Category Archives: God’s Presence

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in holy fear:

“’I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.’ And he said to me, ‘This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.’”
(Zechariah 5:2-3)

What a dramatic way to reveal this timeless truth, Jesus:

You hate thievery and lying.

Therefore, those who engage in those behaviors

will be banished from Your Presence.

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Exodus 20:15-16; Psalm 5:10; Psalm 63:11; Jeremiah 8:3; Zechariah 5:1-2; John 10:10; Revelation 21:8

Monday, September 5, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heart pounding love:

“I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.”
(Ecclesiastes 3:14)

Well, it’s working, Jesus.

I fear You!

Not because I think You don’t love me.

I know You do.

It’s just that You Are so Awesome! So Powerful!

You’re Bigger than big, Wiser than wise.

I love that You and I are close – 1on1.

But Your attributes are so mind-boggling
that I can’t help but tremble in Your Presence.

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Genesis 20:11; Exodus 20:20; 2 Samuel 23:3-4; Psalm 66:16; Romans 3:18; 1 Peter 2:17; Revelation 14:7

Monday, December 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undying love:

“…you have an anointing from the Holy One…”
(1 John 2:20)

I can’t begin to tell you how much that means to me, Jesus!

Though I’m wholly undeserving

because I’ve put my eternal hope in You as my Savior

Your anointing rests on me.

Your Protection.
Your Presence.
Your Guidance.
Your Blessing.
Your Healing.
Your Favor.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

I can’t keep this to myself, can I?

Everyone needs Your precious, life-changing anointing.

Please work through me to let them know.

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Exodus 29:7; Exodus 40:9; Leviticus 8:12; Leviticus 21:10-12; 1 Chronicles 29:2; Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:9; 1 John 2:27

Thursday, May 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with excuseless humility:

“I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves…with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.”
(1 Timothy 2:9)

I don’t often think of good deeds as clothing, Jesus

a precious behavior that adorns those who worship You.

You don’t want the literal clothing a person wears

to detract in any way from their spiritual garments –

emanating from the good they do

because of Your life-changing Presence

in their daily lives!

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2 Samuel 1:24; Proverbs 1:8-9; Romans 13:13; 1 Corinthians 12:23; 1 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 12:28; Jude 1:23

Friday, April 30, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with deep reverence:

“You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.”
(Acts 2:28)

That’s when I am filled with joy, Jesus!

In Your Presence.

When I’m not filled with joy

the first place for me to check

is to see if I’m still following Your paths –

the only way to life!

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred

You’re not the one who left me.

I’m the one who left You.

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Deuteronomy 31:6; Joshua 1:5; Judges 16:20; 2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Chronicles 32:31; Mark 12:12; Hebrews 13:5

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…in the presence of the king.”
(Esther 2:23)

King Xerxes reigned over 127 provinces in the citadel of Susa, Jesus.

Mordecai the Jew had foiled a plot to assassinate the king.

His action was being recorded in the book of the annals
while the king looked on.

Nobody has to record for You what I’ve done, Father.

You know everything I think
hear every word I say.

May I always remember:

Everything I do is in Your Presence!

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Genesis 27:7; Exodus 18:12; Leviticus 9:24; Numbers 4:7; Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalms 16:11; John 17:5

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

 

Fully open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…the Israelites gave the Levites these towns and their pasturelands.”
(1 Chronicles 6:54)

Towns need pasturelands, Jesus.

It’s great to be around people –
but not all the time!

Even the most gregarious person among us
requires time away from the crowd.

You’ve built us with the need to get away…

…alone…with You.

Where’s my pastureland, LORD?

Where can I go to feel the wind in my hair…

the sun on my back…

and Your Presence filling my heart?

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Genesis 2:18; Exodus 24:2; Leviticus 13:46; Deuteronomy 32:12; 1 Samuel 21:1; 2 Samuel 18:25; Luke 5:16

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

Friday, November 8, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deepest gratitude:

“I will live among you…”
(Zechariah 2:11)

You’re everywhere present, Jesus…

so this is an intensification of Your Presence, isn’t it?

You’re always wherever I am

but there’s the potential of something closer
more palpable, more intimate.

Wow.

I want that.

Let me rephrase:
I want You.

But You want me, too, don’t You?

Oh, not merely in the sense
that I’ve prayed to receive You as my Savior

but in deep, daily, moment-by-moment
1on1 relationship with You.

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Leviticus 9:24; Leviticus 10:2; Deuteronomy 29:10; Joshua 18:6; Psalms 16:11; Luke 1:19; Acts 2:28

Friday, May 10, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground.”
(Ruth 2:10)

Not a bad response, Jesus

when once again
You show up in miraculous, life-changing power.

When I bow with my face to the ground

I’m acknowledging Your greatness
in contrast with my smallness.

I’m demonstrating how shocked I am

that You would love sinful, unworthy
inconsistent, falling-short me

this much!

I’m worshiping You with all my heart
declaring I’m unworthy to stand in Your Presence.

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Genesis 32:10; Deuteronomy 9:18; Judges 13:20; Job 40:4; Daniel 8:18; Luke 17:10; Acts 22:7; 1 Corinthians 11:27