Lara Love's Blog, page 75

Don’t Rush Out the Starting Gate

I have made a terrible mistake over the years of thinking every time the Lord puts on my heart to do something that it needs to happen NOW. I have assumed over and again that His timing for His will for me is IMMEDIATE. A perfect fit for my usual impatience and restlessness and high-speed kind of way, but not at all good in that God has His perfect timing for His perfect will. But in my mind, I figure if I don’t do God’s will as soon as He reveals it to me – i.e. pack my bags and run out the doo...

When You Can’t See the Way

“Don’t doubt because you can’t see,” the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart to encourage me.

I am one of those people who is very easily and quickly discouraged. Probably goes with the territory of being a very emotional and passionate woman. It’s easy for me to be up, and easy for me to be down. Then there are those in between times. God knows me better than anyone, and He lovingly and blessedly gives me encouragement when I need it.

This time around, I was once again doing a massive amount of resea...

God Has a Reason for Doing This!

I wonder if you can relate to this. As I sit at my desk in yet another hotel room after 5 years of being on the road full-time for the Lord with my beloved special needs ministry dogs, I think about how for the umpteenth time in years past God has led me somewhere in life that simply doesn’t make any sense to me. And He has made ultra clear that He is not leading me onward as quickly as I would have supposed – and wanted. Suffice it to say I have run the gamut with my emotions. Sad, overwhelmed,...

lara’s UPDATE & Prayer Request

Shortly after I was violently assaulted by a New York City park after some time doing streets ministry there, the Lord made clear despite my original hope to have stayed for several more months that it was time to pack up and go. Over the past month, He led me down the east coast with a brief stop in Virginia to see family and pass out some of my Finding the Light Gospel tracts, to coastal South Carolina for what I thought would be rest but what turned out to be intense ministry work, and then o...

God Told Me to WAIT

I started off feeling really excited about a big opportunity that had come my way and delightedly took the first step in the direction of taking advantage of what lay before me. If you knew my history really well, you would know I have made zillions of impulsive decisions in my life. Not only impulsive, but desperate and fear-driven not to mention pleasure-driven. Oh, yes, and self-centered. Selfish. Not-trusting-in-God decisions. I landed myself in endless messes. So much wreckage. So much sin....

My Timetable, Not Yours

Four simple words. May not mean much to someone else. May not mean much to you. Or maybe they do. Maybe they mean lots. Like they mean to me.

“My timetable, not yours,” the Lord spoke to my heart by His Holy Spirit.

I knew immediately what He meant. For years, I said I believed in the Lord Jesus Christ but didn’t live my life like I did. I lived for me not for Jesus. Now I live for the Lord. I am totally devoted to Him. And I yearn desperately to please God day by day, to love, honor, cherish, a...

You Need to Be Patient!

“You need to be patient with all of this,” the Lord spoke to my heart as I was feeling exasperated over several things in particular.

“I don’t feel like being patient,” I retorted like a two-year-old. Childish tantrums and self-pity never work with God.

“You may not feel like being patient, but you need to be patient,” God in His amazing love, patience, mercy, and, yes, heavenly Fatherly sternness, replied.

Why do you suppose some of us struggle so much with patience?

Honestly, I believe it has ...

My Amazing Mom

I was the rare child who was petrified of going away from home even for a single night. I would go to slumber parties and call my parents to come pick me up. I refused to go away to summer camp until I finally caved in. My early days of college were terrifying. Shockingly, after college, I went off to London by myself for some time. I returned home only shortly before heading off to New York City by myself with a book called “$50 a day in New York City” and mustered up the courage to begin my ne...

This Is Hard, Lord!

“This is hard, Lord,” I spoke in my heart to Him.

“Yes, it is,” the Lord replied to my heart. “But I am with you even until the end of time.”

I will spare you the details. Suffice it to say being on the road full-time for over 5 years for the Lord and ministry with my special needs ministry dogs especially given the state of this world and given what I see, hear, witness, and experience in my interactions with a broken world in dire need of the Lord Jesus Christ comes with its challenges – and e...

When the Devil Says You Can’t

I have spent a lot of time over the years listening to the devil tell me I can’t do what God has called me to do. Sadly, I did a lot of listening and ending up afraid, worried, down, discouraged, doubtful, confused, overwhelmed, stressed out, etc. But praise God I learned no matter what the devil says, no matter what the world says, no matter what my flesh says, when God calls me to do something, He will enable me to do it. And so it is I have now spent five years on the road for the Lord full-t...