A Spiritual Gift Turned into a Curse in Disguise!

“I was scared to ask for help because I thought, if I were to tell anybody the things that I see and hear and the thoughts that I have in my head, they would lock me up,” said Ashley Jones. 

At 20 years old Ashley Jones life became a living hell. 

“My health was suffering so bad because I was so anxious. I would go days without eating. I would go days without sleep.”

She was working 18 hours a day in direct sales, selling high end beauty products and making six figures a year. Business associate, Alexa Brown, at first, thought Ashley was building a successful business.  

Alexa said, “She’s successful and if I’m around her I’ll be successful too. And if the Lord put this in my lap, then I’m going all in and see what happens.” 

“I was like hey, if you want to come work with me and make me more money,” said Ashley. “I didn’t like her, she was annoying, she was so happy and energetic and like, cheery. And I was so dark and just like, depressed and hateful and mean. And I just literally hated to be around her.”

Ashley had grown up in church but lost interest at 13 because of a boy and trouble at home. She confided in her grandmother and during that conversation asked. . . 

“Hey, you're more spiritual. What does that mean?” asked Ashley. “And then she was like, oh, I’ve been waiting for you to ask me this. And I’m like, okay, what is it? And she's like, I’m a white witch. And I said, I don't want anything to do with that. And she was like, no, no, no, you're totally misunderstanding. I’m a good witch and I do all through light and love and it's all for the goodness of those. All this light language and I was just enthralled with what she was saying and, and really dove in.” 

What started out as a curiosity became an infatuation with darkness. Within a year she was identifying as a witch.  

“By the time I was almost 16, I had my first spell book in my hands,” said Ashley. “My grandmother gave me a spell book that was hers and on the front of it said good spells and fortunes. And I just remember that being so convincing. Cause I was like, oh, here's the evidence. It's not bad. It's good. This is all for good. And I just, man, I went to tarot cards and crystal protection and healing, and you know, the spell book. Within a year I went from reading the zodiac to full blown witchcraft.”

But there was a price. Within five years her mental health began to suffer.

“The only time I didn't feel anxious or consumed with my own mind was when I was not sober,” said Ashley. 

“I would wake up with sleep paralysis and chained to my bed. I couldn't move my body. I couldn't speak; I couldn't scream. And my eyes would be awake. My mind was awake; my body was totally asleep. 

And I would hear things; I would see things. I would try my hardest to escape these things and couldn't.”  

Alexa said, “I started noticing that she would text me a lot at night. I knew she wasn't sleeping and she was very, very thin. All those things were pointing towards, okay something bigger is happening here.”

What Alexa would soon learn was every night Ashley was being tormented.

Ashley said, “So, I just remember getting to a really dark point where I was like, I don't think I can do this anymore. And, and I, I don't think that I can truly live one more day like this.”

Finally, in a state of desperation, Ashley didn’t text Alexa but called her.

“I just need to talk to you. And she was like, okay, about what? and I said, Jesus,” said Ashley. “And it was the first time that I had said his name out loud since I was probably 11. And I cry every time, every time I tell it.”

“And Alexa was like; can I pray for you? and she started praying over a porn addiction that I had had for seven plus years that no one knew about. Cause I was so ashamed. She started praying things that I felt too ashamed to bring to anybody, much less God. I didn't think he cared to know these things about me. I didn't think he cared.”

Ashley said, “And she said I want you to do me a favor. and said what? 
I want you to go into your room and pray.” 
“And I just said, Jesus.” 

“And I said his name out loud again. I just fell to the floor, and I just started crying, sobbing. And I’m like, please help me, please help me. And it was just like I was at the front lines of hell with all of the demons that were just trying to pull me back so hard. But just in the most gentle and graceful and kind and patient way, I just felt this embrace. Like I physically felt this hug. Oh! It just felt like I’d waited on it my whole life. And like the identity that I had searched for, i'd finally found it. And it’s him.” 

She renounced witchcraft and immediately the need for drugs, alcohol and porn vanished. 

Ashley said, “Salvation for me broke off, I mean, almost every single bit of demonic oppression, all of it. I mean, it just in an instant, he just set me free.”

After more deliverance and prayer, Ashley began to grow in Christ.  Today, married to Aaron, she’s on social media sharing her story and the dangers of witchcraft.

Alexa said, “I knew she needed Jesus, and I knew she wanted that, even if she didn't fully understand that either. But just like the freedom that that brought.” 

Ashley said, “A lot of people ask me; how do I minister to this witch? How do I convert this witch? And I ask, do you love her? Cause if you don't love her, you'll never convince her. It was the love of Christ in Alexis’s heart that convinced me. And there is a way, his name is Jesus and he’s the way, the truth and the life. And there’s no other way.” 

“Ya, he, he showed me who I really was and he changed me. And I didn't have to do that. He did it. And there was nothing I did to deserve it. I was at the dirtiest, lowest, most broken, hardened, sinful part of my life. And I did nothing to deserve it.”