TRIALS! SONGS! JOY!

So when I transferred to Bethel I got really involved in music and began pursuing this passion of my heart. Well this summer it seemed that music just wasn't one of my top priorities or that it seemed to be fading for a time....so I told my friend Rachel that I felt like music just wasn't so strong for me this summer. Well God is funny haha because in the last month I have written like 6 new "in progress songs" its been crazy haha. Before I struggled writting songs and then all the sudden within the last like 3 weeks when I sit down at the piano it just COMES...rains down! Thank GOD! I said to my mom..."Mom I don't know what's happening, why now?" SHe said, "Jenna it's been happening, in the inside. You have to go through stuff and grow, get revelation and etc, for God to bring these songs out of you." I was like WOW she's right! So everything that I have struggled with in the last couple of months has been beneficial in the sense that it produced an outpouring of new music. Rivers flowing from within...yaya! I am so thankful to God for bringing this out of me. Writing, singing, music are my deeper inner passions and I am SO thankful that God is bit by bit manifesting more of these in my life. THANK GOD. BUT to encourage any of you out there...Sometimes it seems that you cannot see the light or that your struggles are difficult to bear at times...BUT take heart and know that a harvest is coming, an outpourig is coming in your life! Sometimes when we get most discouraged or you are in the hottest flame of the fire, suddenly BOOM God MOVES in your life and you are changed from the inside out. So don't be discouraged as trials come, know that these are producing something in your life. Trust that you have the victory and the sun will shine again. Praise your way thru those trials and may the JOY of the Lord be your STRENGTH...Praise God forever and Amen.