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Latest LITTLE LETTER FROM LARA

Dear friend, ………
Sometimes I become so exhausted from this life’s journey that I feel like I can’t make it another single step, that no amount of sleep and rest in the world would be enough to enable me to move forward in my life’s calling let alone in my life at all, and then the Lord reminds me of this.

My life is no longer my own. It is His. He bought me with the price of the blood He shed on the cross for me. My weakness will never be enough to go forward. But His strength and grace are e...

Latest DAILY INSPIRATION

THE DOUBLE DECKER BUS BOY

“Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Phil. 4:11-13

I once met a young man visiting from another country whose greatest desire on his big trip abroad was to ride a double decker bus. He had a gr...

Latest 365 BLESSINGS

“For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.” Psalm 86:5……..

Look at all the blessings in these simple verses! God hears our cries! God is good! God is ready to forgive; we simply need to cry out to Him in repentance. And He doesn’t just have a few mere drops of mercy to sprinkle on us if we beg Him to no end. He is ready to pour out His abundant mercy upon the repentant soul – the one truly sorry for his or her sins with a genuine desi...

Latest THE CROSS DEVOTIONAL

“I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”” Acts 20:35

The Lord’s greatest commands are to love Him with all our hearts and to love others as ourselves, and part of this means we are to be givers! The scripture above shows us it is better to give than to receive, but we also need to be careful to have what the Lord wants us to give. And, to that e...

Latest SERVING JESUS IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

“And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,” Ephesians 5:18……..
“I get drained,” a beautiful young woman doing ministry work in New York City for a season told me one day…..

Oh, how I could understand. I have done ministry work in a number of cities now, but nowhere have I experienced such a draining of energy as I do in New York City.

And, where there is a draining, there needs to be a filling. A re-filling. A pouring into me so that Christ can be...

Latest UPDATE & PRAYER REQUEST

As many of you know, I have just returned to New York City for another season of streets ministry here. It’s not what I would have chosen for myself at this time in my life. It’s what Jesus chose for me, and I love Him more than anything and anyone in the world. And I know He is Lord forever. So when He tells me to go somewhere, I know what to do. I need to follow. And how thankful I am that He is my forever Lord, my forever leader, and my forever provider!

Please keep me prayed up as I get s...

Lara’s LATEST UPDATE & PRAYER REQUEST

Not too long ago I was in the Florida Panhandle when I felt like a holy hand was reaching down from heaven lovingly albeit firmly leading me back to another season of streets ministry in New York City. This was the last thing in the world I ever expected the Lord would call me to do, and the last thing in the world I wanted to do!

After over two years on the road for Jesus full-time to do streets ministry and write Gospel tracts, devotionals, and books with my little crew of special needs ser...

Latest LITTLE LETTER FROM LARA

Dear friend, ………
So I’m about to do something ENORMOUS I DESPERATELY did NOT want to do. To pack up my special needs ministry doggies, theirs, the ministry’s, and my few belongings, and head next week into New York City for another season of streets ministry there. ………

What’s so incredibly surprising is that I AM SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED AND BLESSED AND THANKFUL now to be doing something I so very much didn’t want to do! So why, and how, the change?

When I denied myself, took up my little cross,...

Latest DAILY INSPIRATION

“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.” James 1:5-6……….

“Throw the jeans away,” the Spirit of Christ who lives inside His followers told me.

“I don’t want to throw them away,” I retorted. “They’re comfy.”

Please don’t follow my example. Defiance toward God is wrong. Nevertheless, in my hu...

Latest 365 BLESSINGS

Blessing #67………..

“But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.” Jeremiah 7:23-24………….

God loves us so much He tells us hard stuff like this in His Word about rebellion against Him and going backwards ins...