Category Archives: love one another

Sunday, June 28, 2020

 

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

“…the older women…can train the younger women to love their husbands…”
(Titus 2:3-4)

Why do we need training in how to love one another, Jesus?

Perhaps it’s because we know how we would like to be loved
so that’s how we attempt to love them.

But the way we’d like to be loved isn’t always the way we need to be loved

and we certainly don’t know how best to love others

…until – through the wise among us –

You train us.

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Genesis 20:13; Genesis 29:33; Exodus 34:6-7; Psalms 33:22; Ephesians 3:17-19; Philippians 1:9; Colossians 1:5

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

 

Maybe rethink a few things, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“I ask that we love one another.”
(2 John 1:5)

Why does John make this request, Jesus?

Because too often, we don’t love one another.

Oh, we say we do…

but when all is said and done
more is said than done –

especially when it comes to love.

We love one another like we love potato chips –

until things go stale.

We love one another like we love some teams –

until they lose.

Please LORD!

Help me love like You.

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Matthew 5:46; Luke 11:42; John 5:42; Romans 8:39; 1 Corinthians 13:8; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Titus 3:3-5; 1 John 3:17-18

Thursday, July 20, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble love:

“Let’s have some of the young men get up and fight hand to hand in front of us.”
(2 Samuel 2:14)

Seriously, Jesus?

Two of Your generals – Abner and Joab –

couldn’t figure out how to launch the war

so they chose this?

Why didn’t they fight each other?

Instead, they sent their most valiant fighters to their death

a sacrifice they were willing to make.

May I never ask others to make a sacrifice

I’m unwilling to make.

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Malachi 2:10; John 13:34-35; Romans 12:10; Romans 12:16; Romans 13:8; Romans 14:13; Romans 15:7

Sunday, November 13, 2016

 

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

“They claim to know God…”
(Titus 1:16)

Anyone can claim to know You, Jesus

but most don’t.

The broad road that carries so many travelers leads away from You.
It’s the narrow road that points a few straight to You –

believing in Your death, burial and resurrection
loving You with all their hearts, souls, minds and strength
loving not only their friends, neighbors and family

but also total strangers
faithfully defending the cause of the poor and needy.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 9:24; Jeremiah 22:16; Matthew 7:13-14; Romans 10:9-10; Galatians 4:8-9; Ephesians 2:8-10; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 John 4:8

Saturday, July 16, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“Whoever loves his brother lives in the light…”
(1 John 2:10)

It’s not that loving one of Your children saves me, Jesus…

it’s that if I’m truly on my way to heaven
I’ll love my brothers and sisters in You

even those as deeply flawed
as am I.

With some, it’s easy.

With others, as with me,
it takes a heap of intent.

It helps to realize that more than a feeling.

love is treating others as You command.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:7

Saturday, July 16, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“Whoever loves his brother lives in the light…”
(1 John 2:10)

It’s not that loving one of Your children saves me, Jesus…

it’s that if I’m truly on my way to heaven
I’ll love my brothers and sisters in You

even those as deeply flawed
as am I.

With some, it’s easy.

With others, as with me,
it takes a heap of intent.

It helps to realize that more than a feeling.

love is treating others as You command.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:7

Saturday, July 16, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“Whoever loves his brother lives in the light…”
(1 John 2:10)

It’s not that loving one of Your children saves me, Jesus…

it’s that if I’m truly on my way to heaven
I’ll love my brothers and sisters in You

even those as deeply flawed
as am I.

With some, it’s easy.

With others, as with me,
it takes a heap of intent.

It helps to realize that more than a feeling.

love is treating others as You command.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:7

Saturday, July 16, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“Whoever loves his brother lives in the light…”
(1 John 2:10)

It’s not that loving one of Your children saves me, Jesus…

it’s that if I’m truly on my way to heaven
I’ll love my brothers and sisters in You

even those as deeply flawed
as am I.

With some, it’s easy.

With others, as with me,
it takes a heap of intent.

It helps to realize that more than a feeling.

love is treating others as You command.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 4:7

Thursday, February 25, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.”
(Philemon 1:16)

It doesn’t matter how obnoxious some of Your people are, Jesus

or how many times they sin, get up and sin again.

Anyone who has put their faith in You – no matter how weak –

is my brother, my sister.

Because You died for them and they belong to You

You expect them to be dear to me.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8; 1 Timothy 6:2; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:23

Thursday, February 25, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a man and as a brother in the Lord.”
(Philemon 1:16)

It doesn’t matter how obnoxious some of Your people are, Jesus

or how many times they sin, get up and sin again.

Anyone who has put their faith in You – no matter how weak –

is my brother, my sister.

Because You died for them and they belong to You

You expect them to be dear to me.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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John 13:34-35; Romans 13:8; 1 Timothy 6:2; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:8; 1 John 3:11; 1 John 3:23