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Monday, November 14, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heart pounding love:

“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood…”
(1 Peter 2:9)

It’s awesome to hear this, Jesus!

But it’s also hard to hear.

I don’t feel worthy.
Why would You choose the likes of me?

I don’t feel like royalty.
When I look in the mirror, I see a commoner.

Who am I to function as a priest?
I’ve got my hands full with my sinning self.

But praise Your holy Name!

I don’t have to feel it
for it to be 100% true.

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Genesis 32:10; Job 40:4; Amos 7:14; Matthew 3:11; Luke 17:10; 1 Corinthians 15:9-10; 1 John 3:1

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Sunday, April 11, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“‘Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,’ declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty.”
(Amos 3:13)

Some things are hard to hear, Jesus

so we plug our ears
making noises with our mouths
engaging in frenetic activity

trying to keep Your warnings of doom
from penetrating all the way to our hearts
forcing us to repent.

But it’s the hardest messages from You

that I most need to hear, isn’t it?

Forgive me, LORD!
I’m listening.

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Exodus 11:9; Exodus 16:28; Isaiah 6:10; Matthew 13:15; Matthew 18:17; John 5:39-40; Acts 28:27

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Saturday, August 8, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“…turn around and set out toward the desert…”
(Deuteronomy 1:40)

That was a hard instruction to hear, Jesus.

Your people had been headed toward the Promised Land.
But their spies convinced the majority they couldn’t succeed.

So You told them to do an about face
and head back into the desert.

I, too, have encountered a few of Your instructions that are hard to hear.

But O God! Hard or no –

may there be none I’m unwilling to obey.

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Exodus 12:24; Exodus 19:5-6; Leviticus 18:4; Deuteronomy 12:28; Psalms 119:34; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Peter 4:17

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Saturday, July 11, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.”
(Jeremiah 2:20)

Strong words, Jesus.

Hard to hear.
But even worse, hard for You to see:

Your people worshiping other gods
instead of remaining faithful to You.

That’s exactly how You view me

every time I put someone or something
ahead of obedience to You:

as a prostitute.

Help, LORD!

That’s not what I want You to see when You look at me.

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Exodus 34:15-16; Leviticus 17:7; Leviticus 19:29; Leviticus 20:5; Numbers 15:39; Judges 8:33; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Revelation 17:5

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Sunday, March 29, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…they will take possession of it.”
(Deuteronomy 1:39)

This was a brutally hard thing for Your people to hear, Jesus.

The thing they had worked so hard to accomplish
the land they had journeyed so long to enter

was not to be theirs.

Instead, it was their children who would enjoy it.

Their sin had robbed them of Your promise.

May that not be true of me!

But may all those who come after me

indeed possess what You have promised!

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Genesis 24:7; Genesis 28:15; Exodus 32:13; Numbers 14:23; Joshua 5:6; Deuteronomy 1:29-38; Acts 7:5