Category Archives: Adam

Sunday, June 25, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in mounting anticipation:

“Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.’ Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.”
(Genesis 4:1-2)

And so the stage is set, Jesus.

It begins with joy
and ends with tragedy.

Two very different boys
two very different outcomes.

Only You know why life sometimes works this way

but one day, You’ll explain it all!

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Genesis 29:23; 1 Kings 17:20; Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Matthew 16:23; Romans 3:4; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Galatians 5:22

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in total amazement:

“The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.”
(Genesis 3:21)

Humanly speaking, this is incomprehensible, Jesus.

Adam and Eve knowingly, deliberately, blatantly disobey You.
As a result, they discover they’re naked.

Of course, there are consequences:

They have to leave the Garden of Eden.
Work and childbirth become harder, more painful.

But instead of abandoning them

You clothe them!

O God! Your loving mercy is unfathomable!

…which is why I’m still drawing a breath on this earth.

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Exodus 33:19; Deuteronomy 13:17; Psalm 4:1; Psalm 6:2; Psalm 25:6; Matthew 5:7; 1 Timothy 1:16

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

Friday, April 15, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.”
(1 Timothy 2:14)

Eve’s sin was bad, Jesus

but Adam’s was worse.

Adam wasn’t deceived. He knew better and ate the forbidden fruit anyway.

His wife handed him the fruit
so he accepted it and ate it.

Pleasing his wife was more important to him than pleasing You

making her humankind’s first idol.

May I never put anyone or anything ahead of You!

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Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 5:7; Psalm 24:3-5; Isaiah 42:8; Isaiah 48:11; Matthew 4:10; Luke 14:26; James 4:17

Thursday, March 17, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing understanding:

“To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat from it,” Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.’”
(Genesis 3:17)

You told Abraham to listen to his wife, Jesus.

So that’s not what got Adam cursed.

It was when he listened to his wife

instead of You.

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Genesis 2:18; Genesis 21:12; Exodus 20:3: Deuteronomy 5:7; Matthew 6:33; Luke 14:26; 1 Peter 3:7

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful acknowledgment:

“Adam was formed first, then Eve.”
(1 Timothy 2:13)

Yes, he was, Jesus.

Men might point out
that You’ve made the man the head of the wife.

Women might point out
that you took one look at Adam and said,

“I can do better than that!” 😉

But the truth is, the man didn’t feel complete without the woman.

The woman isn’t complete without the man.

They need each other.

And oh, how we both need You!

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Genesis 1:26-28; Genesis 2:18; Genesis 2:20-25; Genesis 3:1-24; Ephesians 5:22-24; 1 Peter 3:1-2; 1 Peter 3:7

Monday, January 10, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in thudding realization:

“’I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.’ To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’”
(Genesis 3:15-16)

First You punished the serpent, Jesus

then You punished the woman.

The man’s next, isn’t He?

For deliberate sin

there’s a price.

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Exodus 20:15; Leviticus 26:18; Deuteronomy 5:9; Psalm 59:5; Lamentations 3:39; Romans 13:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:6

Friday, November 5, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with wholehearted adoration:

“To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’”
(Genesis 3:16)

You ensure that every sin has a consequence, Jesus.

The bigger the sin
the bigger the consequence.

The good news?

You reward every good thought, word or deed.

Let’s see…

which would I like to make my goal? 😉

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1 Samuel 26:23; Psalm 19:11; Psalm 37:6; Psalm 58:11; Matthew 6:1-18; 1 Corinthians 3:8; Hebrews 11:6

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

 

Humbly pray this Lazaroo:

“…she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
(Genesis 3:12)

Adam blew right past his own responsibility, didn’t he, Jesus?

He acted like he had no choice:

Since his wife handed him the fruit, he had to eat it.

How lame.

It doesn’t matter who Satan uses to tempt me, LORD –

even the most precious person in the world to me!

If you say, “No!” then that’s got to be my answer to them:

“No!”

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1 Corinthians 10:13; Galatians 6:1; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 11:24-26; James 1:13-14

Saturday, March 21, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me…’”
(Genesis 3:12)

When You confronted Adam with his sin, Jesus

He immediately blamed You.

You’re the one who created Eve.

You’re the one who made her the kind of person she was.

Of course, Adam was overlooking one tiny issue:

You took her out of him.

Whatever was in her

she got from him.

O God! When You have to confront me

may I repent

rather than blame someone else.

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1 Kings 8:47-51; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 59:20; Jeremiah 5:3; Matthew 4:17; Acts 2:38