Life Changing Truth

By Diane J. Rigters

This book is understandable, inspiring, and pleasant to read. It is about a self-proclaimed atheist who believed that God was a myth until someone shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with her. She then got convicted of sin, righteousness, and judgment. So her faith journey began.

At one point, she was no longer content with her relationship with Lord Jesus; therefore, she longed to get closer to Him. Out of her desire, the Holy Spirit inspired her to write about His boundless grace, something she vaguely knew.

She consciously started recognizing and experiencing God's grace. During her faith journey, she began rediscovering who Jesus Christ is and more revelation of His inexhaustible agape love.

The author gives a concise and refreshed description of the many facets of what divine grace is all about.

She describes these characteristics and attributes of God vividly and with such a conviction that the reader's heart will long and ache at the same time to know more about Lord Jesus Christ. She believes that divine grace is no longer just a word from the Good Book or a powerless theological doctrine, but is the person of Jesus Christ, Who restores and changes lives.

The book invites you to deepen your relationship with God Almighty while reclaiming the manifold glory of His grace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798891121232

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Foreword

1: The Encounter

2: The Preacher Woman

3: The Assignment

4: Discovering Life-Altering Words

5: The Source of Grace

6: Graces of God

7: Salvation Always Finds Its Way

8: The Power of Forgiveness

9: Grace Was Not Born, Yet Active and Alive

10: Yeshua Hamashiach

11: Anointed and Full of Grace

12: An Uncommon Act Unfolded in the Earthly Realm

13: Publicly Provided

14: No Remaining Balance Left

15: Highly Privileged

16: Lord Jesus Paved the Way

17: Divine Exemption Is Given by God

18: The Chronos Time and Kairos' Moments

19: Marvelous Grace, Will You Come to an End?

20: His Manifold

21: Justified and Sanctified

22: Provision to Mourn

23: No Greater Sufficiency

24: Some Presumptions about Grace

25: Nevertheless Grace

26: Grace Then

27: The Law and Divine Grace

28: Faithful to Each Generation

29: Divinely Detoured and Redirected

30: You Are Invited to His Banquet Table

About the Author

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Life Changing Truth

Diane J. Rigters

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For great is Your love toward me; You have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead. But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love, and faithfulness.

—Psalms 86:13, 15 (NIV)

The best thing that has ever happened to me is the experience of being saved; it is life-changing from the inside out, and it keeps on changing and renewing.

God Almighty entrusted me with one handsome son and two beautiful daughters and delightful grandchildren.

Our lives have been profoundly affected and influenced by the transitions, transformations, and reformations this journey of faith brings. Sometimes we were discouraged, disappointed, and frustrated, but God's unfailing love and immeasurable grace enabled us to walk through it all.

We have driven on highways and byways, crossed rivers and oceans as well, and have been in some lonely valleys too.

Our heavenly Father leads and guides us throughout this incredible and ongoing journey of faith.

I, therefore, dedicate this book to

my heavenly Father, God Almighty;

My three wonderful children:

My awesome grandchildren:

including their offspring still to be born.

I furthermore dedicate this book to each person who reads it. May this small input of mine help to further enrich

a closer relationship with the God of all grace.

Foreword

This book encourages the readers to have heart-searching moments and question themselves about the quality of their relationship with God and others.

Knowing that our faith journey can be challenging at times, the author gently navigates the readers to understand God's many different love languages He uses to reach each individual. His love languages such as salvation, grace, and the reassurance of His agape love are vividly described as the strengthening and dominant forces in the life of those who will reciprocate it.

The reader gets a truthful description of the grace of God and reassurance of His unending compassion.

Diane portrays the grace of God in such a unique way that it becomes trustworthy, indispensable, and alive.

The content is captivating and motivates the reader to actively pursue Lord Jesus Christ for who He is.

Introduction

He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for His name's sake.

—Psalm 23:3 (NIV)

I was born and partly raised in Suriname. This multicultural republic is located in the northern part of South America. It is a country with a rich historical background. The colorful flora and fauna complement its distinct cultures, customs, traditions, religions, and many languages.

I grew up in the dynamic of one of the most fascinating human melting pots in the world. This unique blend lends itself to diverse faith and belief systems.

Suriname is one of the smallest countries in South America and represents God's perspective on the unity of humankind despite their diversities. The people are kind, warmhearted, and hospitable.

Before my rebirth, I had a different outlook on life and Christianity. In my perception, God was just another mythological figure.

I like reading, and most of the books I used to read were about political ideologies and the doctrines of well-known world rulers.

Reading the Holy Bible was most definitely not part of my book selections.

A small red book by Mao Tse Tung (one of the founding fathers of the People's Republic of China), which used to be called the red bible, was one of my favorite books.

In the long run, none of those people, nor the books I've read, nor the different political ideologies I believed in were satisfying enough to fill the void within me.

I knew, however, that there must be more life fulfillment than what I had settled for.

Things unraveled at a decisive period in my life and nothing seemed to go well for me anymore.

Then, in my search for that inner peace, someone boldly shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with me.

I had never thought about salvation before until that point in my life. To be frank, I did not even know that human beings need salvation.

Besides the fresh air I breathe, I did not realize that His grace sustained me all along. I always believed waking up every morning, being in excellent health, and all the other pleasant life experiences were because of my upbringing, abilities, and capabilities.

A raging battle was warring in me, then finally I accepted Him as my Lord and Savior in my skeptical heart.

Being saved took my life in an unexpected direction and unlocked my spirit to learn to know the infinite God Almighty. This awakening encouraged me to trust Him.

God the Father saw my needs and looked beyond my character faults, weaknesses, and all the other ugliness of my life; He knew that I was redeemable. The Spirit of Grace brings changes and renews life. I've come a long way, but I'm still under the reconstruction of the Holy Spirit and His work in progress.

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The Encounter

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say No to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

—Titus 2:11–13 (NIV)

What I'm about to share with you may not seem to be in context with the content of this book. The truth of the matter is it accentuates and fences in the importance of His unfailing love, grace, salvation, faith in Him, and forgiveness for whosoever is receptive and willing to accept His call for eternal life.

One night, in my sleep, I had a wonderful encounter with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach.

He woke me up and led me into something like an enormous round box. Outside of the box was a mixed multitude of people representing all nations, religions, ethnicities, tongues, cultures, and races.

This immense crowd had one thing in common: they were all screaming obscenities and making disgusting gestures while trying to climb into the box.

I was petrified and covered my face with my hands, but then the Lord Jesus removed my hands off my eyes and He said, Do not be afraid. As long as you are with Me, they cannot do you any harm.

He then pointed to the mass standing outside the box and said to me,

Look around, and see how the demonic forces have defiled and destroyed the minds of these people; he influenced them to commit unspeakable sins. As time passes by, the sins of humankind will worsen and increase to greater proportions of vile immorality and wickedness. My daughter, there are people among this multitude who once accepted My saving grace, but they never really loved Me. They honored Me with words, but their hearts were not Mine; they were double-minded, unstable in all their ways.

It was sickening to watch what was transpiring right before my eyes. My heart sank, I could hardly walk, and my Lord Jesus undergirded me.

I asked Him, My Lord, can you hold me even when I'm trying to let go of You?

He answered, Yes, that is what I've been doing all along. My grace is with you every step of the way. Just stay close to Me.

As we kept walking hand in hand, I could see from the corners of my eyes the despicable and unspeakable sexual misbehavior and other immoral acts happening by those outside the box. It was like they were transforming into the sin they committed.

Under the control of demonic forces, they reproduced their abominable acts like divisiveness, perversion, hatred, adultery, fornication, idolatry, racism, strife, anger, unrighteousness, and self-righteousness. The level of lawlessness, wickedness, and political idolatry is more intense than ever before. Anarchy was slowly creeping in too; it is just a short