Category Archives: Vows

Monday, June 5, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with undying love:

“I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.”
(Jeremiah 3:8-9)

Spiritual adultery, Jesus –

Your people worshiping idols instead of You

betraying the covenant You made with them
as an adulterous violates her marriage vows.

May I never put anyone or anything ahead of You!

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Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; Proverbs 6:32; Jeremiah 5:7; Ezekiel 16:38; Matthew 6:33; Romans 2:22

Thursday, November 4, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with riveted attention:

“You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. You ask, ‘Why?’ It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.”
(Malachi 2:13-14)

Marriage vows are no joke to You, Jesus.

When we make them
You expect us to keep them.

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Genesis 2:20-25; Proverbs 5:15-21; Matthew 19:8; Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18-19; Titus 2:4-5; 1 Peter 3:1-7

Thursday, January 11, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in devoted passion:

“What I have vowed I will make good.”
(Jonah 2:9)

Easier said than done, Jesus.

At the time I make a vow
I’m fired up, determined.

But all that passion tends to fade.

That’s what Jonah ran into.

At first he was on fire!
Later on…not so much.

It’s the “later on” that separates the sheep from the goats, isn’t it?

I’ve been a goat too many times in my life, LORD!

Please. By Your grace:

Not this time.

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Numbers 32:24; Deuteronomy 23:23; Psalms 50:14; Ecclesiastes 5:4; Jonah 4:1-3; Nahum 1:15; Matthew 21:28-32

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with white-hot fervor:

“…who has…ignored the covenant she made before God.”
(Proverbs 2:17)

A covenant with You is one I’d better never break, Jesus –

whether it’s one I made when standing before a preacher
one I swore before a judge as I lifted my right hand
or one I made while dug into a foxhole, bartering for my life.

But the thing is…

every promise I make is before You!

You hear every word I speak

and hold me accountable.

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Numbers 6:21; Deuteronomy 12:26; Judges 11:35; Psalms 139:4; Proverbs 20:25; Ecclesiastes 5:1-7; Jonah 2:9; Matthew 5:33-37