
Order of Service March 26, 2023
Opening Hymn: Let Everything That has Breath
Hymn: Graves Into Gardens
Welcome, Theme, Opening Prayer
Hymn: House Of Miracles
Scripture Reading #1
Psalm 130
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let your
ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O LORD,
should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness
with you, so that you may be revered. I wait for the LORD, my soul
waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than
those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the
morning. O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is
steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. It is he who will
redeem Israel from all its iniquities
Response: Vs 1 Word Of God Speak
Scripture Reading #2
John 11:1-45
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and
her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with
perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is 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." Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days
longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the
disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." The disciples said to him, "Rabbi,
the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there
again?"Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those
who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of
this world. But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is
not in them." After saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has
fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him." The disciples said to
him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right." Jesus, however,
had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was
referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is
dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe.
But let us go to him." Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his
fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." When Jesus
arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of
the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their
brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met
him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had
been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that
God will give you whatever you ask of him."Jesus said to her, "Your
brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise
again in the resurrection on the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the
resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they
die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?" She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are
the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world." When
she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her
privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." And when she
heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet
come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met
him. The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary
get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that
she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came where
Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said 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
greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you
laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus began to
weep. 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, again greatly disturbed, came to the
tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take
away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord,
already there is a stench because he has been dead four days."Jesus
said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the
glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward
and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you
always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing
here, so that they may believe that you sent 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 strips of cloth, and his face
wrapped in 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 Jesus did, believed in him.
Response: Vs 2 Word Of God Speak
Today’s Message: Worship Leader Teresa Allen-Rowe
Special Music: Great Are You Lord
Sharing our Prayers
The Lord’s Prayer
Response: El Shaddai
Hymn: Same God
Sending Forth Hymn: I Have A Dream VS 4&5