Category Archives: repenting

Saturday, January 8, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. The angel said to those who were standing before him, ‘Take off his filthy clothes.’ Then he said to Joshua, ‘See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.’”
(Zechariah 3:4-5)

Is that how I look to you when I sin, Jesus?

As though I’m dressed in filthy clothes?

Wow.
I didn’t know.

I repent, LORD!

Clothe me in Your righteousness!

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2 Chronicles 32:26; Job 42:6; Isaiah 1:16; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah 8:6; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 3:8; Titus 2:11-14

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

 

Open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality…I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.”
(Revelation 2:20-22)

You are so patient with us, Jesus!

When I sin…

may I always – deeply, sincerely, from the heart –

repent.

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1 Kings 8:46-51; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Job 42:6; Jeremiah 15:19; Romans 2:4; 2 Corinthians 7:9; 2 Peter 3:9

Sunday, June 27, 2021

 

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

“Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.’”
(Matthew 3:6-8)

John the Baptist didn’t mince words, Jesus!

When all is said and done
more is said than done.

Words are cheap.

I’ve got to back mine up with action.

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Judges 9:38; 1 Kings 20:11; Proverbs 14:23; Proverbs 29:19; Ecclesiastes 5:2-3; Ecclesiastes 5:7; Matthew 6:7

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

 

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

“Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
(Genesis 3:11)

You had just asked the ultimate rhetorical question, Jesus.

Obviously, You knew he had eaten from the tree you told him not to.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have bothered him to be without clothing.
Just as obviously, he knew You knew.

What do I do when You nail me off-base through Your Word?

Do I excuse myself…

…or confess and repent?

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Leviticus 5:5; 1 Samuel 7:6; Psalms 32:5; Isaiah 30:15; Acts 2:38; James 5:16; 2 Peter 3:9

Friday, April 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in stunned gratitude:

“Woe to him who…establishes a town by crime!”
(Habakkuk 2:12)

I can’t even begin to imagine how many towns have been established by crime, Jesus.

It has to be a huge number.

But the point is this:

It didn’t pay off.
Not for the people who did it.

Oh, they may have appeared to prosper in the beginning
but the end is what matters –

and that was a different story.

Well…unless they repented!

In that case
You turn our woe…into “Woah!”

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1 Kings 8:46-51; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 30:15; Jeremiah 18:8; Acts 2:38

Sunday, September 27, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in pure trust:

“The Ninevites believed God.”
(Jonah 3:5)

Every time I take You at Your Word, Jesus…

every time I decide to act on it
every time I follow through with 100% obedience

good things happen!

Well…they don’t just “happen.”

YOU make them happen!

In this case, You sent Jonah to tell the Ninevites that You were going to destroy their city because of their many sins.

When they believed You and repented, however,
You spared them.

O God!
Spare me!

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Genesis 15:6; Exodus 4:31; Psalms 106:12; Matthew 8:13; Luke 1:45; John 1:12; 1 Corinthians 15:2

Saturday, March 21, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me…’”
(Genesis 3:12)

When You confronted Adam with his sin, Jesus

He immediately blamed You.

You’re the one who created Eve.

You’re the one who made her the kind of person she was.

Of course, Adam was overlooking one tiny issue:

You took her out of him.

Whatever was in her

she got from him.

O God! When You have to confront me

may I repent

rather than blame someone else.

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1 Kings 8:47-51; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 59:20; Jeremiah 5:3; Matthew 4:17; Acts 2:38