Category Archives: Obedience

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Sunday, September 9, 2018

 

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

“Confident of your obedience…”
(Philemon 1:21)

I wish You could be confident of mine, Jesus!

I wish my friends and family could be.
I wish I could be.

But I’m not.

Oh, I’m confident of my good intentions.

You know all about those, too.

I sure do mean well.

But my follow-through needs some work.

I don’t have to tell You that last statement was an understatement.

My follow-through needs a lot of work.

Help me. Please.
Help me.

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Deuteronomy 5:33; Deuteronomy 8:6; Joshua 22:5; 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Kings 3:14; Romans 1:5; 2 Corinthians 9:13

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Monday, August 6, 2018

 

Take notes, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“So he got up…”
(Matthew 2:21)

Forgive me, Jesus, but isn’t that what Your stepdad did

when an angel told him to take Your mom home to be his wife
even though she was pregnant?

and what he did when an angel told him
to take You and Your mom to Egypt?

Now, he’s obeying the angel again –

taking You and Your mom back home to Israel.

Each time He got up and did it.

Sounds like a plan.

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Genesis 18:19; Genesis 26:4-5; 1 Kings 12:24; Psalms 119:4; Matthew 21:28-31; Acts 13:22; Philippians 2:12

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Sunday, May 6, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other…”
(1 Peter 1:22)

Okay. Let me see if I’m able to put this together, Jesus:

Obeying Your Word purifies me.
Once purified, I’m able to sincerely love other believers.

Of course, the absence of any of those steps leaves me short.

If I don’t obey Your Word, I’m not pure.
If I’m not pure, I can’t love others – at least…

not sincerely.

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Daniel 11:34; Luke 20:20; Acts 2:46; Romans 12:9; 2 Corinthians 6:6; Philippians 1:17; Hebrews 10:22

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“So she sent them away and they departed.”
(Joshua 2:21)

It’s not enough to send someone away, is it, Jesus?

They have to depart.

Sometimes I attempt to send a person away…and they don’t leave.

Awkward.
Forces my hand.

I either insist…wait them out…
or withdraw my request.

I don’t want to be that person, Father!

When You send me
I want to be the person You can count on to go.

No matter how much I love it there.

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Genesis 22:2; Exodus 3:10; Exodus 4:12; Exodus 32:34; 1 Samuel 15:3; Matthew 2:20; Acts 8:29

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Monday, January 22, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with follow-through:

“…as a testimony to them.”
(Mark 1:44)

I can – and should! – testify about You by what I say, Jesus

but even more by what I do.

Words are important.

But unless they’re followed by action
they’re revealed to be weightless, hollow, cheap.

May my obedient actions

be in perfect harmony with my testimony about You

lest it be said of me

that what I do speaks so loudly against me
that no one can hear a word I say.

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Matthew 3:13-15; Matthew 8:4; Matthew 21:28-32; Matthew 24:14; Mark 6:11; Luke 21:13; Acts 14:17; 1 John 5:11

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Sunday, January 7, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“…you must not be a prostitute…”
(Hosea 3:3)

Well, duh, Jesus.

That’s kind of a standing rule, isn’t it?

Why would Hosea say this to his wife?

It was because You told him to take her back, wasn’t it?
Even though she’d been unfaithful to him.

Broken laws need to be restated.

Am I in violation of any of Your commands, LORD?
If so, please tell me again

and in Your great mercy
give me another chance to obey.

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Exodus 20:14; John 14:26; Romans 15:15; 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:1; 2 Timothy 1:6; 2 Peter 1:12; Jude 1:5

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“I came to you in…fear…”
(1 Corinthians 2:3)

What, Jesus?

The great Apostle Paul approached one of his assignments

in fear?

Why?

You had worked miracle after miracle through him

like raising the dead.

I would have thought he’d be fearless!

Besides, there’s a Biblical command:
You tell us not to fear.

But obedience is one thing

emotion is another.

Like Paul, please help me obey You to the end

to the letter

no matter how much I fear.

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2 Samuel 22:37; Isaiah 8:12; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 43:1; Jeremiah 42:11; Acts 20:7-12; 1 Peter 3:14

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Monday, December 19, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“Jesus sent him away at once…”
(Mark 1:43)

Wow, Jesus…

I wonder how that made him feel.

He no sooner shows up and begs You to cure his leprosy

than You heal him and send him away.

But hey – if the one who can heal me orders me to take off

I’d best get going!

If You love me enough to do for me what nobody else can

the least I can do is love you enough to obey.

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Exodus 15:26; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 41:4; Psalms 30:2; Jeremiah 17:14; Acts 9:34

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pedal-to-the-metal commitment:

“…in reverence will I bow down…”
(Psalms 5:7)

Bowing down is an extreme sort of worship, Jesus.

It requires me to do something that many people find strange.

But I absolutely do revere You! It doesn’t matter what others think of me.

You are worthy of whatever physical display means something to You

But am I right in saying that You’d rather have me bowing to Your will in my daily life

than pressing my face to the floor?

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Genesis 27:29; Deuteronomy 26:10; 2 Kings 17:36; Psalms 95:6; Isaiah 45:14; Zephaniah 2:11; Philippians 2:9-11

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Godly, cleansing fear:

“With a noise like that of chariots…”
(Joel 2:5)

Much like someone unfortunate enough to be attacked by today’s

Abrams tank
Apache helicopter
A-10 Warthog

anyone hearing that sound would have been paralyzed with fear, Jesus

especially knowing it was You who sent them
because of their stubborn, willful sin.

You’ve punished Your people like that before, Father.

No doubt You’ll have to do it again.

But that’s not how I want to experience You!

I prefer to obey.

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Deuteronomy 5:33; Deuteronomy 28:1; Joshua 22:5; 1 Samuel 15:22; Romans 1:5; 2 Corinthians 9:13; Hebrews 10:26-31