Category Archives: crowd

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, June 28, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in steadfast faith:

“…the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him…”
(Mark 3:6-8)

In the face of these threats, Jesus

You didn’t stay and fight.
You simply went somewhere else and stayed on mission.

Please show me when that is exactly the response

You want me to have.

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Psalm 101:4; Matthew 10:14; Mark 6:11; Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; 2 Timothy 3:5; Titus 3:10

Thursday, October 20, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered reflection:

“…the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.’”
(1 Samuel 2:30)

So much for the name-it-and-claim-it crowd, Jesus.

I can’t stand on every promise You’ve ever made
if I’m not standing faithfully with You.

May I honor you, my Savior

with everything I think, say and do!

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Psalm 22:23; Psalm 50:23; Psalm 62:7; Psalm 149:5; Isaiah 29:13; Matthew 15:8; 1 Timothy 1:17

Thursday, October 8, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.”
(Mark 2:4)

How many people would have given up, Jesus?

Probably most of them.
They would have said, “Sorry, we can’t get you in.”

But these men risked everything to bring their friend to You!

O God! Make me such a friend!

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Exodus 32:27; Deuteronomy 23:6; Job 2:11; Job 16:20; Job 42:10; Proverbs 17:17; 2 Corinthians 12:19

Sunday, January 27, 2019

 

Wise up! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Many will follow their shameful ways…”
(2 Peter 2:2)

When “everybody’s doing it,” Jesus

it’s tempting to do it with them.
It feels safer.

But not when the crowd is opposed to You!

‘cause that whole crowd is marching right over the cliff.

Is it tough to stand alone?

Sometimes, yes.

But I’m not alone, am I?

I have You –

not to mention untold millions of my brother and sister Christians.

Because Satan’s a liar.
Everybody’s not “doing it.”

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Exodus 23:2; Job 31:34; Psalms 1:6; Matthew 7:13; Matthew 26:55; Matthew 27:20; 2 Timothy 1:15-18; 2 Timothy 4:16-18

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“Jesus…stayed outside in lonely places…”
(Mark 1:45)

The crowds wouldn’t leave You alone, would they, Jesus?

Once they discovered You could heal, cast out demons
feed thousands of people with one boy’s lunch
teach like no one they’d ever heard

they pursued You day and night.

You’re the same yesterday, today and forever.

You remain a miracle-working God.

Now in Your glorified body, You don’t need sleep or rest.

You invite me to passionately pursue You

day and night.

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Deuteronomy 4:29; Deuteronomy 10:12-13; 1 Samuel 12:24; Jeremiah 29:13; Matthew 8:20; Mark 12:30; Colossians 3:23-24