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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo in Holy Spirit-guided introspection:

“Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims! The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots! Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears!”
(Nahum 3:1-3)

The city of Ninevah had it all, Jesus…

everything they needed to wreak havoc
on the weaker peoples around them.

How am I equipping myself, Father?

Is it all about being a blessing to others
or only about making things better

for myself?

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Deuteronomy 9:12; Judges 18:30; 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 17:16; Ezra 9:2; Luke 12:21; 2 Corinthians 5:15

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

 

Pray this Lazaroo with compassion:

“Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!”
(Nahum 3:1)

That’s what got to You the most, wasn’t it, Jesus?

The victims.

Those who lost their lives due to the monstrous cruelty embedded in Nineveh’s culture.

Those who lost loved ones, grieving without relief.
Broken promises, broken homes, broken lives.

It was all about the victims then

it’s all about the victims now.

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

Our suffering
continues to break Your heart!

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Exodus 21:16; Numbers 23:243; Psalm 10:8; Proverbs 7:26-27; Ezekiel 34:29; Hosea 6:9; Matthew 5:32; Hebrews 13:8

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Sunday, October 29, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with informed caution:

“Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder…”
(Nahum 3:1)

People would expect a city full of plunder

to be in pretty good shape, Jesus!

But it’s the blood they’ve shed to get it
the lies they’ve told to keep it

that earn Your pronouncement of woe.

When You say, “Woe!”

I’d better say, “Woah!”

and quickly repent
stop harming others
stop telling lies

or I’ll discover firsthand
just how terrible Your woes can be.

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Numbers 21:29; Job 10:15; Psalm 32:10; Proverbs 23:29; Ecclesiastes 10:16; Revelation 8:13; Revelation 18:10

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Friday, August 25, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.”
(Habakkuk 2:19)

Is anything more important to me than You, Jesus?

If so, that’s an idol.

The thing is

I can claim You’re most important in my life

while putting someone or something
ahead of You.

If I’m lying to myself about this, please show me!

‘cause You smash idols.

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Exodus 20:3; Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 5:7; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16:32; Hosea 4:17; Matthew 6:33

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Monday, June 19, 2023

 

Pray this Lazaroo with growing understanding:

“Woe to the city of blood…”
(Nahum 3:1)

Again, Jesus?

Again?

A scant 63 years before, You sent the prophet Jonah

to warn them that in 40 days You would destroy them.

They listened to You!
They repented!
You relented!

But now, within the span of one lifetime, they’re right back at it –

worse than ever.

They had their chance.

Their one chance is now gone
and they don’t care.

O God!

When You warn me
help me repent –

and stick with it.

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1 Kings 8:47; Job 34:33; Job 36:10; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 59:20; Acts 2:38; 2 Peter 2:22

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in passionate indignation:

“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!”
(Habakkuk 2:15)

They were doing that 2,600 years ago, Jesus

and they’re still doing it today.

But this isn’t merely about drunkenness, nudity and voyeurism, is it?

In that case, we might think it doesn’t apply to us.

This is about taking advantage of someone.

Now that…

may hit a little closer home.

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Exodus 22:22; Leviticus 25:14; Leviticus 25:17; Deuteronomy 24:14; Romans 2:21-23; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; 2 Peter 2:14

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Saturday, April 30, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with unrestrained allegiance:

“Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.”
(Isaiah 3:10-11)

Kinda sounds like I’m going to harvest what I plant, Jesus.

That being so…

I want to plant all the good I can possibly get in the ground
and keep pulling up all the weeds of my sin

that my sinful human nature keeps trying to sow.

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Psalm 119:17; Matthew 13:1-23; Matthew 15:13; Romans 7:18; Romans 7:25; Galatians 6:7-9; Colossians 3:5

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Monday, November 1, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with informed determination:

“Woe to you who live by the sea, you Kerethite people; the word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. He says, ‘I will destroy you’…”
(Zephaniah 2:5)

How does Your Word turn against me, Jesus?

It’s when I turn against Your Word, isn’t it?
That’s when utter destruction comes.

I’ll never turn against Your Word, Holy Father!

It’s a lamp to my feet
a light for my path
my comfort in great sorrow

my sure promise of eternal life.

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Job 6:10; Psalms 119:9; Psalms 119:11; Psalms 119:25; Psalms 119:105; John 3:16; John 17:17

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Sunday, October 31, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with higher intent:

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice! Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?”
(Habakkuk 2:12-13)

When the purpose is evil, Jesus

it never stands.

Doesn’t matter how hard they work.
Doesn’t matter how smart they are.
Doesn’t matter how much money they spend.

Purify all my purposes, LORD!

If I’m going to exhaust myself
I want it to count for eternity!

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Judges 4:21; Judges 8:4; Judges 8:15; 1 Samuel 14:31; 1 Samuel 30:10; Proverbs 6:3; Daniel 8:27; Philippians 2:13

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Friday, April 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in stunned gratitude:

“Woe to him who…establishes a town by crime!”
(Habakkuk 2:12)

I can’t even begin to imagine how many towns have been established by crime, Jesus.

It has to be a huge number.

But the point is this:

It didn’t pay off.
Not for the people who did it.

Oh, they may have appeared to prosper in the beginning
but the end is what matters –

and that was a different story.

Well…unless they repented!

In that case
You turn our woe…into “Woah!”

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1 Kings 8:46-51; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 30:15; Jeremiah 18:8; Acts 2:38