Category Archives: fall

Saturday, July 2, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with lavish love:

“Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,’ and, ‘A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.’”
(1 Peter 2:7)

You’re that Stone, Jesus!

It’s unthinkable to me that anyone rejected You then

or can reject You now.

But You know those who are Yours.

I don’t know why You’ve chosen me
but I am grateful beyond all words!

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Romans 8:28-30; Romans 9:16-26; Ephesians 1:11; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 2:19; 1 Peter 2:4-5

Thursday, May 19, 2022

 

Be very careful, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…horses and their riders will fall…”
(Haggai 2:22)

A rider on a horse may feel safer, Jesus, almost invincible.

The horse raises them up high off the ground
making them feel above it all.

The horse is faster than soldiers on foot
able to race away from danger.

But it’s an illusion, isn’t it?

A rider on a horse is a bigger target

and the bigger they are
the harder they fall.

Maybe I’d better stay humble

and not get up on my high horse.

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Exodus 10:3; Numbers 12:3; Deuteronomy 8:2; Matthew 11:29; Matthew 23:12; Luke 1:52; Ephesians 4:2; James 4:10

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in absolute confidence:

“…the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.”
(Ezra 3:11)

The foundation is all important, isn’t it, Jesus?

It doesn’t matter how well the rest of the house is built.
If the foundation is bad, the house will crack, sag

eventually fall.

There’s only one Foundation worth building my life on:

You!

Back in the 1800s, Edward Mote nailed it:

On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand.

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1 Kings 5:17; Job 38:4; Psalms 89:14; Psalms 97:2; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 33:6; Ezekiel 13:14; Matthew 7:25; 1 Corinthians 3:11

Friday, October 13, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with eyes-wide-open confidence:

“…kings and rulers of the earth…built for themselves places now lying in ruins…”
(Job 3:14)

That’s the hard, brutal truth, Jesus:

Whatever I build here on earth
will end up in ruins.

Doesn’t matter how well I build
how amazing and compelling my cause
who I thoroughly train to carry on after me.

One day it will crumble.
The day after, people will hardly remember it was there.

Only what I do for, in and through You

will last.

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Psalms 45:6; Isaiah 51:6; Isaiah 51:8; John 15:16; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Hebrews 1:8

Monday, January 30, 2017

 

Let the Light dawn, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…whoever hates his brother…walks around in the darkness…”
(1 John 2:11)

It’s bad enough to hate my brother or sister in You, Jesus

and be stuck in the darkness.

But You’re telling me it doesn’t stop there, Holy Spirit.

You’re explaining that to hate one of Your children –

no matter how weak or obnoxious

is to try to navigate the darkness

without a light.

There’s a whole lot of stumbling, falling, disappointment and pain.

That certainly explains a lot.

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Joshua 24:7; 1 Samuel 2:9; 2 Samuel 22:29; Job 5:14; Matthew 4:16; John 1:5; Acts 13:11

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning desire:

“Remember the height from which you have fallen!”
(Revelation 2:5)

That’s a hard command to obey, Jesus.

Absolutely brutal.

If fills me with guilt –

because I know I didn’t have to fall.

If only I had stayed consistent!

plugging away
determined
one step at a time

I’d be looking down on that height

instead of up at it.

Nothing I can about it now.
What’s done is done.

But that glance at where I once was
inspires me to go after it again.

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Psalms 38:4; Psalms 42:4; Psalms 69:5; Psalms 143:5; Jeremiah 2:2; Romans 1:20; Philippians 3:13-14