From the Muck to the Mighty; My Journey with Jesus

Testimony time!!! Let’s talk about sowing and reaping.  I remember coming back from a mission trip to Mexico back in 2021, I was single at the time, and remember shopping in the little shops before we headed home. I clearly heard the Lord telling me that I needed a ring on my finger from Him but I didn’t find one there.  I didn’t have a lot of money at the time and I told the Lord, Jesus I want what you want but I’m not spending a ton. I can’t. I remember Him months later leading me to overstock one random day, and I found the perfect London blue topaz ring. It was rose gold with a halo and diamonds down the side. The kicker was it was the exact price I told the Lord I could pay.   I got that ring and fell in love with it. It was perfect for me. It reminded me of the Lords “oceans deep” love and I wore it religiously. I didn’t have it long, not long at all when I went to a friend’s ministry event.  At that event I clearly heard the Lord telling me to give that ring a...

   One of my favorite aspects of this walk with the Lord are the spontaneous ways that we are led to just what we need, exactly when we need it. This weekend we were led to a church where the beautiful Emma Stark was holding a conference. In that room during worship the Holy Spirit fell so thick I could barely stand. In that room were people that joyfully received me with hugs and people I honestly thought I'd never run into again. And in that room, when the Lord showed up, it didn't matter one bit who was there. That room filled with so much love, so much joy and so much of His purifying presence that everything else ceased to exist. In that moment, I felt the Lord healing a part of my heart that I didn't realize was still cracked open and bleeding. I heard Jesus softly whisper in my ear, "It doesn't matter, Ash." and with that sentence the fear of man was uprooted and pulled out of my heart by the hand of Jesus himself. I think this is the part of healing th...

  The Lord is calling you. He's calling you deeper. He's calling you higher. He's calling you to become more of His and less of what this world calls "Christian" and gets away with. He's calling you, to gather all the broken pieces of the past and He is leading you, to help you put them back together again.  This morning during worship the Lord led me to an open field. There was a half broken down stage like the aftermath of a weekend music festival. I was walking the disheveled grounds kicking through trash and broken down campsites. So much mess left behind without a care or thought in the world. Our pasts can feel the same. So much junk, so much carnage, so much chaos left behind.  I grabbed a large trash bag and began cleaning. As I continued to gather things up, the ground was transforming. The season was shifting. The air felt lighter, the leaves in the surrounding trees began to change and a fresh autumn breeze began to blow through the field. As the la...