Category Archives: Sin

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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“…if you show favoritism, you sin…”
(James 2:9)

We all have favorites, don’t we, Jesus?

a parent, child, grandchild
friend, coworker, church member.

Maybe we like the way they look or act

enjoy the gifts You’ve given them
connect with their more attractive personalities.

But when it comes to how I treat them

You demand that I be absolutely fair
treating them in accordance with what is right

or I will cease to be one of Your favorites!

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Exodus 23:3; Leviticus 19:15; Song of Songs 6:9; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; Galatians 2:6; Ephesians 6:9

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in wisdom, self-control and total trust:

“…forfeiting your life.”
(Habakkuk 2:10)

That seems incomprehensible, Jesus!

Why would anyone forfeit his life?
Why would she throw away something so precious?

But people do it all the time. Why?

Because Your gracious gift of life can become soiled, feel ruined

by sin…pain…sickness…fear…hatred…loss.

And in the darkness that our emotions and Satan himself brings

people can lose hope
abandon perspective
think irrationally

act hastily…foolishly.

But You’re the Giver of life!

My life is not my own to take.

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Genesis 12:13; 1 Samuel 26:24; Job 6:9; Job 7:7; Psalms 22:20; Psalms 35:17; Ezekiel 18:4; John 10:15; John 13:37; 1 Corinthians 6:19

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humility:

“When he is made aware of the sin he has committed…”
(Leviticus 4:28)

That’s a telling moment, isn’t it, Jesus?

What’s my response when I find out
I’ve unintentionally done something wrong?

Do I deny it and refuse to take responsibility?
Do I come up with every excuse I can think of?
Do I react with anger against the person who confronts me?

Or do I repent wholeheartedly
and do everything in my power to make it right?

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Proverbs 30:20; Isaiah 61:8; Jeremiah 5:25; Jeremiah 26:21; Luke 14:18; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 5:17

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Sunday, March 29, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…they will take possession of it.”
(Deuteronomy 1:39)

This was a brutally hard thing for Your people to hear, Jesus.

The thing they had worked so hard to accomplish
the land they had journeyed so long to enter

was not to be theirs.

Instead, it was their children who would enjoy it.

Their sin had robbed them of Your promise.

May that not be true of me!

But may all those who come after me

indeed possess what You have promised!

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Genesis 24:7; Genesis 28:15; Exodus 32:13; Numbers 14:23; Joshua 5:6; Deuteronomy 1:29-38; Acts 7:5

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Sunday, January 19, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sold-out surrender:

“If a member of the community…does what is forbidden…”
(Leviticus 4:27)

Sadly, Jesus…

who hasn’t?

I have.

Everyone I know has.

You say the same:

There’s no one righteous, not even one.

But things can’t stay that way, can they?

Sin has to be atoned for.

Either the sinner pays
or someone with sufficient means

has to pay it for them.

Which is exactly what You did on the cross
for everyone who puts their trust in You.

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Exodus 30:10; Psalms 116:11; Romans 3:10-18; Romans 3:22-28; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; James 3:2

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unbridled joy:

“You take away my blessing from their children forever.”
(Micah 2:9)

Oh, Jesus. That’s what most sin does.

It removes Your blessings.

But not only ours!
All too often, it robs our loved ones, too.

You long to bless us.
You love to bless us.
Blessing us may be Your all-time favorite thing to do.

So when we disqualify ourselves
it breaks Your heart –
maybe even more than it does ours.

If I stop sinning
You bring the blessings.

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Genesis 12:2; Exodus 23:25; Leviticus 25:21; Deuteronomy 11:26-27; 2 Samuel 7:29; Luke 24:51; Romans 15:29

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in holy recognition:

“…the Jews…killed…the prophets…”
(1 Thessalonians 2:14-15)

Yes, they did, Jesus.

When You sent Your prophets to correct Your people’s sins
they were seldom received with open arms –

all too often, with hatred, threats, beatings, imprisonment

…and stones.

But Jews are not the only people who shoot the messenger.

It’s hard to be confronted with my wrongdoing.
I want to lash out at the person who’s in my face

until I drop my pretense and acknowledge:

You’re the One who sent them.

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2 Samuel 12:1-13; 2 Kings 17:13; 2 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 21:10; Ezra 9:11; Jeremiah 7:25; Zechariah 1:6; Revelation 11:18

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Saturday, August 31, 2019

 

Get your priorities straight as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain…”
(Habakkuk 2:9)

I catch myself wanting to get ahead, Jesus.

But You make it clear:

If I cheat to do so
I’ll end up behind.

Worse yet, there’s the punishment

that accompanies the transgression.

Why would I break Your rules in an attempt to succeed on this earth?

What happens on this planet is only the preseason.
It doesn’t matter whether I win or lose here.

My reward
is in Heaven.

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Genesis 15:1; Psalms 17:14; Psalms 18:20; Psalms 19:10-11; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 5:11-12; Hebrews 10:35

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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.”
(Genesis 2:8)

Seriously, Jesus?

They actually tried to hide from You –
the One who made them –

and the trees they were cowering behind?

There’s no hiding from You, is there?

Nor – unless like Adam and Eve I’ve sinned –
would I ever try to.

So since this whole “hiding from You” thing is utterly futile

help me refocus my mind, passions and energy

on wholehearted, guilt-free

obedience.

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Job 13:20; Psalms 44:21; Psalms 139:7; Proverbs 15:3; Amos 9:3; Hebrews 4:13; 1 John 3:20

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo to the God who provides everything you need:

“…why go to Assyria to drink water from the River?”
(Jeremiah 2:18)

Great question, Jesus.

By turning to other gods, Your people broke Your heart.
How dare they turn to lifeless idols?

My guess is You’re asking the same question of me every time I sin

buying one of Satan’s lies.
How dare I drink from his foul, poisonous cesspool?

You are my Living Water.

So long as I drink deeply, daily from Your Spring
I will never thirst.

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Psalms 106:28; Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 17:13; Zechariah 14:8; John 4:10-11; John 7:38; Revelation 7:17