Category Archives: God alone knows

Sunday, August 20, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with rock-solid confidence:

“With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin. There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.”
(Amos 5:9-10)

You see what’s going on, Jesus!

To us, it feels like You refuse to do anything about it.

It does, that is…

until in one moment
You utterly ruin the wicked!

Help me to trust Your perfect way and time.

You alone know

When
How
Why!

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Psalm 31:15; Psalm 37:13; Psalm 40:17; Daniel 9:19; Habakkuk 2:3; Malachi 4:1; Hebrews 10:37

Friday, December 25, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.”
(2 Corinthians 2:14)

I’m Your willing captive, Jesus!

I surrender all.

March me anywhere You like.

Use me in any way You desire.

Do with me whatever You please.

I say this because I’ve learned the hard way:

You alone know what’s best.

Your way?

An aromatic fragrance.

My way?

A putrid stench.

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1 Kings 8:23; Psalms 2:12; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 37:5; Psalms 86:11; Romans 16:17

Friday, December 25, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.”
(2 Corinthians 2:14)

I’m Your willing captive, Jesus!

I surrender all.

March me anywhere You like.

Use me in any way You desire.

Do with me whatever You please.

I say this because I’ve learned the hard way:

You alone know what’s best.

Your way?

An aromatic fragrance.

My way?

A putrid stench.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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1 Kings 8:23; Psalms 2:12; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 37:5; Psalms 86:11; Romans 16:17

Friday, October 30, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in righteous caution:

“…they always heap up their sins to the limit.”
(1 Thessalonians 2:16)

I know people who seem to be doing that, Jesus.

Please help me not judge them!
You alone know their struggles, limitations, intent.

But may I not be guilty of such a thing!

All it took for Moses to be denied entrance to the Promised Land
was to strike the rock, rather than speak to it.

Because of my 1on1 closeness to You

the bar is set higher.

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Numbers 20:6-12; Psalms 13:2; Matthew 7:1; John 12:47; Acts 23:3; 1 Corinthians 2:11; Hebrews 4:12

Friday, July 3, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful adoration:

“…in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
(Proverbs 3:6)

I do acknowledge You, Jesus.

But that’s not what the verse says.

I’m to acknowledge You in all my ways.

Only then do You promise to make my paths straight.

To acknowledge You isn’t merely to give You lip service, either.

It’s to admit that You’re the only one who knows.

It’s to confess that I can’t truly fulfill my purpose on earth

without You.

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Job 42:2; Psalms 33:10-11; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 14:27; Isaiah 46:11; Romans 8:28-30

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pedal-to-the-metal commitment:

“My soul is in anguish. How long, O LORD, how long?”
(Psalms 6:3)

How many times have I been there, Jesus?

You alone know.
It’s too many for me to count.

But that’s a good thing, isn’t it?

It reminds me that in Your perfect way and time
You rose up and showed Yourself strong!

I don’t have to tell You –

my soul remains in anguish about some things
and especially some people.

But I know:
You’ll come through.

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2 Samuel 7:28; Psalms 19:7; Psalms 111:7; Psalms 119:86; Psalms 119:138; John 8:26; 1 Timothy 1:15

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in utter submission:

“Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden…?”
(Job 3:23)

Well…because every man’s – and woman’s! – life is hidden from them.

Isn’t that right, Jesus?

Just about the time I think I’ve got it all figured out

I’m shown quite clearly – and sometimes stunningly –
that I don’t.

You alone know the way I’m about to take.

I can carefully lay plans

that will never be realized

because I’m not in control of my life.

You Are.

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Proverbs 16:1; Proverbs 16:3; Proverbs 16:5; Proverbs 16:9; Jeremiah 10:23; Acts 4:28; James 4:14