APRIL 9 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

April 9 / Day 41

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, no other name is like the Name of Jesus, there is no name under heaven or on the earth that man can call on for Salvation but Jesus, there is none but You, Lord Jesus that loves us even though we are continually sinning against Your Holiness and yet instead of Your arms folded in rejection when we repent and return, like the Father welcoming the prodigal son, You run to greet us with open arms and You receive us unto Yourself as Your own. Lord, eternity will not be enough time to praise Your Name! 

The Jesus Questions

JQ#8 - The Spirit has not released me yet to move to JQ#9 as He wants me to present the outline that has been formed by JQ#1 - JQ#8 in Matthew Chapters 1-9. The Holy Spirit directed me to initiate this “The Jesus Questions” project and during morning devotionals He guides me to keep notes in a separate folder which now has developed into an Introduction Outline to Discipleship and sets forth the mindset for Following Christ that builds upon itself step by step the importance of placing our “Faith” in one who is “Worthy” of our “Faith”. Jesus begins proving He is “Worthy” and is called for the purpose to do the work of God as Jesus in Matthew Chapter 5.  In His “Sermon on the Mount” He listed in the “Beatitudes” that to inherit the kingdom of heaven we must enter through the “spirit”, that if we care for and comfort others we ourselves will be cared for and comforted, that strength to inherit the earth will come from our weakness, to be filled with righteousness we should hunger for it, be merciful to gain mercy, our ability to see God will come through our purity, and if we strive to make peace we will be called sons of God and concludes with “not to worry” about the persecution on earth of our faith because our righteousness will be rewarded in heaven. Jesus concludes with JQ#1 that those that follow Jesus will be “salt and light” to the world.  JQ#2 teaches us that Jesus did not come to destroy the law of God but to fulfill the law and then Jesus proceeds to instruct us how to “love others”, both our enemies and our friends as the greatest law. Jesus builds on these lessons with a new command on how to be “salt and light” and how to “love others” with a concept important to a follower of Christ as they encounter opposition to their “faith in God” when Jesus teaches in JQ#3 “Not to worry” and builds on the concept of “Do not worry” by teaching us that to be successful in not worrying we must practice what He teaches in JQ#4 “Do not Judge”. Jesus then teaches where to obtain the “power of His Truth” as He tells us in JQ#5 that we are to “Ask-Seek-Knock” and we will “Find”. Jesus then calls us to “live” the principles He is teaching and says we will know if we are living by His principles if we start “bearing the fruit of the spirit” as taught in JQ#6. Jesus then makes it evident in JQ#7 that by going through these steps that we will be growing the basic element of discipleship and that we must continually work to “build our faith”. We do that by focusing on Him! Jesus then starts instructing us in JQ#7 that there comes a point in our “faith” that we must “exercise” our “FAITH” and that is when we put “Action” to our “Belief” and we will “Arise & Walk” as Jesus details in JQ#8. This “Outline”  for how to begin our walk and why we should trust Him I believe is summarized in JQ#9 which is found in Matthew 9:15 as Jesus introduces the “bridegroom” and characterizes His Followers as “friends of the bridegroom” — Chapter 9 concludes Point A  “Introduction” of the Jesus Questions and Point B begins with Matthew 10. Any suggestions as to what to title Point B?