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Faithful Sheep

What do FAITHFUL SHEEP do? HEAR and ARE KNOWN and KNOW and FOLLOW! Hallelujah, oh yes! Please consider this verse:

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” John 10:27 KJV

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” John 17:3 KJV

The Lord Jesus Christ is our loving GOOD SHEPHERD. We who have turned from our sins and believe in Him as Lord and in His death and resurrection and turned to God and His ways and h...

Time to Say Sorry

I had the privilege, yes privilege, of saying sorry to someone I had hurt. I had mishandled a situation months earlier and hurt someone in the process. It wasn’t intentional. I had ben caught off guard with something and reacted quickly without seeking the Lord. I hadn’t just hurt her. I had likely hurt her husband whom she had recently married not to mention upset a group in which several of us had become involved. Though I had apologized to her and her husband through him, I had not until then...

Another Update from Lara

By God’s grace, I arrived safe & sound with my special needs ministry doggies at my New Jersey hotel just outside of New York City as my latest location on the road for Jesus. I will be in the area for as short or as long as the Lord wants. He has greatly impressed upon me that this little season is for time alone with Him seeking Him, praying to Him, waiting on Him, hearing Him; for more changes in my ministry as He has already led me to some significant ones; for going into New York City to so...

Update & Prayer Request – My Next Locat

Dear friend,

Today, Lord willing, I am headed to New York City as my next location on the road for Jesus with my special needs ministry dogs. I will be staying in New Jersey just outside the city until the Lord gives me further directions. I may be in the area for as little as a day or a week, for months, or for however long the Lord desires. I have prayed for a very long time about this and am clear God is sending me now. This follows three months of very intense, powerful, and beautiful minist...

*** Please note sometimes people read my Update & Pra...

*** Please note sometimes people read my Update & Prayer Requests and send me criticism and advice that is not based on the Lord’s will but instead on their personal opinions apart from God and the Bible. Best for me please would be to simply pray, and Bible verses and godly wisdom based on Scriptures is welcome when people are very clear the Lord has placed something on their heart to share. Thank you so much! Right now, ongoing prayer would be the greatest blessing! ***

Dear Friend,

I haven’t ...

Loving Mean People

I have been on both sides of the fence when it comes to meanness. I used to have a problem with meanness until the Lord set me straight. Now, when once in a rare while I fall into meanness, God leads me swiftly to repentance. Most of the time now, I am not the one being mean. I’m on the receiving end of meanness. Which, quite frankly, I have been on and off of for years. Only difference now is I respond much differently to meanness. Instead of jumping onto the battlefield with a hurt, angry, pri...

Message to God’s Sheep

“I am your Shepherd,” the Holy Spirit reminded me as He spoke to my heart. “You are my sheep.”

He continued. “Do not lead.”

Was He done? No. There was more. “I am the Shepherd,” He said.

There was more still, but enough said for this message.

The Lord is the Great Shepherd. He is the Good Shepherd. He is THE Shepherd to those who repent, turn to Him as Lord, believe in His death and resurrection, and devote their lives to God and His ways. To those who are subsequently forgiven, promised forever...

3 Tragedies & a Plea

In the three most recent hotels at which I have stayed in my  life on the road for Jesus with my special needs ministry dogs, the hotels have experienced the same tragedy. Staff and/or police needing to break into a hotel room only to find a dead body. One a suicide. One a murder, suicide, or alcoholism-related death. The third unknown. In two of these cases, days before the bodies were found. Three tragedies. And a plea.

No matter the cost to your flesh, no matter the sacrifice you have to make...

Need Strength?

Need strength? I do! Every moment of every day, and sometimes I need strength way more than at other times. But all the time, I need strength. I seriously think I am the weakest woman in the world. And God has given me a pretty challenging life filled with seemingly relentless struggles for decades, He has called me onto the front lines of ministry whereby I am continually having people pour out their hearts and stories to me that are beyond belief difficult, and I face challenges being on the r...

When to Say NO!

Know when to say NO to something or someone? If you think I’m about to share with you about setting “boundaries” as the world and psychology teach us to do, I’m not. If you think I’m going to tell you that you should say NO whenever saying NO would benefit your SELF, and your needs and wants, you’re wrong. What I am compelled to share with you is this. The time to say NO to any person, place, thing, opportunity, offer, choice, pathway, endeavor, temptation, possibility, etc., is when GOD SAYS SO...