NEW TESTAMENT:
SISTERS MARY & MARTHA:
INTERVENE FOR SICK BROTHER:
John 11:3,5-6,17,20-27,32-33,41-44
[3]Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
[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.
[17]So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.
[20]Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
[21]Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
[22]But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
[23]Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
[24]Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
[25]Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
[26]And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
[27]She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” Jesus and Death, the Last Enemy
[32]Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
[33]Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
[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.”
[43]Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
[44]And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
LYDIA, SELLER OF PURPLE:
INTERVENES FOR PRISONERS: PAUL & SILAS
Acts 16:10,13-15,40
[10]Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Lydia Baptized at Philippi
[13]And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.
[14]Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul.
[15]And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” So she persuaded us. Paul and Silas Imprisoned
[40]So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.
TODAY'S PRAISE SONG:
I'M STILL HOLDING ON:
RED BUDD CHOIR:
