Category Archives: alive

Sunday, November 19, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.”
(2 Corinthians 4:10-11)

That explains a lot, Jesus!

Not the explanation I was hoping for
but the one I fully embrace

confident that You know better than I do.

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Psalm 13:5; Psalm 25:2; Psalm 31:14; Psalm 56:4; Psalm 94:11; 1 Corinthians 3:20; 2 Peter 2:9

Saturday, March 25, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful anticipation:

“And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:3-4)

And so we’re blessed with another uplifting word from Solomon, Jesus.

For somebody so wise
he sure was in a snit of depression.

But he was almost right about one thing:

People in heaven are definitely happier
than those of us still on earth!

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Isaiah 57:1; Luke 16:19-24; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Philippians 1:22-23; Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 21:4

Sunday, December 11, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, ‘Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.’ Jethro said, ‘Go, and I wish you well.’” Now the Lord had said to Moses… ‘Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.’”
(Exodus 4:18-19)

Egypt was the last place Moses wanted to go, Jesus.

But that didn’t matter.

When You tell me to do something

that settles it.

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Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:17; Genesis 6:22; 1 Samuel 12:14; Psalm 19:8; Matthew 1:24; Acts 13:22

Thursday, November 10, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with overflowing gratitude for nine precious God-ordained, Word-of-God honoring years!

“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
(Hebrews 4:12)

Your Word, Jesus! Your Word!

It’s the Lamp for my feet
the Light for my pathway.

Teach me through Your Word!

Fill me with Your Word!

May I daily hide Your Word in my heart

that I might not sin against You!

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Psalm 119:1-176

Thursday, July 14, 2022

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.”
(Revelation 3:1-2)

Deeds, Jesus.

Not words.

You’ve given me a job to do, along with the gifts and ability to do it.

My excuses for not doing it don’t matter.

I’ve got to finish it

while there’s still time.

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Exodus 40:33; Joshua 19:51; Matthew 10:23; Luke 14:28-30; John 4:334; John 17:4; Philippians 1:6

Monday, August 19, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undying love:

“…in a manner worthy of God.”
(3 John 1:6)

That’s how I’m to live every aspect of my life, isn’t it Jesus?

In a manner worthy of You.

That’s a tall order
but one You deeply deserve.

I’m not there, yet –

but I want to be…
long to be…
ache to be…

I absolutely have to be.

Don’t give up on me, Father!
Don’t give up on me, Jesus!
Don’t give up on me, Holy Spirit!

Here I come.

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2 Samuel 22:4; 1 Chronicles 16:25; Psalms 18:3; Psalms 48:1; Psalms 145:3; Matthew 10:37-38; Philippians 1:27

Thursday, October 27, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in awestruck gratitude:

“The LORD…brings down to the grave and raises up.”
(1 Samuel 2:6)

The fact that You can take me out at any moment is sobering, Jesus

but it’s one thing to end a life
quite another to resurrect it.

Sadly, there are a lot of people out there who – accidentally or on purpose –

can make my heart stop beating.

But after I’m dead and buried

You’re the only one who can make it start beating again.

I’m with You.

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Mark 5:35-42; Luke 7:11-17; John 5:21; Acts 26:8; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 4:14

Friday, July 22, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo and be flooded with hope:

“They are…twice dead.”
(Jude 1:3)

Can’t get much worse than that, Jesus.

Not only were they dead to You now…

You knew their future:

They would remain dead to You eternally.

All of that while they were still moving, acting, breathing!

Dead people walking.

How many of those around me are twice dead, Father?

It’s not always apparent, is it?

Some of those who look most alive are corpses.

And some who look impossibly hopeless
You will utterly transform.

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2 Kings 4:18-37; Mark 5:35-43; Acts 9:36-42; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Philippians 3:21; 1 Timothy 5:6

Saturday, January 2, 2016


Pray this Lazaroo…with goose bumps:

“…the truth, which lives in us…”
(2 John 1:2)

When you speak, Jesus…

every word matters.

You didn’t say, “the truth, which You’ve heard…”

although faith comes by hearing Your Word.

You didn’t say, “the truth, which you’ve read…”

though I need to read the Bible every day.

You didn’t say, “the truth, which you’ve memorized…”

although I definitely need to do just that.

You said Your truth lives in me!

It’s alive! Active! Working! Transforming me
into Your amazing Image.

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Psalms 119:11; Romans 10:17; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 2:1-5; Philippians 3:10-11; Philippians 3:21; Hebrews 4:12; 1 John 3:2