Today we’re in John 11, where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. When Jesus arrives, Lazarus has been gone for four days. Martha is grieving, and even though Jesus knows resurrection is moments away, He pauses and weeps.

That tells us something powerful. Jesus doesn’t rush past pain just because He knows the outcome. He enters it. He is present before the miracle.

As we pray and fast for breakthroughs we haven’t seen yet, remember this. Delay doesn’t mean absence. Tears don’t mean defeat. Jesus is with us in the waiting.

If He wept with us, we can trust Him with what feels dead in our lives.