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Thursday, September 7, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in no-matter-what trust:

“…the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave us all of them.”
(Deuteronomy 2:35-36)

Thank You for giving us seasons like Jesus!

Please help us remember them

when You lead us through the dark valleys of loss.

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Job 2:9-10; Psalm 23:1-6; Psalms 31:15; Psalm 34:1; Ecclesiastes 11:7-10; Isaiah 45:7; 2 Corinthians 9:8

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in happy anticipation:

“So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.”
(Genesis 3:23-24)

What a heartbreak, Jesus!

We’ve been mourning that loss ever since.

But in heaven –

for those of us who’ve placed our trust in You –

that longing will be fulfilled!

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Psalm 23:6; Romans 5:12; Romans 5:14; Philippians 3:14; Philippians 3:20; 1 Timothy 2:14; Revelation 21:4

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Monday, October 17, 2022

 

Be encouraged! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.”
(1 Corinthians 3:14-15)

You are stunningly good to Your chosen people, Jesus!

Even if we blow it again and again
making bad choice after bad choice after bad choice

if with all our hearts we claim You

You claim us.

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Exodus 4:10-12; Hosea 11:8; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; 2 Timothy 2:11-13; James 3:2

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

 

Fully open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Ezer and Elead were killed by the native-born men of Gath, when they went down to seize their livestock. Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
(1 Chronicles 7:21-22)

The loss of Ephraim’s livestock didn’t even register, Jesus

in comparison to the loss of his sons.

I’m sure he appreciated his relative’s attempts to comfort him

but the agony of this kind of tragedy
doesn’t disappear overnight.

There is a comfort

only You can give.

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Genesis 38:12; 1 Samuel 1:16; 1 Kings 17:20; John 16:33; Job 17:7; Psalms 31:9; 1 Peter 5:7

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with a pure, humble heart:

“…you flood the LORD’s altar with tears.”
(Malachi 2:13)

There are tears, Jesus…

and then there are tears.

There are those who cry because they’re angry

or because of what they’ve lost.

Some are able to manufacture fake tears

in order to manipulate the tenderhearted and gullible.

Others sob in their punishment because they’ve been caught –

not because they’re sorry they did it.

But when I flood Your altar with tears

may it be in sincere, heartfelt repentance.

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1 Kings 8:46-49; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Jeremiah 8:6; Ezekiel 18:32; Luke 15:7; Acts 2:38

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

 

Cry out to God for help as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…my heart is faint.”
(Lamentations 1:22)

That was true of Jeremiah then, Jesus

and sometimes it’s true of me –
but not always for the same reason!

It could be because I’m missing my 1on1 time with You

because I’ve deliberately sinned against You
because I’m hurting for someone I love
because I’m distressed about my country
because I’m under Satan’s attack
because of terrible hurt or loss in my own life.

O God, You! You alone!

can restore me.

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Deuteronomy 20:3; 1 Samuel 14:28; Job 23:16; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 41:3; Isaiah 40:31; Luke 21:26; 1 Peter 5:10

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in wisdom, self-control and total trust:

“…forfeiting your life.”
(Habakkuk 2:10)

That seems incomprehensible, Jesus!

Why would anyone forfeit his life?
Why would she throw away something so precious?

But people do it all the time. Why?

Because Your gracious gift of life can become soiled, feel ruined

by sin…pain…sickness…fear…hatred…loss.

And in the darkness that our emotions and Satan himself brings

people can lose hope
abandon perspective
think irrationally

act hastily…foolishly.

But You’re the Giver of life!

My life is not my own to take.

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Genesis 12:13; 1 Samuel 26:24; Job 6:9; Job 7:7; Psalms 22:20; Psalms 35:17; Ezekiel 18:4; John 10:15; John 13:37; 1 Corinthians 6:19

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with keen anticipation:

“But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud…
(Ezra 3:12)

Everybody else was shouting with excitement and praise, Jesus.

Why not the older ones, too?

Because it reminded them of what they had lost.

Theirs were tears of remembrance –

the good times they had experienced
having no temple all this time.

I too have wept over what I’ve lost…

but believe I’ll weep again – in grateful joy.

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Friday, January 10, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your being:

“…to escape the clutches of ruin!”
(Habakkuk 2:9)

That’s certainly what I desire, Jesus!

Disappointments, losses, hard times and setbacks are one thing.
Ruin…hangs around a little longer.

However: Anyone who foolishly attempts to escape the clutches of ruin in their own strength

is cursed, marked, doomed to failure –

not only on this earth
but eternally.

There is only one way to escape the clutches of utter, total, permanent ruin:

Trust in You.
Trust in You.
Trust in You.

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Genesis 3:17; Genesis 9:25; Leviticus 20:9; 1 Chronicles 16:11; Psalms 34:4-5; Psalms 123:2; Galatians 3:13

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Thursday, February 7, 2019

 

Bow in gratitude to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“For the Israelites will live many days…without ephod…”
(Hosea 3:4)

What a loss, Jesus!

Your people were accustomed to being able to go to the priest
who would consult the Urim and Thummim in the ephod
and You would show them the way they were to take.

I’ve lived all my life without the ephod, Father –

but not without Your direction!

for You’ve given Your people something far more intimate than the ephod.

O Holy Spirit!
I have You.

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Exodus 28:30; Psalms 51:11; Matthew 3:11; Mark 13:11; Luke 12:12; John 14:17; Colossians 1:27