John 11:41 Meaning So They Took Away the Stone From

Thanks comes before any sign of change, and that is the whole secret standing in plain view. The dead is a desire you have given up as buried, laid away in a tomb you sealed yourself. The stone rolled back is the doubt removed, the moment you stop guarding the grave with reasons the thing cannot happen. Father here is your own awareness of being, the power in you that conceives, always greater than anything it conceives.

He does not beg for the friend to rise. He gives thanks that he has already been heard, and the thanks is the assumption held as settled. A desire felt as already met is a prayer already answered, so the feeling comes first and the fact follows it. You thank the awareness in you before the eyes report a thing, and the report catches up. That inward gratitude, held steadily, is what raises what you had counted dead.