Category Archives: Upright

Monday, February 12, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with total transparency:

“But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty, if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state. Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.”
(Job 8:5-7)

Bildad’s prediction in Job’s behalf came true, Jesus.

I don’t know what my future holds.

But this I believe:

If I seek You earnestly
if with Your help I remain pure and upright

I won’t have to worry.

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Psalm 7:10; Psalm 11:7; Psalm 25:21; Psalm 32:11; Psalm 36:10; Psalm 64:10; Titus 2:11-14

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

 

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

“Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence. The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.”
(Proverbs 3:31-33)

From a distance, Jesus…

it’s easy to believe evil people
are getting away with it.

But You’ve given Your Word:

They’re not!

You alone are my hope for a great life on this earth

…and beyond.

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Psalm 37:1; Psalm 73:1-20; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 24:1; Romans 1:28-32; 1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Timothy 6:3-5

Monday, September 20, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed. The Lord will repay him…because…he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them…were better men and more upright than he.”
(1 Kings 2:31-32)

Vengeance is Yours, Jesus.

Not mine.

You know when someone is going to repent

and when they never will.

If they’re not sorry now for what they did

they will be.

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1 Kings 8:46-48; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 30:15; Jeremiah 8:6; Luke 3:8; Acts 2:38

Friday, December 22, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with outrageous adoration:

“…the upright will live in the land…”
(Proverbs 2:21)

The “upright” You’re talking about

is a little bit more than merely standing erect, isn’t it, Jesus?

In fact, a person hurting and sick while flat on their back

can remain upright before You.

The posture You most value is uprightness of heart, spirit, mind.

When my inside is right
the outside of me follows.

So when my behavior’s not right

the place I need to correct
is inside.

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1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:3; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Proverbs 27:19; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 15:19

Monday, October 10, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“He walked with me in…uprightness…”
(Malachi 2:6)

“Uprightness.”

Interesting word, Jesus.

That’s how you want me to walk in my spirit, isn’t it?

Not bent over, as an animal.
Upright, as one made in Your Image.

But even when I’m hobbling in my spirit, bent over in pain

You’re there for me!

Even when I’m spiritually bedfast and can’t walk at all

You never give up on me
You stay beside me

bringing the healing no one else can.

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Genesis 1:26-28; Deuteronomy 32:4; 1 Kings 2:32; Job 1:1; Psalms 7:10; Psalms 11:2; Luke 23:50; Titus 2:12