Category Archives: Forgiveness

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Thursday, November 5, 2020

 

Be overcome with gratitude as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…if we are faithless, he will remain faithful…”
(2 Timothy 2:13)

Could there ever be greater evidence of Your love, Jesus?

Of Your mercy?
Of Your forgiveness?
Of Your kindness?
Of Your patience?
Of Your longsuffering?

Or of Your sovereignty!

Another way to look at it is that nothing I do
can change what You do
nor who You are!

You are faithful. Period.

That’s what I, too, as Your grateful follower
with all my heart aspire to be.

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Psalms 25:6; Psalms 130:4; Isaiah 54:8; Jeremiah 15:15; Ezekiel 11:17; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Peter 3:9

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Sunday, April 5, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in prioritized humility:

“…I have forgiven…in order that Satan might not outwit us.”
(2 Corinthians 2:10-11)

When the sin against me is small, Jesus

forgiveness isn’t too tough.

I can shrug it off, chalk it up to…

“Nobody’s perfect. Everybody makes mistakes.”

But when someone betrays me, deliberately stabs me in the back

I really struggle to let it go.

Satan knows that. After all, he’s the original backstabber.

I need Your help, Father!

so that Satan doesn’t have the last laugh.

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Genesis 50:7; Psalms 130:4; Matthew 6:12-15; Luke 6:37; Luke 17:3; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with passion:

“…you must not…be intimate with any man…”
(Hosea 3:3)

Why would Hosea say such a thing to his wife, Jesus?

Actually, he had a pretty good reason:

She had cheated on him.

So why would he take her back?

Which raises another question:

Why have You taken me back?

I’ve sinned.
That’s cheating on You.

Hosea took back Gomer because You told him to

which is the same reason I’ve got to forgive those

who’ve sinned against me.

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Leviticus 5:15; Deuteronomy 32:20; Joshua 22:31; 1 Chronicles 10;13; Hosea 3:1; Matthew 6:14-15; Matthew 18:21-22; Romans 3:3

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Thursday, July 6, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in holy introspection:

“…does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, he is guilty.”
(Leviticus 4:22)

No difference between big and small sins there, Jesus.

If I break any of Your commands – no matter how tiny –
I’m guilty.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s no difference.

If I lie about my age
that’s not as bad as a mass murderer.

But both – my tiny one and his horrific one –

are still sins…

…and I’m still guilty.

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Genesis 20:9; Genesis 26:10; Psalms 32:5; Psalms 38:4; Psalms 69:5; Proverbs 28:17; John 9:41

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Sunday, April 2, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“He was…revealed in these last times…”
(1 Peter 1:20)

For nearly two thousand years we’ve celebrated Your coming, Jesus!

All of history – and all our hopes –
hinge on the perfect timing of Your arrival.

Before You came, we faced the fact
that try though we might
we could not save ourselves.

Now that You’ve come
we fall on our faces in gratitude
because we don’t have to save ourselves.

That’s what You did on the cross

for all who believe.

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John 15:22; Acts 17:30; Romans 3:21; Galatians 4:4-7; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 5:8; Colossians 1:22

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Sunday, April 2, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“He was…revealed in these last times…”
(1 Peter 1:20)

For nearly two thousand years we’ve celebrated Your coming, Jesus!

All of history – and all our hopes –
hinge on the perfect timing of Your arrival.

Before You came, we faced the fact
that try though we might
we could not save ourselves.

Now that You’ve come
we fall on our faces in gratitude
because we don’t have to save ourselves.

That’s what You did on the cross

for all who believe.

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John 15:22; Acts 17:30; Romans 3:21; Galatians 4:4-7; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 5:8; Colossians 1:22

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“None who go to her return…”
(Proverbs 2:19)

You’re talking about people who go to prostitutes, Jesus.

By saying they don’t return
You’re saying such a person is never the same again.

There’s something about violating the sanctity of marriage

that does lasting damage to the person who pays for it
and the person who sells it.

But there’s also something about repentance

that leads to forgiveness
that results in life-change

that gives Your broken people
a fresh start.

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Genesis 34:1-31; Genesis 38:1-26; Leviticus 19:29; Deuteronomy 23:17; Judges 16:1-21; Proverbs 6:26; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Hebrews 11:31; 1 John 1:9

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“This is the sin offering for the community.”
(Leviticus 4:21)

Some people call this offering of a bull barbaric, Jesus.

But I’m thinking instead:
What an incredible gift from heaven!

To think that one act could make atonement for an entire sinning community

is nothing short of amazing.

We don’t have such an option today, do we?

When the whole community sins
each member of the community has to repent before You.

And when I sin

so do I.

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Exodus 32:32; Exodus 50:17; 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chronicles 30:18; Isaiah 55:7; Luke 23:34; James 1:17

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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in holy fear:

“…that we may live…in all godliness…”
(1 Timothy 2:2)

I would love to like that, Jesus!

In fact, I try.
And fail.

I’m not even sure what living in all godliness looks like.

But what I do know of it
I’m not doing.

Not completely.
Not consistently.

I want to. I mean to.

And still fall short.

I’ll never quit trying! You deserve my best.

But unless You show up in love, mercy and forgiveness
it won’t get done.

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Exodus 33:19; Psalms 4:1; Psalms 6:9; Matthew 5:7; Matthew 9:13; Romans 3:10; 1 Timothy 1:15-16