Category Archives: bigger

Friday, January 12, 2024

 

Raise your sights! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, ‘He is out of his mind.’”
(Mark 3:20-21)

You didn’t come here to enjoy a good meal, Jesus.

Your message was a little bigger than that.

You came to transform lives

call people to a higher purpose
change their destination from hell to heaven.

Those who don’t believe that about You

are the ones who are out of their minds.

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Matthew 5:17; Matthew 10:34-35; Luke 12:49; John 3:16-18; John 6:69; Romans 6:17; Hebrews 3:14

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in bold, confident faith:

“That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.”
(Deuteronomy 2:20-21)

No matter how big or how powerful my enemy, Jesus…

please help me remember:

The bigger they are

the harder they fall

when You’re the one

knocking them down.

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Genesis 6:4; Deuteronomy 28:7; 1 Samuel 17:14; 22 Samuel 22:30; Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 52:12; Matthew 19:26

Monday, September 5, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heart pounding love:

“I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.”
(Ecclesiastes 3:14)

Well, it’s working, Jesus.

I fear You!

Not because I think You don’t love me.

I know You do.

It’s just that You Are so Awesome! So Powerful!

You’re Bigger than big, Wiser than wise.

I love that You and I are close – 1on1.

But Your attributes are so mind-boggling
that I can’t help but tremble in Your Presence.

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Genesis 20:11; Exodus 20:20; 2 Samuel 23:3-4; Psalm 66:16; Romans 3:18; 1 Peter 2:17; Revelation 14:7

Thursday, May 19, 2022

 

Be very careful, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…horses and their riders will fall…”
(Haggai 2:22)

A rider on a horse may feel safer, Jesus, almost invincible.

The horse raises them up high off the ground
making them feel above it all.

The horse is faster than soldiers on foot
able to race away from danger.

But it’s an illusion, isn’t it?

A rider on a horse is a bigger target

and the bigger they are
the harder they fall.

Maybe I’d better stay humble

and not get up on my high horse.

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Exodus 10:3; Numbers 12:3; Deuteronomy 8:2; Matthew 11:29; Matthew 23:12; Luke 1:52; Ephesians 4:2; James 4:10

Saturday, September 18, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with full attention:

“All that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, continued through the morning hours and came to Mahanaim. Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army.”
(2 Samuel 2:29-30)

It’s no fun to be chased by an enemy, Jesus –

especially one that is bigger, stronger, faster, better equipped.

But when that happens to me, I cry out to You!

You’re the only one who can instantly stop them in their tracks.

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Deuteronomy 1:44; Joshua 7:5; Psalms 57:2; Psalms 143:3; Jeremiah 50:17; Lamentations 4:19; Luke 18:7

Friday, May 17, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“…the…struggle…you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.”
(Philippians 1:30)

Okay, Jesus…

that’s real!

How many times have I begged You to intervene –

cried and pleaded for a miracle –

that still hasn’t come?

I know.

It’s all about Your timing.

I want deliverance now.

I live in the now.

But Your perspective is a little different:

higher, wider, deeper, bigger

better.

You see the end from the beginning

because You Are

the Beginning and the End.

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Genesis 1:1; Job 19:7; Job 30:20; Psalms 22:2; Psalms 31:15; Psalms 55:17; Psalms 57:2; Isaiah 55:8-11; Revelation 22:12-13

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

 

Fully open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“But the fields and villages around the city were given to Caleb…”
(1 Chronicles 6:56)

Some of us get the big cities, Jesus

others the fields and smaller towns.

You place each of us where – if we trust You with our whole hearts –

we can thrive.

Interestingly, one may be best for a season

and the other best in the next season of life.

I may have to learn these truths the hard way

but it’s worth the cost.

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Psalms 104:19; Jeremiah 8:7; Daniel 2:21; Acts 14:17; Acts 17:1-10; Acts 17:24-28; Acts 18:5-11

Thursday, October 4, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“The spears of pine are brandished.”
(Nahum 2:3)

Aren’t spears supposed to be made of metal, Jesus?

It would be scary to go into battle with a pine spear
against an army of people carrying iron spears.

Still…with Your help, blessing and protection

a pine spear is all I need.

Help me to trust You to provide victory

through the weapons, tools, materials
education, location, people

You’ve given me.

Not by might, not by power…

but by Your Spirit.

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1 Samuel 14:6; Psalms 44:3; Psalms 44:6-7; Isaiah 26:12; Lamentations 3:37-38; Zechariah 4:6; Philippians 4:13

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

 

 Pray this Lazaroo with rejoicing: 

“And God said, ‘I will be with you.’ ”
(Exodus 3:12)

That’s all I need to know, Jesus!

When You’re with me, I’m

unstoppable…
unless there’s danger ahead

always on top…
unless it’s better on bottom

wiser…
unless I need to be humbled

faster…
unless it’s time to slow down

bigger…
unless there’s an advantage to being smaller

calmer…
unless my emotions ought to be stirred

first…
unless the sweet spot is at the back of the line.

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Deuteronomy 28:13; Psalms 119:98; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Matthew 20:16; Matthew 20:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 3 John 1:9