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Big News from Lara

Just as the sun finally snuck through what has been mostly clouds for months, as I walked along a briskly cold southern winter day with paralyzed Miss Mercy in the wheelchair praising and singing to the Lord, the Lord gave me a vision in my heart of something. An eagle.

Why the eagle? I looked to the Lord, and His answer came quickly and simply. He gave me a Bible verse and then spoke to my heart.

“But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eag...

Does Hoarding Hurt God?

Does hoarding hurt God? I know a self-professed hoarder who would likely be the first to admit she doesn’t have any desire to downsize but would much rather keep  collecting more and more stuff no matter how stuffed her house gets and no matter the cost financially. Do you suppose an over-stuffed house and the financial cost are the only costs resulting from her hoarding? Or do you think there is a much more significant cost? The cost of grieving God. Does hoarding hurt God? Does hoarding grieve...

I Love My Work

Never in a million years did I imagine I would still be alive in my 50s given my decades of brokenness and contemplating suicide let alone be a totally devoted follower of the Lord Jesus Christ let alone have an immeasurably strong sense of purpose in life which I didn’t have for years let alone absolutely love my work given all the jobs I had that I tolerated at best and hated at most. But all of this is now true because of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I want to share with you why I love my work...

When It Seems Impossible

The Lord made abundantly clear what He wanted me to do in my ministry work. Something really big. My heart was willing. I started to take the necessary steps. I was committed to obey Him. Then the obstacles started to come. One after another. And all of a sudden it seemed impossible.

First there was the enemy, “You’ll never make it!” “You can’t do this!” Then there was a friend. “Blah blah blah.” In short, another fiery dart from the devil this time through a friend. Then there was the flesh. “H...

No Matter What They Say

Please do not hold back from doing whatever the Lord makes clear He wants you to do in life NO MATTER WHAT people think, say, or do. Live in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ no matter the cost. Whether you are rejected, hated, despised, laughed at, mocked, and/or persecuted for the sake of faithfully following Jesus, do not hold back in obeying the Lord.

We will all stand before the Lord after our lives on this earth are over and have to give an account of our lives. We will not stand before h...

Donations for Ministry Dogs

If you read in yesterday’s UPDATE & PRAYER REQUEST, you know among much going on in my ministry life, about 16-year-old ministry dog Abigail has just been diagnosed with pancreatitis shortly following a terrible case of giardia and then major dental infections and teeth removals. Simultaneously, 9-year-old Gracie hit by 2 cars after being dumped at a gas station years ago has an eye ulcer. My vet & his wife who supervised the ministry since I have been on the road for Jesus for about 4 years now...

Update & Prayer Request

My heart & hands & life are enormously filled to overflowing right now with the love, hope, joy, & peace of the Lord Jesus Christ – and endless ministry work for my beloved Jesus!

For those unaware, I have been on the road full-time for Jesus & my Good News Ministry for about 4 years with my handicapped ministry dogs doing streets, hotel, & beach ministry and writing & publishing tracts, devotionals & books distributed nationwide to prisons, homeless shelters, rescue missions, street preachers, ...

Got Fruit?

God desires His children to love and glorify Him, He tells us we glorify Him by “bearing much fruit,” He tells us we bear fruit when we abide in Him, He lets us know we bear fruit of His Holy Spirit who lives inside His followers, and He makes clear different kinds of fruit He wants us to bear. You might be quick to think of the fruit of God’s Spirit often preached about which includes “love, joy, peace,” etc. (Galatians 5:22-23), but there is another kind of fruit that brings great pleasure to ...

Not Your Assignment

I love the Lord with all my heart, I love people, I love to love and serve the Lord, and I love to love and help people. So it’s no surprise I have a tendency to fall into helping people when it is NOT MY ASSIGNMENT. Do you ever take on doing something that is NOT YOUR ASSIGNMENT in the way of helping people or of anything at all? No matter how many wonderful opportunities there are to help people and to do other things for the Lord and His creation, we are to take on the ASSIGNMENTS HE GIVES US...

Feeling Disappointed?

Feeling disappointed in someone or about something? I have felt disappointed countless times in my life! And I am here to share with you the secret to learning how not to get disappointed!

When we’re disappointed, we feel let down because an expectation we had was not met, a hope we had was not fulfilled, a desire we had was not satisfied, etc. All of this is about US and what WE expect and WE want and WE hope and whether WE are happy and content and how WE feel etc. And it is about looking to t...