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pastor's wife + speaker + author + podcast host

I want my life to matter for something. When I sat in my room in 1990 and said, “Lord, my life is Yours. Use it however you choose,” I had no idea what that journey would look like. It’s been a wild ride .

I’ve done it all these past few decades from working at an amusement park, to being a bank teller and then a work-at-home mom. I worked at a Quick Lube shop, served middle school students their lunch, and now pastor a church in Warren, Ohio alongside my husband. There has been one constant through every season, and that is God

My faith, prayer, and an intimate walk with God have held me steady in every season, and it is my passion to help others walk intimately with Him as well. 

I’d love to tell you more and help your church, conference or group. 

prayer

One of my passions is prayer. It’s my desire to see a prayer force raised up across this globe who can pray in the plans of God and stop the plans of the enemy.

You may be thinking, “Toni! I don’t even know how to pray!” Well, that’s okay. I’ve got you covered.

When you subscribe to our mailing list, I will send you a link to download this free 28-day prayer journal, Love the Lost. You can use it as an onramp to your prayer journey. Each day has a focus scripture, a short devotional, and a prayer you can pray for yourself and your lost friends and family members.

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Welcome to Prayer School

A minister once said, “It seems God can do nothing on this earth unless someone asks Him. Why that is I do not know.” That is an accurate statement and these videos explain why we need to pray.I pray these teachings on prayer will encourage, inspire and add fire to your prayer life. 

podcast

I have been praying for 50 years, and this has sparked new fire to my prayer life.

Before I ever wrote, I spoke. I have faced many trials and dark seasons in life. Some looked beyond hopeless. Instead of giving in to despair, I found hope and strength to keep moving forward in faith, prayer, and the Word of God.

I pray these messages born through the seasons and trials of life cause hope to rise up and draw you close to the Father where you’ll find healing, life, grace and joy, and that they bring you into a closer walk with God. (You can also subscribe to us on iTunes, Spotify, Google, or anywhere you find podcasts under Toni Lagaras or Tea with Toni.)

the blog

The Most Important Conversation You Will Ever Have

What do you do when you find yourself discouraged and in desperate need of talking to someone, but no one was there? Your spouse didn’t answer the phone. Or your mom. Or your dad. Or your best friend. When even God seems absent? It’s at that time you will find yourself having THE most important conversation you’ll ever have.

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Would you call yourself a disciple?

Discipleship isn’t something that was reserved just for those faithful few that got to be with Jesus while He was alive. He called them disciples. He trained them as disciples. He wanted them to BE disciples. Then He told them to go MAKE disciples. It was meant to be an ongoing process in and through the church until Jesus comes back for us. Thus there should still be disciples today.

So what is it? It’s for sure more than Sunday morning church attendance. It’s following. It goes beyond actions alone to motive of the heart. It’s not just what people see out in the open; it’s also what happens behind closed doors.

It’s following His….

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Take my life and let it be…

My husband went to bed early last night and I was awake and alone at midnight, which doesn’t always happen. As I sat quietly witnessing 2023 hand off to 2024, I found myself reading a section of scripture in Song of Solomon that has been ministering so much hope to my heart lately and quietly talking with the Lord for a few moments. Then I nodded off to sleep.

It wasn’t spectacular. I didn’t get a major prophetic word from the Lord for my year or my life or my family. It was quiet. It was peaceful. It was full of God and yet so soft. It was more like a whisper than a mighty rushing wind. It was real-life relationship with God. It was perfect.

After a short sleep when I realized I wasn’t getting back to sleep…

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Hunger is an invitation

Hunger is an invitation from the Lord for more. An invitation to go deeper. It’s a call to go from where you are to get

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What if God comes quietly?

Everything nowadays has to have a wow factor attached to it. It must be instagram worthy to matter. (I used the word “nowadays”. Does that

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Hunger. Pray. Linger.

You’d have to be living under a rock to not have heard about the revival that started at Asbury University last week and is still

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