Category Archives: my body

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in total honesty:

“When I think my bed will comfort me…even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine. I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.”
(Job 7:13-16)

Why did you let Job speak to You like that, Jesus?

Because You knew how hard He had tried to please you

and how stunned he was
that You hadn’t protected him.

Help me remember why You did that

and how it ended.

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Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-10; Job 30:20; Job 42:1-17; Psalm 22:2; Psalm 55:17; James 5:9-11

Friday, December 16, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing anticipation:

“Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.’ But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.”
(John 2:19, 21-22)

You’ve made it clear, Jesus:

my body, too, is a temple.

And though the ravages of life on this earth can destroy it

in Your power I will be raised
to live with you forever!

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Job 19:27; Psalm 23:6; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Hebrews 10:13; 1 John 2:17

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in triumphant expectation:

“Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay.”
(Acts 2:26-27)

Those words of David were fulfilled in You, Jesus!

You were unjustly crucified to pay for the sins of all who believe
then rose from the dead on the third day!

And because You live forever

so will I!

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Psalms 16:8-10; Psalms 21:7; Psalms 49:9; Psalms 62:6; Isaiah 54:10; Romans 8:11; Hebrews 6:19; Hebrews 12:27-28

Thursday, July 30, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with excuseless humility:

“Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD Loves…”
(Malachi 2:11)

Those last three words are what get to me, Jesus.

Of course, I should never desecrate Your sanctuary.

But when You remind me of how much You love Your sanctuary

that takes any sin against her
to a whole ‘nuther level.

My first thought goes to the physical church building where I worship with Your people.

Then I realize that my body is a temple for Your Holy Spirit.

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Job 21:6; Psalms 16:7-9; Acts 2:25-26; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 9:27; 1 Corinthians 13:3; Philippians 1:20

Thursday, August 15, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“…the lust of the flesh…”
(1 John 2:16)

Well, Jesus…

this is a big problem I know something about.

There are things my body wants to do
more than You want me to do them.

There are things my body wants to do
before or after You want me to do them.

There are things my body wants to do
that You don’t want me to do at all.

Conclusion?

I’d better listen to You
instead of my body.

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Numbers 15:39; Job 31:1; Proverbs 6:23-25; Romans 1:26-27; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8; 2 Peter 2:17-19

Monday, April 3, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in confident belief:

“Arise…”
(Song of Songs 2:13)

That’s what You did for the world and for me, Jesus:

You arose.

Because You did

I will.

That takes the stinger out of the wasp of death!

To know that death is not the end
but the beginning

is the greatest gift of my life:

Life.

Eternal life!

My body may be buried here

but my spirit will soar forever with You in heaven
to be joined one day by my transformed body.

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John 6:51; John 8:35; 1 Corinthians 15:35-58; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Hebrews 10:14; 1 John 2:17