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Monday, January 9, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with total transparency:

“…Hymenaeus and Philetus…have departed from the truth.”
(2 Timothy 2:17-18)

Why would they do that, Jesus?

Truth is a beautiful thing.

It creates crystal clarity
shedding brilliant light in the darkness.

Even when the truth reveals what we don’t want to hear or see

it dispels lies, wishful thinking, illusion
showing us how to respond appropriately.

Your Word is Truth.

You Are Truth.

Make me a lover of the Truth

all the days of my life.

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Psalm 52:3; John 14:6; 1 Corinthians 13:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 John 1:3

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo in respectful awe:

“So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens.”
(1 Thessalonians 3:1)

Paul longed to return to the believers in Thessalonica, Jesus

but Satan blocked him.

We don’t know how or why.

But You either let it happen or caused it to happen
because Satan can thwart no plan of Yours!

Was sending Timothy in his place second best?

No.

You’re Sovereign.

That was Your plan all along.

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Genesis 15:2; Psalm 71:5; Amos 3:6; Acts 4:28; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20; 1 Thessalonians 3:2

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Friday, December 9, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in growing understanding:

“And the Lord God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden…”
(Genesis 3:22-23)

You want us to live forever, Jesus

but not on this earth.

The longer we live on this planet

the way it is

the more we understand why!

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Deuteronomy 32:40; 1 Kings 1:31; Job 7:16; Psalm 22:26; Zechariah 1:5; John 6:51; John 6:58

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo in wisdom, self-control and total trust:

“…forfeiting your life.”
(Habakkuk 2:10)

That seems incomprehensible, Jesus!

Why would anyone forfeit his life?
Why would she throw away something so precious?

But people do it all the time. Why?

Because Your gracious gift of life can become soiled, feel ruined

by sin…pain…sickness…fear…hatred…loss.

And in the darkness that our emotions and Satan himself brings

people can lose hope
abandon perspective
think irrationally

act hastily…foolishly.

But You’re the Giver of life!

My life is not my own to take.

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Genesis 12:13; 1 Samuel 26:24; Job 6:9; Job 7:7; Psalms 22:20; Psalms 35:17; Ezekiel 18:4; John 10:15; John 13:37; 1 Corinthians 6:19

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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

 

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

“In those days, John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea…”
(Matthew 3:1)

Preaching?

Yes, Jesus.

But preaching in the desert?

Uh….why?

Generally, it’s a good idea to go preach where the people are

not where wild goats and cacti
might be the only ones listening.

But that was Your strategy, not John’s.

He was just obeying orders.

Turns out that preaching in the desert was so strange

that You sent vast crowds of curious people out there to him.

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Leviticus 11:1-31; Leviticus 26:22; Numbers 1:1; Psalms 29:8; Psalms 55:7; Proverbs 21:19; Isaiah 40:3; Matthew 3:5-17

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Monday, February 3, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with locked-in faith:

“…remember that at that time you were separate from Christ…”
(Ephesians 2:12)

I don’t like to remember that time, Jesus.

It’s too painful.

But clearly, You want me to remember it!

Why?

Is it so I’ll be grateful for my connection with You now?

I am. I truly am.

Especially remembering what it was like to not have

Your indwelling Presence
the intimacy of our ongoing conversation throughout the day

the sweet assurance of my salvation in heaven.

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Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 31:6; John 14:1-10; Ephesians 2:13; Hebrews 12:7-10; 1 Peter 1:4; Revelation 3:3

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Monday, September 2, 2019

 

Remember! as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…to the day when the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid.”
(Haggai 2:18)

You’re asking Your people to think back to the glorious day

when Your hand of blessing was upon them, Jesus.

Not so, now.

Why? Was it because You had changed?

No. You’re the same yesterday, today and forever.

Your people – so blessed! – had turned their backs on You.

They had forgotten the Founder of their feast.

That’s a mistake
I don’t ever want to make.

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Isaiah 17:10-11; Jeremiah 13:25; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 23:35; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 3:3

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Friday, January 11, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in humble adulation:

“…loved by the Lord…”
(2 Thessalonians 2:13)

Still blows my mind, Father!

Jesus loves me this I know
for the Bible tells me so.

Why, Jesus?

How can You love a sinner like me?

Because of the evil I’ve done

Your love for me cost You Your life
an ugly, excruciatingly painful, humiliating

death on the cross.

They laughed at You, taunted You, ridiculed You
slapped You, beat You, despised You

because of me.

Your incomprehensible love!

demands mine.

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Psalms 17:7; Psalms 25:6; Psalms 40:10; Psalms 57:10; Psalms 117:2; John 3:16-17; 1 John 3:16

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in repentant devotion:

“Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning…”
(Mark 1:43)

You’ve given me a few of those, Jesus.

Sometimes through the events of my life.
Sometimes through one of Your people.
Most often directly through Your Word.

The thing is…

I haven’t always heeded them!

O God!
Why?

I know who You are.
I know You love me beyond measure.

I have no excuse.

All I have is a determination to turn it around

while I can.

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Numbers 26:10; 2 Kings 10:24; Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 5:1; Ecclesiastes 4:13; Isaiah 8:11; Matthew 23:1-3