ILLNESS CAN BECOME A SOURCE OF BLESSING

When Jesus walked on this earth, one day, He heard people talking about a certain person who was ill. “But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”( John 11:4)

Later, Jesus was called and told the sick man died.

Jesus went there and raised the dead man from grave that showed the glorify of God in Jesus. Many persons believed in Him and became His followers. That was the direct result of the miracle and indirect result of the illness and death of that man.

If you also have illness, it may become the source of receiving the blessings of God if you call on Jesus in the right way.

Call Jesus in prayer with repentance heart. Confess your sin and the wrong you committed every day. Admit faithfully that you are sinner, you are wrong in God’s sight. Confessed that you are no better than a dead person, worth for nothing in God’s sight. Admit that you will die physically and spiritually without Him in this situation. Repent of your sin, wrong way of life.  Request Him to forgive your sins and give a new life in Christ. Invite Him to become your Lord and Saviour. Surrender your life in His hand. Ask Him to control and direct your life as He is your Lord and King. Request Him to save you from power of sin as He is your Saviour. Ask Him to live in you and help you always through the Holy Spirit to live a worthy life as God’s child.

Then, Jesus will heal your illness and you will become physically as well as spiritually blessed with New Life, a joyous life with Christ.

God bless you.

Please read the full text here :

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother

Lazarus was ill.

So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it."

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So when he heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go into Judea again."

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep."

The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead; and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house.

Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

Martha said to him, "I know that 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, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world."

When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying quietly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."

And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.

Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled;and he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."

Joh 11:35 Jesus wept.

So 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?"

Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb; it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."

Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?"

So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me."

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."

The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him; (Joh 11:1-45 RSV)