The Mavis Jasper Story
By Mavis Jasper, Puyallup, WA

Seven years ago, we let circumstances get in the way of our walk with God. We then left the church , 
and moved to Arkansas. We felt we were running from the people of God , but we were actually running from 
God. My husband and I have a tendency to do things, "all the way". When you live in the world, you do worldly things, so we began to using drugs . Mainly because everyone we knew, including our children, were doing them . Due to my husbands disability over the years, we were not able to support our habit. To continue our habit and pay bills, we learned to cook the drugs. We justified the drugs by using the profits to pay our bills.  Any excuse will do! Right?  After about 5 years of thinking to ourselves, “This will be the last cook“ because we knew it was destroying our lives , I was charged with forgery.  This would not have happened, had I not been high. Being in the wrong state of mind, I did not pay my visits to my PO (Probation Officer). Finally, he threatened to put me in prison for a dirty UA. So I began hiding from the police. I did this for several months. Then one day , on my way to my son’s wedding, I was stopped, and sent to jail again. I was sure that the judge would send me to prison, but the case was dismissed, and I was free to run again. By that time in our lives, we wanted to move back to Washington to get away from the drugs , and get back with God. Still on drugs , we left for Washington, knowing that a warrant would be issued for my arrest. We felt like we needed to leave, or I was going down.  When we arrived we stayed with relatives. Still we had not given up the drugs .

November of 2002, my brother-in-law died of lung cancer. At this time God did a work in both of us. 
He brought us back home to him , and filled us both with the Holy Ghost . What a wonderful feeling it was 
getting back with Jesus ! To be able to lift my hands to him , and to say , “I love you , Jesus!“ It was such a 
relief in life itself, and it lifted such a burden from our lives . Well, being back with God was great ! Although , 
soon after I was filled with the Holy Ghost , my background began to come back to my mind . Feeling like I 
should turn myself in , we asked our Pastor and his wife to go to lunch with us. We told them everything! Pastor told me that if we did not take care of this , that this would be something the devil could use against me in the future. Well, being the chicken that I am , I thought it would just go away , and of course it didn’t. Last July we went to the SEA-TAC airport to pick someone up . Naturally, we were pulled over, and the officer asked me for my ID. At that very moment I knew I was going down. I was not going to lie or try to get out of it. If anything, I was glad that it was finally going to be taken care of. After all, I had Jesus now, and I was not going to let the devil take that away from me by lying to the police.

Just as Pastor had cautioned, the devil began using it against me . Several times he made me feel 
worthless because of the situation. So I gladly told the officer my name and SS. number. To make a long story short, I was arrested and extradited back to Arkansas . I was able to get out on bail, but I was again stuck in Arkansas. Our church family was all the way in Washington. I had places to stay because my three children lived in Arkansas.  If you know anything about parole, or probation officers, then you can imagine how upset mine was.  He was extremely upset, because I had run , not once but twice from him . What he didn’t understand was that I wasn’t running from him, but the drugs. Never the less, he was very mad and ready to put me away. I know that God gave me all the words I needed to say when it came time to face him . He listened to me as I told him of my return to Jesus, and how I was delivered from drugs . He then told my son, that if that is what happens to people that go to Washington, then he wished he could send a bus load of people there. He didn’t understand that it wasn’t by my own power that I was able to quit dope. God delivered me! Without him I would have never been able to quit.

We returned home a couple weeks ago. After a few court dates , the judge dismissed the charges! 
Can you believe that ?!?!?!? The judge was sending everyone away and giving them many years in prison. I was looking at ten years myself, but God delivered me, even from the hands of our judicial system. By all 
means, I should have gotten 10 years, but God’s hand moved on that judge, and set me free. Jesus set me 
free when he filled me with his spirit, and I was ready to go where ever he wanted me to . I had been 
able to witness to a lot of ladies in jail, and I know that God did, and is still doing a great work in their hearts.

In the last few weeks my daughter and son-in-law have been baptized and received the Holy Ghost.  God continues to minister and reach for my loved ones.  (picture1) (picture2)

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