Category Archives: get up!

Sunday, March 19, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo all the way to the marrow of your bones:

“When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.”
(Job 7:4-6)

We need good sleep, Jesus.

We need good health.

But under Satan’s attack we may enjoy neither.

It’s so easy to feel hopeless like Job.
But I trust in You to rescue me!

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Psalm 17:13; Psalm 22:21; Psalm 25:20; Romans 7:24; Galatians 1:3-5; 2 Timothy 4:18; 1 Peter 5:8

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

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heartfelt dedication:

“The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, ‘Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.’ So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the Lord was standing there…and I fell facedown.”
(Ezekiel 3:22-23)

Even though I can’t see it or feel it, Jesus

I believe Your hand is on me.

Certainly, You speak to me each day through Your Word!

So before You…I fall facedown.

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Genesis 17:3; Genesis 17:17; Leviticus 9:24; Numbers 16:4; Joshua 5:14; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Matthew 17:5-7

Friday, September 3, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with overflowing adoration:

“So he said to the man, ‘I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.’ He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, ‘We have never seen anything like this!’”
(Mark 2:10-12)

This is Your specialty, Jesus:

You keep showing me things I’ve never seen.

There’s no way I can guess how You’ll answer my prayers

or how You’ll bless me next.

You Are Gloriously, Fabulously, All-Powerfully

Unpredictable!

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Deuteronomy 32:39; 2 Chronicles 20:6; Psalms 145:3; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ecclesiastes 7:14; Romans 11:33-34; Revelation 3:7

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in overwhelmed gratitude:

“Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”
(Mark 2:9-10)

It wasn’t really about healing paralysis, was it, Jesus?

True, that’s incredibly impressive and compassionate.
It meant the world to that man.

But it was only a temporary fix.

What’s awesome

is Your forgiveness of sins.

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Mark 11:25; Luke 11:4; Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38; Acts 5:31; Acts 26:18; Hebrews 8:12; 1 John 1:9

Thursday, December 3, 2020

 

Face facts! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.”
(Micah 2:10)

Those last words startle me, Jesus:

“…beyond all remedy.”

There are some things I can’t fix, aren’t there?

When that’s the state of affairs
please help me recognize it!

You can fix everything.

Nothing is too hard for You.

But in Your wisdom You know:

The way some things are best fixed

is to move on.

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Genesis 18:14; Exodus 14:15; Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 2:3; Jeremiah 32:17; Jeremiah 32:27; Hosea 4:17; Matthew 10:14; Acts 13:51

Saturday, March 14, 2020

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Get up, go away!”
(Micah 2:10)

When they come from You, Jesus

those words rock my world.

It’s so easy to become complacent where I am.

I have my routine.
I know where everything is.
I’ve carved out a spot for myself in this old world.
Even if there are things I don’t like, it’s what I’m used to.

But when You tell me to leave what’s familiar and forge a new path

I will…

as You go before me.

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Psalms 98:1; Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 48:6; Isaiah 65:17; Jeremiah 31:22; Revelation 21:5

Saturday, January 20, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with lavish love:

“Get up…”
(Matthew 2:20)

Joseph was fast asleep, Jesus, dreaming!

But I guess You knew that
since You’re the one who gave him the dream.

It was good news that he and Mary could go back home from Egypt

now that You had helped the murderer Herod exit this life
and move on to the next.

“Get up!” You told Joseph.

And he did.

Instant obedience.

You really like that in a person, don’t You?
Guess I’d better oblige.

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Exodus 19:5; 1 Samuel 15:22; Jeremiah 7:23; Jeremiah 11:4; Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 17:24; Jeremiah 17:27; John 15:9-10