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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with faith in the God who can:

“The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. ‘Have you seen the one my heart loves?’”
(Song of Songs 3:3-4)

Solomon’s wife was frightened – absolutely desperate, Jesus.

All through the night, her husband hadn’t come home.

Sleepless nights are hard.

Even more so, when I’m deeply worried
about someone I love.

At such times, I’m reminded of my utter vulnerability.
My worry won’t keep anyone safe, will it, Father?

Only You!
Only You!
Only You!

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1 Samuel 10:2; Psalms 139:23; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Luke 2:48; Luke 10:41; 1 Corinthians 7:36; 2 Corinthians 6:5

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Monday, May 31, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with corrected vision:

“A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?”
(Ecclesiastes 2:24-25)

This is how far Solomon’s wisdom can take him, Jesus

limited to what he observes under the sun.

True, everything comes from Your hand!

But there is so much more that is better

than eating, drinking
and liking my work.

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Exodus 32:5-7; 2 Samuel 11:11; 1 Kings 18:41-46; Nehemiah 8:12; Proverbs 23:7; Acts 17:25; 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Corinthians 15:32-34

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Monday, May 17, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it. For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.”
(2 Chronicles 3:14-15)

King Solomon didn’t actually do the work, Jesus

but he’s the one who ordered it done.

If he hadn’t, the temple wouldn’t have been built.

From leader to worker

it takes us all!

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Judges 1:28; Luke 4:38; 1 Corinthians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Philippians 1:22; Philippians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:3

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Friday, March 26, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble recognition:

“All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.”
(Ecclesiastes 2:23)

Well, no, it’s not, Jesus.

Just because Solomon didn’t understand its meaning
doesn’t mean it’s meaningless.

Solomon was incredibly wise.
But he wasn’t all-wise.

That description applies only to You!

Besides, it’s not true

that everyone experiences only grief and pain in their work –
along with restless nights.

Solomon was talking mostly about himself, wasn’t he?

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1 Kings 4:30-32; Jeremiah 31:26; Matthew 12:42; Luke 18:34; 1 Corinthians 15:56; 2 Corinthians 6:5; Galatians 2:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:6

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Saturday, March 6, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with a learning heart:

“King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ‘Go, strike him down!’”
(1 Kings 2:29)

Joab was a powerful man, Jesus – the head of Israel’s army.

Solomon’s father David had tried to remove him, to no avail.
So he counseled his son Solomon to do it.

How did Solomon succeed when his father couldn’t?

You. Only You.
It was Your time.

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Numbers 32:23; 1 Kings 2:1-6; 1 Kings 2:23-25; 1 Kings 2:36-46; 2 Chronicles 18:23-38; Proverbs 16:5; Hebrews 4:13; 1 John 1:9

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

 

Think beyond the end of your nose, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?”
(Ecclesiastes 2:22)

Wise question, Jesus!

Kinda what Solomon was known for.

The sad reality is this: 

A whole lot of what I do
isn’t going to amount to a hill of beans
ten years from now.

How foolish to spend myself for nothing!

Which makes me wonder:

What could I do
that would matter even more
ten thousand years from now?

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Deuteronomy 15:10; Ecclesiastes 2:15; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 55:2; Matthew 19:27; Romans 11:6-8; 1 Corinthians 9:18

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in amazed admiration:

“For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.”
(2 Chronicles 3:10-11)

Solomon had his artisans create stunning figures, Jesus – encompassing 35 feet in all!

May I, too, offer You my very best!

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Genesis 3:24; Exodus 25:18-22; Exodus 26:1; Numbers 7:89; Isaiah 37:16; Ezekiel 28:14; Hebrews 9:5

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with explosive feeling:

“When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.”
(1 Kings 2:28)

When he sided with David against Absalom, Jesus

Joab chose well the first time.

But when he threw in his lot with Adonijah against Solomon

that was his undoing.

What was his mistake?

Depending on his own calculations
instead of checking to see who You had chosen.

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Genesis 25:22; Joshua 9:14; 2 Samuel 18:9-16; 1 Kings 11:34; 1 Chronicles 28:5-6; 1 Chronicles 29:1; Acts 1:23-25

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

 

Seek understanding, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Be still before the Lord, all mankind…”
(Zechariah 2:13)

There’s a time to talk, Jesus.

Solomon told us so.

But there’s also a time to hush up.

Solomon told us that, too.

Without question, on countless occasions

You invite me to speak to You – even call to You.

But there are times when I’d be wise to hold my tongue and just listen –

as on those occasions when I start to complain.

You know what You’re doing.
I don’t.

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Deuteronomy 27:9; Psalms 4:4; Psalms 88:9; Ecclesiastes 3:7; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Romans 11:33; Philippians 2:14

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Sunday, October 25, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.”
(1 Kings 2:27)

When You say it, Jesus

it gets done.

Sometimes we have to wait –

for what seems to us like a long time –

but when Your Word comes true, we see…

not only that You kept Your Word
but that You fulfilled it in the perfect way
and in the perfect time.

HALLELUJAH!

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Numbers 11:23; Deuteronomy 18:22; 1 Kings 8:26; 1 Kings 13:32; 2 Chronicles 6:17; Luke 1:20; 1 Corinthians 15:54