Knowing Him Daily

22.June.2026

Jesus wept. John 11:35

That is the shortest verse in scripture and possibly the most significant one for what we are talking about today, because it tells us that when Jesus showed up at Lazarus’ tomb. He was not operating from obligation or ministry strategy but was genuinely and visibly moved by the grief of the people He loved, and that movement in His heart preceded the miracle.

When He saw the widow of Nain walking behind the body of her only son, scripture says: “And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.” Luke 7:13 He saw her, He had compassion, He spoke, in that order. The compassion was not manufactured but the thing that moved Him toward her before a single word left His mouth.

Matthew says about Jesus looking at the crowds: “When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.”Matthew 9:36 The assignment always had a face, and He never forgot whose face it was, and neither should we.

Your assignment has a face too, and God’s timing in putting that face in front of you is never accidental.

A seventeen-year-old girl at a Tiff Shuttlesworth crusade in South America had prayed for ninety days for seven specific people and planned to bring them to the event, and one of them was an eighty-year-old woman who agreed to come only if the girl would walk the long way with her and stay close, and the girl had every reason to rush ahead to the front where a popular performer was going to be, but she stayed. That night the woman went forward and received Jesus, then went home, fell asleep, and never woke up. When the follow-up team called the next day her son told them she had passed in the night, and that girl’s willingness to stay present for one specific face was the last open door that woman ever walked through.

I heard another testimony of a minister that God told to visit a woman in prison who pushed back and asked God to find someone more equipped, and God’s response pulled the slack out: I did, three times, and you are my final opportunity for her.

There are times when God will find someone else because there is still time, and there are times when the clock has already run out and He came to you because you were the right one, and the difference between those two moments is not something you can calculate from the outside, which is why we have to be leadable, know His voice, and be quick enough to move when He says move.

When we stand before Him it will not be the moment to find out if He wants a cheeseburger and a coke. It will be the moment He asks what we did with what we were given, who we stopped for, and who we walked past.

Someone stopped for us when it was our turn to hear. Now it is ours to stop for someone else.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.