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Friday, November 3, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble gratitude.

“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple…”
(Malachi 3:1)

You told us the name of that messenger, Jesus:

John the Baptist.

You Yourself are the Lord they were seeking who came to Your temple.

Though You came to Your own
they didn’t believe in You.

But there were some who believed in You.

To this day, all who do
have become Yours –

heart, mind, body and soul.

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Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 3:1; Matthew 11:11; Matthew 17:12-13; John 1:11-13; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me.”
(Malachi 3:1)

You gave this revelation to Malachi, Jesus –

more than 400 years before it was fulfilled
in your cousin John the Baptist.

Your Way. Your Time.

Always perfect.

My way. My time.

Usually flawed!

May I always remember how much You know

and how little I know

how much You see
how little I see.

So when You do it differently than I would

on a different schedule

Help me trust You

completely.

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Psalm 31:15; Psalm 39:1; Psalm 81:13; Psalm 95:10; Psalm 119:5; Psalm 119:59; Isaiah 55:8-11; Hebrews 3:10

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Sunday, October 9, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.”
(Luke 1:80)

Just like John the Baptist, Jesus

I want to grow in You!
I want to become strong in spirit!

In short, I want to become everything You’ve created me to be!

But that means I have to deliberately carve out time to do what he did

and get away for Deep, Daily, Moment-by-Moment
1on1 relationship with You.

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Psalm 27:14; Psalm 31:24; Psalm 61:3; Luke 2:40; Romans 1:11; 1 Corinthians 16:13; 2 Corinthians 12:10

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Friday, May 27, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in reverent awe:

“And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God…”
(Luke 1:76-78)

When Zechariah spoke these words, Jesus

He was filled with the Spirit.

Through Him You were revealing that His son – John the Baptist –

had one overriding purpose:

“to prepare the way

for You.”

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Isaiah 40:3; Genesis 14:19; Deuteronomy 32:8; Psalm 7:10; Lamentations 3:38; Luke 6:35; John 1:23; Acts 7:48-49

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

 

Open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“We have heard a message from the Lord: An envoy was sent to the nations…”
(Obadiah 1:1)

Have you sent an envoy to my nation, Jesus?

If so, who?

Many of Your people ignored John the Baptist

not realizing he was the Elijah You sent
to prepare the way for Your First Coming.

Please grant us discernment to weed out false prophets!

But I don’t want to miss any envoy You’ve sent
to prepare us for Your Second Coming.

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Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 11:13-15; Matthew 14:6-12; Matthew 24:23-24; Matthew 24:32-34; John 1:21; Luke 21:28

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Saturday, November 6, 2021


Be inspired! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
(Matthew 3:11-12)

Your message through John the Baptist cost him his life, Jesus!

May the courage You gave him
fall on me.

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Deuteronomy 31:6; Joshua 1:7; Matthew 3:1; Matthew 3:4; Matthew 4:12; Matthew 11:2-19; Matthew 14:1-12

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Thursday, July 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with fiery devotion:

“…his mother spoke up and said, ‘No! He is to be called John.’ They said to her, ‘There is no one among your relatives who has that name.’ Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child.”
(Luke 1:60-62)

They totally disrespected John the Baptist’s mother, Jesus.

Since what she said didn’t make sense to them
they ignored her.

But she knew what You wanted.

What the crowd thought

didn’t matter.

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Matthew 3:1; Matthew 11:11; Matthew 17:12-13; Mark 1:4; Mark 6:17-29; Luke 1:11-13; John 1:19-34

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Sunday, June 27, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo all the way to the marrow of your bones:

“Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.’”
(Matthew 3:6-8)

John the Baptist didn’t mince words, Jesus!

When all is said and done
more is said than done.

Words are cheap.

I’ve got to back mine up with action.

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Judges 9:38; 1 Kings 20:11; Proverbs 14:23; Proverbs 29:19; Ecclesiastes 5:2-3; Ecclesiastes 5:7; Matthew 6:7

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Monday, April 26, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said, ‘No! He is to be called John.’”
(Luke 1:59-60)

Her husband’s lack of belief had already cost them both, Jesus.

Elizabeth wasn’t about to make the same mistake.

You had told them their son’s name was to be John.

So John is what she named him.

May I obey You

with that same conviction!

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Leviticus 25:18; Deuteronomy 6:3; Joshua 1:7; 1 Samuel 15:22; Matthew 28:19-20; Romans 6:17; 2 John 1:6

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“In those days John the Baptist came…People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.”
(Matthew 3:1, 4-5)

That amazing response was all You, Jesus!

John did his part, for sure.
He preached and baptized.

But You’re the one who brought the crowds.
You’re the one who caused them to confess and repent.

Every time that happens it’s You!

Only You.

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Lamentations 3:37-38; Ezekiel 20:12; Acts 4:28; Acts 13:48; 1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 3:3