Lara Love's Blog, page 265
July 23, 2018
God Means What He Says
“I delight to do Your will, O my God,
And Your law is within my heart.”” Psalm 40:8
One day the Lord told me not to do something.
I decided to do it anyway.
That’s when He said it.
“I mean what I say,” the Spirit of God spoke to my heart.
He stopped me. From doing what I planned to do. What He didn’t want me to do.
Not so very long ago I would have continued in disobedience, justifying my disobedience by convincing myself it was just a little thing. Not a big act of disobedience, just a small...
Dog in a Precarious Position
Teach me Your paths.
Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
On You I wait all the day.” Psalm 25:4-5
My 14-year-old dancing beagle dog Dancer was in a precarious position. He had walked up the long ramp to the window ledge where he could carefully climb out the window as he always does to get to my large blessed New York City terrace, a rare commodity for a city apartment, but instead of making his way out onto the terrace, he per...
July 21, 2018
Embarrassed About Jesus
“For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.” Luke 9:26
“But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:33
“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” 2 Tim. 3:12
“Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Tim...
UPDATE & PRAYER REQUEST
I have now been in New York City, my third stop out on the road full-time for the Lord and ministry, for just under three months. I am blown away by the numbers and variety of people the Lord is leading me to as I go out onto the streets with and without my sweet special needs & senior rescued dogs, my heart filled with God’s Spirit and Word, and my fanny pack always filled with Gospel tracts. I having one beautiful and powerful experience after another meeting people and talking to them abou...
July 20, 2018
Dirty Smelly Raggedy People
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”” Mark 12:30-31
“Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” Romans 5:5
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I...
July 19, 2018
Hesitation & Resistance
“Trust in Him at all times, you people…” Psalm 62:8
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart…” Proverbs 3:5
“But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.” Romans 6:22
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who liv...
Who Is Following Whom?
“And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.” John 10:4
“Stand still,” the Spirit of God essentially told me one day as I was walking quickly down the street at my usual go-for-a-walk pace in the beautiful sunshine.
I was already standing. Stand still? Right in the middle of my walk? On the sidewalk? With everyone watching? And just stand there? And not walk? Not just slow down, but literally stand still? And just wait? I knew...
Comparing Yourself to Others?
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
“You’re not them,” the Holy Spirit essentially told me. “I didn’t create you to be them. Be the person I created you to be.”
Why did He tell me that? Because I was fretting over the fact I couldn’t do what I believed lots of other people could do. At 50 years old, I found myself to be tired much of the time, probabl...
July 18, 2018
Cabby Who Didn’t Want to Go Extra Mile
“And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.” Mt. 5:41
If you’re familiar with the expression “going the extra mile,” then you know it pertains to how some people will go the extra distance to help someone whereas others will not. It’s not about the actual distance, whether it’s one mile or many, a few steps across the room or all the way across the world. It’s simply about going beyond the ordinary, beyond the usual, beyond the normal, beyond what’s easy, comfortable, and about...
Don’t Stay Angry
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Eph. 4:31-32
““Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” Eph. 4:26-27
“So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:19...
