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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Holy Spirit-inspired hope:

“Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
(Jonah 3:8-9)

I don’t want to die, Jesus!

At least, not for that reason.

I mean, I know I’m going to die sometime –

unless You return for Your own before I do.

But may I never be so stubborn and pigheaded

that You have to take me out
to rid the earth of me.

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Leviticus 26:21; Numbers 17:5; Judges 10:16; 1 Kings 15:12; Psalm 103:10; Zechariah 11:8; Hebrews 6:1

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Saturday, June 17, 2023

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger…”
(Jonah 3:8-9)

The king of Ninevah was right, Jesus!

That’s exactly what You did.

How many times have You done that very thing
down through the years?

When I humble myself, turn from my wicked ways

and cast myself on Your mercy

You look into my heart

see the sincerity there

and relent.

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Exodus 32:12; 2 Chronicles 33:1-16; Psalm 7:12; Psalm 86:15; Jeremiah 18:8; Joel 2:14; Luke 7:48-50

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Sunday, February 5, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with utter abandon:

“Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.”
(Jonah 3:8)

Why do we find it so hard, Jesus

to give up the things that break Your heart?

You’re not trying to cheat us out of having a good time!

You’re protecting us from the thoughts, words and behaviors
that will destroy our lives.

Forgive me, LORD

for being so slow to give up
what will take me down.

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Judges 2:19; 2 Samuel 2:23; Ecclesiastes 3:6; Ezekiel 23:8; Ezekiel 45:9; Daniel 3:28; Luke 14:33

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with faith in the God of true wisdom:

“There is a time for everything…a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away…”
(Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4-6)

Jesus, some people insist

that winners never mourn, scatter
stop embracing, throw away…

and of course, they never, ever give up!

But that’s not Godly wisdom, is it?

Sometimes, that’s exactly what I have to do.

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Genesis 35:2; Exodus 5:12; Numbers 20:29; 2 Kings 2:15-18; Proverbs 3:3-4; Luke 21:19; 1 Corinthians 7:5

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“All my enemies…rejoice at what you have done.”
(Lamentations 1:21)

Wow. Not only am I suffering at Your hands, Jesus

but those who hate me are jumping up and down with glee.

I could throw a fit. Give up. Quit.

Tempting.

But no.
You deserve better.

So I’ll humble myself, attempt to understand why You’re doing this

learn from it, take my lumps
trusting You in Your mercy to do something through me

that makes my enemies stop laughing.

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1 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 5:20; 2 Samuel 22:4; 2 Samuel 22:49; Psalms 3:7; Psalms 7:6; 2 Corinthians 2:14

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Monday, May 8, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Bible-led caution:

“They have become filled with every kind of…depravity.”
(Romans 1:29)

What a heartbreak, Jesus!

And what a danger.

Those who are giving themselves wholeheartedly to You can scarcely imagine the evil that lurks in the hearts of some.

They innocently think of them as good people who’ve made mistakes.

But it’s worse than that.

The infection coursing through their veins is lethal.

Even so, we cannot give up on them.

How can we?
You never gave up on us.

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Hosea 4:17; 2 Samuel 16:5-13; 1 Kings 2:8-9; 1 Kings 2:36-46; Psalms 14:1; 1 Timothy 1:15-16; 2 Peter 2:9-22

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Saturday, April 22, 2017

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Woe to him who piles up stolen goods…!”
(Habakkuk 2:6)

That’s another level, isn’t it, Jesus?

To steal one or two things now and then is bad enough.

But to pile up high what’s been stolen

says something about the thief’s heart.

It’s the difference between sometimes losing my battle against temptation

and embracing temptation as a way of life.

Keep me in the good fight, Father!

May what Satan dangles in front of me
never become my master.

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Matthew 4:1; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Galatians 6:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; 1 Timothy 6:12: 2 Timothy 4:7; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4:15; James 1:13-14

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

 

 Pray this Lazaroo with never-say-die faith: 

“…when we enter the land…”
(Joshua 2:18)

I, too, have land to enter, Jesus –

the promises You have yet to fulfill
my dreams unrealized
my hopes currently dashed
my desires unmet
my plans not carried out
my fervent prayers unanswered.

I refuse to give up!

Not because I know better than You
not because of mere stubbornness
not because You owe me anything

but because the moment I throw in the towel and relinquish them

I may as well be dead.

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Joshua 21:45; Job 23:10; Psalms 37:4; Psalms 119:116; Proverbs 16:1; Proverbs 24:16; Joel 2:28; James 5:16