Lara Love's Blog, page 283
March 10, 2018
Don’t BE a Discouragement
“Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’ “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son...
March 9, 2018
When God Gets Stern with You
“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction; For whom the Lord loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.” Proverbs 3:11-12………….
“I’m being stern with you because that’s what you need,” the Spirit of God told me one day as I sat with my laptop doing my work in the little waiting room of the place where my car was getting repaired. There was plenty of distraction. Kids running around, noisy, the noise of cars being worked on, people comin...
Get Rid of Your Anger
““For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Mt. 6:14-15……..
“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……..
“I’ve forgiven,” people have told me from time to time in my streets ministr...
When the Truth Hurts
“And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have h...
March 6, 2018
Stop Resisting Me
“Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.” Luke 1:38…………
“Stop resisting me,” the Spirit of God told me one night. “When I tell you to do something,” He said. “Simply do it.”…………..
He was reminding me of something He had told me before, taught me before, reminded me before, and continued to remind me as He teaches me to follow Him the way He desires to be followed by me – and by all of us.
The Lord wants His...
Do You Trust Me?
“And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.” Psalm 9:10…………..
“But I have trusted in Your mercy [unfailing love, steadfast love, lovingkindness per other versions]; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.” Psalm 13:5
“Do you trust me?” the Lord said to me one morning
“Yes,” I replied. “I just wish you would make things easier.”
“If you trust me, it doesn’t matter if things are easy or not,” the Spirit of God essentially spo...
March 3, 2018
A Vital Way to STAY SAFE
“Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” Proverbs 11:14
I was right in the thick of making preparations for one of the biggest transitions of my life when I realized for the umpteenth time how indescribably thankful I was to the Lord for having lovingly and mercifully granted me the biggest, strongest circle of rock solid women Christ followers I had ever had. I knew day and night I had a long list of beautiful, loving, honest, patient,...
Simply Obey Me
“Now the Lord had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him…” Gen. 12:1-4
“Simply obey me,” the Spirit of God said to me one morning. Th...
March 2, 2018
Get Down
“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” Psalm 42:2…………
One night I was afraid to get down on my knees. Afraid of what He would tell me. But knew that’s exactly what I needed. To get down on my knees. Not just to pray. To surrender. To whatever He wanted to say. And to whatever He desired of me. To whatever He wanted to do with me. In me. Through me. So down to my knees I went. Felt like I’d never get up once I went down there. Like I’d crumple into a million broken pieces. But not only...
March 1, 2018
Feeling Weak
“He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31
I was feeling weak. Tired from not enough sleep, and worn from pushing myself hard as I prepared for the next big step in my journey following Jesus,...
