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Janelle was born in Montana Music and people are her main passions and she loves connecting with Jesus and connecting others to Jesus through music She got her Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Regent University in 2020 and started her own business in 2022 She loves her family and friends very dearly She currently attends the River Church in Montana, pastored by Pastor Paul and Pastor Margie Arends If you're anything like her, you'll want a deep, intentional conversation so... keep scrolling for the deep stuff! |
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In 2011, when Janelle Sara first came to know Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior at Hill Country Bible Church in Austin, Texas, God sparked the interest of music deep inside her. She had no idea what was in store for her future. Guitar became her go-to instrument after buying one used from a pawn shop in Kalispell, Montana, and she began picking it up chord by chord, teaching herself by looking up chords on google. The same year she was saved is the same year she wrote her first song called “Take Me Away.” In 2015, she dreamed she would have her own worship album, writing a list of dreams in her journal by a prompting from Holy Spirit. That same year she began to learn to play piano and continued to write songs.
Janelle struggled throughout high school to believe she could truly have a relationship with God and spent a lot of time thinking of it as a burden and task rather than a relationship with her Creator. She prayed she would be able to be faithful to God in every area of her life not just on the outside. She prayed for desire for God’s Word and for change that seemed impossible to her.
One day when flying on a plane from Austin, Texas to Kalispell, Montana she was reading a book called “A Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee and he began conveying the Holy Spirit in a way Janelle had never heard before. In that moment she realized she had been missing something in her life--a connection with Holy Spirit as a person. As soon as the realization of her need struck her, God made a very clear promise to her that next year around the same time, God would impart His Holy Spirit to her in a brand new way and bring all kinds of healing and deliverance along with Himself.
The very next year (almost exactly), Janelle was brought to Unisha Arends at the River Church at John Gabriel Arends’ album release party for his album “Undivided Heart”, where she received a touch from the Holy Spirit. God answered her heart cries. Dropping everything, she completely committed her life to Jesus, leaving the world behind. She realized everything in her life had been pushing her to this moment of complete surrender to God and an infilling of His precious Spirit.
After this experience, Janelle finally began to understand that she does have a gift and that, whether she is heard by hundreds or heard by millions, what she has been given needs to be shared—even if it only leads one person to encounter intimate worship with Jesus, that’s enough to keep writing and recording. Not just that, but Jesus is worthy of every song! As her relationship with Jesus grows and as her surrender gets deeper and deeper, her desire to pursue music keeps growing. There's something special about reconnecting our gifts and talents to God and letting Him take our entire being over to be used in any way He wants to use us--for HIS glory and purposes.
Her only desire is that you, as a listener, can encounter the Spirit of the living God while you listen. God is pursuing you in the same way and just waiting for you to give everything to Him in complete surrender, offering your life as a living sacrifice to Him.
Nothing is the same for Janelle. She wants you to know that if you feel trapped and in a lifestyle that you desperately want out of, begin praying for an encounter with God. God has all the power to heal and deliver you and He wants you in His arms more than anything. Jesus died for a reason. Not just so we could have the assurance of being with Him for eternity, but so that we can be in an intimate relationship with Him. Jesus doesn’t just want to own us, He wants to give us absolutely everything. Jesus didn’t come and do half of a job, He came to die to cleanse us from our sin and all the effects of sin--like past hurts and depression. He wants to take it all and He wants us to live in faith that He has taken it all by His precious death and resurrection. On earth as it is in Heaven.
Janelle struggled throughout high school to believe she could truly have a relationship with God and spent a lot of time thinking of it as a burden and task rather than a relationship with her Creator. She prayed she would be able to be faithful to God in every area of her life not just on the outside. She prayed for desire for God’s Word and for change that seemed impossible to her.
One day when flying on a plane from Austin, Texas to Kalispell, Montana she was reading a book called “A Normal Christian Life” by Watchman Nee and he began conveying the Holy Spirit in a way Janelle had never heard before. In that moment she realized she had been missing something in her life--a connection with Holy Spirit as a person. As soon as the realization of her need struck her, God made a very clear promise to her that next year around the same time, God would impart His Holy Spirit to her in a brand new way and bring all kinds of healing and deliverance along with Himself.
The very next year (almost exactly), Janelle was brought to Unisha Arends at the River Church at John Gabriel Arends’ album release party for his album “Undivided Heart”, where she received a touch from the Holy Spirit. God answered her heart cries. Dropping everything, she completely committed her life to Jesus, leaving the world behind. She realized everything in her life had been pushing her to this moment of complete surrender to God and an infilling of His precious Spirit.
After this experience, Janelle finally began to understand that she does have a gift and that, whether she is heard by hundreds or heard by millions, what she has been given needs to be shared—even if it only leads one person to encounter intimate worship with Jesus, that’s enough to keep writing and recording. Not just that, but Jesus is worthy of every song! As her relationship with Jesus grows and as her surrender gets deeper and deeper, her desire to pursue music keeps growing. There's something special about reconnecting our gifts and talents to God and letting Him take our entire being over to be used in any way He wants to use us--for HIS glory and purposes.
Her only desire is that you, as a listener, can encounter the Spirit of the living God while you listen. God is pursuing you in the same way and just waiting for you to give everything to Him in complete surrender, offering your life as a living sacrifice to Him.
Nothing is the same for Janelle. She wants you to know that if you feel trapped and in a lifestyle that you desperately want out of, begin praying for an encounter with God. God has all the power to heal and deliver you and He wants you in His arms more than anything. Jesus died for a reason. Not just so we could have the assurance of being with Him for eternity, but so that we can be in an intimate relationship with Him. Jesus doesn’t just want to own us, He wants to give us absolutely everything. Jesus didn’t come and do half of a job, He came to die to cleanse us from our sin and all the effects of sin--like past hurts and depression. He wants to take it all and He wants us to live in faith that He has taken it all by His precious death and resurrection. On earth as it is in Heaven.
