Lara Love's Blog

I was walking through a parking lot on the most wonderfully beautiful sunshine-day when all of a sudden a cloud passed over – my heart. For a few moments I was saddened. And hurt. Again. Because of a lady who drove her car by me.

See, for months no matter how kind I tried to be to her, she returned my kindness with what felt like coldness, disgust, and hatred. Whenever I waved when she walked or drove by, she refused to wave back. Worse yet, she refused to even look at me. It was as though she ...

Many years ago my then husband when we were in the little kitchen one day of our tiny out-in-the-country cabin-like housing his job provided for us told me I needed to SLOW DOWN.

He was referring to my high-speed lifestyle. Later that day a police officer while I was driving turned on his uh-oh-I’m-in-trouble light and pulled me over. He graciously did not give me a speeding ticket. He kindly gave me a warning in writing to my recollection. I only remember two words. SLOW DOWN.

For a wide vari...

If I counted accurately, 17 times in Psalm 23 the psalmist uses the words “my”, “I”, and “me”. There is a powerful significance in Psalm 23 to all these very personal references.

Intimacy. Intimacy with the Lord.

The Lord is not an unloving, uncaring, cold, distant God who sits way up high in heaven so He can be as far away and distant from us as possible.  

For all who believe the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and was raised from the dead and confess Him as Lord, turning our lives over ...

”No,” the Holy Spirit of God spoke to my heart regarding something.

Honestly I can’t even remember what it was. But I do remember this. I immediately submitted to the Lord. Simply put, I surrendered.

Unlike in the past. When countless times I acted like a small child in the grocery store with her mother at the checkout counter who starts throwing a temper tantrum when her mother refuses to buy her all the candy bars she wants and makes her put them back on the shelf where they belong.

Just lik...

    When the Holy Spirit of God made clear He wanted me to stop walking and sit down on a stone bench that looked plenty uncomfortable not to mention I do not typically sit on benches, it made no sense to me. But I submitted to God and sat down.  

     I had been walking somewhere and was feeling quite anxious. About as soon as I sat on the bench where there were few if any people around, a couple walked by. I looked at the woman’s t-shirt which had an enormous image, a few words in huge letteri...

SPECIAL NOTE: It is vitally important any time you read or hear anything concerning God that you measure it against the Bible because God always and only speaks in line with the Bible. If it does not line up with the Bible, it is not from God. The following message I believe the Lord spoke to my heart and directed me to publish it in the “first person” in which He spoke it. I added the title & Bible verses to go with it.

AMAZING MESSAGE FROM THE LORD

I want you to trust me even when things are h...

I was bustling around, hurrying and scurrying to get some stuff done with the plan ultimately to get something to eat and get some much needed rest when the Holy Spirit moved – no pun intended – strongly on my heart to sit down and write this message. Does God want you to move?

Does God want you to move to a new house, a new apartment, a new roommate situation, a new town, a new job, a new church, a new ministry opportunity, to let the past go and move forward in life, to a different doctor, to ...

    One of my greatest blessings and privileges over the years has been ministering to “the forgotten”. Countless times God has led me to people who are typically overlooked, disregarded, rejected, discounted, judged, condemned, thrown to the wayside, abandoned, looked past, etc. on an ongoing basis by people even countless believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

     I praise the Lord He has seen fit to use me to love, encourage, pray for, share the Gospel with, talk about the Bible to, give my Go...

       What is your biggest challenge in life? The hardest thing you face that feels, seems, and looks impossible to overcome? The issue, hurdle, obstacle, mountain, etc. that appears bigger than anything?

     Friend, God is bigger than that challenge!

     So instead of staring obsessively at and refusing to look away from that challenge and being afraid, discouraged, overwhelmed, feeling defeated, feeling like you are not going to make it, thinking about giving up, etc., look to the Lord Jes...

What if every worry you ever had became a prayer?

What if every time you find yourself anxious concerning something or someone you choose to pray to God?

What if every time you are afraid you decide to pray?

What if every time you experience a wave of fear about someone or something you look to the Lord and pray?

What if you choose when you have worry, anxiety, and are afraid and filled with fear you release it all like a helium balloon and let it rise up into the sky as a prayer heaven bound to...