Category Archives: God knows

Friday, October 29, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.”
(Micah 3:4)

Is there anything more terrifying, Jesus

than to call out to You for help
while knowing You won’t answer?

I have sinned times beyond counting.

But I repent!
You know how hard I’m trying.

Great God of love, mercy and forgiveness:

Though I thoroughly deserve it
please don’t hide Your face from me!

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1 Kings 8:46-48; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 30:15 Matthew 3:8; Acts 2:38; James 2:13

Monday, September 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed. The Lord will repay him…because…he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them…were better men and more upright than he.”
(1 Kings 2:31-32)

Vengeance is Yours, Jesus.

Not mine.

You know when someone is going to repent

and when they never will.

If they’re not sorry now for what they did

they will be.

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1 Kings 8:46-48; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 30:15; Jeremiah 8:6; Luke 3:8; Acts 2:38

Thursday, April 8, 2021

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.”
(Revelation 2:14)

You know who did what to whom, don’t You, Jesus?

Yes, the person who finally committed the sin is guilty.
But You hold responsible those who enticed them!

People look on the outside.
You see into my heart.

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1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:3; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 44:21; Acts 15:8; Romans 2:29

Sunday, February 21, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“Then Nathanael declared, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.’”
(John 1:49)

I’ve had moments like that too, Jesus!

When You’ve done something for me that never could have happened

had You not answered my fervent prayers.

Of course, when I testify about Your provision to others

not all of them are convinced.
In their minds, some attempt to explain it away.

But I know.

And You know.

And that’s all that matters.

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Genesis 22:14; 2 Kings 13:5; Psalms 68i:10; Psalms 11:9; Ezekiel 16:19; Jonah 1:17; Hebrews 1:3

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing confidence:

“…I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.”
(Exodus 3:20)

Mind-blowing, Jesus.

Before you turned Moses’ staff into a snake, then back into a staff
before you turned his hand leprous, then healed

before the plagues of blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock deaths, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, firstborn deaths…

You orchestrated exactly how it was going to play out…

as You are doing with me.

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Psalms 16:5; Psalms 139:1-6; Isaiah 44:24-28; Isaiah 46:8-10; Jeremiah 29:11; John 13:19; Ephesians 2:10

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

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in trusting obedience:

“…deal with them…”
(Lamentations 1:22)

…because I can’t, Jesus!

Oh, I can deal with my enemies

poorly
in a way
inadequately
blindly

but not like You can!

You know which of them I now regard as enemies

will one day become my friends.

You know which of them are acting innocently

and which are acting with evil, malevolent intent.

So I’m going to do my best to obey You

by praying for them

and ask You to handle it.

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Leviticus 19:18; 1 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 5:20; 2 Samuel 22:4; 2 Samuel 22:41; Jeremiah 20:12; Matthew 5:43-48; Romans 12:19

Monday, February 10, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in reverent awe:

“He built the Most Holy Place…”
(2 Chronicles 3:8)

What an honor, Jesus!

To be the person who constructed
the room holding the ark of the covenant –

more sacred than any other place on earth –

the unique focus of Your Presence among us.

Of course, Solomon didn’t do it himself.

As it is today…
it was the unnamed workers
who actually performed Your holy work.

You know which of us merely point

and which bend our backs to the labor.

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Exodus 26:33-34; Leviticus 16:2; 1 Kings 8:6; 2 Chronicles 5:7; Hebrews 9:8; Hebrews 9:12; Hebrews 10:19-25

Monday, October 21, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undying love:

“…how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God…”
(Jeremiah 2:19)

Most of the time it’s not You punishing us, is it, Jesus?

It’s that refusing to obey You
carries its own consequences.

If I’m a liar, people stop trusting me.
If I’m a thief, I’ll end up in jail.
If I’m unfaithful, my spouse may divorce me.

You made me.

You know what causes me to thrive
and what leads to my destruction.

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Genesis 18:19; Judges 2:22; Psalms 139:13-16; Proverbs 10:29; Jeremiah 5:4-5; Ezekiel 18:25; Acts 18:25

Thursday, September 5, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in simple awareness:

“I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
(Genesis 3:10)

The thing is, Jesus

I’m always naked before You.

You know my every thought
see my every action
hear my every word.

You know what I’m going to think, say and do

before I do it.

That day in the garden Adam and Eve hid in vain.

There’s no hiding from You!

My goal?

Think, speak and act with such purity

that I have nothing to hide.

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Genesis 16:13; Deuteronomy 1:34; Psalms 139:1-12; Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 9:47; John 1:48-50; John 16:30