Category Archives: no excuses

Sunday, July 31, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“The Lord said to Moses: ‘When anyone is unfaithful to the Lord by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord’s holy things, they are to bring to the Lord as a penalty a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering.’”
(Leviticus 5:14-15)

Even when I do wrong without knowing it

it’s still a sin, isn’t it, Jesus?

No excuses.

I need to confess it

and forsake it.

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Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:13; Leviticus 4:22; Leviticus 4:27; Numbers 15:22-24; Joshua 20:2-4; Ezekiel 45:19-20; Romans 7:20

Saturday, January 1, 2022

 

Happy New Year! Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“We have heard a message from the Lord…”
(Obadiah 1:1)

Oh, we’ve heard Your message, Jesus

and that’s good.

But the question is:

What have we done with what we’ve heard?

We are without excuse:

The evidence about Your Majesty and Power is everywhere.

Just like seeing the awesome things You do

hearing Your Word

should be believing.

But the majority of people ignore what they see and hear

and listen instead to Satan’s lies.

Not me, this year, LORD!

Not me.

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Psalm 19:4; Ezekiel 33:5; Acts 19:2; Romans 10:14; Romans 10:18; Hebrews 4:2; James 1:25

Saturday, June 26, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Spirit-led recognition:

“The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’”
(Genesis 3:12-13)

We insist it’s someone else’s fault, Jesus.

Even though it isn’t.

No matter what the temptation, the threat, the incentive, the circumstances

if I said it or did it, it’s my fault.

Period.

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Leviticus 5:5; Numbers 5:6-7; 1 Samuel 7:6; Ezra 10:1; Psalms 32:5; Acts 19:18; James 5:16

Saturday, March 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in wholehearted surrender:

“If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales! It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been impetuous.”
(Job 6:2-3)

We’re all able to find excuses for our behavior, Jesus.

Oh yeah.
I have a ton of ‘em!

We might be able to sell them to some people

but nobody’s fooling You.

Rather than excuses

please help me obey You –

no matter what it takes!

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Numbers 30:2; Joshua 1:8; Luke 14:17-19; John 15:22; Romans 1:20; Romans 2:1; Philippians 2:12

Friday, December 2, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“Praise be to the name of God…He reveals…hidden things…”
(Daniel 2:20, 22)

It’s useless to try to hide something from You, Jesus.

Can’t be done.
You know everything I think, say and do.

Not only can I not hide anything.

I can’t justify it
excuse it
evade it
spin it
explain it away.

If I thought it/said it/did it
I’m accountable for it

unless I confess it and forsake it
       in which case, in Your eyes
              it never happened.

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

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2 Kings 6:12; Job 28:24; Psalms 103:8-12; Matthew 9:4; Luke 14:15-24; John 15:22; Romans 1:20; Romans 2:1; Hebrews 8:12; 1 John 1:9

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning desire:

“Remember the height from which you have fallen!”
(Revelation 2:5)

That’s a hard command to obey, Jesus.

Absolutely brutal.

If fills me with guilt –

because I know I didn’t have to fall.

If only I had stayed consistent!

plugging away
determined
one step at a time

I’d be looking down on that height

instead of up at it.

Nothing I can about it now.
What’s done is done.

But that glance at where I once was
inspires me to go after it again.

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Psalms 38:4; Psalms 42:4; Psalms 69:5; Psalms 143:5; Jeremiah 2:2; Romans 1:20; Philippians 3:13-14

Friday, December 25, 2015

 
 Pray this Lazaroo on this Christmas Day in grateful determination:

“…not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it…”
(James 1:25)

You didn’t forget us, Jesus!

You came to this earth as a baby to save us from our sins.

You did it.

Because You came

now I can do it, too –
whatever You ask.

There will never be room for excuse about how I tried to do it

and just couldn’t

‘cause You’ve never told me to do anything

that You weren’t willing to help me accomplish.

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Isaiah 19:20; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 45:21; Luke 2:1-20; Acts 5:31; Philippians 3:20; 2 Peter 3:18