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Monday, May 13, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing understanding:

“But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, ‘Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!’ But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.”
(Micah 4:11-12)

I don’t understand all the details of Your Plan either, Jesus.

But I am 100% confident of Your Plan’s Big Picture:

You will punish those who defy You
and save those who turn  to You!

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Job 5:12; Job 21:16; Psalm 14:6; Psalm 33:10-11; Proverbs 16:1; Lamentations 2:17; Hebrews 11:40

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, ‘Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left. Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver.’ But Sihon…refused to let us pass through.”
(Deuteronomy 2:26-28; 30)

There are going to be days like that, Jesus.

I’ve experienced a few of them.

But it helps to remember

it happened in accordance with Your perfect plan.

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Deuteronomy 2:30-36; Psalm 21:11; Psalm 83:5; Proverbs 23:11; Matthew 5:11; Matthew 6:14; Luke 17:3-4; Acts 4:28; Romans 8:28-30

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in respectful awe:

“So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens.”
(1 Thessalonians 3:1)

Paul longed to return to the believers in Thessalonica, Jesus

but Satan blocked him.

We don’t know how or why.

But You either let it happen or caused it to happen
because Satan can thwart no plan of Yours!

Was sending Timothy in his place second best?

No.

You’re Sovereign.

That was Your plan all along.

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Genesis 15:2; Psalm 71:5; Amos 3:6; Acts 4:28; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20; 1 Thessalonians 3:2

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Saturday, November 5, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in quiet trust:

“The couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.”
(Esther 3:15)

The deadly plot Haman hatched against Your people

quickly spread throughout the kingdom, Jesus

leaving fear in its wake.

No matter!

What you had planned for Haman and all like him

was about to backfire

and bring about their total destruction.

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Psalm 2:1; Proverbs 26:27; Isaiah 8:12; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 41:13; Acts 4:25; 1 Corinthians 3:20

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Sunday, July 10, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“Not satisfied with that…”
(3 John 1:10)

This guy Diotrephes was a real piece of work, Jesus.

He wasn’t satisfied with causing a little bit of trouble.
He wanted to create a lot –

which is why Paul called him out on it.

But that raises an interesting question:

Am I satisfied with doing a little bit of good, now and then?

Or am I not satisfied

until I am fully, completely, wholeheartedly
fulfilling Your highest plan for my life!

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Numbers 14:24; Numbers 32:11; Numbers 32:12; Joshua 14:8; Joshua 14:14; 1 Kings 8:23; Ephesians 6:7

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Monday, May 23, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with heartfelt gratitude:

“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
(Matthew 4:1-3)

This was Your plan, Jesus –

to be tempted by Satan to show me that he attacks when I’m weak

and so that when I cry out to You

You can answer:

“I know.”

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Matthew 6:13; Mark 14:38; Luke 4:13; 1 Corinthians 7:4-5; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Galatians 6:1; James 1:13

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Monday, April 11, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“…Satan blocked our way.”
(1 Thessalonians 2:18)

That’s not supposed to happen, Jesus –

not to Your people
especially not to the likes of the Apostle Paul.

What’s going on, here?

You’re infinitely more powerful than Satan!
How in the world could he ever –

Oh. Right.

Satan can never block my way
unless You let him

because You didn’t want me to go there to begin with!

So when I can’t get where I want to go, I don’t need to worry.

You’ve got a better plan.

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1 Chronicles 4:10; Job 19:8; Proverbs 15:19; Ezekiel 3:20; Romans 1:13; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Hebrews 7:23

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Friday, July 30, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“Oh, that I might have my request…that God would be willing to…cut off my life! Then I would still have this consolation—my joy in unrelenting pain—that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.”
(Job 6:8-10)

Job was afraid he’d dishonor You, Jesus

So he was saying:

“Just kill me now!”

But that wasn’t Your plan, was it?

You put Job through this to prove something to Satan
and teach Job a thing or two!

Message received and recorded.

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Job 1:6-12; Job 2:3-10; Job 38:1-3; Psalms 25:4; Psalms 86:11; Ezekiel 14:14; James 5:11

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Monday, January 20, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“He has brought down rulers from their thrones…”
(Luke 1:52)

Yes, You have, Jesus –

far more times than any of us can imagine.

In fact, every ruler whose reign has ever ended

has been brought down by You.

You raise ‘em up
You set ‘em down.

But the reverse is also true:

No one can take down someone You’ve set up:
not by vote, assassination, impeachment or coup.

No ruler is perfect.

But each is perfect
for Your plan.

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Genesis 17:20; Job 12:17; Psalms 2:10; Psalms 75:6-7; Psalms 76:12; Psalms 110:6; Romans 9:17; Colossians 1:16

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Sunday, December 15, 2019

 

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

“I hope…”
(Philemon 1:22)

So do I, Jesus!

I have hopes very similar to Paul’s, when he wrote those words.

Like Paul, I envision being able to do some things that seem good to me

but I’m not certain they’re in Your plan.

Of course, You know what’s best.

I don’t.

What seems good to me may be bad…or second-best.
What seems bad to me may turn out to be awesome.

Help me fully, thankfully embrace whichever You choose.

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Psalms 48:14; Proverbs 5:3-4; Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 19:20; Isaiah 48:17; 2 Corinthians 8:10; Philippians 1:9-10