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Thursday, October 4, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“The spears of pine are brandished.”
(Nahum 2:3)

Aren’t spears supposed to be made of metal, Jesus?

It would be scary to go into battle with a pine spear
against an army of people carrying iron spears.

Still…with Your help, blessing and protection

a pine spear is all I need.

Help me to trust You to provide victory

through the weapons, tools, materials
education, location, people

You’ve given me.

Not by might, not by power…

but by Your Spirit.

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1 Samuel 14:6; Psalms 44:3; Psalms 44:6-7; Isaiah 26:12; Lamentations 3:37-38; Zechariah 4:6; Philippians 4:13

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

 

Take heed, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Then the word of the LORD came…”
(Jonah 3:1)

That word, “Then” is huge, isn’t it, Jesus?

It implies that something went before it.

Did it ever!

Jonah had a near-death experience
orchestrated by You.

Now that You had his attention

You gave him his marching orders.
Again.

I can do what Jonah did and wait for the “then,” can’t I?

Or I can skip the near-death experience and pay attention –
which Jonah should have done the first time.

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Exodus 15:26; Jonah 1:1-3; Jonah 1:7; Jonah 1:17; Jonah 2:1; Jonah 2:10; Matthew 12:39-40

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“God…led you in the way…”
(Jeremiah 2:17)

I spend a lot of time begging You to lead me, Jesus

while wondering how I got where I am.

Maybe because things didn’t turn out the way I had hoped.

Maybe because of the challenges I face every day.

I think to myself, “Did I miss Your voice, LORD?”

But when I get far enough out and look back
I realize with amazement:

You led me every step of the way.

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Nehemiah 9:12; Psalms 37:23-24; Psalms 43:3; Psalms 77:20; Psalms 119:105; Acts 17:24-28; Romans 8:29-30; Ephesians 1:5-11

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Monday, September 17, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with Banzai belief:

“…even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them…”
(2 Peter 2:1)

I’m bought and paid for, Jesus!

By asking You to be my Savior
I accepted Your terms:

You gave Your all for me
I agree to give my all for You.

The thing is…

I still sin.
I don’t want to…but I do.

Am I denying Your sovereignty when I succumb to Satan’s temptation?

I fervently hope not!

You haven’t given up on me.
I’ll never give up on You.

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Deuteronomy 3:24; 2 Samuel 7:18; 2 Samuel 7:22; Psalms 68:20; Romans 7:15-25; Hebrews 10:36; James 3:2

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Sunday, September 9, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo all the way to the marrow of your bones:

“Confident of your obedience…”
(Philemon 1:21)

I wish You could be confident of mine, Jesus!

I wish my friends and family could be.
I wish I could be.

But I’m not.

Oh, I’m confident of my good intentions.

You know all about those, too.

I sure do mean well.

But my follow-through needs some work.

I don’t have to tell You that last statement was an understatement.

My follow-through needs a lot of work.

Help me. Please.
Help me.

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Deuteronomy 5:33; Deuteronomy 8:6; Joshua 22:5; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Kings 3:14; Romans 1:5; 2 Corinthians 9:13

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Saturday, September 8, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“Why is light given to those in misery…?”
(Job 3:20)

I get it, Jesus.

Job’s referring to the light of the sun.
He’s in such agony that he thinks he’d be better off dead.

But as he learned after You restored him

he was dead wrong.

Just because I’m miserable, suffering, struggling

doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be here.

You use the pain of my life to teach me and toughen me…

and then You make it pay off!

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Job 42:12-17; Psalms 119:107; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 53:11; Hebrews 2:9-10; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 5:8; 1 Peter 2:21

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Monday, September 3, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“Christ Jesus…the testimony given in its proper time.”
(1 Timothy 2:5-6)

Only looking back can we begin to understand the testimony of Your words to the serpent after he had successfully tempted Eve, Jesus:

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Satan indeed used the cross to strike Your heel

not realizing You would use it

to crush his head.

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Genesis 3:16; Isaiah 14:12; Luke 10:18; Colossians 2:15; Hebrews 12:2; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:7-10

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Sunday, September 2, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with a searching heart:

“…took their places to praise the LORD…”
(Ezra 3:10)

Where’s my place to praise You, Jesus?

Oh, I know – You deserve to be praised everywhere
at all times.

But surely there are places

that I will praise You way more effectively than others.

Because there must be places that try though I might

my way of praising You would fall on deaf ears.
Even backfire.

Actually…

I think I’ve been to a few of those places. 😉

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Genesis 12:1-5; Exodus 3:10; Judges 6:14; Psalms 16:6; Ezekiel 2:4; Acts 16:9-10; Acts 17:24-28

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Saturday, August 25, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with wisdom:

“Then King Solomon swore by the LORD…”
(1 Kings 2:23)

Powerful, Jesus.

But not always wise.

Not something I want to do thoughtlessly

on the spur of the moment
just to impress the people I’m with
to make my point.

It’s a serious, solemn, awesome thing to invoke Your Name –

the Name above every name
the Name before which every knee will bow.

No wonder You made it one of your Ten Commandments

not to misuse Your Name!

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Exodus 20:7; Isaiah 45:23; Jeremiah 14:14; Acts 19:13; Romans 14:11; Ephesians 1:21; Philippians 2:9-11

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Friday, August 24, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“…we are…created in Christ Jesus to do good works…”
(Ephesians 2:10)

But before I can do good, Jesus

I have to be good.

Bad people do bad things. Good people do good things.

I do what I am.

True, sometimes bad people do good things

usually from an ulterior motive.

Good people often do bad things

because we’re weak…still growing…battling temptation.

But by faith –

through my deepening, daily, 1on1 relationship with You –

those good works are on the way.

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Mark 14:38; Luke 22:32; John 12:4-6; Romans 1:17; 1 Corinthians 10:13; James 3:2; James 4:8