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The One You Love

“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…………

“The one you love is not the one I want you to take,” the Spirit of God told me firmly, even sternly, emphatically early this morning. I have just woken up, and am utterly exhausted, not just from too little sleep, but from literally walking virtually non stop at a fairly rapid pace for about four hours through the streets of New York City yesterday se...

Keep Looking

“The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty,

But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.” Proverbs 21:5………….

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6………….

“Keep looking,” the Lord told me one morning. “Be diligent in this.”

I had been looking and looking – and looking – for something. I thought I had found it. What I had found was not what God wa...

Is It Time to Say No?

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.” James 3:17……………..

“Wait on the Lord;

Be of good courage,

And He shall strengthen your heart;

Wait, I say, on the Lord!” Psalm 27:14………….

“You have your answer,” the Spirit of God told me early one morning as I was still waking up concerning something big and important that had been occupying much of my time and thoughts in days p...

Walking the Talk: LORD JESUS

“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” Romans 13:14……..

Jesus Christ is Lord. The Lord is God. God almighty. We have no business calling Jesus Christ Lord and not living our lives accordingly. That’s what I did for years. Told people I believed in Jesus Christ as Lord. My life showed the world, and most importantly the Lord, that I hadn’t submitted my life to Him. I called Him Lord. I didn’t act like He is Lord. I acted like I was lord o...

My Seamless Big Move

“O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself;
It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.” Jeremiah 10:23…………

When I think of the word “seamless”, I think of being unable to tell where one thing ends and another thing begins. A transition is so “seamless” from one thing to the next, regardless of what it is, like one piece of fabric to another, or where one piece of machinery connects to another, that the whole transition is simply as clean, clear, natural, and even peaceful, as c...

Go Where He Sends You

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thess. 5:16-18 (underlining added)……………….

Please go where God sends you. When you know it’s Him sending you, please go. For Him. Why should you go? Because He’s God. Today I went into New York City to see an apartment I didn’t feel good about seeing because of something I learned about the people managing it. A nice real estate agent I did feel good about by phone and emai...

I Am Yours!

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

Yesterday as I drove into New York City, my first trip back there in many, many years, having gone in once to the city for a few hours years ago and having lived in the city years before that, I was in awe. I cannot describe in words how far the Lord has brought me, of where He has brought m...

Update & Prayer Request from Lara

Just wanted to let you know I have arrived safe & sound by God’s grace alone in New Jersey, settled myself and the 5 special needs & senior doggies in my care into a hotel, woke up to a snowstorm this morning, and after all the preparation, the packing, and the driving, and given this is undoubtedly the biggest step of faith I have taken in my years of following Jesus, I am utterly exhausted.

I am reminded of how this step goes against my flesh in so many ways, from leaving behind beloved fam...

Tired Didn’t Stop Him

“Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. But He needed to go through Samaria.

So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour....

This is the Way to Lead

“Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall bl...