This story of Lazarus has many lessons we can learn from this amazing passage of Scripture. Jesus took sickness, sin, death, and hell to the cross. It is inevitable result of all who fall short of His glory, has been conquered forever through the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ on our behalf. Mary and Martha’s period of misery was turned into laughter and joy. Nights of weeping has also been turned into a morning of joy with peals of singing, Jesus told His followers He was going to the small Town of Judea (Bethany) to wake Lazarus from his sleep. The followers said why Jesus they tried to stone you there. Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus that He was willing to risk His life for them. How much more do you think He loves those who believe in Him and ask for healing or any kind of prayer. It reads in John 14:12-14 Easy> “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

It reads in John 11:1-16 Easy> There was a man named Lazarus who was sick. He lived in the town of Bethany, where Mary and her sister Martha lived. (Mary is the same woman who put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Referring to is John 12:3.) Mary’s brother was Lazarus, the man who was now sick. So Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus, “Lord, your dear friend Lazarus is sick.” When Jesus heard this he said, “The end of this sickness will not be death. No, this sickness is for the glory of God. This has happened to bring glory to the Son of God.” Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days and then said to his followers, “We should go back to Judea.” They answered, “But Teacher, those Jews there tried to stone you to death. That was only a short time ago. Now you want to go back there?”Jesus answered, “There are twelve hours of light in the day. Whoever walks in the day will not stumble and fall because they can see with the light from the sun. But whoever walks at night will stumble because there is no light.” Then Jesus said, “Our friend Lazarus is now sleeping, but I am going there to wake him.” The followers answered, “But, Lord, if he can sleep, he will get well.” They thought Jesus meant that Lazarus was literally sleeping, but he really meant that Lazarus was dead. So then Jesus said plainly, “Lazarus is dead. And I am glad I was not there. I am happy for you because now you will believe in me. We will go to him now.” Then Thomas, the one called “Twin,” said to the other followers, “We will go too. We will die there with Jesus.”