RESURRECTION POWER

In Jul 2010, God showed me the verse on John 11:40 when Jesus told Martha: ‘Did I not tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?’ Ever since then I had been wondering what God was trying to tell me. Because this story of Lazarus dying in John 11 was one about delay, I thought God wanted me to be patient as there might be a delay to the promise. Over the years He gave me revelation about this story and I have come to realise that the most important message in this story was not about the four day delay but to show the resurrection power of Jesus.

Recently I was reading John 11 and I gleaned more nuggets of truth from this story. Here are the pointers:

• Lazarus was dead for 4 days; the Jews believed that after 3 days the spirit would have departed so there was no more hope
• Jesus waited till the situation was impossible so God can gain the most glory
• Resurrection is now, never in the future (just like how faith is now)
• Comeback power is resurrection power (like how David made a comeback at Ziklag)
• When Jesus saw Mary weeping, He had compassion and cried too as death was never meant to be part of our destiny 
• Jesus gave thanks to God before raising Lazarus
• Loosing the grave clothes is like putting off the spirit of heaviness
• Caiaphas the high priest prophesied Jesus’ death
• Theme is about death and resurrection, dry bones come alive
• Jesus went outside of time and raised Lazarus from the dead
• Time does not define God and what He does; He defines time!
• God never misses His time and He is never late
• Explaining why God allows a delay in our lives, mainly it is for His greater glory
• Many times the delay isn’t about us but for the sake of many others
• This miracle is about raising the dead, what Jesus did
• There were a few accounts of Jesus raising the dead but this is the longest time a person was dead
• The seed had to die and then be resurrected in strength
• Learn to use Jesus’ authority over death so that we can speak life, overcome death
• When one is resurrected, one is forever delivered from that sickness because he has already died to it and then God raised him up
• When something is resurrected, that thing which caused you pain can no longer do so again 
• Ashes is the final form, so the fire cannot burn us again
• Resurrection is the most ultimate form of overcoming
• Resurrection power is greater than healing power
• God is able to use the disappointments you went through as His appointments
• Usually God will allow us to go through a season of death so that the impurities in our flesh could be dealt with
• This is called dying to self and flesh so we could rise up and carry His glory
• I think this is the cost to be God’s glory carriers
• But afterwards, we would have great joy in seeing dead things come alive