Lara Love's Blog, page 86

Chocolate Chip Pancakes

I am probably one of the few women God ever created who for years and years of my adult life could have cared less about chocolate. Then everything changed. I went through a good long period of feeling like I couldn’t live without it. Chocolate this. Chocolate that. Everything chocolate. So much so any other food paled in comparison. My chocolate consumption got out of hand. So much so two friends said they would pray God would take the chocolate from my life. He did. Then after a good long whil...

NOW Is the Time to Forgive

Forgiveness is not something to be postponed. It’s not something to do when we feel like it. When we want to forgive. When we feel better about someone. When time has passed and we don’t hurt so much. When we think differently about the person who betrayed us. Forgiveness isn’t to come when we’ve had time to work through all our emotions about what happened. Forgiveness doesn’t have an appointed time in the future. NOW is the time to forgive. Here is why.

God’s greatest commands are to love Him ...

Your Happy Place

I usually really don’t like modern day newly made up lingo especially when it’s all about self knowing full well Jesus calls His followers to deny self, take up our crosses, and follow Him. I usually don’t pay much attention to the sayings and try as best I can to stay focused on God and His Word and His will for my life and ministry. But I couldn’t help but pay attention to yet another new saying. Perhaps you have heard it. “My happy place.” Or, “Your happy place”. And, “Find your happy place.”...

Bye-Bye Negativity

Some people are negative by nature. Some are really, really negative by nature. I am really, really, really negative by nature and pretty much always have been. So imagine my surprise and delight at realizing that overall I have become an enormously positive person. How is that possible if negativity is my nature? Because God when He forgives our sins and gives us everlasting life through our repentance and faith in Jesus Christ and in His death and resurrection and committing our lives to God a...

lara’s Prayer Request & Update

Dear Friend,

Just as I come up on 5 years on the road for Jesus and ministry, I have been in coastal South Carolina for the past few months and am now preparing to depart very soon Lord willing for a short stop in northern Virginia followed by a season of ministry on the streets of New York City along with serving in Hoboken, New Jersey and the surrounding area as the Lord leads.

The past few months have been filled with much time in God’s presence, praying and seeking Him, reading the Word, wri...

Jesus and Peanut Butter Dog Toys

Not even 6 am yet, and I was delighted to see the jubilant joy of my senior special needs ministry dogs as they excitedly waited for me to set their big black Kong toys down on the floor for them which I had just filled with part of their daily delicious supplement and yummy gooey peanut butter. Then something powerful, tragic, and convicting dawned on me.

My beloved paralyzed dog Miss Mercy hit by likely a truck years ago and Grace dumped at a gas station and hit by two cars long ago show more ...

God’s Comfort

I cross paths with people continually who need comfort. Some people have a circle of people in their lives and don’t have too much interaction outside of that circle. Given my life on the road for Jesus, and my ministry work to which I am called, I am ever meeting new people. Some I meet ever so briefly. Some remain in my life for years to come. One thing is constant. Always, always, always there are people hurting, broken, lost, sad, depressed, going through unbelievable tragedies, wounded, sic...

Don’t Get Caught Up in Drama

I know all about being a drama queen. I was one for decades. Drama this. Drama that. I got caught up in lots of other people’s drama, and I continually created tons of my own and dragged anyone I could into it. Drama is dangerous, and here is why.

The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10), and he uses drama to tempt us, distract us, get us off course, get our focus off the Lord, lure us into being self-absorbed, live for self instead of for the Lord, fail to love the Lord with all...

I Don’t Live in the 1800’s

Okay, it’s obvious I don’t live in the 1800s. But what you may not know is I have many a time thought I would have done better living in the 1800s because of my love for the Lord, a simple life, the strong biblical preaching back then, the real repentance and real revivals, the focus of believers in Jesus on purity and holiness, the love for God and for family, etc. But I have quickly considered the fact that back then they didn’t have heat, air conditioning, and washing machines. And the temper...

He Stole My Joy!

“Don’t let him steal your joy,” I heard the Holy Spirit speak to my heart.

Joy, one of God’s beautiful blessings, is a fruit of His Spirit who lives in His followers. The joy of the Lord is not conditional on the world around us and on our life’s circumstances. Jesus’ followers have access to joy 24-7 through the Lord.

But just as the Lord was warning me not to do, we can allow our joy to be stolen. The devil in his mission to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10) uses temptations, attacks, dece...