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Friday, August 25, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.”
(Habakkuk 2:19)

Is anything more important to me than You, Jesus?

If so, that’s an idol.

The thing is

I can claim You’re most important in my life

while putting someone or something
ahead of You.

If I’m lying to myself about this, please show me!

‘cause You smash idols.

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Exodus 20:3; Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 5:7; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16:32; Hosea 4:17; Matthew 6:33

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.”
(Joshua 4:8)

What a powerful symbol and reminder of Your miracle, Jesus!

But there was something even more important that happened on that day:

They did exactly what You told them to do.

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Leviticus 26:2-4; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalm 51:16-17; Psalm 103:17-18; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 16:4; Romans 6:17

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Friday, April 15, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.”
(1 Timothy 2:14)

Eve’s sin was bad, Jesus

but Adam’s was worse.

Adam wasn’t deceived. He knew better and ate the forbidden fruit anyway.

His wife handed him the fruit
so he accepted it and ate it.

Pleasing his wife was more important to him than pleasing You

making her humankind’s first idol.

May I never put anyone or anything ahead of You!

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Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 5:7; Psalm 24:3-5; Isaiah 42:8; Isaiah 48:11; Matthew 4:10; Luke 14:26; James 4:17

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Saturday, May 22, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with dogged determination:

“Keep reminding them of these things.”
(2 Timothy 2:14)

Nobody likes to be harassed, Jesus.

However, everybody appreciates a reminder
of something important to them

that they are about to forget.

But what about those things that are far more important

to You, to Your kingdom and to us
than we realize?

Those are the reminders I may not appreciate

but most urgently require.

Don’t let me ignore them, LORD!

Please make me sensitive to even Your softest whisper!

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1 Kings 19:11-13; Job 26:14; Matthew 10:27; John 14:26; Romans 15:15; 1 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Peter 1:12

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Friday, March 23, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“I struck all the work of your hands with blight…”
(Haggai 2:17)

Unreal, Jesus.

Farmers break up the hard soil
plant their seeds in the field
row after row after row.

They bring water when there’s not enough rain
hoe out the weeds that sprout
until their plants grow tall

and then the entire crop withers and dies from a disease

sent by You.

When I think my work matters more than my God

I may want to reconsider.

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Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 28:12; Job 10:3; Psalms 8:6; Psalms 138:8; Ecclesiastes 5:6; 1 Corinthians 15:58

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Friday, March 3, 2017

 

Be forewarned, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“They have become filled with every kind of…greed…”
(Romans 1:29)

So how many kinds of greed are there, Jesus?

There’s the kind that wants more than my share
out of fear that the day may come when I won’t have enough.

There’s the kind that takes what belongs to others
because I want to have more than them.

There’s the kind that piles it up
because having that much makes me feel more important

than I really am.

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Proverbs 11:6; Isaiah 57:17; Habakkuk 2:5; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 2:14