Lean into Jesus Ministries sends a big “thank you” to Jordanna Lacy Rowley for allowing us to share her story today.
Jordanna has many gifts. Perhaps my favorite is her beautiful voice. When she sings, it is as I imagine the voices of angels of heaven. Her life’s journey has been filled with ups and downs. The enemy relentlessly tried to silence her, but we praise God that He continues to call her name and claim her as His own. Jordanna presses on to fight the battle and trusts God to help her with the challenges of each day. I love her quote, “Every time I give the Lord my ashes, He gives me His beauty. It is a promise I can stand on.”
Would you please join me in prayer for Jordanna and all daughters and sons battling addiction? Would you also remember the families who love them dearly and long to see them healthy and whole?
You are in our prayers, Jordanna. We look forward to seeing God’s power demonstrated in your healing.
Who Am I?
I had been gone from home to treatment for about a week the first time I heard the voice of God. I was out in the animal pen, giving worming meds to the sheep at the treatment center. Tieing the sheep up with a lead rope while managing to give them the meds proved to be a lot for me to handle. The last sheep escaped into the big pasture with the rope still around its neck.
That sheep ran from me for the better part of two hours. Every time I would get close to the sheep, it would bolt to the left or right. I knew he could get hurt or even killed if that rope got hung up on anything, and I was getting very frustrated because I was worried about the sheep.
“BE STILL and let Me get the chains off” was suddenly all I could hear. A picture of how my wandering around in bondage was going to kill me and what that looks like to God has never been clearer.
After about thirty days, I transferred to Hosanna Home for a period of restoration. My situation is not as hopeless as it felt, and after some time, the love of God has once again begun mending all of the broken pieces of my heart. Every time I give the Lord my ashes, He gives me His beauty. It is a promise I can stand on.
Every day is a waltz with my Savior, who has once again set me free from myself. My chains are gone.
About two weeks ago, I was sitting in devotion, and we were discussing identity. Who am I? It’s a question that I have not had an answer to as of late. If I am not a worship leader, a ministry director, a wife, then who am I? As it got closer to the time for me to share, I heard the answer deep in my soul, heart, and head. The sentence took my breath.
“I call you beloved.” -God.
Wrapped in gentleness and love, the Father once again has given me hope for the future, a freedom from the past, and loosed the shame and worthlessness I have been wearing as identity.
He told me who I am:
I am His. I am Abba’s child.
Thank you to everyone who has prayed, supported my family and friends, and believed in my healing when I couldn’t believe it myself. I am going back to Hosanna Home to finish the time of restoration, and then, well, I don’t know what the future will look like. But I know this, as long as I am following the Lord’s voice, it will be better than I ever could have imagined.
Jordanna Lacy Rowley
Guest Writer
Lean into Jesus Ministries