Mary L’Esperance Held is a passionate, ordained minister, and founder of InYourWake.net which is a teaching and impartation ministry to equip believers in sharing the word of God effectively with others. Mary loves life and people and travels extensively serving people and igniting a fire in them to be bold in God and serve the Kingdom of God with joy! Take the time to get to know Mary’s TOP BEST moments! She is truely making a mark.
What is the best advice you have ever received in life?
Aside from someone telling me why I needed Jesus, I would say the best advice I ever received was to learn to study the Word for myself and to learn to hear God’s voice for myself. There are many we can learn from, and God definitely uses others in our lives in a major way. But we can easily be led astray if we don’t know Truth for ourselves.
What is your hidden talent?
I’m not sure this talent is ‘hidden’ but it may not be know by those who are not in my day to day life. I am an extremely effective and joyful multi-tasker. I get very frustrated if I only have one thing to do at a time…LOL.
What is your best way to start the day?
Jesus, My Bible, worship music, My coffee. Nuff said.
What was the best day of your life?
Of course the best day of my life was January 31, 1999 when I surrendered my life to Jesus and made Him Lord of my life. Obviously nothing else even comes close. But beyond that, I have so many pivotal times in my walk with God that come to mind it seems impossible to pin one down as the “best”. So I’ll just stay that the “best” days are those days where God manifests His plans in my midst and I see many random things come together in to one strategic event. It’s then I see that even during the times when it seemed like He had forgotten about my prayers, He was actually working it all out behind the scenes the whole time.
Why is the world filled with orphaned hearted people who resent authority, trusting others, & developing intimacy w/God, themselves, and others?
The world is filled with orphaned hearted people because they have many wounds on the inside that need healing. Their view of God, themselves and others is skewed by their life events and experiences, conscious and subconscious. Those experiences create a false sense of truth, and they exchange the truth of God for a lie (Rom 1:25). But God is a mighty Healer and can get to the root, bringing substantial change in the fruit of our lives! I’m living proof!
How can a person begin to receive God’s love? What was your experience like?
We can begin to receive God’s love when we allow God to come in and heal us from the inside out. Often we don’t even love ourselves. If we believe the lie that we are unlovable, it can be next to impossible to receive love. BUT GOD! When we let him in to those deep recesses within us to teach us truth in our innermost parts, we will see Him for who He truly is, and see ourselves through His eyes. Then it’s easy to receive his love. This is how it happened for me.
Deacon Larry is an ordained member of the clergy with the Anglican Church of North America serving God’s people in central Florida. Larry is married with 4 kids. Larry has traveled the world both as a son of military father, and then having spent time in the military himself.
Deacon Larry has long been involved with Christian Healing work having taught classes and seminars on the subject. Larry is also a routine contributing author to the Order of St. Luke Christian healing organization’s magazine “Sharing”. Larry has also written a few books on Christian healing and living. Larry also ministers daily via his Facebook page: In His Footsteps.
Larry also does a weekly online radio broadcast dealing with different aspects of the Christian faith, Scripture, and Christian living. Many of these broadcasts are recorded and uploaded to both youtube and Godtube. To view his recordings just search deaconbarnhill on either site.
He is a man of God making a mark on a hungry world! Get to know Larry’s Best right here:
What is the best advice you have ever received in life? It comes from my offensive line coach when I was playing football in High School. He stated “Do your job first, and then help your friends and neighbors.” If we aren’t doing what we need to in our own lives, how can we expect to properly guide, lead, support and minister to others when we can’t or won’t take care of things in our own lives first?
What is your hidden talent? I have a knack for acting and as such I am constantly drafted to help out with Vacation Bible School
What is your best way to start the day? Coffee, my Bible, and God
What was the best day of your life? The day my wife said yes to marrying me, followed closely by the birth of our two kids, and then Pentecost Sunday 2012, the day I was ordained.
Why is the world filled with orphaned hearted people who resent authority, trusting others, & developing intimacy w/God, themselves, and others?
I think this all stems from the fact that God has given mankind free will and he has let satan run free on the earth. As such people have come to think that God is not needed and that He represents all authority and if they give themselves to Him, that they will lose all control of their lives. Blaine Pascal put it best when he said that we are all born with a God shaped hole in our spiritual beings.
Until we fill that hole with Christ, nothing will bring us peace and comfort. The world has been convinced that the closer we get to God the less we become of our true selves. The truth is the closer we get to God the more we become ourselves. Sadly way too many churches today do not preach or teach upon this truth. As such the intimacy with God is not emphasized. We invite God to our weddings but toss Him out of the marriage. Our relationship with Christ is a marriage and as such we should be working to build Him up in us as He works to build us up.
How can a person begin to receive God’s love? What was your experience like? We have to become Jesus to the world. People need to see His light shining in and through us in such a manner that they become drawn to it. This doesn’t mean we brow beat them with the Gospel. This actually turns people off to the message. We start with ourselves and then we work out.
The best saying I have heard in this regard is we be a friend, make a friend, then bring a friend. All of this has to be Christ centered. By being a friend to them first we can walk beside them helping them to walk besides us, with Christ, and then slowly begin to turn them over to Christ.
This is how things happened in my life. I was very much anti-church and anti-Christian healing in my teens and early twenties. I had seen healing but chalked it up to parlor tricks. In fact I was much like St. Paul when he was still known as Saul. Friends in the military brought me to their church and the young adults, and this friend, helped walk beside me and lead me towards Christ.
I still resisted, until one day God called to me through an episode of Touched by an Angel. I felt His love calling to me and that night I gave myself to Christ. Since my love and my relationship with Him has grown by leaps and bounds.
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