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Friday, March 8, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“Why do you now cry aloud—have you no king? Has your ruler perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor? Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion…you must leave the city to camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the Lord will redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.”
(Micah 4:9-10)

When my sins have cost me my home, Jesus

is all lost?

No.

Even in a strange and foreign land

You can rescue me!

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1 Samuel 17:37; Job 6:23; Psalm 17:13; Psalm 22:21; Psalm 25:20; Psalm 35:17; 2 Timothy 4:18

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unwavering devotion:

“…the king of Egypt said, ‘Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!’’…That same day Pharaoh gave this order: ‘You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.”
(Exodus 5:4,6-7)

When I obey You, Jesus

sometimes things get worse.

At first.

But when I continue to obey You no matter what

the outcome is always more than worth it.

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Genesis 29:25; Genesis 44:4; Exodus 5:22; Numbers 11:11; Job 7:20; Matthew 27:46; Luke 2:48

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Monday, October 9, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with acknowledged need:

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)

You’re making it very clear, Jesus:

We need each other.

I need other people in my life –

reliable people!

…and they need me.

So much for my solo act.

May I be the help to others

I need from them.

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Judges 21:22; Luke 8:3; Acts 9:36; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Timothy 5:16; Philemon 1:3

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with holy passion:

“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure…Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.”
(Philippians 2:14-16)

It’s not the stuff I build that lays up heavenly treasure, is it, Jesus?

It’s the people You work through me to build

who are living Your overcoming life!

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Jeremiah 29:11; Matthew 6:19-20; Matthew 19:21; Luke 12:33; John 13:34-35; Romans 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with earnest desire:

“The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
(1 Corinthians 3:8-9)

Doesn’t matter where I serve in Your Church, Jesus –

up front or behind the scenes –

our purpose is the same:

We’re serving You!

Since I’m Your field

make me productive!

Since I’m Your building

make me welcoming
for those who need shelter.

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Psalm 27:5; Psalm 31:20; Isaiah 4:6; Matthew 13:24-30; 2 Corinthians 6:1; Ephesians 2:21; Philippians 4:3

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Monday, January 10, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in thudding realization:

“’I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.’ To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’”
(Genesis 3:15-16)

First You punished the serpent, Jesus

then You punished the woman.

The man’s next, isn’t He?

For deliberate sin

there’s a price.

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Exodus 20:15; Leviticus 26:18; Deuteronomy 5:9; Psalm 59:5; Lamentations 3:39; Romans 13:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:6

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire…”
(Habakkuk 3:13)

What a humbling thing to hear, Jesus!

That I can work my fingers to the bone every day of my life
only to have You snap Your fingers

and burn it all up?

That’s what becomes of everything I do for the wrong motives.

But O God!

Everything I do to please You

becomes eternal treasure

that will never fade, spoil, nor pass away!

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1 Samuel 16:7; Psalms 16:11; Isaiah 50:19; Matthew 6:19-21; 1 Corinthians 15:58; James 5:2; 1 Peter 5:4

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

 

Think beyond the end of your nose, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?”
(Ecclesiastes 2:22)

Wise question, Jesus!

Kinda what Solomon was known for.

The sad reality is this: 

A whole lot of what I do
isn’t going to amount to a hill of beans
ten years from now.

How foolish to spend myself for nothing!

Which makes me wonder:

What could I do
that would matter even more
ten thousand years from now?

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Deuteronomy 15:10; Ecclesiastes 2:15; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 55:2; Matthew 19:27; Romans 11:6-8; 1 Corinthians 9:18

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with lavish love:

“For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.”
(Ecclesiastes 2:21)

Well, it’s not a meaningless great misfortune for the person who inherits all that, Jesus! 😉

Isn’t that the whole point of what I’ve accumulated –
to have the joy of passing it on to those I love?

Love isn’t fair!
It’s outrageously generous.

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Genesis 15:2; Proverbs 3:35; Proverbs 8:21; Proverbs 11:29; Proverbs 13:22; Proverbs 17:2; Hebrews 6:12

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Sunday, July 5, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it.”
(Ecclesiastes 2:21)

Well, no, Jesus.

If unwise, it doesn’t have to be done that way.

Does it usually happen the way Solomon describes it? Yes.

But is that necessarily bad? No.

One of the joys of life is working hard

so I can pass the fruit of my labors on to those I love.

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Genesis 15:2; Genesis 21:10; Genesis 31:14; Psalms 16:6; Psalms 25:13; Ephesians 1:18; Hebrews 6:12