Monthly Archives: April 2019

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Monday, April 22, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“…the fierce anger of the LORD…”
(Zephaniah 2:2)

I don’t like to think of You this way, Jesus

but I know it’s real.

You’re longsuffering, slow to anger, abounding in love…

but there’s a line.

When one of Your children repeatedly, willfully, unapologetically crosses it

You make certain they realize
that they have done a foolish thing.

I’ve known Your well-deserved discipline countless times, LORD

but never Your wrath.

With Your help

I’d like to keep it that way.

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Exodus 34:6; Numbers 1:53; Numbers 16:46; Deuteronomy 9:8; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalms 7:11; Matthew 3:7

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Sunday, April 21, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in spiritual sobriety:

“…you have destroyed…cities…”
(Habakkuk 2:8)

The mistake I make, Jesus

(among many others)

is in focusing on the evil that Satan and his minions have done

rather than on the reality of what You will do in response
when the times have reached their fulfillment.

I see too small a section of the puzzle

to be able to fathom how You’re piecing it all together.

So what am I left with, Father?

Trust.
Rock-solid trust.

In the end
You win.

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Deuteronomy 8:16; Job 19:25; Psalms 112:8; Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 23:29-32; Isaiah 30:15; Hebrews 6:8

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Saturday, April 20, 2019

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“They look like flaming torches…”
(Nahum 2:4)

That’s not what they were, Jesus

but it’s sure what those invading chariots looked like.

When fear grips my heart…when I’m under attack…

my mind can play tricks on me
my emotions can skew what I perceive.

Deliver me from that weakness, LORD!

May my well-founded faith in You be so strong
that when Satan launches his offensive

I am calmer, braver and sharper than usual –

my every move
guided by You.

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Psalms 3:6; Psalms 27:3; Psalms 46:2; Psalms 56:3; Psalms 91:5; Isaiah 8:12; 1 Peter 3:14

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Friday, April 19, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“…those who pass by without a care…”
(Micah 2:8)

I’ve seen them, Jesus –

blithely parading past me
not a worry in the world.

Because of the burdens I carry

it’s easy to be envious.

Of course, some of them are faking it.

They may be struggling
but don’t want to show it.

Others aren’t caring enough to have a care.

I’d rather not be in their number.

Help me truly care, LORD!

knowing all the while:

You’ve got this.

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Genesis 15:1; Numbers 14:9; Psalms 56:3; Isaiah 41:10; 1 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 11:28; 1 Peter 5:7

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Thursday, April 18, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in gratitude-packed passion:

“…proclaim to it the message I give you.”
(Jonah 3:2)

That’s my assignment, isn’t it, Jesus?

Wherever You send me
I’m to proclaim the message You give me.

Sometimes the message is in words

at other times through actions, attitude.

More than a few times
it’s about what I don’t do or say.

This isn’t a temporary assignment, is it?

It’s permanent – every day, week, month, year
all the way to the end here

and into heaven eternally.

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Deuteronomy 5:29; Deuteronomy 29:29; Psalms 19:9; Psalms 23:6; Psalms 35:28; Matthew 28:19-20; Colossians 1:28

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo buttressed by faith:

“This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan…”
(Obadiah 1:20)

That’s wild, Jesus.

They were exiles in the very land You had promised them.

Everybody looked at them like outsiders, intruders

not knowing they were looking down on people
to whom they would one day look up

not realizing these trespassers
would one day become the land’s owners.

I can identify.

Today I walk this land as a foreigner

but my Dad owns it all
and I’m Your heir.

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Psalms 105:12-15; Psalms 105:42-45; John 14:9; Acts 7:6-7; Romans 8:17; Hebrews 11:13; Hebrews 11:24-26

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

 

Open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The Sovereign LORD has spoken…”
(Amos 3:8)

When You speak, Jesus

That’s it.

No more debate.

There can be questions, seeking to understand.
But there’d better be no one arguing.

God help those who disagree
thinking they know better!

It’s not merely that You know what’s best.

It’s Your title: “Sovereign LORD” –

which means the reason You know what’s going to happen

is that You have all power to make it happen

while granting us the free will we crave.

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Genesis 15:8; Exodus 34:23; Deuteronomy 3:24; Joshua 7:7; Judges 6:22; Acts 4:24; Jude 1:4

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Monday, April 15, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bulldog faith:

“…they run along the wall.”
(Joel 2:9)

What a terrifying sight, Jesus!

It’s bad enough to see my enemies coming in the distance.

But when they’re here, scaling my wall?

Huh-uh.
It’s over.

Except it’s not.

Humanly speaking, yes.
But it’s never too late with You.

Is anything too hard for the King of kings and LORD of lords?
Nope.

By every appearance it can look like all is lost.

But You’re the God who can disappear every appearance.

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Genesis 18:14; Job 12:10; Job 42:2; Jeremiah 32:17-19; Jeremiah 32:27; Matthew 19:26; John 1:4; Romans 8:28

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Sunday, April 14, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“For the Israelites will live many days without…idol.”
(Hosea 3:4)

You want us to live all our days without idols, Jesus!

But Your people had a hard time doing that.

So You stepped in
and provided the necessary incentive.

I have a hard time staying idol-free too, don’t I?

Oh, I don’t realize it at first.
I think I’m idol-free.

But the moment I hesitate to do Your will because I think something else looks better?

That’s an idol.

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Exodus 20:3; Joshua 7:1; Matthew 6:33; Matthew 10:37-38; Matthew 19:16-22; Matthew 26:31-35; Luke 14:26

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Saturday, April 13, 2019

 

Unashamedly plead with God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“I know the slander…”
(Revelation 2:9)

Thank You for understanding, Jesus!

because this isn’t merely people saying something negative about me.

This is slander – lying about me in a way that damages my reputation.

If my reputation is destroyed, my effectiveness is ruined.
People won’t believe me, won’t trust me.

Of course, that’s what happened when they crucified You, wasn’t it?

…until You rose from the dead!

Every time somebody slanders me, Jesus…

step in and resurrect my reputation!

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Leviticus 19:16; 2 Samuel 19:27; Psalms 15:2-3; Psalms 41:6; Jeremiah 1:17-19; Jeremiah 15:20; Romans 3:8