February 16, 2024 • 14 mins
Good afternoon my Family. God is so amazing and I felt compelled to testify of a very impactful thing that took place in my life after moving to Michigan. I promise it will be worth the listen. I love you all. God bless you abundantly.
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(00:02):
Hi, family, This is Jesson Jess in the Mess. What a
beautiful day it is. I cameover to my sister's house and she introduced
me. Her and her daughter introducedme to this movie and it's called Lucy
(00:24):
Shimmers, and it's so beautiful.Guys. If you haven't seen it,
please see it, because I justgot done watching it and it gave a
lot of I can't even fully explainwhat it gave me, but that's how
(00:50):
amazing it is, and that's howamazing God is. I wanted to share.
I wanted to share the past fouryears. It'll be four years soon
that I've lived in Michigan with mythree kids. Whenever we first got here,
(01:17):
it was under really weird circumstances andit was a visit to my sister
at first. But I've explained ina previous episode what led me here.
I met God and it scared alot of people. I was fully in
(01:42):
the spirit, filled with His HolySpirit, and all I could see was
spiritual things, even in the natural, doing ordinary natural things every day.
Sorry, the TV just got alittle louder sneak off into the bathroom.
(02:07):
But when we got here to Michigan, my sister told me to stay and
don't go back to Illinois because Ihad gotten laid off from my job and
I was being evicted from my apartment. I was pregnant, my truck broke
(02:32):
down, CPS was called on me. CPS had come and had seen that
nothing was wrong and the kids weresafe, but the situation stood as it
was, and I ended up takingmy sister's offer and I stayed with her,
(02:55):
and she, with such a beautifulheart, let us live with her
and her kids for probably over ayear. And then my other sister had
took one for the team and welcomedus in as well. We stayed with
(03:19):
her for a few months, andthen I ended up coming back to my
other sisters. It was taking atoll on everybody. Two family dynamics don't
belong together under one roof. Imean, it's very difficult. It may
work for some, but it justwasn't working for us. And I was
(03:42):
putting in applications for apartments one afteranother, calling every day, going places
to speak in person. I obtainedthree different housing vouchers, all to know
avail, and everyone kept on decliningme because I only had one rental history
(04:05):
and it was the one that Ijust got evicted from. Whenever I was
first able to live at that firstrental where I was evicted from in Illinois,
I had just turned eighteen, andso technically and legally speaking, that
was my own one and only officialsituation where I was a tenant. So
(04:32):
it was the only thing I couldput down on the tenant history as to
why I was getting declined from everyapartment that I applied for. So this
went on, and I ended uphaving to leave my sisters because it,
just like I said, wasn't workingfor either one of us. And we
(04:57):
stayed hotels. We stayed at afew different or a couple different people's houses
that we had made friends with alongthe way here, and it was pretty
(05:17):
rough. I remember at one specificmotel that we were at for a few
days, it was paid for forus, me and my kids, I
heard gunshots and it really scared me, and I turned off the TV,
turned off the lights, and wasjust, you know, crouching down on
(05:38):
the bed. You know. Thekids were asleep and I just was protecting
them and just trying to stay near. So I called my sister too,
and she ended up making a policecall for that area. That there were
(05:58):
gunshots heard and a man did endup dying not far off from the motel.
So that was a scary situation.We were in these We were in
this homelessness, not ever out onthe street, though God made sure we
(06:27):
always had a roof over our head, but it just wasn't the same because
it wasn't our roof. I didn'thave beds to give my kids. I
didn't have their own kitchen table toeat meals and do activities at They just
we didn't have everything that they weresupposed to have. But God still that's
(06:56):
the thing. But God he madesure were taken care of. And little
did I know, he was alreadypreparing a place for me and my kids.
So I applied for one more placebecause I nearly tried them all in
the area that I could, andI tried one more. They're playing hide
(07:26):
and seek right now, the kids. But I tried one more place and
I turned it in. They gota hold of me through email and they
denied me, and it was reallyheartbreaking. I was really discouraged because I'm
(07:47):
trying my best. I was alsoworking as well. You know, while
the kids were in school, i'dbe working and I was doing everything I
possibly could to make it as normaland stable for them in the unstability of
the situation. So whenever I gotthat denial, I just I got discouraged,
(08:13):
might have even been a little faithless, and was just like, you
know, God, please, Ijust I need a home for my babies.
You know what I need before Ieven ask, And I decided to
appeal that apartment's decision that their denialtowards me, towards my application, and
(08:35):
I wrote an appeal. It's justlike a statement to basically, you know,
explain myself or possibly just possibly changedtheir mind. So I was sitting
out in front of the office withmy appeal letter ready, and I was
crying over it and praying over itand just put all my heart and hope
(09:01):
into it that it something good wouldcome out of it. And then I
turned my appeal in and not evenfour three or maybe not even two hours
later, it was the same day, she called me and she said,
(09:24):
I'm really sticking my neck out foryou. I've read your appeal and I'm
gonna go ahead and decide to approveyou and me and my babies finally got
a home after two and a halfyears of just trying my best, trying
(09:50):
to have faith. I just metGod and then I get hit with all
of these things right after the enemyjust trying, just trying to rob what
God just gave me of him inthe spirit. He revealed to me,
(10:11):
I am Jesus, and I amreal, and I love you. I
am here. And once I knewthat truth, the enemy just started on
me in every possible way he could. But once I got that you are
approved. Your babies will have ahome and you will get to cook them
(10:37):
dinner in your own kitchen and givethem baths in their own bathtub and put
them to bed in their own beds. It was all worth it, all
the suffering or anything that I wentthrough those long two and a half years
(10:58):
of trying my best and waiting andtrying and waiting and trying to get them
a home. Finally God did it. He gave me a miracle. He
gave me a miracle. We havea home now, and we've been in
(11:22):
this home probably maybe almost two threeyears now, and it's been amazing.
It's been a growing journey of healingand just readjusting and getting used to having
a home again. And I hadto get on here. And I had
(11:50):
to brag on the Lord because hedid this for us. It had to
have been God because I was denied, you know. But I prayed over
that appeal. I prayed over it, and it changed her heart and it
(12:15):
changed my life. Even whenever wethink we know it all, we still
know absolutely nothing. Whenever it iscompared to God's knowledge and his wisdom,
(12:39):
I know nothing. The knowledge ofthe Lord is so high that I cannot
attain. Even whenever I think Iknow something, I still don't even know
anything, you know. I justI'm being reminded to see things as a
(13:01):
child does and to believe like achild does. And because that's what I
did with that appeal, I believed. Whether the outcome would have been a
yes or a no, I stilltrusted the Lord that he would make away
and I believed. And I'm tryingto do my best to believe every day.
(13:26):
And He's showing me that the biggerpicture is not what I can get
in this world, but what Ican give, because we don't know what
our purpose is here. And it'sjust like on that Lucy Shimber's movie,
although her time was short. Sorry, that's a spoiler. Alert, but
(13:48):
her purpose changed many lives in justa short time, just as that appeal
was just a little piece of paper, but it changed everything for me and
my babies. So I say gloryto God and I will testify the things
He has done for me and stillcontinues to do for me every day.
(14:16):
I love you God, I loveyou Jesus, and I love every single
person who's listening. Jesus treasures you. You are of great worth to Him,
You are of great worth to theKingdom of Heaven. I love you,
(14:37):
guys, Thank you for listening.Bye bye.
Hi, family, This is Jesson Jess in the Mess. What a
beautiful day it is. I cameover to my sister's house and she introduced
me. Her and her daughter introducedme to this movie and it's called Lucy
(00:24):
Shimmers, and it's so beautiful.Guys. If you haven't seen it,
please see it, because I justgot done watching it and it gave a
lot of I can't even fully explainwhat it gave me, but that's how
(00:50):
amazing it is, and that's howamazing God is. I wanted to share.
I wanted to share the past fouryears. It'll be four years soon
that I've lived in Michigan with mythree kids. Whenever we first got here,
(01:17):
it was under really weird circumstances andit was a visit to my sister
at first. But I've explained ina previous episode what led me here.
I met God and it scared alot of people. I was fully in
(01:42):
the spirit, filled with His HolySpirit, and all I could see was
spiritual things, even in the natural, doing ordinary natural things every day.
Sorry, the TV just got alittle louder sneak off into the bathroom.
(02:07):
But when we got here to Michigan, my sister told me to stay and
don't go back to Illinois because Ihad gotten laid off from my job and
I was being evicted from my apartment. I was pregnant, my truck broke
(02:32):
down, CPS was called on me. CPS had come and had seen that
nothing was wrong and the kids weresafe, but the situation stood as it
was, and I ended up takingmy sister's offer and I stayed with her,
(02:55):
and she, with such a beautifulheart, let us live with her
and her kids for probably over ayear. And then my other sister had
took one for the team and welcomedus in as well. We stayed with
(03:19):
her for a few months, andthen I ended up coming back to my
other sisters. It was taking atoll on everybody. Two family dynamics don't
belong together under one roof. Imean, it's very difficult. It may
work for some, but it justwasn't working for us. And I was
(03:42):
putting in applications for apartments one afteranother, calling every day, going places
to speak in person. I obtainedthree different housing vouchers, all to know
avail, and everyone kept on decliningme because I only had one rental history
(04:05):
and it was the one that Ijust got evicted from. Whenever I was
first able to live at that firstrental where I was evicted from in Illinois,
I had just turned eighteen, andso technically and legally speaking, that
was my own one and only officialsituation where I was a tenant. So
(04:32):
it was the only thing I couldput down on the tenant history as to
why I was getting declined from everyapartment that I applied for. So this
went on, and I ended uphaving to leave my sisters because it,
just like I said, wasn't workingfor either one of us. And we
(04:57):
stayed hotels. We stayed at afew different or a couple different people's houses
that we had made friends with alongthe way here, and it was pretty
(05:17):
rough. I remember at one specificmotel that we were at for a few
days, it was paid for forus, me and my kids, I
heard gunshots and it really scared me, and I turned off the TV,
turned off the lights, and wasjust, you know, crouching down on
(05:38):
the bed. You know. Thekids were asleep and I just was protecting
them and just trying to stay near. So I called my sister too,
and she ended up making a policecall for that area. That there were
(05:58):
gunshots heard and a man did endup dying not far off from the motel.
So that was a scary situation.We were in these We were in
this homelessness, not ever out onthe street, though God made sure we
(06:27):
always had a roof over our head, but it just wasn't the same because
it wasn't our roof. I didn'thave beds to give my kids. I
didn't have their own kitchen table toeat meals and do activities at They just
we didn't have everything that they weresupposed to have. But God still that's
(06:56):
the thing. But God he madesure were taken care of. And little
did I know, he was alreadypreparing a place for me and my kids.
So I applied for one more placebecause I nearly tried them all in
the area that I could, andI tried one more. They're playing hide
(07:26):
and seek right now, the kids. But I tried one more place and
I turned it in. They gota hold of me through email and they
denied me, and it was reallyheartbreaking. I was really discouraged because I'm
(07:47):
trying my best. I was alsoworking as well. You know, while
the kids were in school, i'dbe working and I was doing everything I
possibly could to make it as normaland stable for them in the unstability of
the situation. So whenever I gotthat denial, I just I got discouraged,
(08:13):
might have even been a little faithless, and was just like, you
know, God, please, Ijust I need a home for my babies.
You know what I need before Ieven ask, And I decided to
appeal that apartment's decision that their denialtowards me, towards my application, and
(08:35):
I wrote an appeal. It's justlike a statement to basically, you know,
explain myself or possibly just possibly changedtheir mind. So I was sitting
out in front of the office withmy appeal letter ready, and I was
crying over it and praying over itand just put all my heart and hope
(09:01):
into it that it something good wouldcome out of it. And then I
turned my appeal in and not evenfour three or maybe not even two hours
later, it was the same day, she called me and she said,
(09:24):
I'm really sticking my neck out foryou. I've read your appeal and I'm
gonna go ahead and decide to approveyou and me and my babies finally got
a home after two and a halfyears of just trying my best, trying
(09:50):
to have faith. I just metGod and then I get hit with all
of these things right after the enemyjust trying, just trying to rob what
God just gave me of him inthe spirit. He revealed to me,
(10:11):
I am Jesus, and I amreal, and I love you. I
am here. And once I knewthat truth, the enemy just started on
me in every possible way he could. But once I got that you are
approved. Your babies will have ahome and you will get to cook them
(10:37):
dinner in your own kitchen and givethem baths in their own bathtub and put
them to bed in their own beds. It was all worth it, all
the suffering or anything that I wentthrough those long two and a half years
(10:58):
of trying my best and waiting andtrying and waiting and trying to get them
a home. Finally God did it. He gave me a miracle. He
gave me a miracle. We havea home now, and we've been in
(11:22):
this home probably maybe almost two threeyears now, and it's been amazing.
It's been a growing journey of healingand just readjusting and getting used to having
a home again. And I hadto get on here. And I had
(11:50):
to brag on the Lord because hedid this for us. It had to
have been God because I was denied, you know. But I prayed over
that appeal. I prayed over it, and it changed her heart and it
(12:15):
changed my life. Even whenever wethink we know it all, we still
know absolutely nothing. Whenever it iscompared to God's knowledge and his wisdom,
(12:39):
I know nothing. The knowledge ofthe Lord is so high that I cannot
attain. Even whenever I think Iknow something, I still don't even know
anything, you know. I justI'm being reminded to see things as a
(13:01):
child does and to believe like achild does. And because that's what I
did with that appeal, I believed. Whether the outcome would have been a
yes or a no, I stilltrusted the Lord that he would make away
and I believed. And I'm tryingto do my best to believe every day.
(13:26):
And He's showing me that the biggerpicture is not what I can get
in this world, but what Ican give, because we don't know what
our purpose is here. And it'sjust like on that Lucy Shimber's movie,
although her time was short. Sorry, that's a spoiler. Alert, but
(13:48):
her purpose changed many lives in justa short time, just as that appeal
was just a little piece of paper, but it changed everything for me and
my babies. So I say gloryto God and I will testify the things
He has done for me and stillcontinues to do for me every day.
(14:16):
I love you God, I loveyou Jesus, and I love every single
person who's listening. Jesus treasures you. You are of great worth to Him,
You are of great worth to theKingdom of Heaven. I love you,
(14:37):
guys, Thank you for listening.Bye bye.
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