All posts by Stephen Schwambach

Monday, March 28, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with transparent love:

“…the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.”
(Romans 2:15-16)

Our secrets, Jesus…

all of them.

Accusing…defending.

If that day hasn’t yet arrived

I suspect some of us
have had a good taste of it already.

May all my secrets

be pleasing in Your sight!

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1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 44:21; Matthew 13:11; Mark 2:8; Luke 11:17; 1 Corinthians 14:24-25; Revelation 2:24

Sunday, March 27, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away…while the water flowing down to the…Dead Sea was completely cut off.”
(Joshua 3:15-16)

You did this for at least two reasons, Jesus:

1. To rescue your people
2. To show us forevermore that if You can do this…

You can do anything!

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Genesis 18:14; Numbers 11:23; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 59:1; Jeremiah 32:17; Jeremiah 32:27; Matthew 19:26

Saturday, March 26, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, ‘Brothers, what shall we do?’ Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’”
(Acts 2:37-38)

Straightforward question…

straightforward answer, Jesus:

the gospel in a nutshell.

When people ask me what to do

may I be just that straightforward.

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Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 59:20; Ezekiel 18:32; Matthew 4:17; John 3:22; Acts 1:5; Romans 6:3

Friday, March 25, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with deep reverence:

“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’”
(Deuteronomy 2:9)

Got it, Jesus.

You tell me who I can mess with and who I can’t.

If for any reason I think I can go it on my own

You make it clear I won’t succeed.

You’re the Boss.

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Numbers 33:53; Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 2:5; Deuteronomy 2:19; Psalm 75:6-7; Mark 13:11; Acts 27:24

Thursday, March 24, 2022

 

Follow Jesus’ example as you pray this Lazaroo:

“What Jesus did in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory…After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days. When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.”
(John 2:11-13)

You went from working a miracle…

to loving Your family…

to preparing for Your next mission, Jesus.

I’d love to follow in Your footsteps…

but I might need a litle help with the miracles! 😉

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Psalm 77:11; Psalm 77:14; Psalm 105:5; Matthew 13:58; John 7:21; Acts 2:22; Galatians 3:5

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble obedience:

“They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand that is for light, together with its lamps, its wick trimmers and trays, and all its jars for the olive oil used to supply it. Then they are to wrap it and all its accessories in a covering of the durable leather and put it on a carrying frame.”
(Numbers 4:9-10)

Oh, the care You want us to take

with the things we use to worship You, Jesus!

in holy respect.

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Genesis 2:15; Exodus 12:6; Numbers 1:50; Numbers 3:8; 1 Chronicles 9:29; John 21:16; Philippians 2:25

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful amazement:

“He has raised up a horn of salvation for us…to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to rescue us from the hand of our enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.”
(Luke 1:69, 73-75)

You keep Your promises, Jesus –

not just some of the time –

everytime.

which means –

though you have not yet kept Your greatest promises –

You most certainly will.

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Joshua 14:10; Joshua 23:14; 1 Kings 8:20; 1 Kings 8:25; 1 Kings 8:56; Nehemiah 9:8; Psalm 77:7-12; Luke 1:45

Monday, March 21, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deep gratitude:

“If, however, they cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour for a sin offering.”
(Leviticus 5:11)

I love this about You, Jesus!

You set a high and holy standard
but You never set it beyond our ability to reach

so long as we look to You
for the help only You can give!

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Numbers 12:11; Deuteronomy 30:11-14; Psalm 79:8; Jeremiah 5:4; Luke 17:4; Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60; Hebrews 5:2

Sunday, March 20, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: ‘Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ On hearing this, Jesus said to them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’”
(Mark 2:16-17)

So if I don’t recognize that I’m a sick sinner, Jesus…

You didn’t come for me.

Oh, but I am!

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Psalm 51:1-17; Psalm 103:1-18; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:18; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; 1 John 1:9-10

Saturday, March 19, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unabashed gratitude:

“…the Lord said, ‘If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.’”
(Exodus 4:8-9)

I believe, Jesus!

I’m paying attention.

I need no other sign

than the miracle of Your salvation
for my sin-sick soul.

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Exodus 15:2; 2 Samuel 22:3; Luke 1:69; Acts 4:11-12; Acts 13:26; Romans 1:16; Hebrews 2:3