Hearing GOD’S Voice: Part 9

Hearing and responding to GOD’S Voice will put you in the right place, at the right time!

Our daily prayer should include:

FATHER, I ask you to order my steps today and put me in the right place, at the right time.

The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in John chapter 11:

1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you Love is ill.”

4 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Jesus heard from Heaven what was to take place and when to carry our FATHER’S instructions.  The adversary would like us to either be early or late to whatever HE has called us to do.

5 Now Jesus Loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6 So, when He heard that Lazarus was ill, He stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

How many of us would be compelled by our flesh to go immediately?

7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

8 The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”

There was a plan in place to kill Jesus, yet He did not succumb to the timing of their plot.

9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

In other Words, you can go through a day without the fear of stumbling when you walk in the One Who gives light to the world.

10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 After saying these things, He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”

Jesus now refers to His mission and the timing of it.

12 The disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.

14 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

Jesus was about to fully reveal the supernatural power to raise the dead even after four days in the tomb.

16 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Yes, there was unbelief to deal with.

17 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,

19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give You.”

Martha expressed faith in Jesus whereas Thomas walked in unbelief.

23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

25 Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Ne, though he die, yet shall he live,

Jesus finally reveals the Divine Intent of the timing and the associated revelation.

26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, Who is coming into the world.”

32 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His Feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

Mary had not heard the revelation, so her perspective was one of loss.

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in His spirit and greatly troubled.

34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”

35 Jesus wept.

36 So the Jews said, “See how He Loved him!”

37 But some of them said, “Could not He Who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

Men will have their own opinion of how things ought to go.  They have a very limited view of Spiritual power and authority.

38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

Jesus reveals an important Truth to be confirmed by manifestation for all to see:

41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His Eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that You sent Me.”

43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud Voice, “Lazarus, come out.”

44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

Lazarus could not be bound by death.  Jesus defied man’s timing and most of all, He revealed the revelation of being in the right place and at the right time for the anointed power and authority to operate in one’s life.

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