Lara Love's Blog

God’s Heart

     Did you know God who created the heavens and the earth has a heart? He most assuredly does! And we would be wise to consider greatly God’s heart in how we live!

     Not only should we love God with all our hearts which is God’s greatest command. But we should be sensitive to His heart, not grieve His heart with our thoughts, words, and actions, seek His forgiveness when we hurt His heart, seek His heart in prayer and in reading the Bible, bless HIs heart with the way we live including wit...

Surrender Your Timetable

     “You have put yourself on a timetable,” the Holy Spirit of God spoke to my heart. He had more to say.

     “The timetable is not mine,” He finished.

     Wow. Strong conviction. Chastening to be most precise.

     Without intending to do so, I had indeed put myself on a timetable regarding an incredibly important matter. And just as the Lord had spoken, it was not His timetable.

      Consequently I was impatient, frustrated, discouraged, down, angry at myself, angry at God at times, an...

Tears Under His Wings – a Poem

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a poet! Though I wrote poetry long, long ago as a young person, poetry is not my interest or desire either to read or to write. But what should I tell God when He leads me to write a poem? I do not argue. I write! I believed after writing this that it was intended only for a dear friend, but she quickly let me know she intended to pass it on to others. I have a sense now perhaps the poem might be an encouragement and blessing to others as well. May the Lord use this poem as ...

My Best Friend

      Who is your best friend? I have had many best friends over the years beginning when I was a little girl.

     When I was a child, my best friend was told by another girl she had to decide between that girl and me. Long story short I was left to the wayside. To the best of my recollection anyway.

      I have had great best friends over the years, but in one way or another they always let me down. In my estimate anyway. And it goes without saying I let them down also.

     I love people....

Beautiful Childhood Memory

     One of the best memories of my life was when my beloved Mom would take me and my younger brother shopping for the new school year. We would be given a brand new pair of shoes and of course they had to be whatever was popular at the time. I still remember being in the shoe store in what back then was a small town up north. And we would get to shop for school supplies my absolute favorite.

     Given my exceeding passion for writing since I was a little girl, and given my love for school in ...

God Already Knows

     God knows everything. He even knows what we need before we ask Him.  

     “ “… For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.” Matthew 6:8 NKJV

      But God does not want us to be silent. He wants us to ask. He wants us to seek. He wants us to knock. He wants us to pray!

      “ “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened...

Why Won’t You Forgive?

    Is there someone or even a group of people you are refusing to forgive? Why won’t you forgive?

    Before you spend a single moment thinking about why you will not forgive, here is the truth as hard as it may be to hear.

    It does not matter WHY any of us may refuse to forgive!

    No matter our reasons, no matter our excuses, no matter our justifications, FORGIVENESS IS COMMANDED BY GOD!

    In fact, God tells us in the Bible if we do not forgive others, He will not forgive us!

    Y...

Beautiful Paper Testimony

    I have always loved paper. May sound strange. Not for me. I have been writing since I was a little girl. Paper and my computer are canvases for me to write, write, and write. Just hours before writing this, I was making arrangements with a precious friend for her to bring me groceries as I am in a very difficult season and without going into detail am not currently driving. Though she was going to help with food shopping, paper came to mind. Maybe I should ask her to bring me some paper, I t...

Spreading Love

       Sometimes I am led to share prayers I have prayed. Like this one.

     “God, I want to spread your love everywhere to everyone that people will be drawn to you Jesus and be saved and totally devoted to you and spread your love and more and more will be saved and totally devoted to you! Amen!” I prayed to the Lord.

      Can you imagine if we not only prayed this way but lived this way?

      That we would ever strive to spread the love of the Lord Jesus Christ to others! And to share th...

In Awe of God’s Goodness

      Right in the thick of one of the hardest seasons of my life, during which many a time I have felt like I will not even make it, I told God this:

    “I am in awe of your goodness,” I told the Lord. And I meant it with all my heart.

    Once again God had showered me with yet another blessing.

    How often do you suppose we take God’s love, grace, mercy, blessings, and goodness for granted?

    How often do we not even notice the goodness of the Lord?

    How often do we neglect to than...