Sunday, July 31, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“The Lord said to Moses: ‘When anyone is unfaithful to the Lord by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord’s holy things, they are to bring to the Lord as a penalty a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering.’”
(Leviticus 5:14-15)

Even when I do wrong without knowing it

it’s still a sin, isn’t it, Jesus?

No excuses.

I need to confess it

and forsake it.

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Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:13; Leviticus 4:22; Leviticus 4:27; Numbers 15:22-24; Joshua 20:2-4; Ezekiel 45:19-20; Romans 7:20

Saturday, July 30, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with lavish love:

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
(Mark 2:21-22)

You were doing a New Thing, Jesus.

Their old ways couldn’t handle it.

I beg You!

Do a New Thing in me!

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Psalm 33:3; Psalm 40:3; Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:19; Jeremiah 31:22; Luke 22:20; 2 Corinthians 5:17

Friday, July 29, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with wholehearted adoration:

“‘Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.’ But Moses said, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.’ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses…”
(Exodus 4:12-14)

Moses didn’t want to go where You told him to go

nor do what You told him to do, Jesus.

Sometimes, neither do I –

when it looks extremely hard

even impossible.

But Moses ended up doing it, didn’t he?

No matter what, that’s what I have to do.

Every time.

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Genesis 22:18; Exodus 12:24; Leviticus 18:4; Matthew 8:27; Mark 1:27; Luke 11:28; John 14:23

Thursday, July 28, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“The tempter came to him and said, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.’ Jesus answered, ‘It is written: “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”’”
(Matthew 3:3-4)

That’s how to deal with Satan’s temptations, isn’t it, Jesus?

Quote Your Word to him
then don’t budge an inch.

Of course, I have to instantly be ready with Your Word

the moment temptation comes.

Maybe I’d better do a little more homework.

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Mark 1:13; Luke 4:13; Luke 22:40; 1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Galatians 6:1; James 1:13

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pedal-to-the-metal commitment:

“Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.”
(Genesis 3:20)

You gave Adam the privilege of naming every animal in the Garden of Eden, Jesus.

But when Adam named Eve
that was utterly, profoundly different.

He knew it.

So he named her in accordance
with what she would become.

Adam was the first man.
Eve was the first woman.

Adam knew every child born in the future
would come from them.

Who will experience New Birth, Father…

because of me?

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Genesis 2:19; Matthew 28:19-20; John 3:3; John 3:7; John 3:16-17; Acts 1:8; 1 Peter 3:15

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in passionate gratitude:

“…what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard…”
(Malachi 2:15)

I’m not going to be able to give You the Godly offspring You desire me to be, Jesus

if I don’t stay on my guard.

Satan – the sworn enemy of my soul –

waits for me to drop my guard

even for the briefest of moments

and then swoops in to do incalculable harm.

Please! I beg You!

Help me

Stay. On. My. Guard!

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1 Samuel 19:2; Malachi 2:16; Matthew 10:17; Matthew 16:6; Matthew 16:11; Mark 13:23; Luke 12:15

Monday, July 25, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing understanding:

“Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.”
(Zechariah 3:8)

You, Jesus:

The Branch.
The promised Messiah –

the long-awaited one – the only one –
who could deliver us from our sins.

But You came as You almost always do –

in a way and time we could not have imagined
to pay for our sins with Your own life

in a way we could not have imagined.

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Isaiah 53:1-12; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Matthew 1:1; Mark 1:1; Luke 9:18-20; John 11:27; John 20:31

Sunday, July 24, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in the fear of God:

“I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.”
(Haggai 2:22)

When You punish my enemies who are attacking me, Jesus

You do so with devastating power!

Not only that – I don’t have to defend myself.

You’re Able to turn them against one another!

Please help me remember that

next time I’m tempted to retaliate.

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Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 32:35; 1 Samuel 24:12; Isaiah 41:10; Ezekiel 25:12-13; Romans 12:19; Hebrews 10:30

Saturday, July 23, 2022

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The land by the sea will become pastures having wells for shepherds and pens for flocks.”
(Zephaniah 2:6)

This is how You punished Your disobedient nation, Jesus!

Wow.

You could have scorched the land, making it utterly useless for anything.

But You didn’t.
Instead, in the midst of Your disciplining anger

You turned the land they had defiled
into a blessing.

You’ve done that time and again for me!

Even while You’re correcting me
You’re blessing me in ways I would have never expected.

O God!
You Are Awesome!

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Exodus 33:19; Deuteronomy 13:17; 2 Samuel 24:14; 1 Kings 8:28; Romans 9:16; Hebrews 12:5-7; James 2:13

Friday, July 22, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“You will be filled with shame instead of glory.”
(Habakkuk 2:16)

No!

That can’t happen, Jesus.
Not if I have anything to say about it.

Well…even more importantly:
Not if I have anything I can do about it.

And I can!

I can repent of my sins and stop committing them –
especially those I’ve been guilty of, again and again.

I can obey You – instantly – when I see in Your Word
what You want me to do.

Glory!

Not shame.

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1 Samuel 15:22; Isaiah 6:8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 21:28-31; Romans 9:33; James 1:22; 1 John 1:9