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When You Cry

For years I have heard people say Jesus wept when he saw his friend Lazarus dead because he grieved the loss of his beloved friend. But long ago I heard a man say Jesus didn’t cry about the friend he knew he would raise from the dead but that he grieved about the people’s lack of faith in Him. Regardless of why Jesus cried, and regardless of why you and I cry, there is something Jesus did when he wept that serves as a powerful lesson and example for us all.

Jesus did not stay stuck in his crying...

Please Don’t Do This

“Go where I send you,” the Holy Spirit told me early one Sunday morning. “Not where I don’t.”

I had been crying out to the Lord incredibly much in the days past concerning something very important, and that morning the Lord was beginning to answer my cries with wisdom and direction. And a strong warning. The warning I share with you now.

Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, and this means we are to go where the Lord sends us – and to NOT go where the Lord does ...

I Don’t Know Where I Am Going

Thanks for watching my Video Devotional called “I Don’t Know Where I Am Going”…!

When God Doesn’t Answer

Even as I write this I have been crying out to God for what seems to me anyway for so very long for His directions in a certain exceedingly important matter only to find the Lord not answering with the detailed plan I so believe He should give me. He tells us in the Bible He will give wisdom to those who ask in faith, so why isn’t He answering? I find myself frustrated, impatient, self-pitying, hurt, sometimes even angry. Oh, God, don’t you care about me? Doesn’t this matter to you? How can you ...

lara’s Latest Update & Prayer Request

Praise the Lord, despite my sadness over leaving the New York City / New Jersey area much earlier than I had hoped for after a few months of amazing ministry opportunities there, the Lord blessed me with several days in Virginia seeing my beloved Mom and also my aunt after about a 5 hour drive. I then spent 12 hours in the car in a single day (exhausting!) driving down to coastal South Carolina where I will be for just a few weeks.

Though exhausted from ministry in the New York City area along w...

The Other Side of Grief

It’s 2:09 am on June 8, 2022. I am so very tired and amid such big transition in life and ministry and have so many issues I face in a time and world filled with trouble with personal struggles galore and could so very much use great sleep but this message just poured powerfully from my heart. And I believe it is for someone, or for some people, and must be shared even this very hour. May the Lord in His loving sovereignty get it to those who perhaps need it. May He use it mightily in people’s l...

Sticking With Your Purpose

When the crowd tried to get Jesus to stay with them rather than move on, Jesus told them He needed to move on to fulfill His purpose. The Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, God in the flesh in His time on this earth, was determined to fulfill His purpose for God the Father. He was fully committed to stick with His God-given purpose and not let anything or anyone including Himself get Him off track.

Can the same be said of you and me?

Our primary purpose on earth is to love, honor, praise, worship, o...

God’s Purpose for You

I don’t sleep well. Some might think this is a bad thing. There is good news in this. In the middle of the night, I have an amazing opportunity to spend time alone with God and the Bible. To pray. To seek Him. And to hear Him. To learn and grow. To repent and draw closer to God. To enjoy my amazingly intimate relationship with God. To not be interrupted by the cares of the day. To see what God wants to show me. Like this.

For the first time, despite having read Jesus’ long powerful prayer in Joh...

Are You Okay? – Powerful Testimony of Love

I can still see his head above the crowd. Tall. Much taller than everyone else. His face. A look of horror at what he had just witnessed. Mixed with desperation. Desperate care and concern. Almost frantic. Like he needed to know something immediately. Sure enough he was bound and determined to call out his question. He wasn’t just taller than the crowd. He was louder. His voice rose above the sounds of the people gathered round. “Are you okay?” he cried out vehemently.

Friend, I had just been vi...

lara’s Update & Prayer Request

Hi everyone,

I praise the Lord for the approximately 6 ½ weeks of streets ministry in New York City and streets and hotel ministry in New Jersey as well He blessedly gave me. I praise Him for all the amazing opportunities He gave me, for all His provision in my time in this area, and for miraculously saving my life and protecting me from serious injury when I was violently assaulted in New York City.

And I praise Him for loving, comforting, healing, and growing me in the aftermath of the assault...