Category Archives: Fear of God

Monday, September 5, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heart pounding love:

“I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.”
(Ecclesiastes 3:14)

Well, it’s working, Jesus.

I fear You!

Not because I think You don’t love me.

I know You do.

It’s just that You Are so Awesome! So Powerful!

You’re Bigger than big, Wiser than wise.

I love that You and I are close – 1on1.

But Your attributes are so mind-boggling
that I can’t help but tremble in Your Presence.

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Genesis 20:11; Exodus 20:20; 2 Samuel 23:3-4; Psalm 66:16; Romans 3:18; 1 Peter 2:17; Revelation 14:7

Thursday, December 9, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with renewed resolve:

“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow, but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.”
(Job 6:14-17)

Job’s friends started out so well, Jesus

but before long, couldn’t resist the urge
to kick him while he was down.

May my healthy fear of you

keep me from being one of Job’s “comforters.”

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2 Samuel 19:26; Psalm 41:9; Proverbs 27:6; Jeremiah 12:6; Micah 7:5; John 13:18; James 5:11

Monday, June 29, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with total transparency:

“What I feared has come upon me…”
(Job 3:25)

Why do You allow this to happen, Jesus?

Is it because You want to show me

that because I have You
I have nothing and no one to fear?

You don’t want me to live in fear, do You?

I don’t want me to live in fear, either!

So since we’re agreed

please deliver me from all fear

except the fear of displeasing You.

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Genesis 22:12; Exodus 18:21; Psalms 2:11; Psalms 3:6; Psalms 22:23; Isaiah 41:10; I Corinthians 13:1-13; 1 John 4:18

Friday, October 7, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in the fear of God:

“Their blood will be poured out like dust…”
(Zephaniah 1:17)

Like “dust,” Jesus?

That was unexpected.

I would have thought You’d say:

“Their blood will be poured out like water” –
or oil, or mud.

But “dust?”

Wow.

Are You referring to how much they will bleed

or to the way You will dry them out from the inside?

Either way, that’s what happens to Your enemies

which is one of the countless reasons I’ve chosen
to be Your friend.

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2 Samuel 5:20; 1 Chronicles 14:11; Psalms 9:3; Ezekiel 14:8; Ezekiel 15:7; James 2:23; Hebrews 10:26-27

Sunday, January 17, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with utter abandon: 

“I will bring distress on the people…”
(Zephaniah 1:17)

May I never be among the people on whom You bring distress, Jesus!

Something tells me Yours would be worse
than the distress I’ve sometimes brought on myself.

Seeing what You’ve done to others who’ve dared to defy You

has given me a healthy fear of deliberately crossing You.

I have absolutely no doubt that You love me.
Passionately.

But I’m also aware
that You discipline those You love.

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Exodus 1:21; Nehemiah 7:2; Job 1:1; Proverbs 3:12; Hebrews 12:7-11; 1 Peter 2:17; Revelation 14:7