Sorry for the confusion, but there was a problem with some of the links I sent earlier today. I apologize to those of you who may have already accessed the links. See the correct links below.

Let me know if you have any questions at lisa@lisaheatonbooks.com.

Assignment:
Session Six Video covers two chapters.
Chapters: “Live Your Heart’s Desire” and “Live the Love Letter” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

One of our anchor verses for Session Six is Psalm 37:4, “Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.”

If there’s one thing I can say about early Lisa, it’s that her heart couldn’t be trusted and tended to have a mind of its own. Much of the trouble that caused me should come as no surprise since we girls are raised from early childhood to long for our love story with a man and to seek human love above all else. Nothing could be further from the truth! This will be the topic for your week’s study, finding Jesus as your own love story and seeking Him through His love letter to you.

Just so you know, today’s Lisa can trust her heart’s desires a little more because her heart now knows its only true love is Jesus. Nothing could have tamed a wild-at-heart woman more than His faithful and forgiving love.

This week’s assignment includes two chapters and two takeaways, so remember to take your time in completing them. There’s no reason to hurry through. If you aren’t finished by the time I send next week’s assignment, just set the new one aside until you’re finished with this week’s reading and questions. This walk with Jesus should be as in the cool of the day.

You’ll find the video, chapters to read, and takeaway below.

See you back next week,
Lisa

Assignment:
Session Six Video covers two chapters.
Chapters: “Live Your Heart’s Desire” and “Live the Love Letter” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

This week is the midway point of our You. Are. Loved. online study. The single chapter, “Live the Love Song,” is a bridge between the two sections of the book, so this will be a brief reading week. You will still have a video to reinforce the key points and takeaway questions to allow an opportunity to consider the material.

His love is the music that draws us to the dance floor, His Word guides our steps. Our faith walk is the day-to-day dance. – You. Are. Loved.

Thanks to those of you who are following along. I look forward to your input.

Be blessed,
Lisa

Assignment:
Session Five Video covers one chapter.
Chapter: “Live the Love Song” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

Our Session Four chapter is a needed reminder that, while we may know God is present in our lives, we often miss Him in the day to day, in the little ways He makes Himself known. This week, rather than me coming up with something new and creative to say about the upcoming chapter, “In the Day to Day,” I decided to share the opening paragraphs with you.

“True love isn’t a feeling; it’s an experience. Love is action. Love is listening. Love is there for you and cares for you. Love is a thousand little things. We live in a physical realm where spiritual things often remain hidden. After looking at the world around you and experiencing disappointment, rejection, and heartbreak, your eyes must adjust to the inner life of love you live with Jesus.

A verse has recently taken my heart captive. Jesus says in the Book of John that He and the Father would come and make their home with us (14:23). Consider that. The Father and Son are at home with you: in you, around you, beside you, before you, holding you. You are at home with the Person who is Love. You live out your life–all aspects of it–with God at home with you. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, you can talk to Him. You can call on Him. You can reach for Him.

Instead of cohabitating with God, most settle for weekend visitation with Him at church on Sunday…” – You. Are. Loved.

If you have any questions or comments, you can reach me at lisa@lisaheatonbooks.com.

Happy Friday,
Lisa

Assignment:
Session Four Video covers one chapter.
Chapter: “In the Day to Day” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

No matter your season or situation, God is the One, the only One, who can meet your every need. Do you need guidance by the One who knows your yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows? Your heavenly Father is there to lead you in straight paths. Do you need an ear to listen? Jesus is a friend who is closer than a brother. Do you need wisdom or understanding? The Spirit who indwells you will teach you.

While you can’t see Jesus or touch Him physically, you can know that your Savior is in the midst of your every waking and sleeping moment, your big and little decisions, and your joyful and grief-filled days. When you belong to God the Father through Jesus the Son, you are never, ever on your own.

I hope you will join me for Session Four as we turn our eyes toward our inner, intimate relationship with the God of all our needs.

This week there is only one chapter to read. If you read the chapter material online, remember, you can print the takeaway via the second link without having to print the entire chapter. That will save paper and ink.

If you have any questions or comments, you can reach me at lisa@lisaheatonbooks.com.

Have a good weekend,
Lisa

Assignment:
Session Three Video covers one chapter.
Chapter: “Intimate Relationship” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

Your chapter this week takes you beyond the Sunday Jesus as you reflect on a few of the many facets of who God is as your walking companion. All you ever need is wrapped up in Him.

Assignment:
Session Two Video covers one chapter.
Chapter: “Your Walking Companion” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at lisa.heaton@comcast.net.

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All session material will be loaded onto one, easy-to-access page as we complete the chapter/takeaway revisions. Find it here: You. Are. Loved. Study Page

**Note: Converting from book format to a PDF has been a challenge, so please excuse any oddities you may encounter.

Good morning beloved,

For those of you who are following along with the You. Are. Loved. online series, it’s time to begin your first session. You will have two very brief chapters to read and questions to help you consider each chapter’s key points. Remember, you can take as long as you need to work through the material. No deadline.

“In the Cool of the Day” is a reminder that your walk with the Lord should be just that, a peaceful walk as if in the cool of the day. This world is pure insanity, and the enemy is deceiving daily. Isn’t a peace-filled walk with Jesus exactly what you need today to counter the enemy’s lies?

The chapter, “Be Loved,” challenges you to look beyond head knowledge when it comes to the love God has for you. When you know deep down in your heart that you are loved unconditionally and intentionally by the God who created you to be His, you live out this life differently. You live loved.

I hope you’ll join along. See the Session One material and links below. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at lisa.heaton@comcast.net.

Assignment:
Session One Video covers both brief chapters.
Chapters: “In the Cool of the Day” and “Be Loved” can be read online with no printing necessary.
Printable Takeaway for easy printing to complete the questions

All session material for this series will be available on one web page. New material will be loaded as we complete the chapter/takeaway revisions. Study site: You. Are. Loved. Study Page

**Note: Converting from book format to a PDF has been a challenge, so please excuse any oddities you may encounter.

Direction matters. Just an inch or two off course, and you’ll eventually end up at the wrong destination. In my walk of faith, I’ve been miles off course and can only marvel now that I didn’t end up in much more trouble. I can credit that to a redirected life, one where God Himself stepped in and set my mind and heart on a brand-new course.

One word changed it all: love, love as in “God is Love,” love as in “Beloved,” the one Jesus loves. After a season of stumbling and eventually taking a hard fall out in the world, I returned to God and collided with love in a way that has totally redirected my life. I’m often still messy, but what Christ follower isn’t? At least now I’m able to navigate the messiness of life while walking next to Jesus, the real One, not the Sunday Jesus I used to know.

Right now, as I count down the weeks until my granddaughter Ellie comes for her two-week visit in June, I have a hope to direct her life toward Love now rather than see her have to redirect later. She just turned nine and has every major life decision ahead of her—if the Lord tarries. What if she enters young adulthood with Love as her guide, with Jesus as her own intimate possession in a way that I didn’t know until my 40s? I want that for her.

To that end, I’m creating what I call VBS material for her so that we can spend those two weeks watching for and working through the love God has for her. While she takes a vacation from her normal life (and annoying little brother ;), I plan on saturating her with the love of God in every way I can. I’m using my nonfiction book, You. Are. Loved., as a reference and customizing it for her.

Because I’ve been deep into a revision of the book, it only seemed natural to use it as my framework. Then, understandably, you came to mind, all of you ladies who read my books. I’ve noticed over the years that my fiction readers aren’t much on nonfiction, so many of you have never read You. Are. Loved. That, too, is understandable. Others’ stories are more captivating than our own spiritual growth. What if, however, you happened to collide with Love in a way that completely redirected your life? What if?

There are three possible scenarios in your future. 1) Jesus comes soon. 2) Jesus tarries and you die before He comes. 3) The world as you wait on either one or two gets worse and worse and worse. Whichever comes, you need to be ready, saturated in Love. For scenarios one and two, wouldn’t you love to arrive in heaven knowing Jesus on an intimate level versus encountering Him as a near stranger to you? If you only know the Sunday Jesus that others talk about, then put in the effort now to build your relationship with Him.

If scenario three happens, where things on the world stage only get worse, then you need to be so grounded in His love for you that nothing shakes your faith. When you know in the deepest-down part of who you are that you’re loved, whatever may come and whatever may go won’t affect you like it will others. You will be able to trust Him in a way others can’t. You will be willing to follow Him when others won’t. You will surrender to Him when others refuse to. His love for you is everything. His love for you changes everything. He is everything. If you don’t “feel” that way, that He is your everything, then it’s time to get to know the Groom you will someday stand before at the wedding.

Obviously, I’m hoping for a soon wedding, even a June wedding, but however long it takes for Him to come, I know that I can only wait and watch and walk and work well if I’m close to Him and continuing on this love journey He has had me on for the past couple of decades. I want you to be able to do that as well, so I’m inviting you to join me on this love journey.

I know you don’t want to start some massive project. I’m not asking you to buy or read a book. Come to think of it, I’ve never asked anything of you other than maybe for a prayer or two along the way. But now, I’m going to ask you to read a little something here and there. Each week or so, I’ll send out a small chapter or two for you to read. I’ll include a Takeaway for you to answer some questions as a review. If you have a few extra minutes, I’ll even include a video of this goofy girl giving you a little more insight.

For the record, I really don’t want you to buy the book since we’re currently revising it. We have added much deeper reflection questions after each chapter. I would rather you do the online version. You can create an email folder and save my posts. That way you can work on it as you’re able with no deadlines. Actually, that’s the best way to journey through the You. Are. Loved. book, slowly, taking your time to sit with Jesus and ponder along the way.

Even if you’re super in love with Jesus and know His love to such a degree that you’re walking more in the heavenly realm with Him than walking here on this dusty ground, it would still benefit you to take this journey. And even if you’ve read the book before, I would recommend a fresh read if you weren’t part of the recent Zoom group who read through this with me. Every time I read the book, it ministers to me, not because I’m some great writer or teacher, but because I encounter Jesus in a fresh way in every new season. I’m a new Lisa every year and have needs He meets in new ways along the way.

All this to say, please do this. I really don’t ask for much. If you only knew how desperately I want others to know the Jesus I know, to know the love I’ve found. It’s what keeps me awake at night. Just a chapter or two as a trial, will you at least give it a try?

Still not sold on the idea? Below, I will share a few testimonies from readers, some who had the You. Are. Loved. book long before they read it. Then once they did read, they collided with Love in a way that redirected their lives. Okay, one is from my ministry partner, Kim, but I met Kim through the You. Are. Loved. book. She signed onto this ministry after she attended a You. Are. Loved. Zoom group study I offered back in 2020, and we’re still working together all these years later. Over the course of those years, I’ve witnessed her life be redirected in such a way that only Jesus can claim the glory, all because of Love.

I’ll never know if you do or don’t give this a try, so no commitments needed. No response to this even needed. Just know that I love you and am only asking you to read the following intro chapter for now.

About the Book:
Book Trailer for encouragement
Testimonials if you need a nudge

If you decide to give it a try, start with the Online Introduction below.
Online Introduction to read
Intro Video shares the backstory of God’s You. Are. Loved. message to me.

Next week, I’ll send out the first two brief chapters along with the printable Takeaway you can complete. I really hope you’ll tag along.

Blessings,
Lisa

Here is an advance copy of an article that will run soon on Rapture Ready. With a world so out of control, I believe we can all agree that “perhaps today” would be a great day for Jesus to come.

Perhaps today are the words that drummed in my head like a heartbeat at 2:15 this morning and rolled me out of bed by 2:50. Now, here I sit at 2:58 with my laptop and a word of encouragement for you. I encountered those two words the other day when I ran across a note still hanging around my house after Christmas. It was only me happening upon the note again that those two words, perhaps today, stood out to me. Beccy had written them just after she assured me that she would be watching for Jesus in Oregon and charged me with keeping watch in Tennessee.

I only know Beccy because of my articles here on Rapture Ready. Several years ago, she sent an encouraging email after an article I published here. Then later she joined a Zoom group I hosted. Not so coincidentally, she is with me once again for a ladies’ group study on Zoom. Isn’t it interesting how her watching in Oregon and me watching and writing in Tennessee have joined two watchers across the nation and formed a sisterhood? We few watchers have become a necessary community over the past few years. That’s a divine happening.

We know as weary watchers that every day we wake up is perhaps the day we will see our blessed hope and still another day that keeps us casting our eyes upward to the sky with longing. Many perhaps-today days have come and gone, and still we wait. Some days, rather than looking up at the sky, we mostly set our eyes on the horizon and watch as the tribulation gets so close we can nearly hear the hoofbeats.

Daily, the blessed hope of our rescue is fueled by our desire to escape the escalating evil, and rightly so. We live in a jack-in-the-box world, listening to the tune with tension ever growing, waiting for “POP! Goes the Weasel”. Will the dollar crash today? Will we see the beginning of World War III? Will we experience attacks on our homeland? How soon will AI take over? The ups and downs of emotions while watching can give us spiritual whiplash if we’re not grounded in our faith.

Grounded is the perfect word I hadn’t even expected to encounter as I typed. The Lord just dropped it onto the page. But it well expresses what He has been showing me lately. Though Jesus may perhaps come today, until He does, there’s still ground to be tilled and seeds to be planted. A productive farmer doesn’t spend his day gawking up at the sky or scanning the horizon. No, he remains grounded, head down and hand to the plow, with the occasional look up or out.

Our hope of the rapture is a daily hope, even a minute-by-minute hope, but our call remains. We are to be found giving “them their food at the proper time” (Matthew 24:45) when Jesus does come. We can be found watching and waiting while still working, whatever our work is. Right this minute, I have hope that perhaps today He will come, but even with that hope, maybe even especially because of that hope, I sit here at 3:48 in the morning writing. I want to encourage you to watch the sky with enthusiasm and anticipation but not with obsession. Scan the horizon with discernment, but don’t allow the darkness of world events to keep you distracted or overshadow your calling. Fix your eyes on Jesus rather than being fixated on this world.

I’ve had them myself, days when I saw less of the ground than the sky or horizon. It’s a constant struggle to live and work and serve in the here and now while longing for the then and there of heaven. Until that trumpet blast sounds, though, and we’re snatched away to a wedding, our earth-bound souls have grounds to till, seeds to sow, and fields to harvest. Whatever your ground, whether at work or home or church, cultivate it well, cast your seed far, and pray to the Lord for harvest. As you toil each day, stop and wipe your brow, look up at the sky as you say, “perhaps today,” then return to your head-down-and-hand-to-the-plow position. May we all be found faithfully doing our part, whatever that may be, in giving them their food at the proper time.

And now, at 4:35 with my seed cast your way, may I be found getting a little more sleep. 😉

Blessings,
Lisa

For the ladies out there of all ages and stages:
You can never go wrong learning more about God’s infinite and intimate love for you. If you are interested in a free online You. Are. Loved. book and the free study to go with it, you can find out more and watch the trailer here.

With Christmas behind me, I’m ready to blaze my way into 2026 with one essential word on my mind: LOVE. When I look back on my own journey with Jesus, after years of faltering and failing and falling, I see now it was embracing God’s deep and abiding love for me personally that transformed my life from mess to message. I know that sounds cliché, but it’s fact. His love for me has rooted and grounded me in such a way that I’m now able to maintain stability, even when the strongest of winds blow. Isn’t that what we all need in a world so out of our control, evidence of God’s love so unmistakable that we become immovable?

In the spirit of love, I will be hosting a Zoom group called Live Loved. Our anchor verses will be Ephesians 3:17-19, a significant passage about being rooted and grounded in love. As I move into the planning stage, I would like to know how many of you might be interested. Check out the details below to see if you would like to join us.

Quick rundown:

• Live Loved will be a small-group-based Zoom meeting where individuals will discuss assignment content and answer questions.
• Target begin date is Tuesday, January 13^th or 20^th (estimated 10 weeks).
• Time of day for the group is yet to be determined (see poll below).

For those considering joining the study, here are two helpful links to learn more:

Book Trailer: Click Here
Introduction and First Chapter: Click Here

Expanded details:
Who: You, I hope. This is for anyone.
The book we will use for our discussion time was originally written for a female audience, but guys, you’re super loved by Jesus too. If we do have a few men who would like to join, I will do my best to adapt more female-specific chapters to accommodate general audiences. Men will be in a separate group.

What: The book is You. Are. Loved., Live the Love Song.
This book will have free versions available through a downloadable PDF or a document to read online. There is an optional print version on Amazon for $6.27, the lowest price Amazon will allow. I do not make any money off this book. The e-book on Amazon is $.99.

When: Tuesdays @ TBD
– POLL –
This is where I would like your feedback. Times being considered are 10:00 a.m. CST, 1:00 p.m. CST, or 6:00 p.m. CST. **If you are interested in joining the group, please let me know your top two preferred times or your only time available. We will see what works best for the group overall.

Where: We will meet through Zoom.
The format will be small group based. We will start in a large group for an opening where I will share answers to some of the questions in our assignment. Then, you will be split into small groups for discussion time. The time spent in small groups will be determined by how lengthy your discussions are. When you are done as a group, you will just fall off the Zoom meeting.

Why: This is the most important part.
The church is a mess. The world is an even bigger mess. We, as followers of Jesus, don’t have to be. When we know we’re loved and stand on God’s love as our firm foundation, we live differently; we live loved. Children who are secure in the love of their Father don’t live life with fear and anxiety ruling them. They aren’t tossed by every wind of teaching or knocked off course by every difficult circumstance. They watch the world unfold, even knowing the end is near, with the certainty that God has a plan and will come for His Bride at just the right time. Whoever or whatever may come, whether Jesus comes tomorrow (Whoever) or we see way more of the tribulation set-up than we want (whatever), loved people are able to rest as they watch and live out God’s call on their lives.

If you are interested and would like to sign up, or if you have group-related questions, email me at lisa.heaton@comcast.net.

I look forward to kicking off a new year together, one with God’s immeasurable love for us as our intentional focus.

Blessings to you,
Lisa