Friday, 30 March 2012

Quiet Time today--John11:1-16

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John 11
The Death of Lazarus

 1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 23 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
 4 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7 and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
 8 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”
 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”
 11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”
 12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13 Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
 14 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
 16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
Footnotes:
  1. John 11:16 Thomas (Aramaic) and Didymus (Greek) both mean twin.
 vs4: I hope to claim this promise for Tresa's dad, who is suffering from stomach cancer. He had his whole stomach removed already and still has not recovered well from months ago--a new stomach is being created out of his intestines to have a new function. Tresa is staying with him in her aunt's place, solely caring for him. Tresa is staying home with him with her occasional part time work, but her burden for her father is great. She wishes to share the gospel with him at the opportune time but is fearful of opposition from her older brother still. 
 
I hope you would soften her dad's heart to hear, whilst she serves him at the same time. And her bro too. Her own faith may shake if her dad becomes worse, so God, I implore you to have mercy on her. She is only a young Christian, and her family isn't even believing. But Father, your timing is best 'cos you have worked everything out; I ask that your will is to be merciful till they are prepared.