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Saturday, April 6, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered, grateful reflection:

“Your wickedness will punish you…”
(Jeremiah 2:19)

There’s a reason why You forbid me to do certain things, Jesus!

It’s not because You’re a kill-joy.
It’s not because You don’t want me to have a good time.

It’s certainly not because You don’t love me
don’t long to see me experience life to the fullest.

It’s because there are thoughts, words and actions

that carry their own terrible punishment.

Out of pure love You tell me:

Don’t go there.

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Numbers 14:19; 2 Chronicles 6:42; Nehemiah 13:22; Psalms 5:7; Psalms 17:7; Psalms 89:1; Ephesians 2:4-5; 1 John 3:1

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Friday, June 8, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“Because of you the LORD became angry with me…”
(Deuteronomy 1:37)

Well…not exactly, Jesus.

You didn’t become angry with Moses
because of what the Israelites did.

You became angry with Moses
because of his response to what they did.

Everybody stands before You for their own actions –

not those of someone else –

because we’re all accountable directly to You.

So maybe I’d better focus on my own
thoughts, words, actions

instead of trying to control – or blame – somebody else.

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Genesis 3:12; Romans 1:20; Romans 14:4; Galatians 6:1; Galatians 6:14; 1 Timothy 5:7; 1 Timothy 6:14

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Monday, November 27, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with ardent love:

“My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power…”
(1 Corinthians 2:4)

I’ll take Your power over words any day, Jesus!

Words are important.
But all too often, talk is cheap.

When all is said and done

more is said than done.

Thank You for everyone who talks the talk

but I’d rather have someone who walks the walk.

And of course…

that’s how others feel about me.

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Exodus 4:21; Exodus 15:6; Numbers 11:17; 1 Kings 18:46; Psalms 20:6; Psalms 68:28; Romans 1:16

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Friday, July 21, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo from the depths of your soul:

“…this not from yourselves…”
(Ephesians 2:8)

The good stuff never is, Jesus.

It’s always from You –
every last good thought, word and deed of it.

The junk, however, is all mine –
every last evil thought, bad word and foul deed of it.

Satan may be the source of the bad
but I’m the one fool enough to be duped by it.

I run to You, LORD, as fast as my wayward legs can carry me!

You…are my only Hope.

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Proverbs 11:6; Proverbs 18:10; Romans 6:12; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 2:8-9; Colossians 3:5; 2 Timothy 2:22

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Monday, July 3, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sudden awareness:

“…refusing to be comforted…”
(Matthew 2:18)

When the pain is that great, Jesus…

only then does someone refuse to be comforted.

It’s hard on their friends and family, who desperately want to help.

But far harder on the one who grieves.

The words, gestures, offers to “let me know if you need anything”

are not only useless

they’re offensive –

as if such things could somehow lessen the agony.

Is that how You felt, Father

when they crucified Your Son?

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Job 17:7; Psalms 22:1; Psalms 88:9; Proverbs 6:32-35; Matthew 27:46; John 3:16; Hebrews 5:7

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo in focused determination:

“I wrote you…to let you know the depth of my love for you.”
(2 Corinthians 2:4)

Sometimes I have to come out and say it, don’t I, Jesus?

Actions are far more important than what my lips utter
but words matter.

They can be cheap
but they can also come from the heart.

When what I say is backed up by what I do

not once or twice

but day in and day out, year after year

that’s when words count.

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Genesis 42:20; Exodus 19:7; Deuteronomy 11:18; Deuteronomy 13:3; Proverbs 12:22; Proverbs 16:24; Luke 6:45

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with Holy Spirit sensitivity:

“Whose young woman is that?”
(Ruth 2:5)

It would be hard to ask a more politically incorrect question, Jesus.

Thankfully, we don’t talk that way anymore.

But there’s a lesson here, isn’t there?

For the time in which he lived, Boaz wasn’t speaking disrespectfully.
Just the opposite – he greatly respected Ruth!

How many times have I unfairly judged someone’s words or actions

without knowledge of their background, culture or intent?

Forgive me, LORD!
Only You know the heart.

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Leviticus 19:15; 1 Samuel 16:7; Matthew 7:1; Romans 14:3; 1 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 2:16; James 4:11

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with bottomless trust:

“…listen carefully to what I say.”
(Acts 2:14)

Some people use language like that because they’re stuck on themselves, Jesus

They think everything they say is worth my rapt attention.

But when Your Apostle Peter utters those words

I’d better listen.

In fact, if it’s anywhere in the Bible, I’d better listen!

Your words
are my life.

When the people around me speak

please give me the wisdom to know whose words to hang on
and whose to dismiss.

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Genesis 3:17; Exodus 6:9; Leviticus 26:18; Deuteronomy 5:27; Proverbs 1:5; Matthew 10:14; 2 Timothy 2:14