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I am in the podcast studio with today's Devo writer, Michelle Ball.

Hey, guys. Michelle, I'm so glad you're here. We met Burden Bering doing pastoral care after a service a few weeks ago.

But now you're here in the podcast studio. Yeah. And I would love to hear, as I'm sure everyone listening would, how you came to know the Lord. How did you come to know Jesus? Well, I grew up in the church, and I believed who Jesus was, the son of God, who died for my sins and came back to life so that I could live forever. I believed that very young, probably four or five, when I professed that faith, and then proceeded to spend at least two decades trying to earn my way to heaven by being the good girl.

So it wasn't until I was around 27 that I really started to understand why God loves me, and it's just because I'm

his daughter, and that it is unconditional, that I couldn't earn it, that I am saved by grace

alone through faith. It just helped me understand that I am free from my patterns of sin,

and that all I have to do is know him. That's eternal life.

And that's in my chapter two as well in verse three. To know him now in this life is eternal life.

So once I started walking with him, there were some things in my marriage that we had to work out.

So my husband and I went through re-engage, and now we serve in

marriage ministry, both in re-engage and foundation groups. And I'm a homemaker. I have two kids,

a 10-year-old, and a almost 7-year-old. What are their names? Graham and Grace.

Graham and Grace. Yes. And so since I'm a homemaker, I have the time to serve. And one of my favorite places is

equipped disciple. So that's something I started going through. Tell it if people don't know,

what is equipped disciple? Equipped disciple is, well, it's in the name. It's an equipping class here at

Watermark that helps us to be more effective disciples for Christ. It's based on the Navigators

27 series. You can find that on the internet too, separate from Watermark. But I love it because I

started going through it in 2011 and went through the first three levels and it just taught me how to

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