Category Archives: in the future

Friday, March 18, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with wholehearted adoration:

“As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.’”
(Matthew 3:16-17)

O Jesus!

If only one day

You will be able to look down from heaven on me

and say, “I am well pleased.”

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Exodus 33:13; Exodus 33:16-17; Numbers 14:8; Deuteronomy 28:63; 1 Corinthians 10:5; Colossians 1:19; Hebrews 11:5

Monday, December 27, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in jaw dropping wonder:

“…in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold. After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.”
(Daniel 2:38-39)

What a reminder of Who You Are, Jesus!

Calmly rattling off exactly what will happen

thousands of years in the future.

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Ecclesiastes 8:7; Isaiah 41:23; Jeremiah 29:11; Daniel 2:45; 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Hebrews 3:5

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in awestruck gratitude:

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ…”
(Philemon 1:25)

Oh, Jesus.

Your grace.

Your loving, perfect, immeasurable

matchless grace.

Everything You’ve done for me in the past.
Everything You’re doing for me right now.
Everything You’ll do for me in the future.

My every sin forgiven.
Even the worst ones.

I’m Your heir!
All You have is mine.

Eternity with You in heaven –
forever and ever and ever, without end.

And all of it – absolutely all of it –

wholly undeserved.

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Isaiah 26:10-12; Zechariah 12:10; Luke 2:40; Luke 17:10; John 1:14-17; Acts 4:33; Acts 17:25; Romans 3:23-24; Romans 8:17; Ephesians 1:6-7; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Thessalonians 4:17

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“To redeem the 273 firstborn Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites, collect five shekels for each one…Give the money…to Aaron and his sons.”
(Numbers 3:46-48)

So, Jesus –

each family had to buy back from You every firstborn
or that child would enter Your full-time service –

a practice that helped fund the priesthood.

Regardless of what I do for a living today or in the future

I don’t want to be bought back.
I want to belong full-time to You!

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Exodus 13:12-13; Numbers 8:14-18; Numbers 18:15-16; Luke 1:68; Galatians 3:13-14; Galatians 4:5; Titus 2:11-14

Thursday, June 25, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in growing awe:

“He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam…”
(Nehemiah 3:15)

Pretty amazing, Jesus.

There was no way Shallun could have guessed
what would one day happen there.

Five hundred years later, You healed the eyes of a man born blind.

You put mud on his eyes
then sent him to wash in the Pool of Siloam.

When he did, he could see!

It makes me wonder:

What will You do in the future
with my simple acts of obedience today?

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Exodus 4:11; Ecclesiastes 9:1; Zechariah 4:10; Matthew 9:27-33; Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:21; John 9:1-41

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deep appreciation:

“…Moses and Aaron…”
(Numbers 3:39)

They were quite a team, Jesus!

You spoke to Moses

who spoke to Aaron

who spoke to the people.

Moses felt inadequate

so You sent him Aaron.

I, too, feel inadequate.

Nor is it merely a feeling.
It’s the truth.

Who will You send to me?

Oh. Right.

I’m surrounded by these precious, sent people!

And if in the future I need anyone else

in Your perfect way and time

they will appear.

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Exodus 4:10-17; Exodus 4:29; Leviticus 11:1; Numbers 1:17; Psalms 77:20; Psalms 99:6; 1 Corinthians 16:15-16

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“…the little ones you said would be taken captive…”
(Deuteronomy 1:39)

The Israelites in the desert missed that prediction, Jesus.

They looked at their circumstances
concluding they knew where their steps were taking them.

But they were 100% wrong.

I’m ashamed to admit I can identify.

When will I stop looking behind me and around me
to guess the future?

The only direction I need to look is up –

straight to You –

the One who determines my every step.

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Psalms 37:23; Psalms 44:3; Psalms 44:6-7; Proverbs 16:4; Isaiah 26:12; Jeremiah 10:23; Lamentations 3:37-38; Acts 17:25

Saturday, April 27, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with desperate desire:

“Having been warned in a dream…”
(Matthew 2:22)

Thank You for doing that for Joseph, Father.

I’d love You to do that for me!

Maybe You already have, many times.

But did I understand them?
If so, did I heed the warning?

If not, that might tend to reduce the number of warnings You give me in the future.

Oh, Jesus! Teach me how to recognize the difference

between an ordinary dream
and one imparting a message from You.

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Genesis 20:3; Genesis 37:5-10; Numbers 12:6; Deuteronomy 13:1-3; Judges 7:13-15; Acts 2:17; Jude 1:8