Category Archives: Teaching

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pedal-to-the-metal commitment:

“…show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.”
(Titus 2:10)

That’s extra incentive to live the way you had in mind

when You gave Your life for me on the cross, Jesus!

Not only to please You

but also to inspire others to believe in You
and give their lives to You.

So now the question:

Am I living in every way to make the teaching about You attractive?

If not, please show me!
So I can correct it.
Now.

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Leviticus 19:5; Psalm 69:30-32; 1 Corinthians 7:32; 1 Corinthians 9:24; Colossians 1:20; 1 Timothy 6:19; 1 Peter 2:24

Saturday, March 16, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with lavish love:

“Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him. Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them.”
(Matthew 4:25-5:2)

No wonder large crowds followed You, Jesus!

You were healing every disease and sickness
delivering people from seizures, paralysis and demons
everywhere You went.

But those miracles helped people temporarily.

It’s Your teaching that transforms our lives eternally.

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Psalm 78:1; Matthew 28:20; Matthew 4:23-24; Mark 6:34; Acts 18:11; 1 Timothy 4:6; Hebrews 6:1

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in the assurance only God can give:

“Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them.”
(Matthew 4:23-24)

Every disease, Jesus

and every person.

There’s no part of my body You can’t heal

because You’re the one who made it.

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Genesis 1:26-27; Deuteronomy 4:32; Job 10:10-12; Psalm 139:13; Psalm 148:5; Ephesians 3:9; Colossians 1:16

Monday, October 16, 2023

 

Take warning as you pray this Lazaroo:

“If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.”
(2 John 1:10-11)

I’m no innocent bystander, am I, Jesus?

Even though  I claim to belong to You

while welcoming and befriending
buddying up and hanging out

with people who deny Your Name
with those who reject Your Word

I’m in the same boat with them

which is going to sink.

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Deuteronomy 7:26; Judges 19:23; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 13:20; Hosea 4:14; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Corinthians 6:16-17

Friday, August 11, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them.”
(2 John 1:10)

This sounds rude, Jesus…

but it isn’t.
It’s life-saving.

I shouldn’t welcome a child-molester into a home with small children, either.

As bad as that would be
a spirit-molester would be infinitely worse.

When a heretical teacher leads people astray

it’s not just life and death that are at stake.
The stakes are eternal life and death.

Heaven…and hell.

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Leviticus 18:5; Leviticus 19:31; Deuteronomy 32:47; Nehemiah 9:29; Psalm 19:7-11; Psalm 119:93; Romans 10:5

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with determination:

“If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house…”
(2 John 1:10)

The people who enter my home influence me, Jesus

for good or bad.

They can encourage me in the right direction

or hinder me from following You with my whole heart.

The people I permit to enter my home

also send a message to everyone on the outside.

Rightly or wrongly, my acceptance of them
causes people to conclude I agree with them.

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Psalm 16:8; Psalm 25:15; Psalm 71:2; Psalm 101:4; Psalm 101:6; Psalm 119:37; Psalm 141:8; 2 Timothy 3:5: Titus 3:10

Friday, April 21, 2023

 

Take notes, as you pray this Lazaroo::

“Jesus said to him, ‘Away from me, Satan! For it is written: “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”’ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.”
(Matthew 4:10-11)

You’re teaching me how to successfully battle the devil, Jesus:

1. Tell him to get away.
2. Quote the Word to him.
3. Make it clear that I will serve no one but You.

That kind of encounter with the enemy of my soul can be exhausting.

But when needed

You’ll send Your angels to attend me!

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Exodus 20:3; Zechariah 3:2; Luke 10:17-19; John 6:68; James 4:7: 1 Peter 5:8; 1 John 4:4

Saturday, April 1, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unending allegiance:

“…whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.”
(2 John 1:9)

That’s the key, isn’t it, Jesus?

I’ve got to continue what I started.

Correction.

I’ve got to continue what You started in me!

And of course, if it was indeed You who started it

I will continue.

It’s when people have a form of godliness

but deny Who You really Are
that they don’t continue.

The proof today that I’m on my way to heaven through faith in You?

I’m still here.

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Exodus 33:13; John 17:26; Acts 13:43; Romans 11:22; Galatians 3:10; Philippians 2:12; Colossians 1:22-23

Saturday, March 18, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with laser-focused intensity:

“In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”
(Titus 2:7-8)

Paul didn’t want people saying bad things about Titus, Jesus

but he also didn’t want them saying bad things about him!

He knew whatever Titus said and did
was a reflection on him

just as what I say and do
is a reflection on those
who’ve built into my life.

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Proverbs 1:8; Matthew 10:25; Matthew 13:52; Luke 6:40; Philippians 3:10-11; 2 Timothy 2:2; Titus 1:4

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with earnest desire:

“Anyone who…does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God…”
(2 John 1:9)

That explains a lot, Jesus!

I often wonder how in the world someone who

attended church
served in ministries
donated to causes
seemed to be a Christian brother or sister

could suddenly abandon everything they supposedly stood for.

Now I know:

They had religion
but they didn’t have You.

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2 Timothy 2:13; Hebrews 8:9; Hebrews 12:27; 1 John 2:19; 1 John 2:24; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 3:14