Category Archives: God’s wrath

Thursday, September 22, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“We have heard a message from the Lord: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, ‘Rise, let us go against her for battle…’”
(Obadiah 1:1)

You’re stirring up the nations against us, Jesus?

No. Not us.
Against our pride-filled, sinning brothers.

I’m sorry for them…

but thankful that we’re not the ones under Your wrath.

Except…this is a warning, isn’t it?

If you’re taking our brothers to the woodshed
we’ll be next –

if we follow their example of disobedience.

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Ezekiel 14:8; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Ephesians 5:1; Philippians 3:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:7; 1 Timothy 1:16; Hebrews 4:11

Sunday, July 17, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“‘Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,’ declares the Lord.”
(Amos 4:9)

When our hearts are stubborn and unrepentant, Jesus

this is what it comes to.

Because Your loving kindness doesn’t compel us

all that’s left is pain.

O God!

May I respond to Your love
Your generosity to me
Your goodness, mercy and forgiveness!

May I never bring upon myself

Your wrath.

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Genesis 3:7; Genesis 20:9; Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 26:19; Romans 14:12; 1 Corinthians 11:31; Hebrews 2:1-3; 1 John 1:8

Monday, October 18, 2021

 

Take warning! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for Daughter Judah. He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.”
(Lamentations 2:5-6)

You’re longsuffering, Jesus.

But may I never persist in my sin

because I’m terrified to incur Your wrath!

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Exodus 28:43; Numbers 1:53; Numbers 16:46; Matthew 3:7; Luke 21:23; John 3:36; Romans 1:18

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered reflection:

“In fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.”
(Lamentations 2:3)

Oh, Jesus.

Anyone who repeatedly, unrepentantly abuses your longsuffering loveĀ can expect to experience Your fierce, all-consuming wrath!

May that never, ever be me!

Cause Your precious, amazing love to motivate me
to higher and higher levels of grateful obedience!

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Deuteronomy 9:8; Psalms 2:12; Psalms 85:3; Habakkuk 3:2; Luke 21:23; Romans 1:18; Titus 3:3-5

Sunday, May 2, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.’”
(Romans 2:5-6)

So, Jesus…

people who appear to be getting away scot-free

are just piling up their punishment
higher and higher.

If I’m to be repaid according to what I’ve done

I’d better get busy
doing a whole lot of good!

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Psalms 34:14; Psalms 36:3; Psalms 37:3; Psalms 37:27; Galatians 6:10; Ephesians 2:10; 1 Timothy 6:18

Saturday, April 3, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered assessment:

“…he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.”
(Lamentations 2:1-2)

There’s a line I don’t want to cross, isn’t there, Jesus?

You treat us so well, so lovingly
with such mercy and forgiveness

that we forget…

out there somewhere…

that line is there.

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2 Samuel 24:14; Psalms 130:4; Matthew 26:28; Luke 1:50; Romans 9:22-24; Ephesians 1:7; Titus 3:4-7

Sunday, September 1, 2019

 

Take heed! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…before the day of the LORD’s wrath comes upon you.”
(Zephaniah 2:2)

Because we’ve never seen it, Jesus

it’s impossible to accurately imagine the horror of that day.

Just as no one loves like You

no one’s wrath could begin to compare to Yours.

When we’re doing something wrong and seemingly getting away with it

help us realize – in time! –

that in love You’re holding off a little longer
before the swift destruction of that day slams down.

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Numbers 1:53; Numbers 16:46; Deuteronomy 9:8; Psalms 2:12; Matthew 3:7; Luke 21:23; 1 John 4:8

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in steadfast faith:

“His mercy extends to those who fear him…”
(Luke 1:50)

How ironic, Jesus!

If I fear You
I have no reason to be afraid.

But if I don’t fear You
I have every reason to be afraid.

When I fear disappointing You –

not to mention defying You –

I live a better, cleaner, happier life.

But if it didn’t bother me at all to disobey You

that would demonstrate my lack of belief in You

and bring down Your wrath.

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Genesis 22:12; Genesis 42:18; Exodus 18:21; Job 1:9; Psalms 66:16; 1 Peter 2:17; Revelation 14:7

Monday, April 22, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“…the fierce anger of the LORD…”
(Zephaniah 2:2)

I don’t like to think of You this way, Jesus

but I know it’s real.

You’re longsuffering, slow to anger, abounding in love…

but there’s a line.

When one of Your children repeatedly, willfully, unapologetically crosses it

You make certain they realize
that they have done a foolish thing.

I’ve known Your well-deserved discipline countless times, LORD

but never Your wrath.

With Your help

I’d like to keep it that way.

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Exodus 34:6; Numbers 1:53; Numbers 16:46; Deuteronomy 9:8; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalms 7:11; Matthew 3:7

Friday, May 25, 2018

 

Take warning as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The metal on the chariots flashes…”
(Nahum 2:3)

It’s happening in broad daylight, Jesus

and there’s not one thing the Ninevites can do about it.
This punishment is from You.

Why?

It was their cruelty, wasn’t it?
their witchcraft and prostitution.

You sent your prophet Jonah to warn them.

They listened! Repented!
You relented.

But after You showed them kindness

they went right back to it.

O God!

May I never repeat their mistake
in response to Your grace.

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Exodus 32:14; Jonah 1:1-2; Jonah 3:1-10; Nahum 2:2; Nahum 3:4; Nahum 3:19; Hebrews 10:26-31