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Today’s THE CROSS DEVOTIONAL

MY PARALYZED DOG’S LOVE LIFE

“As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God…” Psalm 42:1-2

If you don’t think paralyzed dogs have a love life, think again. Or meet paralyzed dog Mr. Simeon, one of my ministry’s 5 special needs doggies that have been on the road for Jesus with me for 2 years now. My sweet Mr. Simeon is so in love with me that when I go to the bathroom and shut the door, he starts talking to let me know he d...

Today’s 365 Blessings

365 BLESSINGS is a devotional book the Lord has led me to publish piece by piece even as I’m writing it rather than waiting until it’s in print to share it. Please join me & be blessed as I write my latest book…!

Blessing #29

“Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me!
For my soul trusts in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge,
Until these calamities have passed by.” Psalm 57:1

Crying out for God’s mercy. Placing his trust in God. Taking refuge in the shadow of God’s w...

Today’s DAILY INSPIRATION

MISSING THIS ARMOR?

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“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having d...

Today’s Little Letter from Lara

Dear friend,

A friend encouraging me this morning sent me a Bible verse and then this quote from long-ago missionary David Brainerd: “I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ.” Her message to me was so short. So simple. So sweet. One Bible verse. The words of someone from long ago with a heart aflame for Jesus and sharing the Gospel like my own heart. And one small sentence filled with love and the hope of Christ. Then off sh...

Today’s Serving Jesus in Your Everyday Life

The Hotel Fire Alarm Story 

“Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season…” 2 Tim 4:1

“Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And declare His works with rejoicing.” Psalm 107:22

I needed sleep like you wouldn’t believe. So exhausted. So disoriented at first when I finally fell into a deep, deep sleep only to be woken by an unbelievably loud and relentless hotel fire alarm. Scramble, scramble. No longer disoriented. Desperate. Frantic. Hurry, hurry. Five special needs dogs...

Today’s The Cross Devotional

Holding God at a Distance

“They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed.
This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him,
And delivers them.” Psalm 34:5-7

One of the greatest tragedies of my life, and perhaps you can relate, is that for so very long I believed in the Lord but held Him away at a distance because I had been so badly hurt by someone in the past that I didn...

Today’s 365 Blessings

365 BLESSINGS is a devotional book the Lord has led me to publish piece by piece even as I’m writing it rather than waiting until it’s in print to share it. Please join me & be blessed as I write my latest book…!

Blessing #28

“O Lord of hosts,
Blessed is the man who trusts in You!” Psalm 84:12

I am on the road full-time for Jesus and am blessed to do streets ministry work continually – literally on the streets as well as by telephone and Internet. In other words, I am constantly meeting peopl...

Today’s Daily Inspiration

The Lord’s Unbelievable Message to Me

“Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23

“and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” 2 Cor. 5:15

“Be absolutely totally committed with all _____ I have given you no matter the cost to your comfort, your time, your relationships with people, your personal desire, no matter the...

Today’s Ministry Update & Prayer Request

Know what I love to tell people most when it comes to asking for prayer? Please pray if and as the Lord leads you. Long ago, a man I met told me he might not pray for me. I was horrified and hurt! How could he? How wrong of him! So I thought anyway. The Lord ultimately corrected me. That man was submitted to God. He wanted to pray according to the leading of the Spirit of God rather than according to little pitiful insignificant me!

Friends, as this ministry grows and grows and grows, and it...

Today’s Little Letter from Lara

Dear friend,

Believe it or not, Mondays are always the hardest day of the week for me. It’s not that I don’t want to get back to work. I LOVE MY WORK because it’s FOR THE LORD. It’s that the devil comes at me so exceedingly hard virtually every Monday without fail to get me to quit before I get started into the week forward of loving and serving the Lord and loving and serving people in His name.

Not so very long ago, I would have quit. Now, instead, the harder the enemy comes at me on Monday...