Category Archives: #1on1withJesus

Saturday, April 13, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with focused resolve:

“…the women are to be…temperate and trustworthy in everything.”
(1 Timothy 3:11)

Of course, Jesus.

So are the men.

You don’t want me to be a fit-thrower, a drunkard

wild or unbalanced.

It pleases You when I exercise self-control.

You want me to be the kind of person who can be trusted

with other people’s money and secrets
to show up when I say I will

to refuse temptation
even when I don’t think I’ll get caught.

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Exodus 18:21; Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 12:22; Proverbs 13:17; Galatians 3:28; 1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 2:2

Friday, April 12, 2024

 

Go ahead, be impressed as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. He even removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylon.”
(Ezra 5:13-14)

Why would a mighty king

just one day up and decide to do such a thing, Jesus?

Because You put it in his heart
and made him do it.

I’m in pretty good Hands, aren’t I?

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Exodus 10:1; Proverbs 21:1; Isaiah 37:7; Isaiah 45:2; Isaiah 45:7; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8

Thursday, April 11, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with confidence:

“…the Lord is faithful…”
(2 Thessalonians 3:3)

I love this about You, Jesus!

No one is as faithful as You.

We make promises to one another with every intent to keep them.

But when circumstances change
our promises can fly out the window.

No so with You!

You’re All-Powerful.
You control all circumstances.

Because You see the future
nothing takes You by surprise.

The moment You make a promise

You know when, how and where You will keep it.

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Psalm 25:10; Ecclesiastes 8:7; Isaiah 46:10; Jeremiah 29:11; Daniel 2:45; 2 Timothy 2:13; Revelation 22:13

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with resolute intent:

“‘I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.’ While the whole assembly of Israel was standing there, the king turned around and blessed them. Then he said: ‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David.’”
(2 Chronicles 6:2-4)

You always keep Your Word, Jesus!

With Your help

may I do the same.

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Numbers 23:19; 1 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 23:3; Psalm 15:1-4; Psalm 106:12; Proverbs 4:4; Luke 1:45

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Holy Spirit-empowered determination:

“…Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love.”
(1 Thessalonians 3:6)

O Jesus.

When You show me that somebody I love

loves me, too

and that their love for me is only surpassed

by their deep, abiding faith that causes them
to live in obedience to You

it doesn’t get much better than that!

May that be the report that comes to them

about me!

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Psalm 119:9; 2 Corinthians 6:4-10; Ephesians 4:22-32; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 1 Timothy 4:12; Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 3:1-7

Monday, April 8, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“Some of them were in charge of the articles used in the temple service; they counted them when they were brought in and when they were taken out. Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the special flour and wine, and the olive oil, incense and spices.”
(1 Chronicles 9:28-29)

Mundane tasks, Jesus?

Not when they’re done for You!

Everything I do for You

has deep, significant, eternal meaning!

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1 Chronicles 6:48; 1 Chronicles 9:22; 1 Chronicles 26:29; 2 Chronicles 2:18; Zechariah 4:10; Mark 9:41; 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 10:13

Sunday, April 7, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in all honesty:

“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught…”
(Colossians 2:7)

Please strengthen me in my faith, Jesus!

You said if I had faith as small as a mustard seed
I could say to a mountain:

“’Move from here to there,’
and it would move.

Then my faith must be microscopic

because I can’t speak to an anthill
and get it to move.

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Matthew 6:30; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8; Matthew 17:20; Luke 17:5-6; Romans 4:11

Saturday, April 6, 2024

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, ‘The boy has not awakened.’ When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.”
(2 Kings 4:31-32)

That’s how some of my lifelong desires appear, Jesus:

dead.

But You’re the Giver of Life!

Just as You raised this dead boy to life

You can raise to life every one of my dreams

that are in keeping with Your will.

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Psalm 35:12-14; Psalm 37:4; Psalm 103:5; Psalm 145:19; Romans 1:24; Romans 13:14; 1 John 5:14-15

Saturday, April 6, 2024

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, ‘The boy has not awakened.’ When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.”
(2 Kings 4:31-32)

That’s how some of my lifelong desires appear, Jesus:

dead.

But You’re the Giver of Life!

Just as You raised this dead boy to life

You can raise to life every one of my dreams

that are in keeping with Your will.

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Psalm 35:12-14; Psalm 37:4; Psalm 103:5; Psalm 145:19; Romans 1:24; Romans 13:14; 1 John 5:14-15

Friday, April 5, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you.”
(Philippians 2:19)

That’s the way to hope, Jesus:

not in my own desires

in You.

When my hopes are dashed it’s not because You’ve failed me.

It’s because my hope was in my wishes, my plans, my agenda

not in You.

So now, from this day forward:

I put all my hope in You.

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Psalm 25:5; Psalm 25:21; Psalm 39:7; Psalm 62:5; Psalm 71:5; Psalm 119:74; Acts 26:6