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Abiding in God’s Love

I believed in Jesus Christ as Lord for years before I truly came to understand the significance and exceeding importance and dire need to learn how to ABIDE IN CHRIST. The Holy Spirit in fact impressed upon me that this word ABIDE would be critical for the rest of my life. Now I understand it’s not just critical and crucial for me. It’s of dire importance to each and every one of Jesus’ followers. Know what God tells us to do along with abiding in Jesus? He tells us to ABIDE IN GOD’S LOVE! Well,...

lara’s Free Groups This Week

Dear Friend,

In case you haven’t heard, I’m so excited to share with you I have started the TOTALLY DEVOTED FELLOWSHIP for women by phone which now meets THREE TIMES WEEKLY.

It is ideal to attend all 3 if you’re able, or 1 or 2 if you’re not. Each meeting will have a different Bible-based message / teaching along with a very strong focus on praying for needs around the world!

Please note THIS WEEK the Tuesday morning group will meet at 10:30 am rather than the usual 8:00 am.

So this week we will...

Doing Good with the Right Heart

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Forgive from the Heart

Real love for the Lord and obedience to Him and true love for others includes forgiving – from the heart.

How do I know? The Bible says so! What do I mean by forgiving from the heart? The word heart in the New Testament comes from a Greek word also translated per Strong’s concordance as thoughts and feelings. We are to forgive not merely by saying “I forgive so and so”, but we are to forgive whereby we get rid of thoughts and feelings of bitterness, hurt, anger, pride, judgment, resentment, rage...

What Do You Need?

“What do you need?” a business owner asked me by email. Of course I knew she was referring to her company and the products she sells, but I laughed in my heart when I considered her question and what I might have answered.

A vacation. A long break. A lot of help for my ministry. A zillion dollars to help me press on in my life’s calling especially to get more of the tracts, devotionals, devotional magazine, and books out around the United States for free. Oh, I could go on and on with what I fel...

Facing Your Enemies

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They Were Wrong But –

Even as I write this, I can’t wait to get to the place I need to go this morning to apologize to some store workers for my rude, unkind, impatient, and unloving attitude and words. Maybe you would say my apology is unnecessary. After all, one of the workers at the store did a few things that were mean, inconsiderate, disrespectful, rude, and that caused a big challenge for me. The one who did it did not apologize. The other store worker only did when I said I thought I should receive an apology....

Not Now

I had a good idea. So I started to put it into place. Something I figured the Lord would want me to do. Something in fact He has called me to do. So off I went to begin. It didn’t take long for me to hear the voice. THE VOICE. The Holy Spirit speaking to my heart. Two simple, plain, powerful words.

NOT NOW.

In God’s love for us, He has perfect plans for our lives – and perfect timing for His will for us. And fulfilling His will for us is not enough. We also need to obey Him in HIS TIME. And when...

His Warning Was Too Late

I was walking down the trail near my hotel when a man on a bicycle came speeding by from behind me with a warning, “On your left!” as he passed by. Thank God I didn’t move to my left and get knocked down by him because his warning came too late. He actually didn’t warn me until he was already passing by me! Some warnings like that one come too late and in the grand scheme of things really aren’t such a very big deal, but God loves the world He created so much that the most important warning in t...

Thanks for watching my latest Video Devotional!

Thanks for watching my latest Video Devotional!