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Monday, October 15, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“…all generations will call me blessed.”
(Luke 1:48)

Your mother was right, Jesus.

All generations have called her blessed!

She gave birth to the One who gave life to her!

She got to see You grow up – literally, the perfect child.
She saw You work miracles, teach truth, become famous.

But Simeon’s prophecy that a sword would pierce her soul

also came true when she saw You crucified.

May I never forget that on this earth

pain accompanies blessing.

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Genesis 41:52; Exodus 3:7; 2 Kings 13:14; Nehemiah 9:9; Isaiah 53:3-4; Luke 2:35; Acts 5:41

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Monday, October 15, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unshakable belief:

“…all generations will call me blessed.”
(Luke 1:48)

Your mother was right, Jesus.

All generations have called her blessed!

She gave birth to the One who gave life to her!

She got to see You grow up – literally, the perfect child.
She saw You work miracles, teach truth, become famous.

But Simeon’s prophecy that a sword would pierce her soul

also came true when she saw You crucified.

May I never forget that on this earth

pain accompanies blessing.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Genesis 41:52; Exodus 3:7; 2 Kings 13:14; Nehemiah 9:9; Isaiah 53:3-4; Luke 2:35; Acts 5:41

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Saturday, September 8, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“Why is light given to those in misery…?”
(Job 3:20)

I get it, Jesus.

Job’s referring to the light of the sun.
He’s in such agony that he thinks he’d be better off dead.

But as he learned after You restored him

he was dead wrong.

Just because I’m miserable, suffering, struggling

doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be here.

You use the pain of my life to teach me and toughen me…

and then You make it pay off!

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Job 42:12-17; Psalms 119:107; Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 53:11; Hebrews 2:9-10; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 5:8; 1 Peter 2:21

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful amazement:

“…take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel…”
(Matthew 2:20)

It’s hard to imagine You like that, Jesus –

small…vulnerable.

But that’s how You wanted to come to earth:

the same way every one of us does.

Well…almost. 😉

Except that Your mother was a virgin.

You wanted to feel what we feel, experience what we experience

so that when we cry out to You about how hard it is

You can reply:

“I know.”

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Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:26-38; Luke 2:41-52; John 7:5; Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 4:14-16; Hebrews 5:7-9

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Sunday, March 26, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo all the way to the marrow of your bones:

“Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?”
(Job 3:12)

What a heartbreak, Jesus!

Job is in such pain that he wishes he had been allowed
to starve to death as an infant, uncared for and unloved.

That’s how Satan attempts to pervert my response to pain.

He tries to twist it
to blind me into hating what is good

to turn me against You.

No. Never.

In my pain
I trust You.

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Psalms 9:10; Psalms 25:2; Psalms 31:14; Psalms 55:23; Psalms 56:3; Psalms 78:7; Psalms 143:8; Proverbs 3:5-6; 1 Peter 5:10

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Friday, January 27, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“…the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.”
(Song of Songs 2:13)

That is so, so, so like You, Jesus!

A lot of us don’t much care for vines.

They wrap around trees and other desirables

choking the life out of our preferred plants
unless we keep the vines chopped out.

So what do You do?

You give the vines flowers.

To top it off

You give the flowers fragrance

reminding me that even the things I hate

come from You.

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Psalms 24:1; Psalms 119:91; Isaiah 45:7; Lamentations 3:37; Hosea 14:6; Hebrews 2:10; 1 Peter 4:1

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Monday, November 14, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with total transparency:

“…it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.”
(Job 3:10)

A person has to be in deep suffering, Jesus

to hate the day of their birth that much..

Job wished he’d never been born

wanted his birthday removed from the calendar.

Perhaps more people than I can begin to imagine

are able to identify with Job’s anguish.

which is precisely why You reveal the depth of his pain

in holy Scripture.

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Job 3:3-6; Psalms 22:1; Psalms 102:9; Psalms 126:5; Mark 15:34; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Peter 4:1

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Monday, October 31, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in wise faith:

“When Bathsheba went to King Solomon…the king…bowed down to her…”
(1 Kings 2:19)

I love the respect Solomon showed his mother, Jesus.

Of all his wise behaviors
this may have been his best.

I wonder…

did he know what his mother endured to be in this position?

Was he aware that King David killed her husband to hide the pregnancy he had caused

resulting in his older brother’s death?

O God!

Give me mad respect for those who’ve suffered.

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Leviticus 19:3; Leviticus 19:32; Deuteronomy 28:50; 2 Kings 3:14; Lamentations 5:12; Romans 13:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:12

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Friday, September 30, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“…they leap over the mountaintops…”
(Joel 2:5)

You’re describing the Day of the LORD, Jesus

when an army of supernatural locusts will sweep over the earth
in terrifying pain, anguish and destruction.

Nowhere will be safe
not even those nestled in valleys surrounded by mountains.

I don’t want to be here then!
I don’t want to be surrounded by the suffering those locusts bring.

Some people say I may
some say I won’t

But either way

I’ll have You.

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Joel 2:1; Matthew 24:40-41; Mark 13:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 9:1-11

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Friday, September 23, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered assessment:

“…look upon my suffering.”
(Lamentations 1:18)

Sometimes I agree with Jeremiah, Jesus –

I want people to know what I’m going through

so they can pray
so I can get a little sympathy
so they’ll cut me some slack in my work.

At other times, not so much.

I prefer to appear strong, competent
unfazed by the challenges in my life.

Of course, You know how weak and needy I really am

as, I suspect…do most of them.

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Psalms 142:4; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Isaiah 50:6; John 16:32; 1 Corinthians 2:11; 1 Timothy 5:5; 1 Peter 5:7