Category Archives: lived

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with faith in the One who’s in charge:

“I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor. There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:15-16)

And that’s how it goes, doesn’t it, Jesus?

None of us is on top forever.
Some of us are on top

never.

People are fickle.
Times change.

But You never do!

I am so thankful that it’s not the crowd
that decides my fate.

It’s You!

Thank God, it’s You.

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Job 12:5; Job 20:29; Job 21:17; Psalm 49:12-14; Isaiah 43:25; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8

Saturday, March 23, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in tearful trust:

“So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors. At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.”
(Deuteronomy 3:3-4)

The Promised Land wasn’t empty, Jesus.

Multiplied thousands of wicked people lived there

and had to be eliminated.

Not our decision.

Yours.

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Exodus 17:14; Leviticus 26:44; Numbers 21:3; Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 3:6; Joshua 11:14; 1 Samuel 15:18

Friday, March 22, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deepest gratitude:

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
(John 3:14-15)

Anyone bitten by those venomous snakes in the wilderness, Jesus

had only to look at the bronze snake on Moses’ pole

and they lived.

They lived because they believed what You told them

just as I will live because I believe what You’ve told me.

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Genesis 15:6; Numbers 21:4-9; Psalm 78:21-22; Matthew 8:13; John 1:12; John 3:16; Acts 13:39

Sunday, February 18, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:13-15)

What a tragedy, Jesus

that Solomon didn’t apply his own proverb to himself.

Please.

Help me practice what I preach!

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Psalm 12:2; Proverbs 26:24; Isaiah 29:13; Jeremiah 7:28; Matthew 23:3; Romans 2:22; 1 Peter 3:10

Monday, December 4, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with total transparency:

“Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, ‘Wherever you turn, they will attack us.’ Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.”
(Nehemiah 4:12-13)

When I’m warned, Jesus

I have to respond.

But only You know whether the threat is real.

If it is, only You know the proper response.

Lead me, Holy Spirit!

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Exodus 33:13; Psalm 25:4-5; Psalm 119:33; Psalm 119:68; John 14:26; 1 Timothy 1:17; Jude 1:25

Thursday, February 9, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in peaceful trust:

“In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The Lord their God will care for them…”
(Zephaniah 2:7)

Ashkelon was one of the most secure, well-defended cities of its day, Jesus.

Those who lived there could sleep soundly

knowing they were protected by a huge wall on the land side
and by a high natural bluff on the side facing the sea.

But may I always remember:

Without Your protection, nobody is safe.

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Psalm 3:5; Psalm 4:8; Psalm 16:1; Psalm 27:5; Psalm 140:4; Psalm 141:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Thursday, May 10, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“…you have known him who is from the beginning.”
(1 John 2:14)

That would be You, Jesus.

Yes, You came to this earth as a baby
born of a virgin.

You grew, lived, loved, taught, worked miracles
died, rose from the dead, returned to heaven.

But before Abraham was born

You Are.

You created the heavens and the earth

every plant, animal and human – all of it.

Now You’ve given me the privilege of 1on1 time with You?

Mind-blowing.

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Genesis 1:1; Matthew 6:1-14; Luke 24:1-8; Mark 1:29-34; Mark 15:25-37; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:15-20; Colossians 1:27