Category Archives: Satan

Sunday, October 22, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
(2 Peter 1:21)

Your prophets knew what that was like, Jesus

I’d like to know what that’s like, too.

I don’t want to be carried along by Satan

by the crowd

by my best friend

by my own thoughts.

Those carriers can’t get me very far –

not in the right direction, at least!

You’re the only one who can carry me safely

perfectly

in the right way

all the way home.

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Genesis 14:12; Genesis 34:29; Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 1:31; Joshua 22:3; Judges 21:23; Hebrews 13:9

Thursday, September 21, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with over-the-top trust:

“Whenever Israel went out to fight…”
(Judges 2:15)

It’s tempting to think this is merely a history lesson, Jesus.

I’d like to think:

“I’m so glad I don’t have to go out to fight!”

But that would be self-deception.

The truth is, I’m in the fight of my life.

The moment I put all my trust in You as my Savior

I picked up in Satan
the fiercest, most powerful enemy imaginable

who can’t hold a candle to You.

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Genesis 3:1-19; John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:7-9

Sunday, August 20, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“…you continue to walk in it.”
(3 John 1:3)

Walking in the truth is both easy and hard, Jesus.

It’s easy because it’s best.
It’s safest.
It’s right.
It works.

It’s hard because the moment I choose the truth

I pick up a ferocious enemy.

Satan does everything in his power to get me to back off the truth

which makes it hard to continue to walk in it.

But I do…

because Your way
is the only way.

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

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Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 8:12; John 8:44; John 14:6; Acts 10:38; Ephesians 4:27; 1 Peter 5:8

Sunday, August 20, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“…you continue to walk in it.”
(3 John 1:3)

Walking in the truth is both easy and hard, Jesus.

It’s easy because it’s best.
It’s safest.
It’s right.
It works.

It’s hard because the moment I choose the truth

I pick up a ferocious enemy.

Satan does everything in his power to get me to back off the truth

which makes it hard to continue to walk in it.

But I do…

because Your way
is the only way.

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

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Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 8:12; John 8:44; John 14:6; Acts 10:38; Ephesians 4:27; 1 Peter 5:8

Friday, July 21, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“…this not from yourselves…”
(Ephesians 2:8)

The good stuff never is, Jesus.

It’s always from You –
every last good thought, word and deed of it.

The junk, however, is all mine –
every last evil thought, bad word and foul deed of it.

Satan may be the source of the bad
but I’m the one fool enough to be duped by it.

I run to You, LORD, as fast as my wayward legs can carry me!

You…are my only Hope.

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Proverbs 11:6; Proverbs 18:10; Romans 6:12; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 2:8-9; Colossians 3:5; 2 Timothy 2:22

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

 

Open your eyes, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
(Hosea 3:1)

Satan knows these false gods he parades in front of people

are no gods at all, Jesus.

So he always finds a way to sweeten his lies, to make them easier to swallow –

sometimes with sacred raisin cakes
at other times with drugs, drunkenness, adultery.

But there’s a catch.

As with all poisons
there’s a lethal aftertaste.

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Proverbs 5:3-5; Proverbs 7:6-23; Proverbs 16:25; Proverbs 23:29-32; Isaiah 44:13-20; John 8:44; Acts 19:26

Thursday, April 27, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“…she took some and ate it.”
(Genesis 3:6)

No!

No! No! No!

Is that what You said when Eve bit the forbidden fruit, Jesus?

Was that the cry of Your holy angels
when she caved in to Satan’s temptation?

Better question:

Is that how You feel when I do the same?

When I read about Adam and Eve’s fall

I shake my head in sorrow.

“Why can’t they see what a foolish thing they’re doing?”

Then the thought:

“Why can’t I?”

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Genesis 3:1-24; Hosea 7:11; Obadiah 1:3; Luke 21:8; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Galatians 6:7-9; 2 Timothy 2:14-15

Sunday, March 26, 2017

 

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

“Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?”
(Job 3:12)

What a heartbreak, Jesus!

Job is in such pain that he wishes he had been allowed
to starve to death as an infant, uncared for and unloved.

That’s how Satan attempts to pervert my response to pain.

He tries to twist it
to blind me into hating what is good

to turn me against You.

No. Never.

In my pain
I trust You.

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Psalms 9:10; Psalms 25:2; Psalms 31:14; Psalms 55:23; Psalms 56:3; Psalms 78:7; Psalms 143:8; Proverbs 3:5-6; 1 Peter 5:10

Sunday, March 19, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with eyes wide open:

“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders…”
(2 Thessalonians 2:9)

What a great heads up, Jesus.

Just because something looks like a miracle
doesn’t mean it is.

If I see something so amazing that it fills me with wonder
I need to “wonder”…exactly where it leads.

When I’ve supposedly been given a sign
I’d better make double-dog sure it’s from You.

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Exodus 7:20-22; Isaiah 44:24-26; Jeremiah 23:32; Ezekiel 13:9; Amos 2:4; Matthew 24:10-11; 1 John 2:27

Sunday, March 19, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with eyes wide open:

“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders…”
(2 Thessalonians 2:9)

What a great heads up, Jesus.

Just because something looks like a miracle
doesn’t mean it is.

If I see something so amazing that it fills me with wonder
I need to “wonder”…exactly where it leads.

When I’ve supposedly been given a sign
I’d better make double-dog sure it’s from You.

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

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Exodus 7:20-22; Isaiah 44:24-26; Jeremiah 23:32; Ezekiel 13:9; Amos 2:4; Matthew 24:10-11; 1 John 2:27