Lara Love's Blog, page 57

You Should Hate This!

If you don’t believe me that you should hate this, believe God! Because not only does God hate this, but God tells us to hate this! So we need to hate it! It can be summed up in a single word. EVIL! We are to HATE, or abhor, EVIL!

“… Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” Romans 12:9 NKJV

In modern day America, “abhor” is not the most commonly used word. But hate is a word we all understand. And it’s a really strong word. God is not saying we should slightly dislike evil. Not that we should...

A Warning About Forgiveness

God woke me up when it comes to forgiveness. I used to think forgiveness was as simple as saying I forgive someone. God commands us to forgive. So all I need to do is decide to forgive in obedience to God and go off on my merry way. God used the Bible verses below to show me something I had entirely missed. God commands us to forgive FROM THE HEART!

Again and again His Holy Spirit has showed me that I have NOT forgiven someone I thought I had forgiven. How so? When we still have yucky and bad fe...

Love Lesson: Inspired by Shells

I was just finishing up a wonderful walk with the Lord on the beach praising and worshiping and praying to Him when I bent down to pick up a little shell. Little did I know God would birth a message in me inspired by shells.

Though I have walked on beaches on and off for decades, until I picked up that shell I had never thought about how God created shells and how He places them in the company of other shells that are all different shapes, sizes, colors, textures, ages, histories, etc. While som...

I Don’t Want to Be Nice!

I can’t believe I said this to God just minutes before starting to write this message, but it’s true.

“I don’t want to be nice!” I exclaimed to God in my heart as I considered a situation.

God had led me to discontinue using a certain company’s services I assumed because their customer care in my opinion had really gone downhill. I felt a bunch of the customer care representatives had really fallen short though in truth the problem could have been at least in part a result of the company owners ...

I Hate Roaches

I hate killing anything, but rest assured just before writing this I saw a roach excitedly scampering across the kitchen floor. I did not even hesitate to kill it. The cold weather undoubtedly caused this one lone roach to appear. In the many months I have stayed where I am, I have only seen a total of about three or four roaches. Though I hate using chemicals, and use them sparingly, I use them when truly needed. I simply hate roaches and make it abundantly clear to those roaches they are not w...

When They Don’t Love Your Way

One day I realized God has so changed me that I was okay and even thankful that two people were loving me not as I wanted to be loved but in the way they chose to express their love. But that has not always been the case with me, and in this little testimony is a mighty message for us all. About loving people and being thankful to them even when they express their love for us differently than we desire.

Rewind a bunch of years. My then husband with whom I had a wildly tumultuous marriage and who...

lara’s Update: Beautiful Blessings

You may have read recently I planned to announce 2 beautiful blessings to start off the new year 2023 concerning my ministry. I apologize for the delay in following up.

Long story short, I was heartbroken to discover that despite tons of my own prayer and the prayer of others to seek God and His will that 1 of the 2 blessings was not in fact His will for my ministry going forward. I am not led to share details only to say I have been sad and exhausted given a related experience. But I am putting...

Lara’s New Year’s Blessings!

I have had a pretty challenging life with struggles to this very day and have been prone to negativity on top of that. So I am extra incredibly thankful that God is working hard to teach me to focus on Him, my amazingly wonderful intimate forever relationship with Him, the Bible, my life calling and ministry work, loving and serving the Lord and others, and the countless blessings He bestows upon me.

There is no room for negativity in this new way of life even though I have ongoing struggles, an...

When They Don’t Stop Hurting You

Sometimes the same people keep hurting us over and again. They just don’t seem to stop hurting us. Every time we begin to have a little hope they are going to change and will stop hurting us, boom. They hurt us again. They put on the charm and tell us they have changed and it won’t happen again. Boom. They hurt us once more. Or they don’t make promises but we still hold out hope this time will be different. Sometimes they apologize. Sometimes they don’t. But bottom line, the hurt keeps coming.

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Stay Out of This!

The Lord in no uncertain terms made clear in my heart He wanted me to stay out of a certain matter even as I started to get involved. Unlike in the past when I would have pridefully, rebelliously continued forward with my own agenda going against God almighty, I immediately stepped back and obeyed Him. But this was not all. I strongly sensed God had a message for me to deliver to others. This one. About staying out of “this”.

When God makes clear He does NOT want us to get involved in something,...