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Saturday, June 22, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with lavish love:

“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.”
(Titus 2:11)

That’s just what it took for me, Jesus –

Your grace.

Not my gifts, skills and abilities

not my sterling character

not my spotless behavior.

I’m woefully lacking in all of that.

But You, in Your love, mercy and grace

plucked me from the fiery pits of hell where I was headed

saved me from myself
and chose me for Yourself.

I am eternally grateful!

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Exodus 15:2; Psalm 147:7; Isaiah 12:2; Jonah 2:9; Acts 4:10-12; Acts 15:10-11; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 2:8-10

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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in submissive awe:

“Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.”
(Acts 3:17-18)

We can’t seem to get our heads around this, Jesus…

how You turn our worst behavior
into the fulfillment of Your Purposes for all time.

Whether we zig or zag makes no difference to You.

In Your Sovereignty,

Your will

will be done!

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Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 46:10; Romans 8:28-30; Romans 9:11-28; Ephesian 1:56; Ephesians 1:11

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with eyes wide open:

“After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel. Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.”
(Judges 3:31-4:2)

You keep supplying Your people with helpers, Jesus.

They keep repaying Your kindness by disobeying You.

There are consequences for that kind of behavior –
consequences I don’t want to reap.

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Numbers 9:13; Numbers 18:22; Ezekiel 16:58; Ezekiel 23:49; Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 44:12; Romans 13:2

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

 

Watch it happen! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“‘I am against you,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth.’”
(Nahum 2:13)

What happens to a carnivore when there’s no longer any prey, Jesus?

If they have nothing to kill

they can’t eat.

If they have nothing to eat

they’ll die.

You’re slow to anger, abounding in love.

But when Your patience is met by unrelenting, vicious behavior

You pronounce sentence.

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Genesis 15:11; Genesis 49:9; Genesis 49:27; Job 4:11; Job 24:21; Psalm 17:12; Revelation 18:21

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Saturday, November 12, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with deepened, determined understanding:

“…was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.”
(James 2:25-26)

I have faith in You, Jesus. I do.

Because that’s true
my actions will show it.

But if there is no behavior to back up my faith

the reality of my faith
can be called into question.

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Isaiah 7:9; Matthew 9:2; Matthew 9:22; Matthew 9:29; Matthew 13:58; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:12; Hebrews 11:1-40

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Monday, October 24, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“The king also said to Shimei, ‘You know in your heart all the wrong you did to my father David. Now the Lord will repay you for your wrongdoing. But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will remain secure before the Lord forever.’”
(1 Kings 2:44-45)

For a long time, it looked like Shimei would get away with his detestable behavior, Jesus.

But You saw to it:

He didn’t.

Those who refuse to trust in You

never do.

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Exodus 34:7; Numbers 32:23; 1 Kings 2:37; 1 Kings 2:42; Proverbs 11:21; Isaiah 43:25; Ephesians 5:5

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Sunday, December 26, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“But you, dear friends…”
(Jude 1:20)

You’re teaching by contrast, aren’t You, Jesus?

First, You describe the behavior of those who sin against You
then You show me how someone who loves You –

and who is loved by You –

behaves.

It’s supposed to give me the incentive I need to do what’s right.

As You can tell:

It’s working! 😉

Great God in Heaven, I beg You:

May it keep working this day, the next day and the next –

all the way Home.

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1 Chronicles 4:10; Psalm 16:1; Psalm 17:8; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 31:4; Psalm 119:29; 2 Corinthians 12:7

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Thursday, May 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with excuseless humility:

“I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves…with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.”
(1 Timothy 2:9)

I don’t often think of good deeds as clothing, Jesus

a precious behavior that adorns those who worship You.

You don’t want the literal clothing a person wears

to detract in any way from their spiritual garments –

emanating from the good they do

because of Your life-changing Presence

in their daily lives!

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2 Samuel 1:24; Proverbs 1:8-9; Romans 13:13; 1 Corinthians 12:23; 1 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 12:28; Jude 1:23

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Saturday, April 10, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with absolute sincerity:

“Rend your heart and not your garments.”
(Joel 2:13)

That had become the custom, hadn’t it, Jesus –

tearing their clothes upon hearing of something disastrous.

When that custom first began, it was no doubt powerful

because it came straight from the heart.

But over the years, people began doing it because it was expected

even when it didn’t truly touch their hearts.

O God! I know what You want!

Not merely my outward behavior.

In repentance…

You want my heart.

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Deuteronomy 6:6; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 11:18; Joshua 24:23; Matthew 9:4; Luke 16:15; Philippians 4:6-7

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in solemn awe:

“They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.”
(Isaiah 2:21)

Such will be the behavior of all who scoffed at You, Jesus!

You were outrageously patient with their wicked behavior

but they concluded You didn’t exist
or that You were too wimpy to act.

In that day they will be the wimpy ones
running from You in fear.

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Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 13:9; Ezekiel 30:3; Joel 1:15; Joel 2:11; Amos 5:18; Acts 2:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Peter 3:10