Category Archives: Marriage

Monday, June 5, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undying love:

“I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.”
(Jeremiah 3:8-9)

Spiritual adultery, Jesus –

Your people worshiping idols instead of You

betraying the covenant You made with them
as an adulterous violates her marriage vows.

May I never put anyone or anything ahead of You!

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Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; Proverbs 6:32; Jeremiah 5:7; Ezekiel 16:38; Matthew 6:33; Romans 2:22

Sunday, March 5, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem. The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places…”
(1 Kings 3:1-2)

And so it starts to unravel, Jesus…

Solomon enters a forbidden marriage
the people worshiping where they shouldn’t.

The more disobedience I incorporate in my life

the more swiftly my downfall arrives.

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Leviticus 26:30; 1 Kings 3:3; 1 Kings 11:1-3; 1 Kings 13:34; 2 Chronicles 26:16; 1 Thessalonians 3:5; James 1:13-14

Sunday, September 11, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in broken repentance:

“‘If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—would you now return to me?’ declares the Lord.”
(Jeremiah 3:1)

Once again, You’re teaching on two levels, Jesus –

on marriage
on my relationship with You.

But the answer to Your question is yes!

If I have strayed

I will return to You forever – with all my heart!

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1 Kings 11:3; Nehemiah 1:9; Psalm 119:67; Isaiah 44:2; Isaiah 53:6; Jeremiah 24:7; Zechariah 1:3; Acts 2:38-39

Thursday, November 4, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with riveted attention:

“You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, ‘Why?’ It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.”
(Malachi 2:13-14)

Marriage vows are no joke to You, Jesus.

When we make them
You expect us to keep them.

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Genesis 2:20-25; Proverbs 5:15-21; Matthew 19:8; Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18-19; Titus 2:4-5; 1 Peter 3:1-7

Thursday, October 17, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“My lover is mine and I am his…”
(Song of Songs 2:16)

What a beautiful expression of Godly married love, Jesus!

The wife admits: She belongs to her husband
then adds: Her husband belongs to her.

Mutuality.

Her husband owns her.
He’s bought her with himself.

She owns her husband.
She’s bought him with herself.

They’re one.

Isn’t that how You said it was supposed to be in the very beginning?

To this very day…

great marriages follow suit.

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Genesis 2:18-35; Romans 1:12; Romans 14:19; 1 Corinthians 7:1-7; Ephesians 5:21-33; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 3:17-7

Thursday, May 26, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“Guard the fortress…”
(Nahum 2:1)

What a crucially important reminder, Jesus!

I may think I have a fortress on this earth
but it had better be guarded.

Home…parents…marriage…children…family…job…business…country…

all can be gone faster than I can turn around in shock.

Whatever I think I have
Whoever I think I have
Whatever I think I can do

are from You
are kept by You
can only be guarded by You

for in reality I have only one true Fortress:

You.

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Deuteronomy 4:35; Deuteronomy 4:39; 1 Kings 8:60; Job 1:1-22; Psalms 18:2; Proverbs 4:13; Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 45:5-6; Acts 4:12