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Sunday, June 9, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Godly wisdom:

“Then the king said, ‘Bring me a sword.’ So they brought a sword for the king. He then gave an order: ‘Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.’”
(1 King 3:24-25)

My guess, Jesus?

Solomon wasn’t about to do what he threatened.

This was a test –

to discover which woman
was the mother of the living baby.

Help me want the best for the one I love

even if it means I must do without.

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Exodus 20:20; Judges 2:22; Judges 3:1; 1 Kings 3:26-28; 1 Kings 10:1; John 6:6; 2 Corinthians 8:8

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

 

Acknowledge your need of Him, as you pray this Lazaroo!

“…two prostitutes came to the king…One of them said…‘During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him. So she…took my son from my side while I…was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.’ The other woman said, ‘No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.’”
(1 Kings 3:16, 19-20, 22)

No witnesses, Jesus.

How could Solomon possibly render a just verdict?

The same way I make wise decisions:

Only You.

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Psalm 37:30; Psalm 51:6; Psalm 90:12; Psalm 105:22; Psalm 111:10; Romans 11:33; 2 Corinthians 1:12

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Sunday, February 18, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:13-15)

What a tragedy, Jesus

that Solomon didn’t apply his own proverb to himself.

Please.

Help me practice what I preach!

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Psalm 12:2; Proverbs 26:24; Isaiah 29:13; Jeremiah 7:28; Matthew 23:3; Romans 2:22; 1 Peter 3:10

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Sunday, February 4, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deepest gratitude:

“Then Solomon said, ‘The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud’…”
(2 Chronicles 6:1)

I guess that’s something You told Solomon, Jesus

because that statement appears nowhere else in the Bible.

But I’m so thankful to hear it –

through every hard, torturous, dark cloud day I’m called to endure.

You’ve promised never to leave me nor forsake me.

That means so much on my good days
but it means a thousand times more on the bad.

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Deuteronomy 31:6; Deuteronomy 31:8; Joshua 1:5; 1 Kings 8:57; Psalm 9:9; Psalm 41:1; Isaiah 18:4; 2 Timothy 4:16

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Monday, January 29, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“…I will give you…both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”
(1 Kings 3:13-14)

In spite of Your amazing promises to him

Solomon strayed, Jesus.

How is that even possible?

I guess the same way I stray
in spite of all Your amazing promises to me.

Please rise up within me
to break this terrible cycle!

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Exodus 33:19; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Nehemiah 9:25; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 116:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Hebrews 6:4-12

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Friday, January 5, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble acknowledgement:

“‘Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the survivors of my nation will inherit their land.’ This is what they will get in return for their pride…”
(Zephaniah 2:9-10)

Solomon said it, Jesus:

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

Sadly, he experienced it.

So will I, unless I remember:
You are the Giver of my gifts.

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1 Kings 11:1-11; Proverbs 16:18; Isaiah 26:12; Jeremiah 10:23; Acts 17:25; 1 Corinthians 8:6; James 1:17

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Friday, November 24, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice…I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.”
(1 Kings 3:10-12)

You had already given Solomon enough wisdom to ask for the right thing, Jesus.

He had just enough
to know he needed more.

That’s about how much wisdom I have.

I know for a fact:
I need more!

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Exodus 31:3; 1 Kings 2:8-9; 1 Kings 4:29; Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 2:6; Ephesians 1:17

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

 

Fully open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, ‘Ask for whatever you want me to give you.’ Solomon answered…‘I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties…So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.’”
(1 Kings 3:5,7,9)

Good answer, Solomon.

That truly pleased You, Jesus.

How many people would have asked for wealth, long life – even revenge?

Give me, LORD…

only what’s best.

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Play

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1 Kings 3:10-14; Proverbs 8:17; Proverbs 10:20; Isaiah 8:20; Jeremiah 29:13; Jeremiah 30:21; Matthew 6:33

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Saturday, July 15, 2023

 

Hold nothing back, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.”
(1 Kings 3:4)

Big whoop.

Gibeon may have been the most important high place, Jesus
but Solomon was supposed to destroy all these high places –

not worship You on them.

May I never sin in the most important area of my life

in a badly mistaken notion that what I’m doing

honors You!

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Leviticus 26:30; Numbers 33:52; 1 Kings 3:2-3; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Chronicles 14:2-4; 2 Chronicles 21:11; Matthew 4:10

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in supernatural awareness:

“You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain. Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.”
(Song of Songs 4:12-14)

Solomon had a way with words, Jesus

and no wonder:

You’re the one who gave them to him!

Please give me the words I need to

bless
encourage
uplift
strengthen

those You’ve placed in my life!

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Exodus 4:15; Deuteronomy 18:18; Psalm 19:14; Ecclesiastes 12:11; Ephesians 6:19; Hebrews 10:25; 2 Peter 3:2