Sunday Oct. 5th 2008 Lazarus Raised From the Dead

I went to Calvary first assembly of God church in Boise, Idaho. We had a guest speaker who was a missionary from Africa. He spoke on

John 11:25 "I am the resurrection and the life, He who believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" NIV after I read this scripture I immediately saw

 

John 11:4 "This sickness will not end in death, No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it" NIV

 

After that I saw in

 

John 11:23 "Your brother will rise again" NIV

 

These words that God has spoken is truth he has shone us his truth through many believers. All through John 11 is a story so close to Marks incident. Lazarus was in the grave for 4 days and Mark was in a coma for 4 days when the doctors told us that he was in a vegetative state and that he had no hope of recovery.

 

John 11 :40-44 "Did I not tell you that if you believed, that you would see the glory of God?...Jesus looked up and said "Father I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me" When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus , come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go." NIV

 

Uncle John had spoken of this earlier this week how he gave Mark a new name and his name was Lazarus and he would take off his grave clothes and put on the clothes of righteousness. John 11: 45 "Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him." NIV

I went up for prayer and God sent an elderly woman up to pray with me. She wept with me and prayed for me and my family and on Marks behalf. What a comfort I received from her. God you are so good and you know what I needed at that moment and you so graciously gave it to me. Thank you for your tender mercies.