Category Archives: Courage

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.’”
(Esther 4:15-16)

Great God!

Give me the courage of Esther!

In Jesus’ Name.

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Deuteronomy 31:6-7; Deuteronomy 31:23; Joshua 1:6-7; Joshua 1:9; 2 Samuel 7:27; Matthew 14:27; Acts 4:13

Monday, March 25, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in ardent love:

“Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted in fear and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.”
(Joshua 5:1)

Do that to all who oppose Your holy people, Jesus!

Do that in behalf of all Your people who are less than holy

but keep trying

and trying

and won’t quit

till we make it.

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Jeremiah 30:21; Romans 3:4; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; James 3:2; James 4:8; 1 John 1:9

Thursday, April 27, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.’”
(John 3:1-2)

What courage this man exhibited, Jesus –

willing to stand against all his peers
because he could see what You were doing.

May I be courageous, LORD

even when I don’t see.

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Matthew 21:22; John 1:50; John 3:12; John 20:29; Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 11:6; 1 John 4:20

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in renewed dedication:

“‘On that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will make you like my signet ring’…”
(Haggai 2:23)

Why were You so pleased with this governor of Judah, Jesus?

It was because He had the courage to obey You!

He delivered Your warning to Your people
even though it was the last thing they wanted to hear.

He valued pleasing You
ahead of pleasing them.

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Exodus 29:18; Psalm 19:14; Psalm 103:34; Jeremiah 6:20; Romans 12:1-2; Romans 14:17-18; Hebrews 11:24-26

Saturday, November 6, 2021


Be inspired! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
(Matthew 3:11-12)

Your message through John the Baptist cost him his life, Jesus!

May the courage You gave him
fall on me.

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Deuteronomy 31:6; Joshua 1:7; Matthew 3:1; Matthew 3:4; Matthew 4:12; Matthew 11:2-19; Matthew 14:1-12

Friday, January 22, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo repelled in horror:

“…God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment…”
(2 Peter 2:4)

That’s a lot of angels, Jesus

an incredible number of cells in those gloomy dungeons
all of them writhing in unspeakable torment
awaiting certain, eternal judgment.

Just thinking about it gives me the willies.

I’m so thankful my trust in You changes my destination
from hell to heaven!

Please give me the courage

to warn others.

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Matthew 5:22; Matthew 5:29-30; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 23:33; Mark 9:47-49; Luke 16:22-24; James 3:6

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with respect and honor:

“…you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.”
(Ruth 2:11)

That’s the kind of thing people do in honor of You, Jesus!

Ruth did all of that to stay with her mother-in-law Naomi

out of respect for the woman she loved
and in honor of the God Naomi worshiped:

You.

You’re worth every big time price I pay

every courageous action I take in obedience to You.

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Exodus 15:2; Deuteronomy 31:6-7; Joshua 1:6-7; 2 Samuel 7:27; 2 Chronicles 15:8; Psalms 18:2; Revelation 3:12

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with conviction:

“I said to Peter in front of them all…”
(Galatians 2:14)

One titan taking on another, Jesus –

the Apostle Paul confronting the Apostle Peter.

Paul, however, was the newbie.

Peter was one of the originals –
chosen by You to be one of Your inner circle.

So what gave Paul the courage and conviction to rebuke Peter?

It was very simple, wasn’t it?

Paul was right.
Peter was wrong.

When it comes to right and wrong

right must always prevail.

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Exodus 9:27; 1 Kings 3:9; Psalms 119:128; Isaiah 7:15; Romans 13:3; 2 Corinthians 13:7; 1 Peter 2:14

Saturday, November 23, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“However, as it is written…”
(1 Corinthians 2:9)

“However,” indeed, Jesus.

If I move out on my own
pull me back to You with:

“…as it is written.”

Every time I’m with people who are about to do wrong
give me the courage to take a stand for:

“…as it is written.”

Your Word is a lamp to my feet, a light on my path.

Make me willing to break away from those
who have no Light of dawn.

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Psalms 89:15; Psalms 119:105; Proverbs 6:23; Isaiah 8:20; Matthew 5:14; Luke 11:35; John 1:5

Sunday, August 12, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with renewed determination:

“…he brought him to Jesus.”
(John 1:42)

May that be said of me, Jesus –

over and over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and over and over and over again!

Satan wants to shut my mouth.

I’m ashamed to admit he’s won that battle countless times.

But I don’t want him to have the last laugh!

Give me the wisdom, courage and compassion
to bring to You two precious souls

for each one I’ve missed.

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Matthew 10:18; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 1:16; 2 Timothy 2:2; Hebrews 12:1; 1 Peter 3:15