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Good News Daily – New Year’s Day

Dear friend,

People all around the world today with the start of this new year are looking for a reason to hope and hoping with all their hearts this year will be better than the last. I searched for hope for decades due to being broken beyond human hope and repair and given my life’s circumstances and at long last found THE ONLY HOPE that is 100% guaranteed, NEVER FAILS, and LASTS FOREVER! The Lord Jesus Christ – and a forever relationship with Him.

I have more HOPE today than I have ever had i...

Imitating Jesus

Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are to imitate the Lord! As His dear children! Including when it comes to LOVE!

“Therefore be imitators [followers in KJV version] of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.” Eph. 5:1-2

The KJV version translates the Greek word meaning “imitators” into “followers”. We who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are to follow the Lord Jesus Christ! We ar...

Are You a Doer?

“Take me deeper in understanding and practice,” I prayed as I dove into some Bible verses I have read over and again through the years.

I wanted to go deeper. So I prayed for God to take me there, but this is not all. I prayed for Him to help me put into practice what He would show and teach me. Friend, faith comes in HEARING GOD – and specifically HEARING GOD’S WORD. But we are not to only HEAR God’s Word. We are to DO God’s Word!

We who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord are to LOVE THE LORD WITH...

Do Not Do It!

DON’T DO IT! Don’t take on what God does NOT give you to do! Don’t take on what is NOT His will for you! Don’t take on what is NOT a responsibility He has given you! Don’t take on what God has NOT given you to do now even if it is His will for a future date!

Pray to God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Seek Him. Wait on Him. Hear Him. Obey Him. Believers in Jesus Christ as Lord are to follow Jesus Christ as Lord. We are to do what IS His will for us. We are NOT to do what is NOT His will fo...

Praying the Will of God

When you read the three sets of Bible verses below, what do you see they all have in common? Let me encourage you to consider this as you read through them. The Lord shows us through all of them the vitalness of the Holy Spirit when it comes to prayer! We who have turned from our sins and put our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord who died to pay our sin penalty and was raised from the dead, making a genuine commitment to live for Jesus and following through with it, now have the Holy Spirit living i...

Drawing Near to the Lord

“But it is good for me to draw near to God…” Psalm 73:28

Some of us hold onto the world and our everyday lives and our calendar books and appointments and responsibilities and our relationships and our to-do lists and our families and social lives and agendas and school work and jobs and entertainment and enjoyments and doctors’ appointments and the whole of our everyday lives so tightly that we can’t even conceive of coming away from it all each and every day to draw near to God!

Or, we have ma...

I Can Hear a Bird!

I can hear a bird! I thought to myself as I walked the short distance from my hotel room to the trash can by the lobby where I needed to dump paralyzed ministry dog Miss Mercy’s dirty diaper. Not exactly a fun and inspiring chore. But oh, how I could hear that bird! I felt thrilled I could hear that one single bird twittering away. I have struggled throughout my life with one thing or another pretty much daily for decades, and the past year had its own set of challenges including physically and ...

Good News Daily – December 30

Wednesday, December 30

Dear friend,

Today I am blessed to share with you the following THREE MESSAGES:

* I CAN HEAR A BIRD!

* PRAYING THE WILL OF GOD

* DRAWING NEAR TO THE LORD

May you be blessed, encouraged, and inspired. And may the Lord be glorified! To Him be all the glory!

love & blessings,

lara

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I Can Hear a Bird!

I can hear a bird! I thought to myself as I walked the short distance from my hotel room to the trash can by the lobby where I needed to dump paralyzed ministry dog Miss Mercy’s...

Amazing Blessings!

Please enjoy my latest Video Devotional!

Blessings & Balloons!

A sweet woman I met on the beach who quickly made clear her love for the Lord told me how she pictured looking upward at a sky full of balloons representing the Lord’s blessings. She envisioned reaching her arms upward to grab hold of the balloons as though she were grabbing hold of each and every one of the blessings Jesus had stored up and planned for her. As I listened to her joyfully share her vision, I had an amazing realization about what the Lord has done in my heart over the years.

When ...