We need the Lord to help us through this life. That’s why we pray. Have you ever prayed, needing immediate help, and God didn’t answer right away?
Mary and Martha experienced this when they prayed for Jesus to heal their sick brother, John 11:3-44.
Jesus waited so that something greater would take place. It brought more glory to God for Lazarus to die than for him to be healed.
Two days later the Lord visited Mary and Martha. Lazarus was dead, in the tomb, and everyone expected him to stay there. He smelled dead.
John 11:41-43 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
Sometimes God will wait until He is the only explanation.
John 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
It’s good to know how to react to Divine Silence. Wait upon the Lord.
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