Category Archives: daily prayer

Monday, January 21, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo… in awe:

“…fix your thoughts on Jesus…the high priest…”
(Hebrews 3:1)

I don’t often think of You as my High Priest, Jesus.

But You Are!

The Great High Priest of us all.

Similar to Melchizedek, You were ordained a high priest

apart from the Law given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Other high priests offered sacrifice each year for themselves

as well as for the people.

Not so, You.

You were the perfect, sinless sacrifice
who offered Yourself once…

for all.

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Genesis 14:18; Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 5:6; Hebrews 6:20; Hebrews 7:26-27; Hebrews 9:7

Saturday, January 19, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“…knowing that you will do…”
(Philemon 1:21)

I can’t thank You enough, Jesus

for the people who are so honorable, so diligent
so conscientious, so reliable, so trustworthy

that if it’s in their power to act,

I know what they will do.

I know they’ll follow through
pay whatever price
do whatever it takes

to get ‘er done.

Station such people all around me, LORD –

in my family, church, workplace, community.

and may I be counted in their number.

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2 Kings 18:5; 2 Kings 23:25; Nehemiah 13:26; Job 1:8; Philippians 2:20; Acts 13:22; Philippians 2:29

Saturday, January 19, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“…knowing that you will do…”
(Philemon 1:21)

I can’t thank You enough, Jesus

for the people who are so honorable, so diligent
so conscientious, so reliable, so trustworthy

that if it’s in their power to act,

I know what they will do.

I know they’ll follow through
pay whatever price
do whatever it takes

to get ‘er done.

Station such people all around me, LORD –

in my family, church, workplace, community.

and may I be counted in their number.

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2 Kings 18:5; 2 Kings 23:25; Nehemiah 13:26; Job 1:8; Philippians 2:20; Acts 13:22; Philippians 2:29

Saturday, January 19, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“…knowing that you will do…”
(Philemon 1:21)

I can’t thank You enough, Jesus

for the people who are so honorable, so diligent
so conscientious, so reliable, so trustworthy

that if it’s in their power to act,

I know what they will do.

I know they’ll follow through
pay whatever price
do whatever it takes

to get ‘er done.

Station such people all around me, LORD –

in my family, church, workplace, community.

and may I be counted in their number.

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2 Kings 18:5; 2 Kings 23:25; Nehemiah 13:26; Job 1:8; Philippians 2:20; Acts 13:22; Philippians 2:29

Friday, January 18, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“…those who long for death that does not come…”
(Job 3:21)

It’s pretty easy for human beings to kill themselves, Jesus

if that’s what they really want to do.

But our lives are not our own, are they?

You’re the Life-Giver…
and the Life-Taker.

Only You know when it’s best for me to check in…

and check out.

I’m here for a season to do Your will.

Only when my work is done
will I see Your Face.

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1 Samuel 26:24; 1 Kings 19:4; Job 6:9; Job 7:16; Psalms 23:6; Jeremiah 10:23; John 13:37; Acts 20:24

Thursday, January 17, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in stubborn faith:

“Teach the older men to be…sound…in endurance.”
(Titus 2:2)

By the time these men reach their advanced years, Jesus

You expect them to exhibit this amazing trait of endurance.

Of course, in many cases, that has to be taught

because none of likes what it means:

hardship, disappointment
waiting, waiting, waiting.

The only way to teach it or learn it

is to believe or discover
that when You promise it

in Your perfect way and time
You come through.

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Psalms 119:142; Psalms 145:13; Joshua 21:45; Daniel 2:45; Daniel 8:26; Luke 24:34; John 19:35

Friday, January 11, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“…loved by the Lord…”
(2 Thessalonians 2:13)

Still blows my mind, Father!

Jesus loves me this I know
for the Bible tells me so.

Why, Jesus?

How can You love a sinner like me?

Because of the evil I’ve done

Your love for me cost You Your life
an ugly, excruciatingly painful, humiliating

death on the cross.

They laughed at You, taunted You, ridiculed You
slapped You, beat You, despised You

because of me.

Your incomprehensible love!

demands mine.

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Psalms 17:7; Psalms 25:6; Psalms 40:10; Psalms 57:10; Psalms 117:2; John 3:16-17; 1 John 3:16

Thursday, January 10, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful recognition:

“He paneled the main hall with pine and covered it with fine gold…”
(2 Chronicles 3:5)

This was for Your temple, Jesus.

As I picture that golden hallway…

wow!

But right now I’m thinking about the pine.

That’s what went up first.
That’s what held up the gold.

First comes the pine

then the gold.

If there’s no pine

there’s no gold.

Which season am I in, LORD?

Pine or gold?

Please remind me:

Both have equal value.

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Deuteronomy 23:7; Psalms 51:17; Proverbs 23:22; Matthew 18:10; Zechariah 4:10; James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with discernment:

“…God’s churches…which are in Christ Jesus…”
(1 Thessalonians 2:14)

Not every group of people calling themselves a “church”

is a church, Jesus.

Many gatherings of people meeting in buildings with steeples and pews

bear no resemblance to the Church of the Bible
nor do they honor the Bible of Your Church.

Some who sing from hymnals illuminated by light streaming through stained glass

are unacquainted with the true Light
who came into this world to seek and save the lost.

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Psalms 89:15; Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 8:20; Isaiah 10:17; Matthew 6:23; John 1:4-5; John 8:12

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