Lara Love's Blog, page 14

How Is Your Attitude?

You can do everything right in God’s eyes with your outward actions but still hurt God’s heart and sin against Him by having ungodly, unholy, unrighteous thoughts and the wrong attitude.

Some years ago the Lord made clear He wanted me to do streets ministry in New York City for a season. For the life of me no matter how much I prayed and tried I could not find housing in New York City.

The Lord showed me that while I planned to go to New York City for that season of ministry in obedience to Him,...

When God Says No to Your Prayers

If we are all honest with ourselves, I believe many if not most of us would admit that we sometimes feel disappointed, down, discouraged, depressed, hurt, bitter, self-pitying, angry, afraid, disgusted, rejected, neglected, abandoned, un-liked, and/or even downright unloved by God when He essentially says NO to our prayers.

When God makes clear that what we have desperately desired, urgently asked for, longingly pleaded for, and even downright begged Him for is NOT in line with His will for us a...

Your Priorities

I am compelled to ask you this. Are your priorities in order?

The #1 priority on this earth for every single human being should be the Lord God almighty and obeying His greatest commands to love Him with all our hearts and to love each other.

Every other priority in our lives should be the priorities the Lord gives us and in the order He desires.

Simply put, the Lord Jesus Christ should be in charge of our priorities!

But is it not true in our human fleshly self-centered nature we tend to think ...

Do Not Be Stopped!

Do not let anything or anybody not yourself, not anybody in this world, and not the devil stop you from doing God’s will for you.

Do not be stopped from fulfilling God’s individual personal purpose for you on this earth.

Do not be stopped from living the life God has called you to live.

Do not be stopped from living according to God’s ways.

Do not be stopped from living in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not be stopped from following Jesus no matter what He leads you to  say and do.

Do no...

Stop Fighting God – Surrender!

If you are fighting God and His will for you in any area of your life whatsoever, even if it seems like it concerns a very small matter, stop fighting God and surrender!

Obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ is not about obeying the Lord in some areas of our lives and not in others. It is not about obeying God in some things and not in the rest.

Obedience to God is about TOTAL SURRENDER. In our hearts and in every single area of our lives.

Jesus Christ is Lord, and surrender to Him and to His rule ...

Quit Lying

Something that boggles my mind about people who lie is that oftentimes it seems they actually think they will get away with it. Now mind you it is entirely possible nobody knows they are lying. No human being that is. But seems they sincerely believe that the Lord God almighty in heaven Creator of the universe does not know they are lying. Tragically I am afraid that many, many people who lie do not understand the ultimate consequence of lying.

The liar who does not repent and turn to Jesus Chri...

Why Not God?

I started to do something I absolutely felt was the very best thing to do when suddenly the Holy Spirit of God made ultra clear in my heart that it was NOT God’s will not at the time anyway.

I promise you for years I called Jesus Lord but acted like a little lord over my little life and decided to obey God only when I felt like it.

This time around, by God’s grace I simply stopped doing what the Lord Jesus Christ had made clear was not His will right then.

Not only that, but I did not question, ...

Paralyzed Dog’s Runway: A Lesson

“What are you doing all the way down there?” I asked paralyzed ministry dog Miss Mercy.

I love to have little “conversations” with my special needs ministry dogs. I am creative by nature so I have fun doing my “voice” and speaking out loud as their “voices”.

“Mommy, I don’t know. I just landed here,” Miss Mercy replied.

I have a “runway” for Miss Mercy in my hotel room which is a long vinyl runner I bought and put down on the floor so Miss Mercy can scoot around safely on her knees when she is n...

Paralyzed Dog’s Runway

“What are you doing all the way down there?” I asked paralyzed ministry dog Miss Mercy.

I love to have little “conversations” with my special needs ministry dogs. I am creative by nature so I have fun doing my “voice” and speaking out loud as their “voices”.

“Mommy, I don’t know. I just landed here,” Miss Mercy replied.

I have a “runway” for Miss Mercy in my hotel room which is a long vinyl runner I bought and put down on the floor so Miss Mercy can scoot around safely on her knees when she is n...

Don’t Be Insensitive

I really wanted to show something to a man I know that I felt would help and inspire him. But the man explained to me he did not want to see it because he felt it would make him sad. I felt so strongly that I pushed forward anyway to show it to him. Almost immediately the man was overwhelmed and emotional and put his hand up in the air toward me as if to say NO!

The Holy Spirit of God moved on my heart. I saw the damage I had done. I asked the man to forgive me and turned back to God and His com...