Hi, my name is Ashley Emig and I'm 32 years old. I'm from Iowa and this is the testimony of how Jesus Christ saved me. The

The I want to begin with a brief description of my timeline of salvation from New Age to Jesus.

It's an intricate story that when I look back in hindsight, I see God was weaving it all

together in his perfect timing and by his perfect design.

Even when I was lost in the darkness, he had a purpose for it.

The best way to describe it is sort of like a, I kind of saw this image of a braid, and

it's like these three separate pieces being intertwined over time.

And the scripture that came to my mind was Ecclesiastes 412 and it says a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

And when I think of the three four cold, I obviously think of the father, the son, and the

Holy Spirit. But the three different parts of my story are what I would consider life, which would be

before Christ, death, which is sort of like in between

and when I was in new age, and then life again, which is after Christ and being born again in the

Holy Spirit. So to start off my story, it starts in, I could go all the way back to when I was

knit in my mother's womb, obviously now that I have the Holy Spirit dwelling within me and I see things from a bigger perspective now.

But for me, my story truly does start in 2015 when I discovered or found out that my father had stage 4 lung cancer. And for me, I had so much trauma

or what some people would consider daddy issues. So when I found out that my father was dying

a bunch of repressed memories from very young childhood up until that present time, which I was in my early 20s at the time,

were all coming to the surface. And at this time, I'm very unhealthy, mentally, emotionally,

physically, and spiritually. I have no sense of foundation. So my father was my foundation. My whole

identity was built around my father and pleasing and living for my father.

And obviously this plays a big part in my testimony because my father dying led me to my

heavenly father. And I never would have known my heavenly father if it wasn't for my father getting sick and it catapulting

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