Saturday, August 21, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with an open, generous heart!

“‘I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished, declares the Lord. Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, ‘Bring us some drinks!’”
(Amos 3:15-4:1)

You’re hardest on those to whom You’ve given much, Jesus

when they repay You with oh, so little!

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Psalms 112:5; Proverbs 11:25; Proverbs 22:9; Matthew 6:12-15; Matthew 18:32-34; Luke 11:41; Luke 12:48

Friday, August 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate…”
(Joel 2:13)

Oh, yes You Are, Jesus!

You Are Gracious!

So kind to me.
So tender with me.

You refuse to treat me as my sins deserve.

And You Are Compassionate!

You get me.
You understand why I stumble.

You give me chance after chance after chance!

You keep lifting me up

brushing me off

and sending me back into the fray

not in my own strength

but in Yours.

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1 Samuel 2:4; Job 4:4; Psalms 9:13; Psalms 37:24; Psalms 119:165; Psalms 139:1; Romans 3:23

Thursday, August 19, 2021

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. The more priests there were, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful.”
(Hosea 4:6-7)

No, Jesus.

No!

Not I.

On my life:

I will never exchange You for any person, place, or thing!

Never! Never! Never!

You are my All. My Everything.

My Only.

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Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 4:35; Isaiah 37:20; John 5:44; 1 Corinthians 3:7; 1 Timothy 1:17; Jude 1:25

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with earnest desire:

“Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.”
(Revelation 2:17)

O Jesus!

As if seeing You, all my loved ones and heaven itself isn’t enough

You’re giving me even more incentive to hear You
and in Your strength be victorious?

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

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Psalms 19:1-4; Isaiah 62:2; Matthew 11:15; Mark 4:9; Luke 8:8; Hebrews 10:35-36; Revelation 3:12

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo filled with wonder:

“While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer.”
(Daniel 2:34-35)

Through Daniel, You were telling the king what he had dreamed, Jesus!

Only You. Only You. Only You.

O God.
I’m in awe!

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Genesis 20:3-6; Genesis 28:12; Genesis 31:10-11; Genesis 37:5-11; Genesis 40:5-23; Matthew 1:18-24; Acts 2:17

Monday, August 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with eyes right:

“‘In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.’ These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts…”
(Jude 1:18-19)

Doing what comes naturally sometimes works, Jesus

and sometimes doesn’t.

It’s unreliable!

Sometimes it leads to success
sometimes it leads me astray.

So that can’t be my mantra, my North Star.

I’ve got to line up whatever comes naturally

alongside the straightedge of Your Word

and do what comes supernaturally.

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Psalms 119:11; Psalms 119:37; Psalms 119:89; 1 Corinthians 15:44; 2 Peter 2:12; Jude 1:10; Jude 1:13

Sunday, August 15, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.”
(Ezekiel 3:19)

You hold me accountable to speak up, Jesus

but not for the result.

When someone’s headed for trouble

I can warn them till I’m blue in the face

but it’s up to that person

to heed the warning

or – along with those they love –

to suffer the consequences.

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Leviticus 5:1; Ezekiel 16:58; Ezekiel 23:35; Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 44:12; Matthew 18:15; Jude 1:24

Saturday, August 14, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with concern:

“…Diotrephes…loves to be first…”
(3 John 1:9)

What’s up with people like that, Jesus?

Are they leaders? Role models? Winners?
People I’d love to have on my team?

Well…no.

You haven’t called me to be better than anyone else.

You want me to be the best version of myself

You’ve created me to be

then leave the outcome to You.

You’re looking for people who long to please You

not people driven to be superior to everyone else.

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1 Kings 1:5; Matthew 6:2; Matthew 19:19; Matthew 23:3-7; Matthew 23: Matthew 23:11-12; Romans 12:10

Friday, August 13, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with deep reverence:

“Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion. The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel.”
(Lamentations 2:4-5)

You’re nothing to mess with, Jesus!

Sadly, Your people learned that the hard way
when they repeatedly ignored You
and profaned Your Holy Name.

I prefer to learn that horrible lesson

vicariously.

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Numbers 16:46; Deuteronomy 9:8; Joshua 9:20; 1 Samuel 28:18; 2 Chronicles 12:7; Romans 2:5; Ephesians 5:6; Hebrews 10:26:31

Thursday, August 12, 2021

 

Get ready! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world.”
(2 John 1:7)

They’re still out there, Jesus

across all these years, multiplying.

Oh, they’ll acknowledge that you came in the flesh

but not as Christ, the promised Messiah
Immanuel, God with us.

What will it take to protect the ignorant and gullible from them?

I would love it
if you would be pleased to reveal Yourself to them
through me.

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Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 8:8; Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4; John 20:24-29; Colossians 1:15-20; Jude 1:24-25