Category Archives: stop sinning

Friday, July 22, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“You will be filled with shame instead of glory.”
(Habakkuk 2:16)

No!

That can’t happen, Jesus.
Not if I have anything to say about it.

Well…even more importantly:
Not if I have anything I can do about it.

And I can!

I can repent of my sins and stop committing them –
especially those I’ve been guilty of, again and again.

I can obey You – instantly – when I see in Your Word
what You want me to do.

Glory!

Not shame.

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1 Samuel 15:22; Isaiah 6:8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 21:28-31; Romans 9:33; James 1:22; 1 John 1:9

Friday, February 22, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with determined desire:

“Yet the people still came…”
(Mark 1:45)

So many reject Your words, Jesus

yet the people still come.

So many of Your followers set bad examples

yet the people still come.

You command us to give up our favorite sins

yet the people still come.

You warn us that there’s a cross for us to bear

yet the people still come.

Satan is doing his best to turn me away

yet I still come to You – my only Hope.

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Isaiah 27:5; Isaiah 55:3; Matthew 5:1; Matthew 8:5; Matthew 8:19; Matthew 11:28; Matthew 19:14

Friday, March 16, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?”
(Amos 3:5)

I think I can answer that one, Jesus:

No. Not usually.

If my own sin has trapped me, show me exactly where I’ve misstepped

so I can repent, stop doing it and escape!

But if You’re the one who’s put me in a position where I can’t move

in order to get my attention and teach me something?

You’ve succeeded.
I’m all ears.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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2 Samuel 14:28-33; 2 Kings 21:9; Isaiah 65:12; Jeremiah 7:13; Jeremiah 11:8; Jeremiah 17:23; Revelation 3:1-3

Sunday, June 4, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sold-out surrender:

“None who go to her…attain the paths of life.”
(Proverbs 2:19)

Terrifying words, Jesus.

At first glance, they leave no hope.

It sounds as though anyone who has ever committed adultery

is condemned to hell
no matter what.

But that’s not what You’re saying.

The word, “go” is present tense.

If a person stops sinning

that makes it past tense.

If they quit for You, turning to You with all their heart, they have Your promise:

They will live.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Psalms 103:6-12; Ezekiel 18:22-24; Matthew 6:14; John 5:14; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 2 Peter 2:14