Category Archives: Jealousy

Monday, January 15, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected…and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he…suspects her even though she is not impure—then he is to take his wife to the priest.”
(Numbers 5:11-15)

Such things have to be settled, Jesus.

Sometimes by You through us
sometimes by You alone

in Your Way
in Your Time.

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Joshua 7:21; Joshua 10:16; Judges 16:9; 1 Samuel 10:22; 2 Samuel 18:13; 1 Kings 18:4; Matthew 10:26; Hebrews 4:13

Thursday, November 18, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing anticipation:

“You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? For when one says, ‘I follow Paul,’ and another, ‘I follow Apollos,’ are you not mere human beings?”
(1 Corinthians 3:3-4)

I can’t stop being human, Jesus.

But because of You living in me

I no longer have to be
merely human!

And I won’t be…

so long as the only One I’m truly following

is You.

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2 Samuel 7:19; 2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 19:6; Job 9:2; Matthew 15:9; Mark 8:33; Romans 2:28

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…Esther had kept secret her family background…”
(Esther 2:20)

She had to, Jesus.

She was a hated Jew.

There were those who would have attempted to dethrone her –

even kill her! –

if her nationality became known.

But why?
The Jews are Your chosen people!

Perhaps that’s why.

Jealousy plays a part…but there’s more.

Satan was the one behind all the hatred

as always.

He was doing his best to stop the ancestral line that led to You

and utterly failed.

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Genesis 21:9; Exodus 1:22; Ezra 4:19-32; Esther 9:1; Proverbs 27:4; Matthew 1:1-17; Romans 11:25-27

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heartfelt gratitude:

“…he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a…faithful high priest…”
(Hebrews 2:17)

It’s a high honor to be high priest, Jesus.

Only a handful have served in that holy office.

Not all high priests have served well.

Some of them were swayed by jealousy, politics, pride.

Thank You for those who served conscientiously!

But there’s only One perfectly faithful High Priest –
the One who serves this day and forever:

You.

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Leviticus 21:10; Numbers 35:28; 2 Kings 12:10; 2 Chronicles 34:9; Zechariah 3:1-9; Matthew 26:62-68; Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 6:19-20

Saturday, June 18, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in simple trust:

“God…was also at work in my ministry…”
(Galatians 2:8)

It’s so easy to look at what You’re doing through someone else, Jesus…

and not be able to see what You’re doing through me.

Forgive me!

It’s a miracle in and of itself
that You’re willing to work with me at all.

Wouldn’t it be wild to find out that while I’m enviously staring at them

they’re shaking their heads in wonder
at the amazing things You’re accomplishing through me?

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Psalms 16:6; Matthew 20:15; John 21:20-22; Romans 10:19; Romans 15:20; 2 Corinthians 10:12-18; Hebrews 13:5

Saturday, November 21, 2015

 

 Pray this Lazaroo in deepest gratitude: 

“May it be to me as you have said.”
(Luke 1:38)

Do any words please you more, Jesus?

I might say I love You…
then complain about the lot in life You’ve chosen for me.

It’s so easy to be jealous when I see the amazing things You’re doing for someone else

not realizing that while I’m feeling sorry for myself

someone is staring hard at me from a distance

jealous because of how good You’re being to me.

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Genesis 30:1; Numbers 11:29; Proverbs 27:4; Acts 5:17; Acts 13:45; Romans 13:13; James 4:2