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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.”
(Mark 1:42)

If only that would happen every time I pray, Jesus!

I know You did it for this man.
I know You have the power to do it today.
I know You love me enough to do it for me…

if that’s what’s best.

That’s why it doesn’t happen every time I pray, isn’t it?

Because in my lack of wisdom and knowledge
I seldom ask for what’s best.

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1 Kings 3:5-14; Jeremiah 6:16; Mathew 18:19; Matthew 21:22; Mark 6:24; Mark 8:12; James 1:6; James 4:3

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Monday, August 8, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with total transparency:

“…you will worship God on this mountain.”
(Exodus 3:12)

You love to do this, don’t You, Jesus?

to turn a place of humiliating defeat
into a site of glorious triumph!

You met Moses at Mount Horeb where he was tending someone else’s sheep

informed him that he would return to this mountain

with three million people in tow
to hear Your voice and receive Your law.

O Father!

What will You do here one day

in this place
through me?

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Exodus 3:1; Exodus 17:6; Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 4:15; Deuteronomy 5:2: Deuteronomy 9:8; 1 Kings 19:8; Psalms 106:19; Hebrews 8:6-13

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Sunday, August 7, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo all the way to the marrow of your bones:

“…he was furious.”
(Matthew 2:16)

There are good reasons to become furious, Jesus

and some not so good.

Fury is a dangerous emotion.

It can negatively affect my judgment
goading me to do something rash.

On the other hand, fury can also embolden me to do what’s right

to take heroic action
without fear of what will happen to me

just so long as it’s Your fury I’m operating in

and not giving in to my own.

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Deuteronomy 29:28; 2 Samuel 13:21; 2 Chronicles 25:10; Psalms 78:59; Daniel 3:13; Luke 6:11; Acts 19:28; James 1:20

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Saturday, August 6, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“…knowing good and evil.”
(Genesis 3:5)

It’s one thing to know what’s good and what’s evil, Jesus

quite another to do one
and refuse the other.

Sure, there are some sins I might accidentally commit

some good deeds I inadvertently overlook.

But how can I claim ignorance as my excuse for any of those

when I refuse to obey even one of Your clear commands

or deliberately engage in an activity

that I know full well You have expressly forbidden?

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1 Samuel 3:13; Psalms 19:1-4; Psalms 19:13; Psalms 78:18; Romans 2:15; Romans 14:23; James 4:17

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Saturday, August 6, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“…knowing good and evil.”
(Genesis 3:5)

It’s one thing to know what’s good and what’s evil, Jesus

quite another to do one
and refuse the other.

Sure, there are some sins I might accidentally commit

some good deeds I inadvertently overlook.

But how can I claim ignorance as my excuse for any of those

when I refuse to obey even one of Your clear commands

or deliberately engage in an activity

that I know full well You have expressly forbidden?

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1 Samuel 3:13; Psalms 19:1-4; Psalms 19:13; Psalms 78:18; Romans 2:15; Romans 14:23; James 4:17

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Friday, August 5, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“He walked with me in peace…”
(Malachi 2:6)

May that be said of me, Jesus

now…

and after I depart –

when my time on earth is through.

Can that be said of me?

On my good days, yes.

But there are still too many days of my life that I surrender to

doubt
fear
worry
turmoil
unrest.

My fault. Not Yours.

You’ve promised to keep me in perfect peace

if I will keep my mind steadfast
trusting You.

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Psalms 120:7; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 26:3; John 14:27; 1 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; 2 John 1:3

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Thursday, August 4, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with excuseless humility:

“Escape…”
(Zechariah 2:7)

Sounds, good, Jesus.

There are some things I’m determined to escape:

error
ignorance
meaningless pain
disgrace
lack of focus
foolishness – mine and others’
inefficiency
wasted time
irrelevance
disobedience
unforgiveness
weakness
every attack of Satan

hell

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Psalms 35:4; Psalms 91:5-12; Proverbs 3:5-6; Proverbs 3:35; Matthew 6:14-15; Matthew 18:8; Colossians 4:5

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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in holy fear:

“…whatever they offer…is defiled.”
(Haggai 2:14)

So much for trying to buy You off, Jesus.

Gifts given to You are great
instantly becoming eternal heavenly treasure

when given in sincerity of heart
when given by people who trust You completely
when given by those who obey You wholeheartedly.

But when given as a show, as leverage for selfish gain

to placate You for deliberate, continuing, unrepentant sin
by those whose faith is mere pretense

whatever they offer is defiled.

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Leviticus 18:24; Leviticus 19:31; Psalms 106:39; Isaiah 24:5; Jeremiah 2:7; Matthew 6:19-20; Mark 7:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:7-13

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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful astonishment:

“Their blood will be poured out…”
(Zephaniah 1:17)

How different, Jesus!

When the blood of mere human beings is poured out

they die.

When Your blood was poured out

You died

then three days later

rose from the grave.

Fully man, You bled, grew hungry, became tired.

Fully God, You healed the sick

raised the dead
walked on water
halted storms.

Your innocent blood poured out on the cross

proven infinitely powerful
to save the sinful likes of me.

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Mark 4:35-41; Mark 5:38-42; Acts 5:30; Acts 10:39-40; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:20; 1 Peter 2:24

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Monday, August 1, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“…he…takes captive all the peoples.”
(Habakkuk 2:5)

I have no interest in being an evil person’s captive, Jesus.

I detest the very thought.
Freedom is precious to me.

Not freedom from You, though!

Rather, freedom to become everything You’ve created me to be.
Every other pursuit is jail, captivity, bondage.

Of course, that’s not how the tempter presents it.

The bars of his cage are cleverly disguised
the rusty padlock hidden from sight
his key to open it

nonexistent.

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Matthew 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Galatians 6:1; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4:15; James 1:13-14