Category Archives: together

Friday, January 13, 2023

Pray this Lazaroo in wholehearted adoration:

“…to the church that meets in your home…”
(Philemon 1:2)

That’s how it started, isn’t it, Jesus?

In addition to gathering in the temple courts

small groups of Your people
met together in one another’s homes.

There they ate together
studied Your Word together
prayed together.

Certainly, we have awesome electronic tools at our disposal

to facilitate those two ways of meeting as Your Church.

But can we possibly improve on that simple plan today?

No.
We can’t.

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Acts 2:46; Acts 5:42; Acts 20:7; ! Corinthians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 11:17-24; Philippians 1:27; Hebrews 10:25

Thursday, December 22, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in zealous love:

“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.”
(1 Corinthians 3:16-17)

I don’t take this seriously enough, do I, Jesus?

This is real.
We together – Your Church – are Your temple.

Help us at least begin to grasp the honor You have bestowed on us!

Rise up within us, Holy Spirit
to live accordingly.

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2 Samuel 22:7; 1 Kings 6:38; Ezra 1:2; Psalm 11:4; Nahum 1:14; Matthew 21:12-13; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21

Sunday, December 18, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning zeal:

“Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
(Acts 2:46-47)

What a happy, glorious time this was for Your Church, Jesus!

Tough times lay ahead
but You gave them this season first.

For every happy season, Father

I thank You from the bottom of my heart!

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1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 10:8; Psalm 68:3; Psalm 113:9; Proverbs 15:13; Ecclesiastes 7:14; 2 Corinthians 7:13

Thursday, October 27, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in breakthrough understanding:

“My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding…”
(Colossians 2:2)

Wow, Jesus.

Complete understanding doesn’t come from hours of research alone.

It’s incomplete

until Your people are encouraged in heart
and united in love.

That doesn’t mean You don’t want us to study Your Word.

You do!

But it does mean that there’s no substitute

for the loving, encouraging assembling of ourselves together.

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Isaiah 48:14; Isaiah 52:9; Hosea 1:11; Acts 2:1; Acts 2:44; 1 Corinthians 7:5; Hebrews 10:25

Thursday, October 13, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in total trust:

“Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.”
(Acts 2:43-45)

Were these the greatest days of Your Church, Jesus?

Was this the purest expression of what You had in mind
when You laid down Your life for us?

You’re the Same – yesterday, today and forever.

Great God:

Do it again!

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Psalm 55:19; Psalm 102:27; Malachi 3:6; Galatians 6:10; Ephesians 4:11-13; Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17

Monday, September 19, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in the holy fear of God:

“Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone! Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways. A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.”
(Hosea 4:17-19)

After repeated willful sin

there comes a point of no return, doesn’t there, Jesus?

when a person – even an entire nation –
are joined to their idols in unholy matrimony

till death and destruction come
and they perish together.

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Exodus 34:17; Leviticus 26:30; Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 7:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 10:14; Ephesians 5:5

Thursday, June 30, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pure devotion:

“…his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness…”
(James 2:22-23)

How does anyone know I have faith in You, Jesus?

For that matter, how do I know I have faith?

It’s not my talk, is it?
Talk’s cheap.

It’s by my actions!

What I do and don’t do
provide a telling glimpse
into my heart.

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Exodus 1:15-21; 2 Kings 16:2; Isaiah 29:13; Jeremiah 32:23; Matthew 15:8; Matthew 21:28-32; Matthew 25:45

Sunday, September 19, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with burning emotion:

“…Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.”
(Ephesians 2:20-22)

What a miracle, Jesus!

Our temple is not a building of wood, brick, metal or stone.
We are Your temple!

Not only do You live in us
but we live in You!

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Psalms 5:11; Acts 17:28; 1 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 1:19; Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:27

Friday, March 1, 2019

 

Cry out to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…the pursuers…searched all along the road and returned without finding them.”
(Joshua 2:22)

You hid them, Jesus!

That’s why their enemies couldn’t find them.

O God! Hide me from all who mean me harm!

Hide me in deep, daily, moment-by-moment
1on1 relationship with You.

Be my Shield, my Protector, my Defender.

But enable all who love You and Your Word

to find me, Father!

so together we can pool the gifts You’ve given us

to bring eternal glory to You!

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1 Samuel 23:26-27; 1 Samuel 24:1-22; Psalms 17:8; Psalms 27:5; Psalms 64:2; Psalms 91:1-2; John 8:59

Thursday, November 2, 2017

 

Sell out totally to God as you pray this Lazaroo:

“Then I told her, ‘You are to live with me many days…’”
(Hosea 3:3)

Some people are short-term, Jesus.

You bring them into our lives to accomplish a task.
When it’s done…so are they.

Help me not think less of them!

They fulfilled Your purpose.
Then You sent them elsewhere.

Other people – praise Your holy Name!

are long-term.

I can count on them.

They’re here today
here tomorrow.

They become family –

through whom You accomplish great things

together.

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Proverbs 17:17; Matthew 12:25; Luke 8:3; Acts 16:15; Acts 18:8; Roman 16:1-24; 1 Timothy 3:15; 2 Timothy 1:16