“Merry Christmas to all Zion Youth”

As we are approaching once again on the day when God, creator of the Universe manifest himself in the form of human being, who is the light of the world came into darkness to give us life an eternal life with him forever, lets prepare our heart to be the best God’s dwelling place. God bless you all abundantly with new spiritual strength……..:)

Its a great satisfaction when we have someone beside us to share our problem, but it reaches the richest the fulfilment of a soul when their is someone who can understand us better than ourselves. Of course in the oneness of christ, who actually act as mirror in which we can see our naked ‘ME’.

Yes my dear friends I am talking about a ’soul mate’ with whom we can pray together, share what God teaches us everyday, lift up each other needs in praying and most important having a same purpose to serve Jesus. So I really thank Jesusfrom the deepest core of my heart for giving me a friend like Sis.Gospel. She is indeed, my all time precious gift which i have earn from God.

So let us ask God for a trusted person to keep us accountable to grow in Christ.

“Two are better than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. Two people can resist and attack that would defeat one person alone.A rope made of three chords is hard to break”(Ecclesiastes 4:9)

Act 7: 54-56 “When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56″Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

Stephen was a first Christian martyr, who was stoned to death for Christ’ sake. He was a man full of Holy Spirit and Power. He did many miracles and wonders during his time. He followed Jesus untill his death. Stephen has set an example for us as a believer. When he was stoned, he looked up into heaven doesn’t care about the pain, suffering and tortured he was facing. His heart and eyes was upon Jesus, that’s when God’s revealed his Glory to him.

What do we usually do during the time of crisis, pain, drepression, agony and hardship in our life? Do we looked up into Heaven to wait and see what God is going to do? Many times instead of looking at HIM to see HIS glory, we looked at HIM to complain…WHY? Why God you led this happened to me?

I asked this question many times to God. I complained about the situation I faced. But God revealed HIS glory in right time..in his own time. I can no longer asked him WHY…I now just look up to heaven, to see his glory in time of trials, temptation, doubts, crises…and in time of joy, happiness and blessings. His glory revealed in my life in every situation. God is Good….Praise HIM

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(John 11:1-43)

The Death of Lazarus

 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”  When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.

 Then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

 “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back there?”

 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world’s light. It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light.”

 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

 So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

 Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Jesus Comforts the Sisters

 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.  “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

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

 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

 “Yes, Lord,” she told him, “I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

 And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

 Jesus wept.

 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said.
“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”  Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

This is a very interesting chapter which I read this morning and it really touch my heart. Jesus is 100% God and he was also 100% human. He feels what all of us feel, he felt hungry, he felt anger, he felt sadness, etc. We have to thank God for we have a God who understand our situation as a human.

This time I want to highlight the fact that Jesus wept. When he knew Lazarus was dead, Jesus wept for him because He loved this family. When I read this passage, I realize how my life is so blessed that God loves me. He will weep for us if we die … especially if we die in our spiritual life.

Jesus wants to have a good relationship with us, he wants to walk along with us on the path of our life.  When he sees us weep, he will also weep with us and console us.

I have a feeling that Martha was stronger than Mary. I think Mary was a very soft and gentle lady. When Jesus saw Mary wept, He couldn’t hold Himself and He was also wept. I realized how Jesus loved this family, the same love that Jesus have for you and me. He will be there for us no matter the situation we are into.