Category Archives: chosen people

Monday, October 17, 2022

 

Be encouraged! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.”
(1 Corinthians 3:14-15)

You are stunningly good to Your chosen people, Jesus!

Even if we blow it again and again
making bad choice after bad choice after bad choice

if with all our hearts we claim You

You claim us.

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Exodus 4:10-12; Hosea 11:8; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; 2 Timothy 2:11-13; James 3:2

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. But you are a chosen people…”
(1 Peter 2:8-9)

I hardly know what to do with this, Jesus.

To think that some people are destined to reject You
seems so unfair.

But to think that You chose and destined me to accept You?
That’s awesome!

Bottom line?

I trust You!
Your ways are far superior to mine.

And I am beyond grateful

to be included in Your wholly undeserved, unfathomable love!

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Genesis 18:19; Exodus 31:2; Deuteronomy 7:6; Isaiah 55:8-9; Matthew 22:14; Mark 13:20; Luke 18:7; John 6:70

Sunday, February 9, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with utter abandon:

“…the Jews…drove us out …”
(1 Thessalonians 2:14-15)

I love the Jews, Jesus.

Not as much as You do, because no one could.
But my love for Your chosen people is fierce and strong.

Still…there were times when You were so upset with them

that You threatened to wipe them off the face of the earth.
You didn’t…but You punished them severely.

I know You love me –

enough to do whatever it takes to turn me around

when I stray.

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Psalms 119:176; Isaiah 26:16; Jeremiah 31:18-19; Hosea 7:13; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Ephesians 6:24; Hebrews 12:7-10

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in somber realization:

“They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.”
(Jeremiah 2:15)

If You’ll let evil nations do that to Your chosen people, Jesus

who can escape?

Your people turned from You to worship idols

digging themselves a hole too deep to climb out.

May I never do such a thing!

May I trust You, no matter what
rejecting every temptation of Satan.

May I hold fast to You through every storm

Knowing You
hold fast
to me.

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Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 11:22-23; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Psalms 119:31; Jeremiah 2:11-13; Romans 8:31-39; 2 Thessalonians 2:15

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…Esther had kept secret her family background…”
(Esther 2:20)

She had to, Jesus.

She was a hated Jew.

There were those who would have attempted to dethrone her –

even kill her! –

if her nationality became known.

But why?
The Jews are Your chosen people!

Perhaps that’s why.

Jealousy plays a part…but there’s more.

Satan was the one behind all the hatred

as always.

He was doing his best to stop the ancestral line that led to You

and utterly failed.

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Genesis 21:9; Exodus 1:22; Ezra 4:19-32; Esther 9:1; Proverbs 27:4; Matthew 1:1-17; Romans 11:25-27

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heartfelt gratitude:

“God…was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.”
(Galatians 2:8)

You chose the Jews, Jesus.

There’s no argument about that.
They’re Yours.

But Hallelujah! You didn’t stop there!

You chose the rest of us, too –
everyone who calls on Your Name.

The Jews who reject You will miss heaven

as will all the Gentiles – the non-Jews –
who fail to put their hope in You.

But I’ll join every believing Jew and Gentile

in heaven.

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Acts 2:21; Acts 14:23; Romans 11:1-24; Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:17