Welcome to today's inspiration. Thank you for allowing us to come into your homes to bring a word of deliverance, to bring a word of peace, to bring a word of joy, but more importantly to bring Jesus into your living room. Today, we are continuing with an amazing impactful testimony from our Secretary of Eagle East Faith Ministry, Ashley Durham. I hope that you watched the last episode to hear her story.
It's a story that's very compelling, very impactful to where you can see, for the lack of a better word, a rags to riches story. And you may think that that comes from a poverty level. No, it doesn't. A place of completely brokenness to being in the palace with a king.
Her story is real and raw. So once again, I'm going to bring a warning. If you have little children, this is probably not the show that you want them to see. Use your discretion, but it's going to be real.
It's going to be raw because we're going to begin talking about the deliverance process. In the last episode, you saw where Satan hit her and hit her hard on every side, to now beginning a deliverance process to where now she is calling on the Lord. She's calling on the Lord for help, and we were the ones chosen by God to bring her through that. And it was an honor for my husband and myself to help this family be restored, for God to use us as a tool for their restoration, their renewal, their deliverance, and to watch them walk with God has been absolutely amazing.
It's been hard. We've seen them go through some really hard obstacles, but they didn't give up. This, her and her husband are the epitome of what it is to stay in it and not give up. So many in this day and age give up before they even reach their promise, and they're starting to walk in their promises.
So as we continue, I'd like to introduce to you, Ashley Durham. So Ashley, you in our last episode, you talked about how Satan just really did everything but literally take you out and did literally take out one of your children. And the process of when you were sitting on our couch in our living room in seven hours of just unveiling, but then the next week or within that time, well, you came to church that following Sunday. And if I remember correctly, you were daring God a little bit.
Oh yeah. A lot. And thinking, I'm not going to get touched by God like everybody else. You're kind of that person on the outside peering in, analytical, analyzing everything that was going on in that particular service.
So in that first service with your husband there, and I remember when he was there, the first few services, it was a lot of tears, a lot of the father's heart being poured upon him. And you knew something was beginning. You knew something was being tore down for God to bring you back up. What was your experience from that?
And if you can kind of give us an idea of what your deliverance process was like? You know, immediately, and I'll just be honest, when we went to the service, you know, I held on to the fact of what I had heard in the courtroom that day, or outside the courtroom of God saying, let it go. And I held on to prophetist Amy, giving me the word that God said to not blame myself for my daughter's death. So I knew there was something real going on.
But I went to the church services and I was watching the Holy Spirit. You know, I had no idea who Holy Spirit was. You know, I knew who Jesus was and that there was God and that Jesus lived on the earth and died. That's basically what I knew that he died for us.
And I didn't know the magnitude of who Jesus was and especially Holy Spirit. And you know, I won't go too deep into it, but you know, I always struggled with people that spoke in tongue and had their prayer languages and didn't know what prophecy was. So I was very drawn, but like you said, it was more of Darren the Lord, like, okay, God, yeah, this can't be real. So but I kept, I kept building the pool and kept my husband wanted to keep going to church.
And so we did for a few weeks maybe. And then we decided they offered counsel because I didn't know who I was. I still didn't have my identity. I had my marriage and my kids were happy and things were going good, but I still didn't have my identity in Christ Jesus.
So we began counseling and deliverance with the pastors. And it was supposed to be a seven week process, but it took us about 12. It never did. It's done in seven weeks.
And it was still, it's still a process. You have to be taken. But we would go to their house once a week. We had a workbook basically.
We had to renounce lots and lots of things. And this counseling, yeah, my whole life, it's sweeping under the road and let's ignore it and move on. It's what you do. It's how I was raised.
But we had to uncover some stuff. I had to hear things from my husband that I knew but didn't know. I had to face some things about myself that I didn't want to uncover. My husband and I decided when we got the workbook, we would focus solely on that week.
We would not skim into the book. We wouldn't skip it. That was the instruction. And the one thing about that we said also is during that deliverance process, do not make any major decisions.
Don't use the word divorce or anything like that because there's a transparency. When we say pulling up the rug, it's pulling out all the dirt, the grime, the gunk to get through it so that Satan can't continue to bring it up and say, oh wait, that was hidden. So there was a lot of transparency. So when you hear her say she had to hear things that her husband said that she really didn't want to necessarily hear or know, there was a lot of, for the lack of a better word, the secrets that were kept with one another that was not shared together.
And as you all know that have watched my husband and myself, transparency is a big thing. Communication makes or breaks a marriage. And you can't have secrets. I don't care what any leader tells you.
You cannot have secrets between husband and wife. And that is something that we counseled. If there's a secret, it's going to destroy you. If you withhold something or it will destroy you.
So there was a lot of stuff that was underneath the carpet that it was our job that we pushed them. And there were times that I know that they wanted to hit the door. And that's another thing. We'll stand at the door.
You don't get to leave a session until that session's finished. It's hard. Go ahead. And I want to say also, if anybody is, if this testimony is tugging on anybody and you know that you've been there or you're there now and there's things that you need to uncover, find you somebody that is very much in tune in a deep relationship with the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit that will help you, that won't let you leave.
These people poured hours into my husband and I. There were times that we thought, okay, we'll be over there for an hour till this won't take long and we wound up being there for six or seven hours. And they were okay with that. There were times that him and I bugged and fussed and screamed and cried and probably cussed and wanted to run out the door but they didn't allow it.
They worked us through it by the grace of God. Holy Spirit. Yes. So at one point in our counseling, the Holy Spirit spoke to me one day in the shower and spoke to me on generational curses that I had come from a line of generational curses.
I had no idea what that was. I forgot about that. I didn't even know what generational curse meant but I heard the Holy Spirit speak that gave me in the shower and I said, okay God, what does that mean? Then all I heard was burn it.
Okay. So then I began Googling, generational curses, scripture and then I was going to the Old Testament and Deuteronomy and different books in the Old Testament on generational curses. And I was like, burn it. So then I started going through my house and I told my husband, he was like, well you just need to obey.
So I started gathering up things that I had and I had so much stuff. I think I had more stuff in my home of my deceased daughter and mother and family members and I come from, I don't know everything but I know as I know from that still small voice that I came from a long line of generational curses from my mother's side. A lot of times it comes from the father's side that from what I've studied but this was my mother's side. So I began the process.
I literally burnt everything I had. Took some stuff to my father's house one evening and I was burning some stuff and my husband had went inside with my parents and I had no idea. I didn't know where he was. I knew he was there but I was burning stuff and I was burning it.
I was just like, God, I don't know what I'm doing but I know you tell me to burn it so this is what I'm doing. I'm getting rid of everything that may be connected to somebody who has brought the curse on to me that has been passed down to me. I don't want it. So I was burning it and I could hear somebody in the distance praying.
Couldn't hear what the prayers were but as I was praying I could hear a man's voice praying what sounded like a man's voice. When I got done I felt the release when I burnt the last thing, the last piece of paper, the last heirloom I burned it. And when I went in my husband was sitting inside with my parents and I said to, he said, you done? I was like, yeah, I said, was you over there praying?
And he said, no, I've been inside with him. I know God was with me. I know the Holy Spirit was covering me and things that I didn't know what to pray but I heard God again praying the Holy Spirit. He was there and I was very much at peace and I felt the release when it was done.
Well, and that brings me to the scripture that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father, continually making intercession for us. Jesus was interceding on her behalf. I do want to say that just because you're going through deliverance doesn't mean you've got to go and burn everything. What I will say though is if God gives you an instruction, be quick to obey it even if you don't understand it because she got the peace that she needed when that last thing was burnt.
Why did she have to burn heirlooms? There could have been prayers spoke over there, there's heirlooms that were contrary to God's word. There could have been things attached and that's why she had to do that. God was protecting her because Jesus was making intercession for her.
It doesn't mean that you've got to go through your whole house when you finally have something that we're talking about that you've got to go through and burn everything. That's not the case. Many know that I come from a long line of masons and shriners. I was a Job's daughter.
I was an honored queen and Job's daughters. I had to get rid of all that stuff. When I came to know God, that was the stuff I had to get rid of. I had to break that generational curse off of myself because that is a cult, a very demonic cult in all throughout history actually.
So please don't think that she's telling you to go burn everything that was an heirloom. So what she is sharing with you is the obedience of God protecting her from any generational curse that was spoke over her children or her family. Go ahead. You got into deliverance.
We're going to fast forward this a little bit. I know that in our next season you're going to be coming on more because there's so much to share when you're dealing with three years. In the deliverance, as we were progressing towards getting to the closure of graduation of that deliverance, what were you feeling when we were coming to the end of it? You were bucking.
There were times you didn't want to do it anymore. There were times we couldn't let you leave. There were times that you guys would call us up and say, we can't do this. And you started really getting towards the end.
How are you feeling? The further along the process went, the more I was learning and being equipped by you all and by the Holy Spirit of who I was. I learned who my identity was. I learned that I am the apple of his eye.
I am his beloved and that I was the head and not the tail. And that there was a place for me that a heavenly home is my portion. So I came at peace with everything from my past and from my daughter's death and my relationship with my husband. Everything was coming together quickly but slowly if that makes sense.
When you looked in the mirror, did you recognize the new Ashley? Yes. You did? Yes.
There finally at the end of council and I knew who I was. There was no doubt about it. And when you looked in the mirror, did you like who you saw? That was a still working project.
Do you find yourself looking at pictures from back then and then looking at pictures now? Oh yeah. Put pictures together. Like you can see the change.
As your all's pastors, that's what's been amazing is to see the old and then now see the new and this Ashley has a glow and the joy of the Lord of honor. Did you find that that joy though was hard to get to? You had the peace but that real joy? Well yes.
That didn't come from alcohol and you know pot and all that kind of stuff because it's a different kind of joy would you say? Oh yeah. In the Holy Spirit. And I had to learn also to carry the joy outside of church.
It got to a point where I couldn't wait to get to church. I wanted to be in church seven days a week. You know it was we got up and got ready for church and we were so excited. We could not wait to get to your all's house to have church and the presence of the Lord was so strong and then I went for a phase of when I left church I was kind of sad again.
I wanted to stay in that presence. So what did you have to learn through that? What did you have to learn through that? I had to learn relationship and I had to learn that the Holy Spirit is within me and I can stir Him up within myself but I don't need the pastors.
I don't need the worship songs blasting with five or six people. Do I love it? Yes. It's my favorite.
I have to learn to be in one mind and one mind and one mind and one mind and one mind and one worshiping together. There's no other feeling like it. I could stay there still to this day all day long but I can also do it at home. I've always been wanting to communicate on paper and I had to learn to communicate even with the Lord.
Come on. Just speaking and not necessarily writing or just thinking it. Yes God knows our hearts but he desires to hear from us. He desires us to participate, to activate that yes he does know our hearts.
He knows our desires and everything. He wants to hear us voice it to him. If we did not hear our children's voices it would break our heart. We'd be like why haven't they called?
Why aren't they talking to us? What's going on? Because then we assume oh oh something's wrong or whatever. The father is that way too.
He wants to hear your voice. He wants to hear I love you daddy, you know I love you Abba. The more you build your relationship with Abba the father, the more your relationships begin to mold and change around you whether it be with your spouse, your friends, your co-workers, your children, everything starts to change. And we tend our flesh tends to get impatient and we want it all right then.
We want everything restored right then but if you walk it out it's so important to not give up to walk it out. I can't stress enough how important it is to find your accountability partner. Somebody that you can call it doesn't have to be a pastor but somebody who has that relationship that you can call at 3 a.m. when you're struggling.
That's going to say okay let's stay on the phone, let's work this out, let's come over, let's do this. There were many times after our counseling and our deliverance that you all had to come over because we were in an argument and we couldn't get through it. We had the tools but we still our flesh got in the way and praise God now that we are at a point to where it's not perfect. We still have our disagreements but that's marriage.
At the end of the day we work it out. We forgive one another and that relationship is there. If somebody were to call you after this after seeing this and this is going to be my final question for you I think is and they say it's just too hard. It's just too hard to serve God.
It's too hard to go through all that. That's just too much work. What would you say to them? It is work but it's worth it.
It's worth the work to find out who you truly are and to find out who the Lord truly is and what He means, what He will do and has done for us and what He will carry us through. So many times you hear people wanting you to come to the altar and pray and that's it. Yes Jesus is all we need. The blood is all we need.
We pray every day as a family, excuse me, that the Lord will cover us, that we plead the blood of Jesus from the crowns of our head and the souls of our feet but God sends people into the harvest to help you. So call somebody, call me. I'm sure she would say call her, call my husband. We don't, my husband and I, we don't hide anything from one another if we're helping somebody but call us, message us.
And what was the very first tool, the very first deliverance that we said would be a must for you to overcome all this? Pray together. Say that again. Pray together.
Out loud. Out loud. If you'll pray together, out loud, you can overcome anything because it puts Satan on notice that you are going to serve God no matter what. So what about to the people that say, okay, you say that I need a relationship, it's not about religion but I don't want to lose my friends.
What do you say to God? Friends will come and go. Friends don't get you to heaven. Friends.
Most friends will ultimately turn their back on you. You know, it, you just have to find that, that core. It may not be your best friend. It may not be that right or die person that they claim to be, you know, it may not be that but you know, find somebody and you may reach out to several ministers or pastors and they might not be the right ones.
I have a hard time and I know pastors get busy and I know they have lives but I have a hard time with the ones that say, well, let's make an appointment. Let you know, just call me next week or I'll get in touch with you and we'll go from there. Friends laugh, might be on the line before that appointment. You know, we've often said that when you accept the call of God, it's not the pulpit that's important.
The call of God is what you do behind it. It's what you do outside the church sanctuary. It's picking up the phone and because they can't get through an argument. I'm not saying that we're the only pastors in the world that will go when we need to go but I do believe that that's why we are a smaller ministry is because we'll sit and listen.
But we also don't sugarcoat. If there's an issue, we call it out and Eagle Wing's faith ministry. That's what we're known for is calling it out because we'd rather see you delivered than to go to church for a feel good moment. Oh, I got slain in the spirit and Monday morning you're back to doing what you were doing.
The reason why we're bringing this couple to you is they work in our ministry but they had to earn it. They worked for it. They're continually working for it. You saw our son Dallas.
He's working for it. He's a daily walk. You have to maintain your deliverance. You know, if you don't and you don't fill it with God's word and keep yourself surrounded with like minded people, well, guess what?
Seven demons are going to come back if you leave an empty space. And that's the scripture in Matthew this stuff with me. That came up in counseling about the house being swept and I'm paraphrasing. But when I heard that, I was scared to death and I don't ever want to have somebody scared into salvation because it's not about being scared into salvation.
I don't feel like that necessarily is true salvation. His love is amazing. Yes. But to hear that what I had already renounced and what I had already gone through had I entertained anything else.
I knew when them seven stronger demons would come back into my house, my vessel, it would take me out because I couldn't handle what I'd already had. And went through to renounce it all and get delivered. So I knew I couldn't handle anymore because deliverance brings you that piece that surpasses all understanding that no man, no pastor, no leader that can give you. Only God can give you the peace that surpasses all understanding, but you have to do the work.
You have to participate. And that's why we're bringing this to you into your living room to say, if you'll do your part, scripture says, if you draw an item to me, I will draw an eye to you. What is the alpha? The Omega, the author and the finisher.
Your identity is created in him if you'll draw an item. So we said all this today so that you could be set free from any demonic influence that will be trying to take you out, trying to oppress you, trying to cause you depression, trying to cause you sickness, whatever that is contrary to God's word that does not bring him glory. This is hope. This is faith.
This is believing that God is bigger than my stuff. This is what it looks like to be set free. I hope today that you hearing the testimony of this woman of God who is a mighty warrior who fights flesh like we all do, but doesn't give up. There's hope.
There's hope. Thank you for allowing us to come into your living rooms. We love you, but more importantly, Jesus loves you beyond measure. God bless.
I appreciate you all watching our show this evening. If there's anything, anything whatsoever that you have heard that has spoken to your heart and you feel the need to either rededicate your life or turn your life over to Jesus. I encourage you to reach out to us. We would be more than happy to speak with you either on the phone or via email or however you can reach out to us.
It's easy. We can say a prayer for you. Jesus says to Nicodemus that you must be born again to enter into the kingdom of heaven. I encourage you to turn your life over.
If you need to rededicate, that is also to turn your life back to repentance is simply turning from where is the direction that you were going to a new direction. You're no longer the old person that you are. But you become a new person through the gift of salvation. So I encourage you to reach out to us at EagleWingsFaith.org.
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