Transformation for Healthy Living: Live in Greatness

09/28/2025

Learning to live from grace instead of works has been one of the most transformative shifts in my relationship with God.

Works-based thinking says:
- I need to pray more to get closer to God
- I should read my Bible more to earn His favor
- I have to serve more to prove my love for Him
- I must be more disciplined to deserve His blessing

Grace-based living says:
- I get to pray because I'm already close to God
- I want to read Scripture because it reveals His heart for me
- I love to serve because I'm already His beloved
- I practice discipline as a response to His goodness, not a requirement for it

The shift is subtle but life-changing. Instead of "I have to" it becomes "I get to." Instead of working FOR relationship, you're working FROM relationship.

This doesn't make you less committed or less disciplined. Actually, it makes you more consistent because you're motivated by love and gratitude instead of fear and obligation.

Grace doesn't eliminate good works—it transforms the source of good works. Instead of flowing from duty, they flow from delight. Instead of coming from fear, they come from freedom.

When you truly understand that God's love for you is based on His nature, not your performance, it actually motivates you to live more like Him, not less.

Grace is the foundation that makes authentic obedience possible.

Repost from Graham Cooke

09/27/2025

Colossians 3:7-8, 12-14 NIV
[7] You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

[8] But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

[12] Therefore, as God’s chosen people,
holy and dearly loved,
clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness,
humility,
gentleness and patience.
[13] Bear with each other and
forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
[14] And over all these virtues
put on love,
which binds them all together in perfect unity.

It's God in me that I am wanting to live my life in this way.

I choose God my Father, Jesus his son, and the Holy Spirit Living within me.
The Waller shovels out the dirt to create a trench where the stones will be placed.
The dirt is piled where it is no longer remembered. The dirt of anger, malice and other ways that I acted in the past.

God forgave me. How do I know?
Jesus died on the cross a horrific death to take on the burden of all of our sins.

Jesus died for me so that my sins will no longer be remembered by God allowing me to live boldly in the Kingdom of God.

This way, the Kingdom of God, is outside the ways that I used to live which are called the ways of the world in scripture. My mom used to tell me "Deborah, you're so worldly." She was a godly woman and I know now what she meant. My eyes have been opened. I now see and understand what she meant!

Choose.. the ways of the world or the ways of the kingdom.

Gravel is poured in the trench of which is patience, kindness, and compassion. Love is poured in as the gravel.

Stones are placed that builds my future living for Jesus' will with love, compassion, and humility for God, myself, my children and humans, all humans.

Love binds the stones together in the dry stone wall. The love is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit influence flowing within and around the stones. The dry stone wall has no mortar.
The flow of love permeates all stones of experience to flow out in space to meet up and mingle with love from other believers in this way.

This love binds us together.

09/26/2025

Forgive, as the Lord forgives you.

What scripture in the Bible is this from?
Who is saying it?

Why do we forgive?

09/26/2025

Our Father.

09/25/2025

There is a revival happening and now people are seeking Jesus or returning back to Jesus.

Revival: a spiritual awakening to return to Jesus for those who have become dormant and an opening for others who have not sought the way of Jesus before now!

Everyone is welcome to come to Jesus!

This is an internal commitment to grow closer in relationship with God. This is a commitment to understand and share the Gospel.

What is the way to build a solid foundation for a Spiritual life based on the truth, righteousness, justice and love for Jesus?

From Stone to Wall.

What happened during the pandemic is returning.

Wait and see!!!
Follow along!!!

Your opportunity to understand what living boldly in the Kingdom of God is like is here.

How do I transform my heart?

Take it slow.

Time to grow.

09/25/2025

Romans 5:8 NIV
[8] But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

It's easy to love those who love us. It takes God within our heart and soul to love those who don't love us.

Jesus loves those who are craving love but are without. Jesus loves the people who aren't loving others. Jesus loves people who are self reliant, focused on self, and justify for self. This is what Jesus does.

Jesus came to change hearts of people to the way that he speaks of throughout the scriptures.

The change in hearts is from self to God. From my way to his way. From not liking our enemies to loving and forgiving our enemies.
Loving and forgiving removes resentment. Loving and forgiving removes retaliation. Loving and forgiving removes bitterness and heart ache of what happened to me in the past.
Only with God and His love can I love and forgive, as he loves and forgives me. I can love and forgive, truly, with deep soul truth, only with the love of God as my foundation.

Seek first the love of God.
When you are chosen to seek God's fulfillment, you will read and be curious. You will begin to understand the words and the stories and the parables.

Read the scriptures.

Start with the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Four perspectives of Jesus' way.

Read Psalms. David prayed the words to God. There is a prayer for all that we go through while living our own life.

We have a choice. Believe or not to believe. This is no middle ground.
Yes or no.

In Jesus's name.

03/27/2023

Heal your heart with love.

You work so hard to be a good parent, to listen, to be kind & gentle, to raise happy little humans.

Be proud of yourself for that.

You aren’t perfect, though. You make mistakes, have bad days, get overwhelmed sometimes.

And then the guilt sets in. And it can be HEAVY. So heavy it can begin to feel as if every day is a struggle & every need your children have is just another boulder thrown on your shoulders & the thought of being able to relax & enjoy your children feels like an impossible dream.

But here’s the thing, you’re human. And YOU deserve kindness, too. You might have some healing to do & that’s okay. So, instead of beating yourself up when you make the same old mistakes again & again or break promises to yourself or fall into destructive habits, set that heavy guilt down (it’s okay, you can make amends later if you need to), close your eyes & silently whisper through time into your past:

"I'm here.”
“I'm listening.”
“What do you need?”
“Where does it hurt?”
“How can I help?"

Then listen for echoes of pain and loss and fear and unmet needs. Let yourself feel and experience those emotions as they surface. Then treat yourself as tenderly as you would a sad and scared child. Offer comfort to that child. Tell them you’re sorry they were hurt or scared or alone or felt unwanted. Tell them they’re safe now. Tell them they can trust you to KEEP them safe.

Healing old hurts can only begin when the children we once were feel safe enough to speak their hearts to the adults we are now. And when the healing begins, the guilt fades, the weigh lifts, the joy returns, and the cycle is broken.

So the next time you’re faced with a parenting challenge, try to remember to pause for a moment & pay attention to the child within you before reacting negatively to the child in front of you. Meeting your inner child’s needs calmly & gently is the key to breaking the cycle & enabling a calm, gentle response to the huggable little human counting on you to raise them into a peace-filled, heart-whole adult.
-L.R. Knost

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03/27/2023

I boldly believe in loving God, accepting His love to change and posture my heart so that I am ready to love and nurture the hearts of my child, children, and others.
Together, let’s change our hearts. With Jesus, it's a choice. His yoke is easy. His burden is light. Live in His greatness and live in love, patience, and kindness. Let the worries, guilt, and pain be taken from you, set aside, and no longer remembered. Live in the moment with your inner Spirit of God guiding you. Be the light to your child! Smile!