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Seeking God – Video Devotional

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Good News Daily – June 27, 2020

Please find today’s FOUR MESSAGES below…! Enjoy! love & blessings, Lara

Forgiving God?

I was spending time with a mentor years ago, long before I went from being merely a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ to being a sold out follower of His, when she encouraged me to go through a list of people I needed to forgive and forgive them – OUT LOUD! Thank the Lord she told me to do it aloud. You will now read why!

I forgave one person aloud. Then another. And more people. Then I essentially said this.

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Need to Let Someone Go?

I have always had a hard time letting go of people. Not so much as when they die though that has been very tough, but much more so when they are still alive but no longer in my life temporarily or permanently for a good reason or a bad one whether according to God’s will or not and whether they walked away or I had to walk away. Letting go has just been plain old hard for me! Do you also have trouble letting people go?

Friend, WHEN IT IS GOD’S WILL AND GOD’S TIMING that we let someone go, He whe...

Are You Making God Happy?

What makes you happy, friend? What makes God happy? Are you living to make yourself happy? Or are you living to make God happy?

My beloved pastor who went on to be with the Lord used to say we need to get the Word [the Bible] into us and the world out of us. In other words, we need as Christ’s followers to stop living according to the world’s ways and learn instead to live according to God’s ways. This world teaches us to be self-centered and to strive for a pleasure-filled life, personal happin...

Pushing People Away?

Please don’t push away the people God sends to love you, bless you, encourage you, help you, teach you, help you to grow, with whom to enjoy friendship and fellowship, for you to love, bless, encourage, help, teach, help to grow, etc. I used to do this and have seen many others do the same. We may push people altogether out of our lives, keep them from coming into our lives in the first place, allow them in our lives but keep them at an emotional distance, anything at all in an effort to protect...

Great Commandment & Commission

God’s Great Commandment is for us to love Him with all our hearts and others as ourselves, and His so-called Great Commission is for Christ’s followers to go out and spread the Gospel (Good News) message around the world. In our love for Him and our love for others, we are to tell people Jesus Christ is Lord, that He died on the cross to pay our sin penalty and was raised from the dead, and that the only way to receiving His forgiveness and everlasting life with Him instead of forever in hell an...

Most Important Part of Ministry

Ministry is service to God, and we are all called to serve God in one way or another to one degree or another as the Lord leads us. I am called to be on the road full-time for the Lord and ministry making myself available to Him 24-7, others are called into full-time ministry with set hours for example 40 a week, others are called to missions trips a few times yearly, others are called to serve the Lord teaching Sunday school, etc. It is all ministry when it is serving God according to His will ...

Desperate 4 Love

There is a grave danger when we are desperate for love, and I know from the Bible, from personal experience, and from ministering to people who have been desperate for love.

In my decades of brokenness and due to the sin of others toward me and very much due to my own sin, I was desperate to be loved. I craved love, validation, acceptance, approval, attention, and affirmation. The result was I ended up with dangerous people in dangerous places in dangerous situations doing dangerous things. Even...

Shut Your Ears to the Devil!

Shut your ears to the devil! Open your ears to the Lord! You can listen to the devil, or you can turn to the Lord God almighty and listen to Him.

Open up the Bible and read it. Study it. Live it. Love it. Keep reading it. Be diligent in spending time alone with Jesus day by day.

Stop listening to the devil’s lies. Listen to God’s truth. His Spirit who lives inside His followers will speak to our hearts personally always and only in line with the Bible.

Know the Bible so you know God and you know...

Don’t Be A Grasshopper!

Joshua and Caleb from their perspective saw the giants in the land promised to the Israelites as obstacles that could be overcome in the strength of God, but the men who came with them to check out the land looked from the perspective of seeing themselves as grasshoppers who would never be able to overcome the giants. Their perspective all boiled down to where they put their trust. If they put their trust in themselves, they would fail. If they placed their trust in God, they would have victory....