Category Archives: stench

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with fiery determination:

“Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding. Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.”
(Isaiah 3:24-26)

So this is what a curse looks like, Jesus

Your punishment –

doled out not upon the heathen
but upon Your people, who’ve forsaken You.

Keep me true, Jesus!

May Your curse never fall on me.

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Exodus 32:34; Leviticus 26:18; 2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 89:32; Acts 7:7; 1 Corinthians 4:21; 1 Corinthians 11:32

Thursday, February 2, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“I will drive the northern horde far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land; its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea. And its stench will go up; its smell will rise.”
(Joel 2:20)

What an amazing promise You made to Your people, Jesus!

I love knowing that’s who You Are.

Because when I’m facing overwhelming odds
I know I’m not alone.

You’re Able to do for me
what I could never do for myself.

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Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 28:18; Daniel 11:22; Nahum 1:8; John 17:11-15; 2 Thessalonians 3:3

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in fervency of spirit:

“‘I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,’ declares the Lord.”
(Amos 4:10)

When these things happen to us, Jesus

we think You’ve abandoned us.

But no! You haven’t!

You’re shaking us awake
getting our attention

inciting us to return to You
before it’s too late.

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Nehemiah 1:9; Isaiah 44:22; Jeremiah 3:7; Jeremiah 3:10; Jeremiah 24:7; Joel 2:12; 2 Peter 3:9

Monday, August 1, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“…the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
(Luke 1:78-79)

We don’t deserve it, Jesus!

But in Your tender mercy

cause your rising sun to shine down on us
as we desperately grope about in this land of darkness
battling the stench of death

…and guide us all the way Home.

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Proverbs 13:5; Isaiah 3:24; Amos 4:10; Amos 5:21; Isaiah 45:19; Matthew 13:43; John 5:24

Sunday, June 19, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with utter abandon:

“Now since we are under obligation to the palace and it is not proper for us to see the king dishonored, we are sending this message to inform the king…”
(Ezra 4:14)

King Artaxerxes had to smell the stench from this heaping pile of garbage from a mile away, Jesus!

These two wicked, jealous yahoos were tattling
because Your chosen servant
was rattling their cages
by obeying You.

Great God!

Help me be a cage-rattler
instead of a garbage-pusher.

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Genesis 30:1; Proverbs 27:4; Acts 5:17; Acts 7:9; Acts 13:45; Acts 17:5; James 4:2

Friday, December 25, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.”
(2 Corinthians 2:14)

I’m Your willing captive, Jesus!

I surrender all.

March me anywhere You like.

Use me in any way You desire.

Do with me whatever You please.

I say this because I’ve learned the hard way:

You alone know what’s best.

Your way?

An aromatic fragrance.

My way?

A putrid stench.

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1 Kings 8:23; Psalms 2:12; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 37:5; Psalms 86:11; Romans 16:17

Friday, December 25, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.”
(2 Corinthians 2:14)

I’m Your willing captive, Jesus!

I surrender all.

March me anywhere You like.

Use me in any way You desire.

Do with me whatever You please.

I say this because I’ve learned the hard way:

You alone know what’s best.

Your way?

An aromatic fragrance.

My way?

A putrid stench.

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1 Kings 8:23; Psalms 2:12; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 37:5; Psalms 86:11; Romans 16:17

Thursday, February 14, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in trembling expectation:

“…you have destroyed lands…”
(Habakkuk 2:8)

The more successful and prosperous we become, Jesus

the more of Your lands we destroy.

We pile our refuse in great, ugly heaps to rot in the sun

sending their stench into Your heavens.

We pipe our poisons into Your lakes, rivers and oceans

thereby polluting Your earth when we water our fields

and drink.

We call this progress.

But there is coming a day when You will arise and declare:

“Enough!”

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Genesis 1:1; Leviticus 25:23; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Isaiah 14:25; Jeremiah 2:7; Joel 1:6; Acts 17:24-28