Lara Love's Blog, page 371

Ever Find Yourself Judging Others? - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/6

"When you stand before the Lord to give an account of your life," my beloved Pastor Freddie told me a few years before he crawled into bed one night, shut his eyes to sleep and woke up with the Lord, "you won't be asked to give an account of anyone else. You will have to give an account of your own life." God poured so much wisdom through my dear pastor and father in Christ, and this nugget of wisdom has stuck with me ever since. For with a long-time history of judging others, right in line w...

Message in the Mail - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/5

I have a friend who told me several years ago when he and his wife started sponsoring Walk by Faith Ministry that he would prefer to send a check in the mail over the most common way people seem to use these days whereby they set up automatic payments via the Internet, and his reason was most unusual - or so I thought. But then the ways of the Lord are so often foreign to our own ways, aren't they? See, my friend wanted to send a check so he could pray each month and send a Bible verse with h...

What a Remarkable Pastor - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/4

"The pastor at the new church I go to preaches with his Bible in his hand," my friend gushed forth the words as though this were the most remarkable thing. "At the church I used to go to," she explained. "the pastor didn't do that." He preached other things, she told me. What joy I felt knowing my friend had crossed the great divide between a church with false teaching to a church proclaiming God's Truth, but what a sadness I felt also. Because what seemed so remarkable to my friend should no...

Praise Report on Lara's Five Books

If this isn't a praise, I don't know what it is. By God's grace alone, this week I will be releasing my fifth book, PIECES FROM MY HEART: Selections from Lara Love's almost Daily Inspiration . The book joins my first four, SLOW DANCE WITH JESUS: Inspiration for Intimacy with God, SIMPLE JOY: A Shabby Chick Christian's Inspiration for a Joy-FULL Life, THE GREATEST LESSON OF ALL: Answering God's Call , and THE HOMELESS DREAM: A Little Story with a Big Message. 

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Does Your Life Ever Seem Like a Barren Tree? DAILY INSPIRATION 2/3

My calling looked like a tree in winter. Lifeless. Serene. Fruitless. Leaves-less. Barren. Looking like it would never amount to anything. Like its best days were over. I had no preaching opportunities. No inspiration to write. Nobody in particular to minister to. No word from others in ministry I had excitedly thought I would walk alongside at least for a season. So I thought of calling it quits, especially with my writing. Maybe I was done, I considered. I could take the tree that was my ca...

Love and Fruit, a Step at a Time - DAILY INSPIRATION 2/2

Php 1:9  And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 
Php 1:10  That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; 
Php 1:11  Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. 

How astonished I was to hear myself telling a friend that I like the changes God has been effecting in me. Never in a mil...

UPDATE & DONATIONS for MISS MERCY'S MIRACLE.....!!!

Paralyzed dog Miss Mercy, dumped in a shelter 2.5 years ago where she surely would have been euthanized after being hit by a car and left paralyzed, was taken under the wings of Walk by Faith Ministry, a 501c3 non-profit organization, where she thorougly enjoyed her new life in her wheelchair and with her 16 mostly special needs and senior rescued dogs before requiring life-saving surgery & vet care at the end of January 2015.



It turns out her spleen had split into two when she was hit by...

Don't Take Mercy for Granted / DAILY INSPIRATION 1/30

Mercy is not something I can afford to take for granted. I should have an IV of mercy hooked up to me, I need God's mercy so often. I have fallen so hard, so often, despite how desperately I want to love and serve and please the Lord, that I wonder sometimes why God hasn't given up on me. And I wonder how He can entrust me with ministering to people and caring for special needs and senior rescued dogs when I am capable of hurting and harming them in ways unimaginable. And I have done both, wh...

PARALYZED MERCY NEEDS A MIRACLE - DONATIONS NEEDED

My heart breaks to share that 3-year-old paralyzed Mercy, whom vets recommended to euthanize 2.5 years ago after she was hit by a car and left in a rural shelter and who received a miracle from God that resulted in 2.5 years of racing around in a wheelchair, was discovered this past week to have 2 spleens resulting from the car accident with one in horrific condition. Though the vets were doubtful about whether it was worth trying surgery, I heard the Lord speak into my heart to trust Him and...

CALLED TO WALK BY FAITH - DAILY INSPIRATION 1/27

Every so often, I am called by God to do something that is so far exceedingly beyond what I feel capable or wanting to do as a human that I am utterly 100% convicted that I can only do it with 100% in the strength and love and mercy and grace of the Lord. Such is the case as I sit right now in an emergency clinic for the 2nd time in three days with paralyzed dog Miss Mercy who is only three years old after being told she needs life-saving surgery and even with that extremely expensive surgery...