Encouragement Archives - Love Letters To & From God A Compilation of the Epistles Of Love of Laurence Dodd Means Sr. Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:40:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 214704947 Love Letter to and from God- Encouragement from The Prophet’s Corner https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2024/06/12/let-love-lead/ https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2024/06/12/let-love-lead/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:49:13 +0000 https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/?p=355 A Timeless Teaching from TB Joshua focused the our duty to LOVE Over the years I have gained great insight, encouragement and understanding from the teachings of Prophet J.B Joshua. Although he is no longer with us in the physical realm his prayer and teachings still proceed from the sanctuary up to the throne of […]

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A Timeless Teaching from TB Joshua focused the our duty to LOVE

Over the years I have gained great insight, encouragement and understanding from the teachings of Prophet J.B Joshua. Although he is no longer with us in the physical realm his prayer and teachings still proceed from the sanctuary up to the throne of grace.

Those of us in the west do not understand or appreciate the depth in the spirit of Prophet T.B Joshua or many other great men and women of God from Africa, but I can truly say his teachings still have power to save and deliver. I am a witness.

This set of notes I took from viewing a sermon series “Let Love Lead.” This is the first of many notes I will share that have made a difference in my life. Say whatever ever you will, he teaches from the heart of our Father as he employs us to make love the center of your being.

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Let Love Lead

Loves care more for others than for self. Love does not want anything negative – does not want hatred, does not have swollen head does not look down, not forceful, put up with anything, tolerant, preserves for the best rest to come,

First Corinthians 13

Love looks around to see who is in need.

The wound of one is wound of all.

Pain of others is pain of all.

It is only through Love that we can respond to God in the present, purest form.

Forgive self and neighbors.

Faith works by Love – Galatians five verse six

No matter what you say or do you are bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up, always there in the face of trial And temptation.

Love cares more for others than self.

Love is positive, nothing negative let love lead.

Love, stoop down, it does not look down. Love looks around to see who is in need

We begin to succeed when the need of others matter to us.

It is only through Love that we are able to respond to God and others.

Matter what you say or do you are bankrupt if you do not love.

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Love Letters to and from God: Time to launch the GoodNews Network Fellowship https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2023/12/03/love-letters-to-and-from-god-time-to-launch-the-goodnews-network-fellowship/ https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2023/12/03/love-letters-to-and-from-god-time-to-launch-the-goodnews-network-fellowship/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2023 10:51:00 +0000 https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/?p=338 I will bless You Lord, all the days of my life.  I treasure the thought of You.  I treasure knowing You by Your Word, by Your Spirit.  I will forever bless Your Holy Name.  Thank you Father for keeping me ever present in You, by You, for You (in You).  Bless Your Holy Name. This […]

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I will bless You Lord, all the days of my life.  I treasure the thought of You.  I treasure knowing You by Your Word, by Your Spirit.  I will forever bless Your Holy Name.  Thank you Father for keeping me ever present in You, by You, for You (in You).  Bless Your Holy Name.

This morning I am just eternally and actually grateful for Your being in Me.  Yes Lord. For the rest of my life I honor You.  I worship You.  I place You at the center and circumference of who I am always and forever.  Bless Your Holy Name.  YES LORD!

I am praying and contemplating the next move of my life.  Although it is next, it is not new.  GoodNews has been indelibly etched in my heart.  Fired into my spirit. 

My very existence.  Glory to Your Name.  As I am in the “Kingdom Builders Academy” I am training  toward developing GoodNews as a corporate being with the tools needed to focus on “DOING THE RIGHT THINGS @ THE RIGHT TIME, IN THE RIGHT ORDER.”  

I’ve been enrolled since the first of the year  (2023) and I am gaining great ground (GLORY TO GOD!) I am now in the place in the program that I launch the vision.  Although I have not followed (all of the steps exactly) I see the value of following someone called by You, to follow their lead and do as I am instructed.  Thank you Father  that I had an earthly dad who was strong in instruction so, it is not hard to follow.

Now we come back to “DO SOMETHING EVERYDAY TO BUILD THE NETWORK.”  Back in 2002 I started the “Friday Night Fellowship” where I brought together 3 ministries to fellowship.

1- The Host Ministry

2- The Worship Leader

3- The Exhorter

I feel in my spirit it’s time to bring it back. As a Marketplace Apostle, it is in my heart to reach neglected, unreached, non committed markets and bring the Gospel into their homes, hearts and heads. 

The most important aspect (of the KINGDOM MARKETPLACE MINISTRY BLUEPRINT) lies in Penetrating—-> into the thresholds of the TARGET MARKET ——> Saturating  the walls with the Gospel message- “Fulfilling The Great Commission- to GO forth and make disciples of men”,

bringing “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done”,- “to be fruitful and multiply.”

That we bring dominion into the (marketplace) target areas.

TARGET—->PENETRATE—->SATURATE—->DOMINATE

Father, I am praying for Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide me into life, everlasting.  Lead me into the places that are Metron to me. To the people who are praying for me to be revealed.  Not me but the call that’s on me.

Right Here, Right Now!

The special point of you at this stage of your life is not about ego, its about legacy. It’s about Apostolic Succession.  It’s about placing My Heart in the air and DOMINATE.  Taking the tools I’ve given to you and build upon the firm foundation the years have given to you. 

While others retire and travel for pleasure, you get a second life like Abraham.

That’s why I picked up the book and set it in the window so you wouldn’t miss it.  (Last night I placed a book “The Top 100 Prayers in the Bible” on the window ledge next to my study place.)”  I sent you to the first prayer by Abraham- COVENANT. You have a covenant with Me that has endured and will yet explode to great usefulness in the marketplace.

Call those stuck and caught on the outside wishing, praying they were inside.  

Its not a (Christian) recycling program but a renewal. A renovation of the dreams and visions once held dear but vision killed, vision denied, vision squandered for whatever reason.  (The Great) I Am is calling you back into the banquet feast.

Know that I love you (with an abiding love). I never stopped loving you.  You hear me now calling.  COME HOME!   Every prodigal that returns, I will see you through.  

My promises are forever YES AND AMEN.

Come back. Come to the feast that’s just for My sons.  Just for My daughters. Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Call unto Me and I will answer you. I will show you the way back to Me!

Trim your lamps!  Darkness is coming.  It is yet here.  Trim your lamps for to see in the days to come.  You will need a lamp and a light and they won’t burn unless the oil is there.  My Spirit will show you the way back home. 

PART 2- I’ll never leave you nor forsake you, I Am with you now!

What are you praying for? The prayers of the Just are ever preceding towards Me. Ask and it shall be given thee.  Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door will be opened. BUT seek Me first in all and I will be all and do all. All you want in righteousness, meeting your need and fulfilling your desire. 

That’s why I led you to Abraham this morning. Abraham loved and worshipped God before anything else, so God was pleased with his request. 

“ Delight yourselves also in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart” Psalm 37:4

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you”. Matt 6:33

Father, create in me a clean heart.  Renew a right spirit within me.

My scriptural foundation:

Isaiah 11:2- And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 28:1- And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

Psalms 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

V 14 – 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

My Prayer


Father, my heart is to enter into Your presence like never before. To know You.  To commit my total being to where I hear, flow, and obey.

Father, remove this “funk” on me that I would freely, with POWER AND AUTHORITY fellowship wherever you send me. BOLDLY GO, SAY AND DO WHAT THUS SAID THE LORD.

And knowing that ….. God is able to make all grace abound toward you (me); that ye (I will), always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work…… that I would have everything I need to accomplish the purpose set in and before me. 

At some point you asked me if I’d go and I said YES!  I still do.  Show me the way I am to go.  Who do I see?  What do I say?  Father, send destiny helpers that I need to make it so.  All to Your glory, honor and praise IN JESUS NAME. 

Your son Laurence.  Amen?  AMEN!!!

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Love Letters to and from GOD: Millennials-Keep up the GOD work https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2023/11/27/love-letters-to-and-from-god-millennials-keep-up-the-god-work/ https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2023/11/27/love-letters-to-and-from-god-millennials-keep-up-the-god-work/#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/?p=325 The post Love Letters to and from GOD: Millennials-Keep up the GOD work appeared first on Love Letters To & From God.

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Love Letters To And From God

Love Letters LinkedIn post 4/18/2022
A Commentary


As an Elder, I am encouraged and excited to see, despite all odds, there is a class of millennial Christians who refuse to submit to ungodly trends and social influence but are committed to worship in Spirit and in truth. 


Committed to The Word and following after Christ in holiness and righteousness. Despite all that is wrong in the world (and in the church) they are committed to right. Not necessarily politically but actually. 


They are bold as lions but harmless as doves. 


Father show us the way we should go and show. Allow us to continue to prophetically mentor and lead them to their rightful place at the gate where they will take up the mantle, destroying the kingdom of darkness and advancing the Kingdom of Yah. Giving You glory every step of the way. 


Millennials, continue to move with the power of Yah, in His Word by His Spirit! There’s a great cloud of witnesses here and now and in glory cheering you on to do greater things!


It does not yet appearing just what Yah has in store for you but I know THE BEST IF YET TO COME🖖🏾 #millennials #millennialchristians

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A Love Letter to myself- Dated October 18,2020 https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2023/09/06/a-love-letter-to-myself-dated-october-182020/ https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/2023/09/06/a-love-letter-to-myself-dated-october-182020/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:40:42 +0000 https://loveletters.laurencemeans.com/?p=249 Recently, I experienced a sickness that was severe to the point of constant and excessive fluid in my lungs caused me to keep a bucket besides my bed so I could spew the massive flegm I was expectorating. It got so bad at one point I thought if I don’t go to the hospital I may not make it.

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How I Overcome By The Blood of The Lamb and the Word of my testimony 

Recently, I experienced a sickness that was severe to the point of constant and excessive fluid in my lungs caused me to keep a bucket besides my bed so I could spew the massive flegm I was expectorating. It got so bad at one point I thought if I don’t go to the hospital I may not make it. Know the enemy was placing thoughts of pneumonia, flu and possible death in my mind. (In retrospect, was this COVID?)

It was then I jumped up and fell to my face not only in prayer but in fervent declaration that I am well and I am divinely healed and healthy. I went to the word that spoke to my faith place and not my circumstances. I went to a psalm that has been a comfort and joy for many, many years. And when you’ve been in this- God kinda life -for sometime you know what word to go to, for what you want and need. 

For me, Psalm 91 was my battle-ax as it has on many occasions.

But this time something was different. Holy Spirit really become my comforter and joy in the midnight hour when I literally had the fight of my life on my hands. What He gave me was and is an awesome lesson for the best of my life for the rest of my life. 

What He said is that blessed assurance the psalmist wrote about. As I read : “He that dwells in the secret place shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty,” He sent me back to read it again. I said he, and He stopped me and said say it again. I said he, and He stopped me again and said say it again. He. STOP. I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT HE IS YOU AND YOU ARE THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING I PROMISE HERE AND THROUGHOUT MY WORD. 

It was here He “convinced” me that I was indeed loved by Him and He is very concerned about my current condition and it’s my faith in His word that is making me whole right now. Not in the sweet by in by but now.

“Seeking Me first puts you first in line for the right now healing you need now.”

Whereas I was concerned I had pneumonia and if I didn’t do something now I may die, I did do something. I lived the Zoe life I preach and spoke the word to my condition and The God of my faith came in the room and comforted, protected and healed me. HE IS ME!

No longer having a chest full of fluid but healed and looking back at how He comforted me. He showed me I was the he that He loved and talked about that dwells in the secret place and abides under His shadow. The Word literally became flesh in me and manifested all the promises I needed.

GLORY TO GOD. 

So this short testimony is to encourage you that whatever you are going through right now or in the minutes, days or even years to come, know that by faith, He is with you. His rod and His staff they will comfort you.

It’s by faith that He is here for you and will direct you in all of your ways. It may not and probably won’t happen for you like it happened for me but you’ve got to have faith and believe that He will do it for you just as you need Him to. Why? All because He loves you and He desires the best for you. 

Yes, God is able but I am a witness that He will. I know so because He said so!

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