Lara Love's Blog, page 62

Paralyzed Dog’s Beautiful Inspiration

When I go out without my ministry dogs who do beach and streets ministry with me at times, Gracie who was hit by 2 cars after being dumped at a gas station years ago stays in a crate. Paralyzed Miss Mercy who was likely hit by a truck years ago can choose between two massive super comfy dog beds. No matter how long I am gone, however, when I return I almost always find Miss Mercy on the immediate opposite side of the bedroom door perched on her knees eagerly waiting for my return.

Her love, focu...

Stuck in Grief?

“Please help so and so not be stuck,” I essentially prayed for a friend who was grieving,

Then this message came strong on my heart.

Ever been stuck in grief? Are you now? Feeling like you will never get past it? Like your life is on hold and how could you possibly ever get past the grief to get back to your life? The life you were living before grief took over?  Feeling so stuck in grief you feel like nothing could possibly get you unstuck?

I experienced this for years and years. I grieved so m...

When You Feel Afraid

I have struggled with fear as long as I can remember, but praise God fear no longer controls my life! Though the devil has tried relentlessly to use fear to stop me from loving and serving the Lord with all my heart and fulfilling my life’s calling in ministry and from following Jesus day by day, I have had victory after victory when it comes to fear for one simple reason.

JESUS. And herein lies the message. The fact God tells us over and again in the Bible not to be afraid leads me to believe H...

10 Reasons I Love Repentance

I absolutely love repentance. I consider it an amazing gift from God for which we should be infinitely thankful. I love when God by His Holy Spirit shows me I am doing something wrong, leads me to a place of true sorrow over my sin, makes clear I am to seek His forgiveness, and lovingly leads me to turn from my sin and turn wholeheartedly to Him and His will for me.

Here are the 10 reasons I love repentance, and my heart’s cry is that God will use this message to cause you to love repentance and...

This is Your Gift

“This is your gift. Others have theirs.”

I had just finished writing a devotional message when the Holy Spirit spoke these words to my heart. Reassuring me. Reminding me. Confirming once again I have my gifts and calling from God. Not others’ gifts and their calling from God. But mine.

Sometimes we get down, discouraged, depressed, etc. because we compare ourselves to others and feel we are failing because our lives don’t look like their lives. Because we are not serving God and others like they...

Man with the Sand Testimony

Thanks to the effects of  a tropical storm on the beach, I was no longer easily able to get paralyzed ministry dog Miss Mercy onto the beach along with special needs ministry dog Gracie where I so love to spend time with the Lord and do beach ministry. But God in His wondrous love  sent a blessing in the form of a young landscape worker who had been sent by his boss with a tractor to pile up lots of sand. I was quite upset when I realized his work would make it even harder if not impossible to g...

Are You Having an Affair?

This is not the easiest question to ask, and it may be extremely hard for some to answer. But I am strongly compelled by God to write this message and must humbly be faithful and obey Him by asking this one question. Before I proceed, let me say this. I write this message with my heart FILLED with the LOVE of JESUS for ANY and ALL reading this. I do not write with judgment and condemnation. I write with LOVE and COMPASSION and God’s SWEET MERCY!

Are you having an affair whereby you are married b...

Feeling Defeated?

Maybe I am alone in this, but I don’t think so. I believe lots of people probably go through this. Maybe even right now you are going through this very thing. Feeling defeated. Like no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you reach out for help, no matter how many times you keep trying, no matter how much you try to change, no matter how much you try to start all over again and convince yourself this time things will be different, etc., you end up feeling defeated. ...

Help Me Be There for Others!

We live in a me-centered world, don’t we? The Bible speaks of a time in which people would be lovers of self, pleasure, and money (2 Tim. 3:2-4). Sounds like these times, doesn’t it? Jesus said His followers are to deny self, take up our crosses, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). Are we who call ourselves believers in Jesus denying self, or are we stuck in the me, me, me-s? I was delightfully shocked when I found myself praying these exact words.

“Help me be there for others!” I cried out to God.

I mu...

Lara’s Newest Book Now Available

So excited and blessed to finally share with you that my newest book is now available for purchase. All profit on the book goes to my Good News Ministry to help me fulfill my ministry mission & life calling.

Why do I write “finally” share with you? I actually published the book months ago but got totally sidetracked with being miraculously protected by God in a violent assault in New York City, leaving the New York City area unexpectedly early, being called by God to no longer be on the road fo...