WELCOME RESURRECTION DEVO

LYRIC EXCERPT:

You can do anything

You can do anything

My eyes will see Your glory

My eyes will see Your glory

As the sisters begged the Savior

Come at once to Bethany

For the one You love is dying

But His yes was not to be

As His weeping begged the question

Could His friend He not have healed

But He’s still the resurrection

Even when the tomb is sealed

You can do anything

There are few things as hard to face as a disappointment. When you’ve held on to hope for so long only to be let down, it’s never an easy situation.

This all-too-familiar feeling of disappointment appears in the New Testament after Lazarus had died. He was Jesus’ friend –– and even though He could have healed him, He chose not to. In fact, He waited to travel, and Lazarus was already dead by the time He arrived.

When Jesus finally gets there, Martha says, “If you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

The confusion and disappointment Martha was feeling must have been overwhelming. Jesus didn’t come in time, and she’d believed He would.

Have you been there? Have you ever prayed for God to move in a situation and He didn’t show up in the way you hoped?? Have you ever felt that the time for God to intervene had expired?

When we grieve the dreams we had or the relationships we’ve lost, the pain we experience may seem overwhelming, but hope can be found in knowing that God never leaves us or fails us.

Martha was hurting but still she said: “I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

Even now God can work in your situation.

Even now He can do the impossible.

Even now He can turn it for good.

He can do anything. The question is, will you trust Him when He doesn’t do what you expect?