Category Archives: door

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with keen anticipation:

“When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord…As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm…The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.”
(2 Kings 4:32-35)

You don’t usually raise the dead, Jesus.

Until it’s time for us to die You protect us.

But every once in a while You do the impossible!

to remind us You can.

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Job 14:14; Matthew 10:8; Matthew 28:5-7; Mark 5:35-43; Luke 7:12-17; Acts 20:7-12; Hebrews 11:19

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

Friday, April 7, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.”
(Revelation 3:8)

When You’re the one who opens the door, Jesus

no one can shut it in my face.

Even when my strength wanes

may I always keep Your Word
and glorify Your Name.

So long as that’s true of me

may You keep opening doors.

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Hosea 2:15; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 24:33; Matthew 25:11; Acts 12:13-16; Acts 14:27; Acts 18:7

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with explosive feeling:

“Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
(2 Kings 4:3-4)

She didn’t have enough oil to fill even one jar, Jesus.

But before You worked the miracle
You required her – in an act of faith –
to collect a houseful of empty jars.

All my empty jars are sitting here, Jesus!

Ready.

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Acts 3:16; Acts 15:9; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:17; Romans 3:28; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 2:20

Thursday, November 10, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful peace:

“They…put its doors and bolts and bars in place.”
(Nehemiah 3:6)

It’s a shame to have to do that to a door, Jesus.

Doors are meant to keep out the cold and heat
provide easy passage in and out.

But evil lurks outside every door:

thieves, rapists, murderers.

So to the beauty of a massive city door

they were forced to add bolts and bars.

I’m forced to do the same

while knowing only You
can keep me safe.

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Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalms 3:5; Psalms 4:8; Psalms 32:7; Psalms 94:17; Psalms 127:1; Romans 9:29

Monday, September 5, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“They…put its doors…in place.”
(Nehemiah 3:6)

There’s something about the moment a door is installed, Jesus.

Before…when anyone can walk in…
I feel a little vulnerable.

But after the door goes in, it feels safer, more complete.
The people living inside can breathe a little deeper.

That’s pretty much true of every door –

front, back, side…
anywhere someone can enter
day or night.

But when it comes to the door of my heart, Father

it’s always open
for You.

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Genesis 4:7; Exodus 12:7; Exodus 21:6; Deuteronomy 6:6-9; Psalms 24:7; Psalms 84:10; Revelation 3:20