New Creation {A Year in Christ}

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

‭‭II Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬-‭21‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

It was a balmy February day in Charleston last year in 2022, just two short months after giving my life to Christ and renouncing my new age practices. But the beliefs —that were deeply engrained after years of devotion to the pseudo-spiritual religion — still lingered in my thoughts, behaviors, actions and communication for some time afterward. I was a newborn baby just sipping on the milk of scripture. I was still having gag reflexes when I would feed on the word, having a physical reaction to the holy text I was reading. I was having a hard time digesting it all, yet in a paradoxical way, my soul was being quenched by the Holy Spirit. I made a decision that mundane February day, as I sat on a bench overlooking Colonial Lake, the water glistening, as I watched a bird dive from the sky above me. It was there in that moment that I had a supernatural experience with Jesus Christ. This wasn’t my first time seeing his resurrected form or feeling his presence next to me, as if a friend sitting beside me, comforting me in my distress, & it certainly wouldn’t be the last, but was just the very beginning of an everlasting relationship with my Lord and Savior.

At this time I still had all my “spiritual channels” open as a psychic medium, or what is now also referred to as a HSP (highly sensitive person) to the unseen places. I still had all my “chakras” open to communicate with what I thought were higher forces leading me and giving me divine guidance. These beings I would call upon daily were still so close at the time. I hadn’t yet made the decision to let them go. Because if I’m being honest these entities that I thought were my spirit guides and my angels and my ancestors and my star family and my ascended masters and my goddesses, had become my friends, they are the ones I called upon in deep states of loneliness and anxiety and fear. They were the ones that I leaned upon in times of need. They felt so familiar. I would feel what I thought was the spirit of my deceased father come and place his hand upon my shoulder and whisper in my ear that he was near. This brought me a great deal of comfort. That was, until I made the choice, that day, to let them go. Jesus Christ sat on that bench next to me and I felt these beings surrounding me. Jesus said to me “you have to make a choice. It’s Me or it’s them, you cannot drink of the cup of the demons and of the cup of the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 10:21)

I was crying out of fear of the unknown, out of grief and anger and pain and pride. My godly grief poured out of my heart into tears that slid down my cheeks, and it was as if that declaration of free will, to choose Christ, cleansed me, washed me clean and I was made a New Creation, the old was passing away and the new was becoming. Like a caterpillar creates a cocoon to die to itself, Jesus was my cocoon, where I was held & sealed by the Holy Spirit, only to be transformed into a butterfly, born again in the Spirit. Dead to my old self, and alive in Christ. As soon as I professed Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior the beings that once surrounded me and that had felt so close, they had no choice but to flee in the presence of the Holy Spirit. I was no longer a vessel for them to reside, they had been evicted and I had a new tenant living within me. My mood began to shift in that moment and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders as my breathing began to deepen with relief. I didn’t understand it at the time, because I finally realized I hadn’t ever really known Christ. I had only known the new age- hippy-jesus, which is a completely different jesus, it’s an antichrist spirit disguising himself as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:14)

That day the spiritual cataracts were healed and the veil of darkness fell from my face. Clarity flooded in like a global reset in the days of Noah and the old was wiped out and I entered into a covenant with God. His beloved Son, a door into a new Way. He slowly started to reveal himself to me more through his word and supernaturally through the Holy Spirit. I’ve always been aware of the spiritual realm since I was a child. I knew God existed, I just didn’t know who he was. As I sought God in new age he always felt so far away and I learned that I needed to ascend my consciousness to merge with god-consciousness so that I could reach him. One of the first commands the Lord Jesus gave me was to shut down my spiritual channels, meaning my third eye chakra and my crown chakras, and all the others. He commanded that I shut down my psychic mediumship channels, including my galactic channels, which I used to communicate with what I would describe as aliens or my galactic counsel. Jesus revealed to me that I wasn’t communicating with beings that wanted to help me raise my vibration or heal the collective consciousness and make way for heaven on earth. He showed me their true form, along with what I thought were my ancestors and my spirit guides. They had always presented to me as people I trusted, like my father or my grandmother or as fairies or light-bodied-beings, but in the presence of the Holy Spirit, they cannot hide who they truly are, they cannot deceive or trick the Holy Spirit like they can do to us humans. I saw their angelic, ethereal form take on a whole new look, they were decrepit, disgusting, ugly beings of pure darkness. They had a shadow like presence that was uncanny and honestly, scary. I couldn’t believe that I was giving consent to these entities to reside in my mind and body. I was repulsed by the thought —of what I believed was my fathers spirit touching me on the shoulder and comforting me —was actually a demon.

Last year at this time I started going through deliverance, but I wasn’t sure that’s what it was at the time. As soon as I chose Christ over the other beings, they turned on me and I started to experience a lot of spiritual warfare, especially in my dream state. I would have mild sleep paralysis where I felt like I was being held down and tortured in my dreams, unable to move or speak. The closer I got to Christ the more I was able to call out to him or sing his name and I was able to take control of the dream and be freed from the sleep paralysis. This went on for a few months as I was really diving into the word and reading multiple times a day, really filling my mind with the Holy Spirit. I was being sanctified in spirit and truth and all my new age ideologies and beliefs started to be plucked out of my mind, one by one.

One of the first ones to be rooted up and removed was the belief I held that I was non-binary, that I was both female and male. I never desired to change my name or my pronouns or to transition, but I did believe that in order for me to come into a state of wholeness and inner harmony I needed to balance my masculine and feminine energies. Jesus Christ showed me that this was a seed planted in my mind by the enemy, a seed of gender confusion and dysmorphia, to keep me from truly stepping into my identity as a female, created in the image of God. Simultaneously I am reading the book of Genesis and the book of Matthew and the scripture where God says that he created them male and female, in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, is convicting me and I’m being taught the truth by the Holy Spirit, about this belief that I have identified with for a few years.

“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.”

‭‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭NKJV

I thought that I had truly come into myself and my identity when I was in new age. For the first time I thought I really knew myself and that I knew God. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I didn’t see it when I was deep in the occult, but I was behaving in ways that were completely out of character. I wasn’t being “more of my self”, I was emptying myself and being oppressed my spirits of lust and pride. I was so full of my “higher self” —that is actually a demon— that there was no room for God or anyone else. I was so deceived by the doctrines of demons that seem so pure and innocent and harmless, but are actually spiritually dangerous. It wasn’t until this past year, that I laid down my life at the foot of the cross, that I truly started to come into union within, I am a bride that’s being prepared for marriage to her bridegroom, Jesus Christ. My whole identity now lies in the Creator of the universe. I no longer have to cocreate as an equal to God, but get to live in obedient submission to the one who knit me together in my mothers womb, who knows me better than I’ll ever know myself, who makes me whole and complete.

This last year of my life I have been continuously dying to my flesh, sacrificing my fleshy desires on the alter of Christ and letting him renew me in mind, body and soul. I have felt the renewal of my mind and my heart being transformed as I consume His Word and abide in His Vine. I’ve witnessed the fruit of the Spirit produce a bountiful harvest in my physical and spiritual life. I’ve sat back and actively watched Him work in my life and through me, pruning away all that is a stumbling block to my spiritual growth and maturity. It’s been challenging to say the least, but it’s also been rewarding in ways I can’t define with words. It’s a soul satisfaction I’ve always longed to feel. I used to have to strive or chase after what I wanted in order to feel accomplished or worthy, but in Christ the work is finished.

Where I once was an infant drinking sips of spiritual milk, now I am a child eating the manna from heaven that has come down to meet me right where I am, and feed me with His daily bread. When I was in new age I was so hungry for the spiritual, yet always starving and never satiated by all my spiritual rituals and practices and routines. No matter how much work I did to attain a certain level of enlightenment, I was always left begging for more, chewing on breadcrumbs that were leading me down the path to eternal damnation. I always thought I was getting closer to God, but actually I was further separating myself from Him.

I’ve never been so thankful to be convicted of my sin and to receive the gift of salvation. It blows my mind and wrecks my heart daily to Know God, not just feel him or his presence, but to truly know him and his character and to be known by him. The fact that he came down to me, to us, wretched sinners and paid our debt by dying a death that was so humiliating and unjust, so that we could be reconciled to him through giving us his only beloved Son, to die in our place, it breaks me into a million little pieces, it shatters my entire belief system and that’s exactly where I want to be. He binds up the broken-hearted, he gives us a heart of flesh in replace of our heart of stone, he heals our spiritual blindness, restores our faith, forgives us our trespasses, redeems us and calls us by name. He leads on the narrow path to eternal life as our Good Shepard, He leads us beside still waters where He restores our soul. In Him we are made a New Creation.

Thank you Lord Jesus

For giving us life and giving it abundantly

I love you with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind and all my strength.

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”

‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭27‬-‭30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Thank you for reading, Ashley <3

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