Category Archives: Israel

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 He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy.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 love 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, June 6, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It’s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’ As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced—they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.”
(Jeremiah 2:25-26)

I don’t have to sin, Jesus!

No matter how many times I’ve caved in to Satan’s temptation

Your power is still mine

to say NO!

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Matthew 4:1-11; Matthew 6:13; Matthew 26:41; Luke 22:40; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Timothy 6:9; Titus 2:11-14

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in holy fear:

“You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel…”
(Ezra 4:3)

That sounds rude, Jesus.

Here these “nice people” were offering to help the Jews build Your temple

and they were rebuffed!

The Jews wouldn’t let them!

But Your leaders recognized that these people were their enemies

looking for a way to sabotage the work.

O God!
Open our eyes!

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Genesis 21:19; Numbers 22:31; 2 Kings 6:17; Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 42:7; Luke 24:31; Acts 26:18

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with passionate rejoicing!

“I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.”
(Micah 2:12)

You’ve done it, Jesus!

Exactly as You promised.

You brought back Your people to their homeland!

You reestablished the nation of Israel!

The place now throngs with people –

not only with descendants of Abraham
but with all who come to marvel.

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Isaiah 14:1; Jeremiah 31:23; Ezekiel 36:37-38; Zechariah 8:4; Romans 11:1-5; Romans 11:11-12; Romans 11:25-27

Monday, April 5, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with determination:

“At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.’”
(Ezekiel 3:16-17)

Ezekiel waited seven days to hear Your assignment, Jesus.

I’ll wait as long as You want me to.

Just let me know what You want me to do!

You use the foolish things to confound the wise…

so I’m qualified.

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Genesis 32:10; Job 40:4; Zechariah 3:2; Luke 3:16; Luke 17:10; 1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Timothy 1:15-16

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing confidence:

“…I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.”
(Exodus 3:20)

Mind-blowing, Jesus.

Before you turned Moses’ staff into a snake, then back into a staff
before you turned his hand leprous, then healed

before the plagues of blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock deaths, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, firstborn deaths…

You orchestrated exactly how it was going to play out…

as You are doing with me.

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Psalms 16:5; Psalms 139:1-6; Isaiah 44:24-28; Isaiah 46:8-10; Jeremiah 29:11; John 13:19; Ephesians 2:10

Friday, February 5, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern…”
(Obadiah 1:21)

This is a wonderful prophecy, Jesus!

But please help me remember this about Your Greatness:

You do more than one thing at once!

Yes, this prophecy foretells what will happen in Israel.

But it also teaches an exciting principle:

Those whose focus is helping and rescuing others

are the kind of people best suited
to lead, to rule, to govern.

Self-centered leaders are dangerous.

Deliver us from non-deliverers!

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Genesis 45:7; Genesis 49:18; Judges 3:9; Judges 3:15; 2 Samuel 22:2; 2 Kings 13:5; Acts 7:35; Romans 11:25-27

Friday, January 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with day-in, day-out devotion:

“Elisha said to the king of Israel, ‘Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.’ ‘No,’ the king of Israel answered, ‘because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.’”
(2 Kings 3:13)

Israel’s king was unfaithful to You, Jesus.

Only when he’s in trouble does He turn to You.

Many people do the same!

May I never be one of them.

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Judges 10:14; Judges 11:7; Psalms 46:1; Psalms 66:13-14; Psalms 69:17; Titus 1:16; 1 John 1:9

Friday, January 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with day-in, day-out devotion:

“Elisha said to the king of Israel, ‘Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.’ ‘No,’ the king of Israel answered, ‘because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.’”
(2 Kings 3:13)

Israel’s king was unfaithful to You, Jesus.

Only when he’s in trouble does He turn to You.

Many people do the same!

May I never be one of them.

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Judges 10:14; Judges 11:7; Psalms 46:1; Psalms 66:13-14; Psalms 69:17; Titus 1:16; 1 John 1:9

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

 

Fully open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Jehoshaphat said, ‘The word of the Lord is with him.’ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.”
(2 Kings 3:12)

Good decision, Jesus.

When we don’t know what to do
we can always go to someone who knows You.

But there’s something better, isn’t there?

I need to know You! –
deeply, personally, intimately –
by living in Your Word

so I’ll know Your will…

and others can safely come to me.

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Genesis 25:22; Deuteronomy 17:9; Joshua 9:14; Judges 18:5; 1 Samuel 14:36; Ezekiel 14:3; Hebrews 4:16