Category Archives: total strangers

Saturday, August 4, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobriety of mind:

“So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people…”
(Malachi 2:9)

To be despised – if it’s only by one or two people –

is painful, Jesus.

To be humiliated with somebody watching

is awful.

But to be despised and humiliated before everybody?

Family, friends, total strangers?
Pretty close to unbearable.

What would cause You to do something like that to a person?

Maybe because they’ve tried to make everyone they know
despise and humiliate You.

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1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 12:10; 2 Kings 19:21; Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 54:4; Jeremiah 31:19; 1 Corinthians 1:28; Galatians 6:7-9

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with Holy Spirit passion:

“…love one another deeply, from the heart.”
(1 Peter 1:22)

This ain’t ordinary “luv,” is it, Jesus?

It’s not like, “I love mom’s potato salad”
“I love action movies and romantic comedies”
“I love the UK Wildcats…the Colts…Golden State Warriors…the Indiana Hoosiers”

It’s the love You showed me when You died on the cross for my sins

a love that will lay down my life for my friends

and for total strangers!
who don’t yet know You as Savior.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Mark 10:45; John 3:16; John 10:15-17; John 13:37-38; 2 Corinthians 12:15; Hebrews 9:15; 1 John 3:16

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with mature understanding:

“If he has done you any wrong…”
(Philemon 1:18)

Total strangers seldom do me wrong, Jesus.

It’s my friends, family, coworkers, neighbors
who wrong me the most.

They’re the ones with whom I try to figure out this thing called, “life.”

Sometimes their solutions run afoul of mine.

Of course, that shoe’s on my foot, too.

They probably think I’ve sometimes done them wrong
whether or not I agree.

Please help us let go of it!

and move on.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Matthew 6:12-15; Matthew 18:21-22; Matthew 18:32-35; Ephesians 4:31-32; Colossians 3:13; James 2:13; James 3:2

Thursday, November 19, 2015

 

 Take stock, as you pray this Lazaroo: 

“Filled with compassion…”
(Mark 1:41)

Am I ever filled with compassion, Jesus?

If so, when?

Is it only when it involves the people in my family

in my circle of friends?

or am I able to be filled with compassion for all those who are hurting

total strangers
people who speak a different language
those of another skin color?

Am I filled with compassion

for those who’ve brought suffering on themselves

…for those who’ve brought suffering on me?

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Psalms 26:11; Psalms 31:9; Luke 6:35-36; Isaiah 54:8; Zechariah 10:6; Jude 1:22; James 3:2