I’m so glad you’re here! My desire is to help fellow Christ followers have a closer walk with our Lord. I pray that you will find on our site encouragement for living the abundant life to which God has called us.

If you do not already have a relationship with Jesus Christ, I want you to have more information about how you can Know Jesus!  He changed my life, and I would love for you to meet the Savior who can give you a new life of peace and joy.

My personal relationship with Jesus Christ began about ten years ago after I had hit rock bottom in my life. I had made a huge mess of things and was discouraged and depressed. I was alone in my kitchen one weekend when everything I had heard in Sunday School as a child just fit together and made sense. It was as if God looked down on me and said, “Devona, you do not have to live like this.” I now know that this was the Holy Spirit of God opening my heart and my mind and calling me into a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, his Son. I cried out to God at that moment, and he saved me. I now have a peace in my life that I never would have imagined could exist. Bad things still happen, but God provides all I need to face anything that this life brings.

Maybe you have hit rock bottom in your life. Or perhaps you are as successful as you ever dreamed you would be, but something is still missing. I pray that God will reveal his truth to you and that you will open your heart to a relationship that will change your life like nothing else can.

When Jesus walked on this earth, he made many bold and revolutionary statements. One of the most significant was, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, NIV) The Father that Jesus spoke of is an all-powerful God who cannot be fully described or completely comprehended by any of us. Yet, he is also a very real and personal God who created you for the purpose of a relationship with him. Before time began, God knew what would come of every day of your life. He is a God of grandeur and a God of intimacy, and you can have a relationship with him through his Son Jesus Christ.

To have this relationship, Jesus tells us that we must believe and follow him. When we choose to follow Jesus Christ, we make a deliberate choice to turn away from our sin and follow him. To turn away from our sin, we must first recognize that we have sinned. The Bible tells us that the consequence of our sin is death. We do not have to face this deadly consequence, though, if we accept the gift of God, which is eternal life in Christ Jesus. This eternal life is a free gift that comes only by God’s grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. We cannot be good enough to earn salvation on our own.

If you want to look all this up for yourself, you can find it in your Bible in the book of Romans. You might want to read the whole book, but for an overview of salvation, start with Romans 3:23, 6:23, 5:8, 10:9-10 and 10:13; also take a look at Ephesians 2:8-9.

When we get to the point that we are ready to cry out to God for salvation and eternal life, we must believe with our heart and confess with our mouth – in other words, believe and pray. There are no specific magic words we have to pray. One of the most beautiful prayers I have heard someone pray for salvation went something like this: “Dear Jesus, I know I have sinned in my life. I cannot understand why you were willing to die for my sins, but I am so glad you did and I thank you. I want to turn my back on my sin and follow you. Please give me a makeover from the inside out and make me clean and new. I want you to be in charge of my life from now on. Thank you for saving me. Amen.”

If you are ready to follow Christ, I would encourage you to make that commitment and pray a prayer similar to the one above. If you do this, I would love to know about it. Please send us an email telling us about your new life in Christ, and my husband and I will pray for you as you begin your walk with God.