Introduction: Grace Changed Everything

God's grace reaches through time and space, and without the grace of God life would look much different. Looking back through my life there is not a moment that the grace of God did not touch my life. Even before I accepted Jesus as my Savior His fingerprints were all over my life. Every breath we take is a gift from God; every heartbeat is music to God’s ears: life is not an accident. God's fingerprints are on every cell of creation. 

My name is Christy. I’m a mom of three wonderful girls and a wife to the most amazing husband I could ask for. My life has not always been this way though. It wasn’t until December 2009 that I gave my heart to Jesus. I was saved by the grace of God and my whole life changed! I soon realized I had so much to learn. As much as I would like to say that I learned it quickly, unfortunately, that is not the case. I went from being a girl who was all about me to a girl who desperately cried out to God. I wanted so badly for my husband and children to experience this beautiful gift that I had received. The gift of salvation. 

I started praying for my children and husband to be saved and within a few years, my girls were all saved. My husband was an altogether different story. This is when things started to change and my prayer journey started to sprout. God planted a seed in my heart for prayer that continued to change my life in ways I still can’t fully explain today. I continued to pray for my husband while learning all that I could about prayer. This journey was not easy. I have walked through many trials but through each one, I learned more and more about Jesus and His love for me. 

In 2017 I got sick, really sick! It was the lowest, darkest time in my life. I feared I would not live to see my husband saved. I was ready to go home to be with Jesus if it was my time to go, but I was beyond broken for my husband's soul. 

As I lay staring at the ceiling one day my heart was in a million pieces. I thought back on everything I had learned about prayer from the time I got saved. I refused to give up. I knew I could pray even if I took my last breath to do so. I knew there was power in prayer that I had only scratched the surface of so I decided to try knocking on heaven's door a different way. From that moment, I cried out to God with everything I had in me. I continued to cry out to God with all the boldness I could muster and I slowly started to get better. I was finally able to get up out of that chair and walk normally again. I continued on in prayer walking the floors of my house and praying for my husband to be saved. 

Then one morning during the week of our homecoming revival at Rubyville Community Church God put a different urgency in my heart to pray for my husband. This urgency was greater than I had ever felt before as I walked the hallway of my home in prayer. I cried out, “Whatever it takes Lord, save him. God, please save my husband!” I screamed at the devil and told him “You can’t have my husband! He is not yours; he is God’s because I have prayed for him; I have pled the blood of Jesus over him, and God hears all of my prayers. God is not willing that any should perish, including my husband. I will never give up! Do you hear me? He will be saved in Jesus’ Name!” 

My husband finally gave his heart to Jesus that same week on October 9th, 2018 at that homecoming revival and my prayer journey has continued to grow from there. God's grace changed everything.

I love Jesus with all of my heart and my heart’s desire is for everyone who reads this to fall in love with Jesus as I have. I pray that everyone who reads this book finds the hope, encouragement, conviction, strength, peace, love, patience, endurance, mercy, and most importantly great grace and forgiveness that can only be found in Jesus Christ. He is the one who died to make a way for us to be free from sin and spend eternity with Him. Journey with me and get to know Jesus. He is amazing!

Thank You, Lord, for Your blessings on me!

Love and many prayers, Christy.

Scripture: 

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

Ephesians 2:8 

“that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:9-10

“Our praying needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage that never fails.” 

― E.M. Bounds

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