Surrender and Follow - A Story of Finding Your Identity in Christ :: Ashley Stockard's Story :: [Episode 379]
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4.9 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Surrendering our plans to the Lord is rarely easy. Every step can be met with questions, doubts, and fears that press in on our decisions. And yet, as today's storyteller reminds us, it is in surrender that we discover true freedom.
On today's podcast, Ashley Stockard, who shared at our Vestavia, Alabama live gathering, reflects on her faith journey and the ways the Lord faithfully pursued her heart—drawing her in, capturing her attention, and ultimately leading her to live with open hands.
Through her story, Ashley gently reminds us that surrendering to the Lord, following His lead, and loving Him above all else is where our true identity is revealed and our purpose is found.
VERSE OF THE WEEK:
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK:
Surrender your plans to the Lord, follow His lead and watch Him move.
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Listen to a similar story: Episode 282- Grace McKissick: "From the World to the Word"
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| 0:00.0 | And I feel like I went from always trying to do and be, and I would build up the things in my mind and the image of what I wanted to do for God. |
| 0:13.5 | But once I surrendered, it was like, okay, I'm just going to follow you wherever you go, Lord. |
| 0:18.8 | And I will say it is a daily, sometimes hourly, surrender. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are gathering in homes across the country |
| 0:28.5 | to share stories of the hope found in Jesus. I'm Katie Dine. I'm Robin Cowen. And I'm Lindy Walker, |
| 0:34.7 | and we are your podcast host. |
| 0:40.2 | Welcome to this very special episode. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't know if y'all realize this, but Katie, Robin, and I have been sitting around this table talking about stories of the hope found in Jesus since the first episode that all of us got together. |
| 0:55.1 | It wasn't the first episode of the podcast, of course, but on January 22nd of 2020, we started the Storytellers Live podcast. And I tell you, it has just been an incredible |
| 1:00.8 | season, really, of just getting to minister and share these stories. And so today is a |
| 1:06.1 | special episode because it will be our last episode in this format. And so it'll be the last time that you hear |
| 1:12.4 | the three of our voices together. We want to tell you that the podcast will continue, but it will |
| 1:17.7 | be different. There will be a different format. And that will come later this fall. And what we want |
| 1:23.2 | you to know is after today's episode, which I can't wait for you to hear the storyteller for today's |
| 1:28.6 | episode, very special to all of us. After today's episode, we will go into a special series, |
| 1:33.9 | which Katie's about to tell us about, that will link to our new devotion book, where Hope |
| 1:38.1 | meets you. And then we will have our normal summer sabbatical for seven weeks. We are excited about today's episode. We're going to |
| 1:45.6 | give you more information after the storyteller and kind of reminisce a little bit and talk. So you |
| 1:50.6 | don't want to miss it. And thanks so much for being here. We have loved every minute of being with |
| 1:55.3 | you. So Katie, tell us about the special series. Y'all, I'm so excited because we've never done |
| 2:00.5 | anything like this before. It's called where Hope Meets You, the story continues, because what I'm doing for the next six weeks is I'm talking to past storytellers, kind of what God's continued to be doing in their life because we know God is continually working. We'll catch up with these storytellers. We'll talk about what the Lord is done since they |
| 2:18.5 | shared. And we'll talk a little bit about what their devotional day is like and the hope |
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