Gwen Lara Archives - Page 10 of 45

July 26, 2020

A Whole New Life!

This is about getting a whole new life—replacing your old spirit (bad attitudes) with God’s wonderful Spirit (beautiful, loving personality). Those who find this transformation experience a restored marriage, re-established relationships, a whole new positive attitude, and diminished criticism and projection...

July 25, 2020

The One Question to Ask Yourself

Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength... Honestly, even though I know I have felt a love for God since childhood, I do not think that I can totally comprehend this subject of love for God. I know it grows each year I live...

July 18, 2020

Which Comes First – Love or Obedience?

Many wayward hearts live to eat instead of eating to live. Food should be nothing more than fuel—we should drop the passion for food and eat simply just the amount to satisfy the hunger...

July 17, 2020

How to Fix the Heart

Notice that there is nothing inherently wrong with alcohol, tobacco, food, credit cards, or sexual desires. What is wrong is with our heart. Tearing up the credit card is not going to keep our heart from materialism. Making the food have less fat is not going to make our heart less greedy for food...

July 16, 2020

We Cannot Love Both God and Food

We love the master that we obey. And we obey the master we love. We cannot love both God and food. Either we will hate the one and love the other or we will love the one and hate the other. Do not kid yourself—you cannot be in love with God if you are in love with food...

July 15, 2020

How to Fall in Love with God

How do you fall in love with God? Well, how did we fall in love with food? What happened was our hearts became enslaved to food by obeying the food. When the potato chips called our name from the pantry and said, “Hey, come eat me,” we found ourselves listening and obeying...