Category Archives: Perfect

Sunday, April 21, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humbled gratitude:

“Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.”
(Hebrews 5:8-10)

You’re my High Priest, Jesus.

You’re the One I go to, when I’m in trouble.
You’re the One I thank, when things go well.
You’re the One I trust, when things don’t go the way I planned.

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Psalm 13:5; Psalm 25:2; Psalm 31:6; Psalm 31:14; Psalm 52:8; Psalm 55:23; Romans 4:5

Thursday, March 28, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in passionate trust:

“I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, ‘Do not go beyond what is written.’ Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.”
(1 Corinthians 4:6)

We’re all the time going beyond what is written in Your Word, Jesus

which gets us in a heap of trouble!

Keep calling me back to Your beautiful, perfect

unvarnished Truth.

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Psalm 119:9; Psalm 119:18; Psalm 119:28; Psalm 119:74; Psalm 119:91; Isaiah 8:20; John 5:24

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with earnest desire:

“It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.”
(2 Corinthians 4:13-14)

Be faith I say this, Jesus:

I have that same spirit of faith You placed in Paul.
The same You placed in Abraham, Moses, Elisha, Isaiah.

It’s You. All You.

As You did through them
perform Your full, holy, perfect will through me.

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Psalm 51:10; Jeremiah 39:18; Habakkuk 3:2; Matthew 6:10; Matthew 26:42; Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 4:16

Thursday, November 9, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.”
(Luke 2:19-21)

Help me treasure up everything You’re doing in my life, Jesus

and ponder them in my heart

to discern Your perfect will for my life!

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Nehemiah 5:7; Psalm 64:9; Psalm 107:43; Psalm 111:2; Psalm 119:95; Ecclesiastes 12:9; Luke 2:51

Sunday, August 20, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with rock-solid confidence:

“With a blinding flash he destroys the stronghold and brings the fortified city to ruin. There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.”
(Amos 5:9-10)

You see what’s going on, Jesus!

To us, it feels like You refuse to do anything about it.

It does, that is…

until in one moment
You utterly ruin the wicked!

Help me to trust Your perfect way and time.

You alone know

When
How
Why!

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Psalm 31:15; Psalm 37:13; Psalm 40:17; Daniel 9:19; Habakkuk 2:3; Malachi 4:1; Hebrews 10:37

Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“Every high priest…is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people. And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God…”
(Hebrews 5:1-4)

You are amazing, Jesus!

You deliberately choose flawed people to honor
by calling them to do Your perfect work –

which means You can also work through me!

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Genesis 32:10; Job 40:4; Psalm 6:9; Matthew 20:31; Luke 17:10; Romans 9:15; 1 Timothy 1:15-16

Friday, June 16, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“The pride of your heart has deceived you…”
(Obadiah 1:3)

Pride will do that, Jesus.

The moment I get to thinking it’s all me

and forget that everything I have is from You

I’ve committed the same fatal mistake as Your angel Lucifer

who lost his place in heaven.

“Pride goes before destruction,
a haughty spirit before a fall.”

May I never forget:

You’re the Giver of every good and perfect gift!

I’m the totally, wholly, utterly

unworthy recipient.

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Proverbs 16:18; Isaiah 26:12; Matthew 3:11; Luke 17:10; John 1:27; Acts 17:25; Ephesians 2:8-10; James 1:17

Monday, May 1, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in ardent love:

“…it is written: ‘So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.’ But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?”
(Romans 3:4-6)

You are Perfect, Righteous and Just, Jesus.

In our flawed, unrighteous, injustice

how dare we impugn Your judgments?

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Psalm 36:6; Psalm 72:1; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 12:5-6; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:23; Romans 9:20

Friday, March 24, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo…thoughtfully:

“We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.”
(James 3:2)

Of the many ways I can sin, Jesus

it’s most likely to happen
when I open my mouth.

That makes me want to keep my mouth shut.

But the problem with that solution is this:

If I only think it,
it’s still a sin.

No one else may know it
but You do

because You read minds.

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Genesis 6:5; Psalm 139:2; Psalm 139:23; Proverbs 15:26; Isaiah 55:7; Matthew 9:4; Romans 2:15

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with redeemed perspective:

“Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies. Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense. You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”
(Song of Songs 4:5-7)

Actually, she did have flaws, Jesus.

I don’t know what they were
but every person has them.

Solomon, however, saw her as flawless –

perfect…because that was how You created her.

Awesome Father:

Help me see everyone through Your eyes!

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Genesis 18:3; Deuteronomy 15:21; Ruth 2:10; 2 Samuel 22:31; Job 11:4; Song of Songs 5:2; Matthew 5:48; Philippians 2:20; James 3:2