Category Archives: the LORD

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

Sunday, July 31, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“The Lord said to Moses: ‘When anyone is unfaithful to the Lord by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the Lord’s holy things, they are to bring to the Lord as a penalty a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value in silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. It is a guilt offering.’”
(Leviticus 5:14-15)

Even when I do wrong without knowing it

it’s still a sin, isn’t it, Jesus?

No excuses.

I need to confess it

and forsake it.

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Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:13; Leviticus 4:22; Leviticus 4:27; Numbers 15:22-24; Joshua 20:2-4; Ezekiel 45:19-20; Romans 7:20

Friday, May 27, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in reverent awe:

“And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God…”
(Luke 1:76-78)

When Zechariah spoke these words, Jesus

He was filled with the Spirit.

Through Him You were revealing that His son – John the Baptist –

had one overriding purpose:

“to prepare the way

for You.”

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Isaiah 40:3; Genesis 14:19; Deuteronomy 32:8; Psalm 7:10; Lamentations 3:38; Luke 6:35; John 1:23; Acts 7:48-49

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“Moses said…‘I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’ The Lord said to him, ‘Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?’”
(Exodus 4:10-11)

Please forgive me, Jesus

for all the times I’ve pulled out that same lame excuse

and told You why I couldn’t do what You’ve told me to do.

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Exodus 4:1-8; Exodus 4:13-17; Judges 6:14-16; Luke 14:16-24; John 15:22; Romans 1:20; Romans 2:1

Thursday, December 23, 2021

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival. The Lord determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion.”
(Lamentations 2:7-8)

You discipline Your own, Jesus!

If we deliberately defy You
we can expect You to destroy
the blessings You’ve bestowed on us.

May I never do such an ugly, foolish thing, LORD!

Never. Never. Never.

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1 Samuel 17:10; 1 Samuel 17:25-26; 1 Samuel 17:36; 1 Samuel 17:45-50; 1 Kings 13:21; Jeremiah 48:42; Hebrews 12:6-10; Hebrews 12:25

Sunday, November 7, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“Then the Lord said to him, ‘Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.’ So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. ‘This,’ said the Lord, ‘is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.’”
(Exodus 4:4-5)

I don’t know about the Egyptians, Jesus…

but that sure would do it for me.

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Genesis 15:8; Exodus 6:7; Exodus 7:5; Exodus 7:17; Exodus 8:22; Exodus 9:14; 1 John 3:2

Sunday, September 12, 2021

 

Take solemn note, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.”
(Judges 3:7-8)

After all You had done for them,

how could they forget You, Jesus?

But they did.
And so have I.

But no longer!

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Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 8:13-14; Deuteronomy 8:19; Isaiah 51:12-13; Hebrews 13:16; 2 Peter 3:8

Saturday, July 24, 2021

 

Add this strategy to your toolbox, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“We alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.”
(Ezra 4:3]

Their enemies didn’t get it, Jesus.

They couldn’t grasp
why Your people didn’t want their help to build the temple.

So the heads of Your families spoke their language –

answered them with a reason they could understand.

When I experience opposition from Your enemies

help me answer them with words supplied by You

that’ll stop them in their tracks.

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Genesis 11:7; Deuteronomy 28:49; 2 Samuel 15:47; Nehemiah 8:3; Proverbs 28:5; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 13:15; Romans 15:4

Friday, January 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with day-in, day-out devotion:

“Elisha said to the king of Israel, ‘Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.’ ‘No,’ the king of Israel answered, ‘because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.’”
(2 Kings 3:13)

Israel’s king was unfaithful to You, Jesus.

Only when he’s in trouble does He turn to You.

Many people do the same!

May I never be one of them.

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Judges 10:14; Judges 11:7; Psalms 46:1; Psalms 66:13-14; Psalms 69:17; Titus 1:16; 1 John 1:9

Friday, January 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with day-in, day-out devotion:

“Elisha said to the king of Israel, ‘Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.’ ‘No,’ the king of Israel answered, ‘because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.’”
(2 Kings 3:13)

Israel’s king was unfaithful to You, Jesus.

Only when he’s in trouble does He turn to You.

Many people do the same!

May I never be one of them.

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Judges 10:14; Judges 11:7; Psalms 46:1; Psalms 66:13-14; Psalms 69:17; Titus 1:16; 1 John 1:9