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Sunday, June 30, 2024

June 30, 2024 Stephen Schwambach

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.”
(1 Peter 2:18-19)

This command can’t have gone over well with slaves, Jesus.

In fact, there are a lot of Your commands
that require me to do what I don’t feel like doing.

No matter.

If you order it, there’s only one acceptable response:

YES, SIR!

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Romans 6:6; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:18; Romans 6:20-22; Romans 8:15; 1 Corinthians 7:23; Ephesians 6:5

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Sunday, December 17, 2023

December 17, 2023 Stephen Schwambach

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“…like animals they too will perish. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.”
(2 Peter 2:12-13)

That’s both a harsh word, Jesus

and an immensely comforting one.

Do I want everyone to get what they deserve?

No.

In that case, I’d go to hell.

But when evil people arrogantly, relentlessly, unrepentantly harm others?

The purity of Your righteousness
demands an accounting.

Nevertheless, I will pray for their repentance and restoration

until it’s too late.

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Isaiah 30:15; Hosea 14:1; Matthew 3:8; Mark 1:4; Luke 5:32; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:20; 2 Corinthians 7:9

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

October 8, 2023 Stephen Schwambach

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”
(James 3:6)

I don’t like to think of my tongue like this, Jesus!

But I wonder how many people have felt the fires of hell

from some of the harsh, judgmental, evil words
I have spoken over my lifetime.

May it never again be so!

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2 Samuel 23:2; Job 5:21; Job 15:5; Job 27:4; Psalm 10:7; Acts 2:26; Romans 14:11

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Friday, October 7, 2022

October 7, 2022 Stephen Schwambach

Take a little comfort, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, ‘Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?’”
(Mark 2:23-24)

If they criticized Your followers then, Jesus…

why am I surprised –

while I’m faithfully walking with You –

when they criticize me?

Please don’t let their harsh words upset me.

After all, taking heat for You
is a badge of honor!

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Numbers 12:8; Matthew 10:24;-26; Matthew 12:23-25; Luke 9:23; Luke 23:31; John 15:20-22; John 16:33

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

July 19, 2022 Stephen Schwambach

Take it to heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.”
(Jonah 3:7)

Why would the king of Ninevah issue such a harsh decree, Jesus?

It was because of Jonah’s preaching, wasn’t it?

After You forced him to show up in that wicked city
You declared You were about to destroy them.

The king took You at Your Word and went all out to change your mind.

How seriously do I take Your warnings?

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2 Kings 17:15; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 31:19; Matthew 11:21; Mark 8:15; Acts 2:40; Hebrews 12:25

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

November 29, 2017 Stephen Schwambach

Pray this Lazaroo with compassion:

“…not to put it too severely.”
(2 Corinthians 2:5)

That’s a decent goal, Jesus.

Even when someone has a rebuke coming
there’s no point in overdoing it.

When they’re already down, busted and bleeding
why pile on?

Whether they admit it or not, they usually know they’ve blown it.

It doesn’t help when I make them feel worse
than they already do.

Besides, You’ve warned me:

What goes around, comes around.

Severe criticism is a seed

I’d rather not reap.

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Psalms 6:1; Proverbs 26:27; Hosea 8:7; Matthew 7:1; Romans 14:1-4; Galatians 6:7-9; 1 Timothy 5:1

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Monday, August 15, 2016

August 15, 2016 Stephen Schwambach

Be willing to accept Godly correction, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“These men are not drunk, as you suppose.”
(Acts 2:15)

It’s so easy to judge people, Jesus.

I know better.
But I still do it.

Why?

I don’t believe in it.
I hate it – and for a very good reason:

Others have harshly judged me.

Of all people, I know how much it hurts.

I don’t know what they’ve gone through.
I don’t know how badly they’re hurting right now.

Please!
Help me rid my mind of this evil.

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1 Samuel 16:7; Matthew 7:1; Matthew 15:19; Luke 6:37; John 12:47; 1 Corinthians 6:1-6; James 2:3-4