Category Archives: declared

Saturday, January 20, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“…whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.”
(Romans 3:19-20)

Well, I’m certainly conscious of mine, Jesus.

My sins stare me in the face.
I live with their consequences.

But Hallelujah!

Through my faith in Your death and resurrection
I’m no longer under the law!

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John 3:16-17; Acts 2:38-39; Romans 3:21-22; Romans 7:4; Romans 7:14-25; Galatians 2:20; 1 John 1:9

Monday, November 27, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him…”
(Colossians 2:6)

You didn’t promise, Jesus

that those who claim to believe in You will be saved.

It’s one thing to claim it
a totally different thing to live it.

You’ve declared that those who endure to the end

are those who will be saved.

I’ve made my start with You.

I intend to stay true to You
till my final breath.

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Matthew 7:22-23; Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:13; Mark 13:13; 2 Peter 2:20-22; 2 Peter 3:17; Revelation 21:27

Sunday, November 12, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“But in accordance with the command of the Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.”
(Deuteronomy 2:37)

You have all power, Jesus!

I can go wherever You tell me to go.

But may I never go to a place You’ve declared off limits.

If I try, Your power will leave me

and I’ll fail.

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Genesis 26:2; Exodus 33:15; Numbers 14:42; Joshua 7:1-5; Proverbs 1:10-19; Jeremiah 42:19; Luke 17:22-24

Sunday, July 2, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“Jesus declared, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’ ‘How can a man be born when he is old?’ Nicodemus asked. ‘Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!’”
(John 3:3-4)

The New Life You grant to all who put their faith in You, Jesus

is a fresh, brand-new start
even more profound

than the miracle
of a baby’s first breath
on this earth.

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John 1:10-13; John 1:29; John 1:33-34; John 1:50-51; John 4:10; John 4:23-24; Galatians 2:20

Saturday, March 25, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful anticipation:

“And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:3-4)

And so we’re blessed with another uplifting word from Solomon, Jesus.

For somebody so wise
he sure was in a snit of depression.

But he was almost right about one thing:

People in heaven are definitely happier
than those of us still on earth!

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Isaiah 57:1; Luke 16:19-24; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Philippians 1:22-23; Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 21:4

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in wholehearted commitment:

“…we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, ‘So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”’”
(Hebrews 4:2-3)

Hearing Your Word is no good to me, Jesus

if I don’t believe it.

But I do! Thank God, I do!

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Genesis 15:6; Exodus 4:31; Isaiah 43:10; Matthew 8:13; Romans 1:16; Romans 10:9-11; 1 Peter 1:8

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble gratitude:

“All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
(Romans 2:12-13)

I’m saved by Your gift of faith, Jesus

not by what I do or don’t do.

But evidence that I’ve received your gift of faith

is demonstrated by what I do

and don’t do.

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Matthew 3:7-8; Romans 2:25-27; Romans 3:21-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; James 1:22-27; James 2:14-17; 1 John 1:9-10

Saturday, February 6, 2021

 

Take stock, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.”
(Jonah 3:5)

The people of the great city of Ninevah did this, Jesus

in response to Your warning through the prophet Jonah.

Through him, You told them their city would be overturned in 40 days.

Just wondering…

If You sent a prophet with a similar warning to my city

would anyone fast?
would anyone remove their fine clothing

and start wearing sackcloth?

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Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 3:31; Psalms 69:11; Matthew 4:1-2; Matthew 11:21; Acts 13:2-3; Acts 14:23

Saturday, February 6, 2021

 

Take stock, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.”
(Jonah 3:5)

The people of the great city of Ninevah did this, Jesus

in response to Your warning through the prophet Jonah.

Through him, You told them their city would be overturned in 40 days.

Just wondering…

If You sent a prophet with a similar warning to my city

would anyone fast?
would anyone remove their fine clothing

and start wearing sackcloth?

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Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 3:31; Psalms 69:11; Matthew 4:1-2; Matthew 11:21; Acts 13:2-3; Acts 14:23