Don’t Give Up He gives Beauty for Ashes

God Calling    by Two Listeners

September 5 - Progress

And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  Romans 12:2

 
Progress is the Law of Heaven. Higher, ever higher, rise to Life and Beauty, Knowledge and Power. Higher and higher.

Tomorrow be stronger, braver, more loving than you have been today.

The Law of Progress gives a meaning, a purpose to life.

Now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever.    Amen.    Jude 1:24-25

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Tasha Hill
4 years ago today, the Lord called me out of darkness into his marvelous light. I was spiritually dead and almost physically dead. I was a slave to sin and drugs.
In 2016 over a period of 3 weeks I went to 3 jails and was committed into a mental institution. No one including myself ever thought I would be back to normal. I was so mentally unstable I couldn’t take care of my children or go into the grocery store alone. I was at the end of myself. I had lost my children(didn’t have custody of them for over 7 years). I lost my home, my mind and my freedom. BUT GOD.... I ended up in another jail, when I walked into the cell, I met an older woman. She knew me, but we had never met. She called me by my name and told me “Tasha, God is waiting to hear from you. You have to go home and take care of your children. They need you.” It stunned me. I remember yelling “you don’t know me! You don’t know anything about me!” Then she persisted to tell me things about myself that only God knew about me. Things too personal and hurtful to share. I broke down crying. At that moment I had breakthrough. All my life I was so lost that I didn’t know the way I lived my life was wrong. I was so deceived. I thought I was the victim but didn’t realize how many people I was hurting.  I pointed the finger at everyone else and blamed them for my condition. I blamed my parents for being addicts, I blamed my abusive boyfriend, I blamed law enforcement for profiling, I blamed my family for coming to my house and taking my kids.
In all reality some of those were factors but ultimately it was my choice to continue that way. The problem was I didn’t know how to live any other way. I had lived this way  way for 20 years. My entire mindset was dysfunctional and broken.
 After the lady in the jail cell spoke to me I hit the floor and passed out from the drugs hitting my system. I won’t go into detail but that day I had a supernatural experience with the Spirit of the Living God. Fire came through my mind and I heard the roar of the lion of Judah as I saw flames. I came up off of that floor a different woman.
Today God has fully restored me! I have my 3 youngest children back in my custody, and we serve the Lord together. The Lord taught me how to live by the leading of the Holy Spirit. I am free! I no longer identify with being a drug addict, inmate, or unfit mother. He has given me beauty for ashes! I’m honored that he has called me to serve him by helping lead others out of addiction and into freedom! So to that one that thinks their is no hope.... DON’T GIVE UP!!! There is no pit deep enough that the love and grace of JESUS CHRIST can’t reach you. No mistake bad enough that he can’t forgive you. I would tell you just like that woman told me...CALL OUT TO THE LORD, HE IS WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU!!! Jesus loves you and He will put you back together stronger than you’ve ever been IF you let him. So I stand here today, a witness of the redeeming power of the blood of Jesus Christ. Thank you Jesus!
 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony” Rev 12:11