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Thursday, October 26, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’”
(Obadiah 1:3)

When I ask myself a question, Jesus

I’m asking the wrong person.

I would do well to ask the wise –

or even better, to ask You –

through openhearted, open-minded study of Your Word

and in fervent, ready-to-receive Your answer prayer!

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Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 11:13-14; Proverbs 3:5-6; Jeremiah 29:13; Joel 2:12; Mark 12:30; Hebrews 5:7

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Monday, October 9, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with acknowledged need:

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)

You’re making it very clear, Jesus:

We need each other.

I need other people in my life –

reliable people!

…and they need me.

So much for my solo act.

May I be the help to others

I need from them.

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Judges 21:22; Luke 8:3; Acts 9:36; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Timothy 5:16; Philemon 1:3

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Saturday, August 19, 2023

 

Be filled with joy, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. ‘I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten…my great army that I sent among you.’”
(Joel 2:24-25)

I cling to this promise, Jesus!

I know it was made to the people of Judah.

But it’s also Who You Are!

I rest in the certain knowledge

that You always treat me better
than my sins deserve.

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Deuteronomy 30:3; Joel 2:21; Job 42:10; Psalm 103:6-14; Matthew 12:13; Acts 15:16; 2 Corinthians 13:9

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in corrected gratitude:

“Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.”
(Habakkuk 2:18)

I’ve never carved an idol, Jesus.

I would never do such a thing.

But am I trusting anything I’ve created?
Anything some other human has created?

Do I think they have the power to

heal me
make me happy
put food on my table?

I know better than that!

Only You, LORD!
Only You.

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Psalm 44:3; Psalm 44:6-7; Philippians 2:13; Proverbs 16:4; Lamentations 3:37-38; Ephesians 1:11; James 1:17

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with wiser eyes:

“…all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves. Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:4-6)

So there’s a balance, isn’t there, Jesus?

Work to accomplish what You’ve called me to do
not to keep up with someone else.

But even so, You want me to work –
and not make others do my job.

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Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 14:23; Proverbs 16:26; Proverbs 18:9; Matthew 9:37-38; Matthew 21:28-32; John 4:34

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

 

Get motivated! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“As for other matters, brothers and sisters, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly…”
(2 Thessalonians 3:1)

Through us, You’re establishing Your kingdom, Jesus

and You don’t want us dragging our feet.

You want us on high alert.
Time’s a-wasting!

People are dying without hearing about You!
Others are on the fence, for lack of good information.

It’s my job to do something about that.

You’ve told me to go tell.
I’d better get with it.

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Isaiah 6:9; Matthew 28:10; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; Acts 4:20; Romans 15:20; 1 Peter 3:15-16

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Thursday, April 6, 2023

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“‘Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.’ Therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and all kinds of music, all the nations and peoples of every language fell down and worshiped the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.”
(Daniel 3:6-7)

That was a no-brainer for everyone, Jesus.

Well…almost everyone.

There were a handful of Your people
who knew better.

May I always be numbered among that handful!

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Exodus 18:11; Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7-9; Daniel 3:16-18; Daniel 3:24-29; Luke 4:8; John 6:66-68

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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

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Sunday, January 29, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“…keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ…”
(Jude 1:21)

We may have to wait a while for Your ultimate mercy to be revealed, Jesus

but we don’t have to wait long to experience Your mercy
in a thousand ways – small and large –
through the passage of our days.

You are so good to us!
You take care of Your own.
You watch over us like a mother with her newborn.

No…even better.

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2 Samuel 24:14; Psalm 123:2; Luke 1:50; Luke 1:78; Romans 9:23; Romans 15:9; Titus 3:5

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Monday, May 31, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with corrected vision:

“A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?”
(Ecclesiastes 2:24-25)

This is how far Solomon’s wisdom can take him, Jesus

limited to what he observes under the sun.

True, everything comes from Your hand!

But there is so much more that is better

than eating, drinking
and liking my work.

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Exodus 32:5-7; 2 Samuel 11:11; 1 Kings 18:41-46; Nehemiah 8:12; Proverbs 23:7; Acts 17:25; 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Corinthians 15:32-34