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Oh God What Is Your Will? – Video Devotional

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Elderly Woman’s Powerful Testimony

An elderly woman I met one day was excited to share with me how she believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, was devotedly studying her Bible, and wanted to tell others about how wonderful the Lord is and to share her strong and powerful testimony. Of course this meant that God had brought her to the other side of all her struggles, right? All her challenges were gone, right? Life had once been hard and now was easy and comfortable, right? Not in the least!

What struck me when I thought about this wom...

Don’t Let the Devil Run You Off

Just about every time the Lord sends me to a new location in my being on the road for Him and ministry full-time with no home base anywhere, the devil works quickly to try to run me off. He tries to get me to flee. To leave where God has sent me as quickly as possible so I don’t stay and do the work to which the Lord has called me. Not only the ministry work, mind you. But sometimes the Lord sends me to new locations for other reasons along with the work. For Him to grow me, teach me, test me, r...

Forsaking All – Message from Miami

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Challenging Update from Lara

I have now been in my new location on the road for Jesus for several days. I believe the Lord will use this report not to just hopefully inspire you to pray for me and my ministry handicapped dogs included but to bring conviction and to challenge your hearts and lives as He is doing the very same thing with me.

I am about 40 minutes outside Miami which the Lord made clear is my next big destination as I near 4 years on the road for Him full-time before heading off for my next big destination up ...

I Need Courage

Some people struggle with fear, worry, and anxiety. Some people REALLY struggle with it all. I have REALLY, REALLY, REALLY struggled with it all – for decades. So how in the world is it that I have been on the road for Jesus and what is now an ever-growing international ministry full-time with my handicapped ministry dogs for some years now with no traditional salary, no ministry staff, a car with about 250,000 miles on it, sometimes as much as 15 or so hours away from family, often knowing nobo...

Don’t Go Yet

Just about every time the Lord has sent me to a new location over the past nearly 4 years of being on the road full-time for Him and ministry with my handicapped ministry dogs, soon after my arrival at my latest hotel or the apartment where I stayed in New York City because hotels were too expensive and challenging to find given the dogs, I have experienced an urgent desire to GO. More precisely, to GO IMMEDIATELY. Where? Anywhere but where the Lord had sent me! Why?

Suffice it to say in the pas...

The Secret to JOY

Rest assured I was one of the most JOY-less people in the whole wide world in my estimate anyway – for DECADES. The reason – or my EXCUSE anyway – was simple. I had loads of life’s challenges. My life was anything but easy, fun, glad, and joyful. Who would rejoice with a life like mine? I lived in a virtually perpetual state of self-centeredness, depression, anxiety, drama, misery, self-pity, etc. Then the Lord taught me the secret to JOY.

JOY can and should be contingent on THE LORD JESUS CHRIS...

Public Praise

“I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing to You among the nations.” Psalm 57:9

“Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!” 1 Chronicles 16:8

God doesn’t just want His followers to praise Him in private. Nor does He want His followers to merely talk about Him with people we’re close to who we know want to talk about Him with us. Who we know won’t hurt us or tease us or reject us or hate us or persecute us because we talk about Him a...

Another Update from Lara

Hi friend,

By the love, grace, and mercy of God, after about an 8 hour drive and only 6 days after having to say goodbye to my beautiful special needs ministry dog Abigail whom I had for 15.5 years & 5 months after losing my precious paralyzed ministry dog Mr. Simeon, I arrived safely yesterday in south Florida not far out of Miami which the Lord has made clear is my next big ministry destination before heading northbound for my next big ministry destination after that.

This all comes just weeks...