Category Archives: outsider

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with explosive feeling:

“…on the throne of my father David…”
(1 Kings 2:24)

Wow. For Solomon to be able to say that, Jesus…

Pretty special.
Pretty exclusive.

But about the time I start feeling like a commoner –

like an outsider looking in…

I remember Your promise:

If I stick with You all the way to the end
I will be invited to sit with You on Your throne!

I will reign with You forever!

Thank You.
That’s all the motivation I need!

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Matthew 25:31; Luke 1:32; Acts 2:30; Acts 7:49; 2 Timothy 2:12; Hebrews 8:1; Revelation 3:21

Saturday, July 20, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in complete trust:

“…called, ‘uncircumcised’…”
(Ephesians 2:11)

This may be the worst insult of all, Jesus!

It’s another way of saying I don’t belong to You.

If I don’t belong to You
I don’t get to go to heaven.

But circumcision in the flesh never saved anyone.

It was what You commanded Your people to do
to set them apart from the false gods of every other nation.

By faith in You
that’s exactly what You’ve done for me

through the cross.

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Genesis 17:11; Acts 7:8; Romans 2:25-29; Romans 3:1-4; Romans 4:11; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 5:6; Colossians 2:9-15

Saturday, June 22, 2019

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“This company of Israelite exiles…will possess the land…”
(Obadiah 1:20)

That’s not usually how it works, Jesus…

until You step in and work it!

Normally, exiles have no power, no leverage to make anything significant happen.

They’re outsiders. Most of them merely subsist.

But when You rise up in the heart of the weak to do great and mighty things

who can stop them?

Rise up within me, LORD!

In Your love, wisdom and power
rise up within me.

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Numbers 10:35; Joshua 8:7; Ezra 10:4; Psalms 7:6; Psalms 17:13; Isaiah 14:22; Isaiah 30:18; Acts 4:8

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo buttressed by faith:

“This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan…”
(Obadiah 1:20)

That’s wild, Jesus.

They were exiles in the very land You had promised them.

Everybody looked at them like outsiders, intruders

not knowing they were looking down on people
to whom they would one day look up

not realizing these trespassers
would one day become the land’s owners.

I can identify.

Today I walk this land as a foreigner

but my Dad owns it all
and I’m Your heir.

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Psalms 105:12-15; Psalms 105:42-45; John 14:9; Acts 7:6-7; Romans 8:17; Hebrews 11:13; Hebrews 11:24-26