Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, with bottomless trust:

“No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.”
(Daniel 2:10)

I’ve seen it more than once, Jesus:

The bigger the problem
the more desperate the leader.

That’s how

magicians
enchanters
astrologers

get a leg up.

Intelligent leaders have always known these people are bogus

but a sufficiently desperate leader
sometimes parks her brain at the curb

and lets a

slick-talking
big-promising

stranger climb in.

Am I pulling the same stunt in any area of my life, Father?

Where am I so desperate

for something I want
to escape something I don’t want
to make something happen

that I’m losing confidence

in Your timing
in Your love for me

laying my Bible aside
giving up on prayer

abandoning my God-given good sense?

If that’s happening, please show me

so I can eject these fast-talking phonies

from my life.

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Exodus 20:3-6; Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 6:13-15; 2 Kings 17:35-36; Psalms 44:20-21; Psalms 81:9-10; Jeremiah 1:16-16; 2 Corinthians 11:1-4; James 4:4-10

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.