Category Archives: Spiritual

Thursday, February 29, 2024

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray ths Lazaroo:

“…to others show mercy, mixed with fear…”
(Jude 1:23)

At first, this sounds counterintuitive, Jesus.

Shouldn’t showing mercy be one of the happiest, safest actions on the planet?

Well…I might think so.

But actually, when I show mercy to someone who’s doing wrong
I’m in contact with a deadly, highly-contagious spiritual disease

especially if the recipient of my mercy
points out that my mercy means

they just got away with it!

Supernatural wisdom.

I desperately need Your supernatural wisdom.

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Proverbs 22:24-25; Matthew 7:15; Matthew 24:4; Mark 8:15; Luke 12:15; Romans 16:17; Galatians 5:15; Philippians 3:2

Monday, February 19, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in heart-pounding love:

“Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.”
(1 Peter 2:13-14)

It’s a spiritual crime, Jesus

to disobey those You’ve placed over me.

That’s a game-changer!

I will do my best to obey those in authority

who are obeying You.

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Exodus 1:15-20; Daniel 3:16-18; Acts 5:27-29; Acts 5:40-42; Romans 13:5; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Hebrews 13:17

Sunday, October 22, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.”
(Revelation 3:12)

I thought I already had all the incentive I need, Jesus.

But this makes me want to strive like never before

to win each spiritual battle in my life!

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2 Chronicles 13:18; Psalm 20:6; Psalm 45:4; Zechariah 9:9; 1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 2:11

Monday, June 5, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undying love:

“I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.”
(Jeremiah 3:8-9)

Spiritual adultery, Jesus –

Your people worshiping idols instead of You

betraying the covenant You made with them
as an adulterous violates her marriage vows.

May I never put anyone or anything ahead of You!

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Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; Proverbs 6:32; Jeremiah 5:7; Ezekiel 16:38; Matthew 6:33; Romans 2:22

Monday, December 26, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: ‘All nations will be blessed through you.’ So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.”
(Galatians 3:8-9)

I have an earthly dad, Jesus.

Above all, there’s my Heavenly Father.

But because I have the faith of Abraham

he has become my spiritual father!

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Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; 2 Samuel 7:19; Romans 4:12-18; Romans 8:18; Romans 8:38; 1 Corinthians 3:22

Friday, November 4, 2022

 

Be on your guard! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Their teaching will spread like gangrene.”
(2 Timothy 2:17)

False teaching is so like gangrene it’s scary, Jesus

bringing spiritual death to all who embrace it.

Gangrene occurs when there is no blood flow to arms, legs, toes and fingers

just as false teachers deny the saving power
of Your blood shed for us on the cross.

Muscles and internal organs can die from spreading infection

in the same way the sins promoted by the false teacher
destroys their followers from the inside.

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Psalm 41:6; Proverbs 10:18; John 6:53; John 19:34; Galatians 5:8-10; Ephesians 2:13; Hebrews 10:19

Sunday, February 20, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“…you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
(1 Peter 2:5)

What are “spiritual sacrifices,” Jesus?

They have to be something I do – or don’t do –

with my own spirit.

What does my spirit want that isn’t best for my relationship with You?

I’ll give that up.

What does my spirit not want to do, that You desire?

That…I will do.

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Job 6:4; Job 7:11; Job 10:12; Job 17:1; Psalm 31:5; Psalm 77:3; Psalm 142:3; Luke 1:47

Monday, October 11, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in reverent trust:

“As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house…”
(1 Peter 2:4)

Others may have rejected You, Jesus…

but not I!

You’re my All…my Everything – the Ever-Living Stone!

You’re precious not only to Your heavenly Father
but precious beyond all measure to me.

Make me into the perfect living stone for my place

in Your spiritual house.

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Romans 1:11; Romans 12:11; 1 Corinthians 1:7; Ephesians 1:3; Ephesians 2:19; 1 Timothy 3:15; Titus 1:7

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

 

Open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice, you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones; who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”
(Micah 3:1-3)

 

Not physical cannibalism, Jesus.

Spiritual.

Abuse.
Lies.
Misinformation.
Neglect.

You view, judge and punish it:

as cannibalism.

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Deuteronomy 12:19; Ezra 4:22; Nehemiah 10:39; Psalms 119:16; Luke 11:42; Acts 6:2; 1 Timothy 4:14

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in bated breath anticipation:

“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation…”
(1 Peter 2:1)

This is a fascinating command, Jesus.

Many of us who have trusted You as our Savior
view our salvation as a single event.

We said, “Yes!” to the good news
that You paid for our sins on the cross
and three days later rose from the dead.

But now – oh the excitement!

…to learn there’s more.

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2 Corinthians 10:15; Ephesians 4:15-16; Ephesians 4:22-32; Colossians 1:10; Colossians 1:28; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Peter 3:18