Category Archives: certain

Saturday, February 24, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“‘In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘people will no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.’”
(Jeremiah 3:16)

Well one thing’s for certain, Jesus:

These are not those days.

We still remember Your ark.
There are many who miss it.

But Your Presence has moved beyond that ark

to indwell each of us who believe
by Your Holy Spirit.

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Exodus 25:10-22; Psalm 78:61; Psalm 132:8; John 14:16-18; Colossians 1:27; Hebrews 9:5; Revelation 11:19

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing anticipation:

“He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.”
(Micah 4:3)

What a promise, Jesus!

Certain, in the last days to come true.

Oh, not because there’s even a hint now that such a thing can happen

but because when You declare it
it’s as good as done.

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2 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 46:11; Ezekiel 5:9; Ezekiel 12:26-28; Daniel 8:26; Micah 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:12

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

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

 

Take heed, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour their fields. Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of reckoning. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain. Judah’s leaders are like those who move boundary stones. I will pour out my wrath on them like a flood of water.”
(Hosea 5:7, 9-10)

If I persist in disobeying You, Jesus

the day will come when You quit telling me what to do

and start telling me
what You’re going to do.

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Numbers 14:21-23; Nehemiah 9:36-37; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 66:4; Zechariah 7:13; 2 Timothy 4:3-4; Hebrews 10:26-31

Thursday, May 11, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undiluted sincerity:

“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’”
(Philippians 2:14-15)

There’s a payoff for doing life Your way, Jesus!

There’s always a payoff.
A very good payoff.

It seldom happens when or how or where I imagined it would

but when it does, I’m blown away.

Still the greatest payoff of all for doing things Your way

is the certain knowledge that I’m putting a smile on Your face.

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1 Chronicles 29:17; Ezra 6:10; Psalm 5:4; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ecclesiastes 7:26; Romans 12:1; Colossians 1:10

Friday, October 14, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with deep reverence:

“Joshua…said to them, ‘Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you.’”
(Joshua 4:4-6)

You had just worked an amazing miracle, Jesus.

They set those stones in the middle of the Jordan
to make certain they would always remember what You did.

What stones do I need to set – and where?

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Numbers 15:39-40; Deuteronomy 4:10; Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 7:18; Psalm 77:3; Matthew 16:9; 2 Peter 1:15

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

 

Be warned, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’…”
(Ezekiel 3:11)

I will, Jesus.

All I have to do is quote to them the words in the Bible –

being certain the passage I quote
applies to them.

But when it comes to claiming a message is from You that is not in the Bible?

I’d better be 100 per cent certain
I’m not speaking out of my own imagination.

You will not allow such arrogance to go unpunished.

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1 Samuel 15:1; 2 Kings 18:25; Isaiah 8:20; Jeremiah 23:30; Jeremiah 37:17; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Corinthians 12:1

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…you have plundered many nations…”
(Habakkuk 2:8)

Some nations are like that, Jesus.

So are some people.

They’re not happy with what You’ve given them.

They want more.

So they steal for themselves

what You’ve given others.

Some of them get away with it

for a while.

But as surely as You’re the righteous Judge

a day of reckoning is coming

swiftly for some
later for others

but from the moment they cross that line

it’s on the way.

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Exodus 6:6; Numbers 33:4; Deuteronomy 32:41; 2 Chronicles 24:24; Psalms 9:7; Matthew 5:22; John 9:39

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo…with confidence:

“The house of Judah, however, followed David.”
(2 Samuel 2:10)

You promised David would be king over all Israel, Jesus.

For more than seven years, however, only Judah followed him.
The other tribes followed the son of Saul.

David waited a long time for Your promise to be fulfilled.

I can identify.
I’m still waiting on some of Your promises.

But the day came when Your promise to David came true

as will every promise You’ve made to me.

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Joshua 21:45; Joshua 23:14; 1 Kings 8:25; 1 Chronicles 25:5; Psalms 145:13; Luke 1:45; 2 Corinthians 1:20; 2 Peter 3:9