Above & Beyond

Genuine love is always backed by action.

When Jesus acts, His love exceeds our expectations above and beyond anything we can imagine or hope.

John 11:1–3 NKJV

1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”

John 11:4 NKJV

4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

John 11:5–6 NKJV

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.

Matthew 7:9–11 NKJV

9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

John 11:11 NKJV

11 These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”

John 11:14 NKJV

14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.

John 11:15 NKJV

15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.”

John 11:33–36 NKJV

33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

John 11:37 NKJV

37 And some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?”

Our personal problems and pain can prevents us from seeing God’s purposes and plan.

John 11:42 NKJV

42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”

John 11:41–42 NKJV

41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.”