Lara Love's Blog, page 74

Stop Standing Outside the Door

“I opened the door,” the Lord spoke to my heart. “Walk through it.”

He was reminding me of an opportunity He had given me to help someone have a forever relationship with Him. Though I so much wanted to help the person, I had so incredibly much to do thanks to the Lord blessedly giving me tons of other opportunities in my ministry work for Him as well. Now He was making clear it was very important I not miss this opportunity He had given me.

Sometimes God opens the door and gives us wonderful op...

God Told Me to Repent

“You need to repent,” I heard the Holy Spirit speak clear as day to my heart.

“I’m sorry,” I told God in my heart.

But I have long since learned the truth about repentance, and the conviction from the Holy Spirit came strong.

“I’m sorry” wasn’t what God wanted. He wanted repentance.

Friend, repentance isn’t about telling God a zillion times “sorry God” for the same thing. Repentance is about being TRULY SORRY for disobeying God, for rebelling against Him, for going against Him, for hurting His h...

Is This Best for Me?

I used to make decisions based on what I felt was best for ME. Self, self, self. This is the foundation of our modern day American culture, isn’t it? What will bring me pleasure, joy, happiness, contentment, what I need, what I want, what makes me feel good, what makes me look good, what will fulfill my dreams, what will line up with my agenda. It’s all about my wishes, ways, and wants, isn’t it? Can you relate to this?

I praise the Lord He got a hold of me, led me to repentance, and has been te...

Give It to Me

“Mommy’s a little stressed out right now,” I told my paralyzed ministry dog Miss Mercy as I got ready to change her diaper. Not that she would understand or answer, of course. Though she likely like many dogs picks up on my stress. But sure enough I got a response. From God.

Four simple, straightforward, powerful words.

“Give it to me,” I heard the Holy Spirit speak to my heart.

Years of learning to hear the voice of God and learning how to measure all I hear against the Bible because God only a...

Please Don’t Stay There

No matter your reasons for wanting to stay where you are, whether it be in a job, relationship, house, neighborhood, church congregation, volunteer work, school, country, belief, sin, pathway, way of doing things, habit, routine, absolutely whatever, IF IS NOT THE WILL OF GOD, and IF GOD IS CALLING YOU TO GO ELSEWHERE, please don’t stay there!

No matter how afraid you are to move on, no matter how scared you are to leave what is familiar, no matter how much your flesh doesn’t want to leave behin...

I Went to the Psychiatric Ward

My devotional writing is normally shorter than this message. I hope you will read it all for in it I pour out my heart to you with love and encouragement beyond measure!

The last thing in the world I expected just a few years after graduating from an Ivy League college was putting on a paper robe and paper slippers and walking into a hospital elevator and “falling in love” with some stranger in the elevator as though he had nothing better to do than fall in love with a totally broken woman – and...

Testimony: 2 Women Attacked

The Lord never ceases to amaze me. Though I had felt He would send me in one direction on a particular day in my latest location on the road full-time for Him, He had other plans. I sensed He wanted me to pack my beloved ministry dogs in the car and make the 25 minute drive to Jacksonville Beach, Florida. I also sensed I needed to hurry up and get there. I got ready to go. Off I drove. I planned to park in the only place familiar to me at the beach, but God led me down a seemingly random street ...

Set Free to Serve

I used to think about freedom in my typically fleshly self-centered perspective as though the freedom that comes through a forever relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ was solely for me to be blessed. Oh, how wrong I was! God in His tender love and sweet mercy and ever patience has been transforming me over the years and has given me a wonderful new perspective concerning the freedom found through the Lord Jesus Christ!

When we turn from our sins, believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and in His de...

I Don’t Want to Be Tested!

My prayer, more accurately my crying out, to the Lord was plain and clear and, in my estimate anyway, a prayer He should have responded to immediately with changing His mind, His plan, His will, so I could relax, feel good, and be comfortable. Safe and secure. Me, me, me. Yes, it was all about me.

“I know you are testing me. I just don’t want to be tested!” I exclaimed in writing to Him my little prayer. “Help me pass the test!” I just had to add that special request. After all, if He wasn’t goi...

My Pigs Slopping Outfit

I know the world is falling apart because so many have their backs turned to the Lord God almighty, and so many professing to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are lukewarm and not much committed to Him and to the Bible. So I’m not surprised much anymore by all I see and hear in my life on the road for Jesus. Like the day I stood at the front desk of yet another hotel where I was staying when another hotel guest called out to me.

In a nutshell, lacking even an ounce of kindness, he told me I was ...