have never "met" in real life (blog friend), we talk
almost everyday and she is someone that will stop and pray for me at any
moment. I'm so thankful to have her in my life! Friends are such a precious
thing.” At some point over the summer, Jamie and I realized that we were all
following Nicole’s blog, such a God thing!!!
Savannah nailed it because
Nicole is SO precious and one of the most loving and generous people that I
know. I have only “officially” known Nicole for a little over a month, but I
feel like I have always known her because she has a way of opening up to you
and when she does I can not help but notice just how much she loves God, it is
that evident!! Jamie and I took a trip to Oxford to meet Nicole, and yes we
took a leap of faith and drove 7 hours to stay with a stranger who immediately
became our best friend! Nicole lays it out like it is, and she loves God so
much and she has the ability to be very open with you about her faith !!
Jamie and I have been
friends since freshmen year of college, we had a class together and every semester afterwards we had a class together NOT PLANNED. Our friendship has grown drastically
within the last year because we share with one another about a deep connection
that lies within both of our hearts, which are our personal relationships with
God. This girl is my support system, and I would not be where I am today without
her constant encouragement and deep investment into my life. Jamie is another
huge asset to this blog because she is very strong in her faith and stands
strongly in what she believes!! I could go on and on about Jamie, but there is one thing that really strikes me about Jamie and it's that SHE LOVES YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE :) !!
Jamie and I have similar stories and we relate very well
to one another, and we thought about starting a blog together before we all
decided to start Fearless (Nicole and Savannah had talked about starting a blog
together as well) obviously God pulled us all together for Fearless, so that is
how it all got started,
I want to share with each of you why we call
this blog Fearless.
We are God-fearing women,
but we strive hard to not fear what the world throws at us. It is through God
we are fearless about our faith that we share with you, but there is no way
that we could stand strong alone. We give God the glory for our audaciousness
to speak fearlessly to each and every one. Truly, we stand strong because God
sent his One and only Son to die on the cross for our sins; so therefore, we
stand strong and fearless for God because he has already overcame the world
through Jesus’ act of obedience to God. God is instilled into our hearts, and
want to share with you in order to be useful to the Master. In the bible we
find in 2 Timothy 1:7 , “For God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power and
love and self-control (ESV), and because we have been called to write we will
do so with big fearless and faithful hearts!! So there you have it, we are
using this blog as our power source to spread truth about God’s love because we
want you to grow and develop if you are unfamiliar the same strong passion that
we have for our Heavenly Father!!! We hope that you were able to gain some insight about love this week, and we hope you will join us next week :) !!!
Much Love to you All !!!!
& enjoy the playlist :)
I LOVE "He Love Us" I just had to listen to it three times!
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I love everything about this post. It's amazing how God makes connections and weaves us together and it all results in glorifying His name!
ReplyDeleteBlessed by y'all starting this blog :)
Usually I mute songs that people put on their blogs, but as soon as I heard the first note of "He Loves Us," I cranked it up! Such a great song! :)
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