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Thursday, June 20, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
(2 Timothy 2:22)

How do I overcome all the temptations Satan strews along my path, Jesus?

By single-mindedly focusing on all the opportunities You provide
to become everything You’ve created me to be

while making sure I surround myself
with like-minded men and women
who call on You out of a pure heart.

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Psalm 34:14; Romans 9:30-31; Romans 13:13-14; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Philippians 4:8-9; 1 Timothy 6:11; 1 Peter 3:11

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, ‘The boy has not awakened.’ When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.”
(2 Kings 4:31-32)

That’s how some of my lifelong desires appear, Jesus:

dead.

But You’re the Giver of Life!

Just as You raised this dead boy to life

You can raise to life every one of my dreams

that are in keeping with Your will.

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Psalm 35:12-14; Psalm 37:4; Psalm 103:5; Psalm 145:19; Romans 1:24; Romans 13:14; 1 John 5:14-15

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, ‘The boy has not awakened.’ When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.”
(2 Kings 4:31-32)

That’s how some of my lifelong desires appear, Jesus:

dead.

But You’re the Giver of Life!

Just as You raised this dead boy to life

You can raise to life every one of my dreams

that are in keeping with Your will.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Psalm 35:12-14; Psalm 37:4; Psalm 103:5; Psalm 145:19; Romans 1:24; Romans 13:14; 1 John 5:14-15

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Friday, April 5, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you.”
(Philippians 2:19)

That’s the way to hope, Jesus:

not in my own desires

in You.

When my hopes are dashed it’s not because You’ve failed me.

It’s because my hope was in my wishes, my plans, my agenda

not in You.

So now, from this day forward:

I put all my hope in You.

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Psalm 25:5; Psalm 25:21; Psalm 39:7; Psalm 62:5; Psalm 71:5; Psalm 119:74; Acts 26:6

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Saturday, November 4, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in open-eyed awareness:

“Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.’”
(Genesis 4:6-7)

Sin is crouching at my door, too, Jesus.

May I never forget how passionately and persistently
sin desires to have me!

But may I always remember:

Greater are You in me
than the one who is in the world!

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Proverbs 16:18; Jeremiah 2:35; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Timothy 1:15-17; 1 John 1:10; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 John 4:4

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Monday, July 24, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with fair warning:

“Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. Now the overseer…must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”
(1 Timothy 3:1-2, 7)

Evil people love to tear down Your leaders, Jesus.

It’s not hard to do.
Try though they might, leaders are imperfect people.

Guard the reputation of the sincere shepherds of Your flock!

May all their faults be minor
and their devotion to You shine for all to see.

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Numbers 6:25; Psalm 4:6; Psalm 19:12-12; Psalm 31:16; Psalm 67:1; Daniel 12:3; Matthew 5:16

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with faith in the God who can:

“Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.”
(1 Peter 2:11)

I can sense it, Jesus:

Whatever wrong I do with my body
harms my soul, my spirit, my 1on1 relationship with You.

So why do I cave in to these earthly temptations?

It’s because I fail to keep foremost in my mind
that this world is not my home.

Help me live like a citizen
of where I’m going to spend eternity!

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Proverbs 23:2; John 4:34; John 14:23; Acts 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Hebrews 11:25-27; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 2:12

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Friday, May 19, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble surrender:

“Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.”
(1 Timothy 3:1,6)

This is good advice for overseers, Jesus.

It’s also an eye-opening insight into what happened with Satan.

You entrusted him with amazing gifts
but he deliberately ignored the fact

that You were the one
who gave them to him.

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Isaiah 14:12-15; Romans 11:25; Romans 12:16; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Galatians 5:26; 1 Peter 5:1-3; Revelation 12:10-12

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Monday, May 8, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“Abner said to David, ‘Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.’ So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.”
(2 Samuel 3:21)

Abner did the right thing for the wrong reason, Jesus.

Soon after speaking these words
it cost him his life.

May I always do what’s right – and for the right reason:

to please You.

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Judges 5:11; 2 Samuel 3:6-11; Proverbs 16:2; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Philippians 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:3; James 4:3

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble circumspection:

“Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task.”
(1 Timothy 3:1)

It’s natural, Jesus –

to look at what one of Your leaders is doing and think:

“I’d like to do that!”

It’s a noble thing to want to serve You.

They are to be commended, encouraged, helped,
guided, taught, prayed over.

But O God!

May only those You’ve truly called pursue that course

because in truth

they know not what they ask.

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1 Kings 3:7; 2 Chronicles 20:12; Ezra 7:25; Isaiah 49:1; Matthew 20:22; 2 Corinthians 10:18; 2 Timothy 4:2; 1 Peter 5:1-4