Category Archives: think

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with a full heart:

“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.”
(Colossians 2:6-7)

What a great state to be in, Jesus –

“overflowing with thankfulness!”

When I think of all You’ve done for me –

starting with the love You showed
when You paid for my sins on the cross –

I have every reason to let my thanks overflow!

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Leviticus 7:12; Psalm 69:30; Psalm 95:2; 1 Corinthians 10:30; Colossians 3:15; Colossians 4:2; Hebrews 12:28

Friday, April 19, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adoration:

“I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective…”
(Philemon 1:6)

What an insight, Jesus.

I tend to think of faith as something totally personal
isolated from others.

But you’re showing me that it can be a partnership

with those who have put their trust in You!

Thank You, too, for the reminder

that my faith doesn’t exist merely for itself.

It has a purpose.

May You fulfill every purpose of Yours through us

as I partner with others in the faith!

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Proverbs 2:16-17; Malachi 2:14; 2 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 8:23; Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:5; 1 Peter 3:7

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with explosive feeling:

“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
(Ephesians 3:17-19)

The depth of Your love for me, Jesus

is beyond my understanding!

Fill me all the way full with Yourself!

so in everything I think, say and do
I can love You back.

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Deuteronomy 33:16; John 1:16; Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 4:13; Colossians 1:19; Colossians 1:25; Colossians 2:9-10

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble trust:

“Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite. Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, ‘Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.’ So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.”
(Judges 4:17-18)

Yes, she did, Jesus –

right before she drove a tent peg through his head.

What I think I know won’t save me.

Only You.

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Lamentations 3:37-38; 1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 44:3, 6, 7; Proverbs 21:30; Ecclesiastes 9:1; Jeremiah 10:23; 1 Corinthians 2:11; 1 Corinthians 8:2

Thursday, February 15, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered…”
(Hebrews 5:7-8)

In spite of Your sinless perfection, Jesus

if the suffering You endured was necessary for you to learn obedience

who am I to think I’m going to learn obedience

without suffering?

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Genesis 22:18; Deuteronomy 26:14; Joshua 5:6; Psalm 119:67; Zechariah 6:15; John 14:23; 1 Peter 4:1

Friday, December 29, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your heart:

“Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other…”
(Joel 2:27)

The heathen world worships gods of their own invention Jesus

creating idols

supposing there must be
gods of the sun, moon, sea,
plants and animals

not understanding that You created them all.
You’re the God of all.

Please help me not think, talk or act like a heathen

while pointing the lost to You.

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Job 18:21; Psalm 2:1-6; Acts 17:23; Galatians 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 John 4:8

Sunday, October 8, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with sold-out surrender:

“The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”
(James 3:6)

I don’t like to think of my tongue like this, Jesus!

But I wonder how many people have felt the fires of hell

from some of the harsh, judgmental, evil words
I have spoken over my lifetime.

May it never again be so!

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2 Samuel 23:2; Job 5:21; Job 15:5; Job 27:4; Psalm 10:7; Acts 2:26; Romans 14:11

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in total honesty:

“When I think my bed will comfort me…even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine. I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.”
(Job 7:13-16)

Why did you let Job speak to You like that, Jesus?

Because You knew how hard He had tried to please you

and how stunned he was
that You hadn’t protected him.

Help me remember why You did that

and how it ended.

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Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-10; Job 30:20; Job 42:1-17; Psalm 22:2; Psalm 55:17; James 5:9-11

Saturday, September 16, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deepest gratitude:

“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.’ He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.”
(Galatians 3:13-14)

Every time I think of this, I’m stunned, Jesus:

By faith in You

I receive the Holy Spirit
and the blessings promised to Abraham!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

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Genesis 17:1-8; Psalm 105:42; Luke 1:54-55; Acts 2:38; Acts 7:5; Romans 4:13; Romans 4:16; Romans 9:8

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deeper understanding:

“Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry…”
(Genesis 4:3-5)

When You correct me, Jesus

may I never react defensively.

Help me respond with a humble, passionate desire

to please You in everything I think, say and do.

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Psalm 69:30-31; Proverbs 20:23; Proverbs 21:1; 1 Corinthians 7:32; 2 Corinthians 5:9; Colossians 1:10; 1 Timothy 2:1-4