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Sunday, October 2, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in dawning awareness:

“…the house of Esau will be stubble…”
(Obadiah 1:18)

Hard words, Jesus

though no less true.

I prefer soft words, myself

saying them and hearing them.

Sadly, soft words are often ignored.

I use them with others
others use them with me

to which we nod, smile, wave an acknowledgment…

and keep right on doing what we’re doing.

Hard words pack a punch because they carry a threat.

Y’know…I think I’d rather learn how to respond
to soft words.

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Exodus 32:14; Joshua 23:15; Nehemiah 4:9; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 63:15; Ezekiel 6:10; Luke 1:78

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Saturday, October 1, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with full attention:

“Hear this word the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel…”
(Amos 3:1)

That’s not a word I’d want to hear, Jesus

especially if I was an Israelite.

What a reminder that You discipline Your kids!

I’m Your kid, too.

You love me enough to discipline me –

not because You want to cause me pain

but because You will do whatever You have to do

to spare me from the consequences

of heading down the wrong path.

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Deuteronomy 8:5; Proverbs 3:12; John 1:12; Hebrews 12:5-6; Hebrews 12:10; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:10

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Friday, September 30, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“…they leap over the mountaintops…”
(Joel 2:5)

You’re describing the Day of the LORD, Jesus

when an army of supernatural locusts will sweep over the earth
in terrifying pain, anguish and destruction.

Nowhere will be safe
not even those nestled in valleys surrounded by mountains.

I don’t want to be here then!
I don’t want to be surrounded by the suffering those locusts bring.

Some people say I may
some say I won’t

But either way

I’ll have You.

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Joel 2:1; Matthew 24:40-41; Mark 13:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 9:1-11

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The LORD said to me…”
(Hosea 3:1)

I always get a little nervous when somebody talks like that, Jesus.

Oh, not in Scripture!

I love it there.
I trust it.
I know it’s true.

I mean it makes me nervous when people I know – or even strangers – talk like that around me.

Not because I don’t believe it’s possible
but because I don’t believe it’s likely

…unless it comes from someone who through the years

I’ve come to respect.

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Deuteronomy 1:42; 1 Samuel 15:16; Isaiah 8:1; Jeremiah 1:7; Jeremiah 23:26; Jeremiah 23:30; Ezekiel 11;2; Amos 8:2; Acts 22:21

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning desire:

“Remember the height from which you have fallen!”
(Revelation 2:5)

That’s a hard command to obey, Jesus.

Absolutely brutal.

If fills me with guilt –

because I know I didn’t have to fall.

If only I had stayed consistent!

plugging away
determined
one step at a time

I’d be looking down on that height

instead of up at it.

Nothing I can about it now.
What’s done is done.

But that glance at where I once was
inspires me to go after it again.

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Psalms 38:4; Psalms 42:4; Psalms 69:5; Psalms 143:5; Jeremiah 2:2; Romans 1:20; Philippians 3:13-14

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with a longing heart:

“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever…He reveals deep…things…”
(Daniel 2:20, 22)

Yes You do, Jesus!

things too deep for me to

understand
grasp
fathom.

You’re the God of the deep!

You rule over the surface
but only You can plumb the deepest depths

because they were created
by You.

Deep isn’t deep to You.

Deep is as accessible to You
as a bowl of cereal is to me.

O God!

Show me the deep.

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Genesis 1:2; Genesis 7:11; Genesis 49:25; Job 12:22; Job 38:16; Psalms 42:7; 1 Corinthians 2:10

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Monday, September 26, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sharpened eye:

“They are wild waves of the sea…”
(Jude 1:13)

From the perspective of a boat passenger, Jesus

I can only imagine what a wild wave person might be.

frightening
threatening
lethal.

On the sea, one wild wave

can sink a boat
drown hundreds
incur huge financial loss
divide friends and families
destroy carefully laid plans
end countless dreams.

One wild wave person can cause all of that and more.

O God!

Protect my little boat
from the wild wave.

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Joshua 7:1-26; 1 Samuel 22:9-19; Psalms 41:9; Ecclesiastes 10:1; Matthew 2:16; Luke 22:4; Acts 27:13-20; 2 Timothy 4:14

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Sunday, September 25, 2016

 

Face it…as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…words you cannot understand.”
(Ezekiel 3:6)

With more than a million words in the English language, Jesus

there are plenty I can’t understand.

With more than 6,500 spoken languages worldwide

the number of words I can’t understand is mind boggling.

It’s the words I do understand but don’t obey

that bother me.

Sure, there are some words in the Bible that I probably don’t truly grasp

but You make most of it so plain that misunderstanding

isn’t my problem.

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Genesis 11:7; Deuteronomy 28:49; Job 42:3; Psalms 92:6; Proverbs 28:5; Proverbs 30:18; Daniel 12:8; Luke 9:45; Romans 1:18-20

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with heartfelt emotion:

“It gave me great joy…”
(3 John 1:3)

Not everybody can say that, Jesus.

Some people don’t have the capacity for any kind of joy
let alone great joy.

Oh, they know what fun is

they can laugh, have a good time
feel good, experience positive emotions

but joy?

Huh-uh.

Joy – true joy – comes solely from You.

Someone might even believe they’ve been joyful
until You give them a taste of the real thing

and blow their minds.

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Leviticus 9:24; Deuteronomy 16:15; 1 Chronicles 16:27; Nehemiah 8:10; Matthew 13:44; Luke 2:10; Galatians 5:22

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Friday, September 23, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered assessment:

“…look upon my suffering.”
(Lamentations 1:18)

Sometimes I agree with Jeremiah, Jesus –

I want people to know what I’m going through

so they can pray
so I can get a little sympathy
so they’ll cut me some slack in my work.

At other times, not so much.

I prefer to appear strong, competent
unfazed by the challenges in my life.

Of course, You know how weak and needy I really am

as, I suspect…do most of them.

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Psalms 142:4; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Isaiah 50:6; John 16:32; 1 Corinthians 2:11; 1 Timothy 5:5; 1 Peter 5:7