JOHN 11
- MARY MARTHA AND LAZARUS ALL BELONG TO THE LORD
- THEY ALL LOVED JESUS AND HAD BEEN INTERACTING WITH HIM
- MARY ONCE ANOINTED THE LORD WITH AN EXPENSIVE OIL,OF WHICH THE VALUE WAS A YEAR’S SALARY AND WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER HAIR
- MARTHA LOVED TO COOK FOR THE LORD .
- NOW THEIR BROTHER LAZARUS WAS SICK.
- WE NEVER HEARD ABOUT LAZARUS TILL HE WAS SICK AND HIS SITERS REFERRED TO HIM AS BELOVED OF THE LORD
- AS YOU SERVE THE LORD AND FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM AND FEAR HIM HE WILL SHOW MERCY TO YOUR FAMILY ACTS 16:31;PSALM 103:17
- ABRAHAM LOVED THE LORD AND OBEYED HIM AND HE GOT A GENERATIONAL BLESSING
- GOD IS REFERRED TO AS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM ISAAC AND JACOB.
- AS YOU COVENANT YOURSELF TO GOD AND HIS HOUSE YOU ARE COVENANTING YOUR FAMILY TO HIM
- NOW WHEN JESUS HEARD THAT LAZARUS WAS SICKHE IMMEDIATELY PROPHESIED THAT HE WOULD NOT DIE.VERSE 4 (READ)
- EVEN THOUGH JESUS LOVED MARY,MARTHA AND LAZARUS,HE DID NOT RUSH TO HELP HIM WHEN HE HEARD THAT HE WAS SICK
- HE ACTUALLY DELAYED FOR TWO MORE DAYS BEFORE DECIDING TO GO ANSWER THEM.
- EVEN THOUGH JESUS DID NOT GO THERE IMMEDIATELY,HE WAS AWARE OF ALL THAT WAS HAPPENING THERE
- AS SOON AS LAZARUS DIED HE KNEW ABOUT IT ,THEN HE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS SLEEPING
- BUT WHAT DID HIS DISCIPLES UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS SAYING?
- LET US READ THOSE VERSES 7-16
- WERE THEY EVEN ON THE SAME PAGE ?WERE THEY HAVING THE SAME MIND?
- IF YOU ARE ON THE SAME PAGE WITH THE LORD ,IT IS CALLED WALKING IN THE LIGHT
- TO WALK IN THE LIGHT IS TO WALK ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL ,IN LINE WITH HIS WORD FOR YOUR MIRACLE
- WE MUST PRAY TO BE OF THE SAME MIND WITH THE LORD AT ALL TIMES 1COR 2:9-16
- THE DISCIPLES WERE TOTALLY OFF COURSE.THEY TOTALLY MISUNDERSTOOD THE LORD
- THEY WERE NOT WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD.THEY WERE NOT WALKING IN REVELATIONAL TRUTH.
- IF WE DON’T SEEK TO WALK IN THE LIGHT OF REVEALED TRUTH OUR MIRACLES WILL BE DELAYED
- WE WON’T KNOW THAT WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT IS FREELY GIVING TO US
- WE HAVE TO SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE WITH THE LORD AT ALL TIMES
- HOW? WITH THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- BY THAT AM NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT SPEAKING IN TONGUES
- AM TALKING ABOUT ASKING LITERAL QUESTIONS AND BEING HONEST WITH THE LORD
- EVERY TIME THE DISCIPLES ASKED THE LORD FOR PRIVATE EXPLANATIONS THEY GOT HIS ATTENTION
- BUT EACH TIME THE JUMPED INTO CONCLUSIONS THEY GOT INTO TROUBLE
- CHURCH WE NEED TO BE IN THE SPIRIT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE LORD
- WHEN HE SPEAKS TO YOU DO NOT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT
- WHEN YOU DREAM DO NOT ASSUME THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE DREAM
- WHEN YOU READ YOUR BIBLE DO NOT ASSUME YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WORD IS SAYING TO YOU AT THAT TIME
- WHEN YOU HEAR A WORD OF PROPHECY,OR A MESSAGE OR EVEN AN EXPERIENCE DON’T INTERPRETE ANYTHING NATURALLY
- PRAY,PRAY,AND PRAY AND THINK ABOUT IT AND KEEP PRAYING AND MEDITATING AND ASKING FOR EXPLANATION ,THE LIGHT WILL COME
- WHEN THE LORD ARRIVED AT THE HOME OF MARY AND MARTHA WE WITNESS THE SAME NATURAL WAY OF INTERACTING WITH THE LORD
- JOHN 11:17-43 (READ)
- MARTHA AND MARY WERE INTERACTING WITH THE LORD EXACTLY LIKE THE DISCIPLES
- JUST LIKE WE OFTEN DO AS WELL, AT THE NATURAL LEVEL.
- MARTHA EAGERLY RAN TO JESUS LIKE WE ALL ALWAYS DO.RUN TO CHURCH.
- RUN TO THE SERVICE BUT FULL OF DOUBT AND SELF
- LOOK AT VERSE 21-25.
- SHE COULD HAVE SAID LORD HE IS DEAD BUT WITH YOU NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE
- NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO SISTERS ATTITUDE.
- THE LORD SAW UNBELIEF IN MARTHA,BUT IN MARY HE SAW GRIEF AND SORROW EVEN THOUGH THEY BOTH SAID THE SAME THING TO HIM
- AMAZING HOW HE READS OUR HEARTS AND REACT TO US ACCORDINGLY
- THE LORD WEPT WITH MARY ,BUT REBUKED MARTHA.
- IT IS WRITTEN BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED
- FINALLY JESUS CONFRONTED THE SPIRIT OF DEATH WHILE MARTHA WENT ON WITH HER STRANGE REMARKS
- THANK GOD FOR HIS MERCIES.IF LAZARUS’S LIFE DEPENDED ON THE SISTERS’ FAITH
- WHEN SHE HEARD “TAKE AWAY THE STONE” SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW IMMEDIATELY THAT A SERIOUS MIRACLE WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN
- SHE DOUBTED THE LORD FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END.
- YOUR DELAYED MIRACLES WILL MANIFEST NOW IN JESUS NAME
- YOU MAY BE MARY, MARTHA,LAZARUS OR EVEN THE JEWS ,JESUS NEVER FAILS
- LET US STAND UP ON OUR FEET TO WORSHIP HIM