LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
April 14 / Day 46
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, thank You Lord for answering our prayers, but even more thank You Lord that You taught us the necessity it is to pray and how to be successful in our prayer life, and the blessings that flow because of our prayers. Prayer is a miracle of God that is available to everyone 24/7/365 and has no physical limitations, no age limits, and is not restricted to race, color, or nationality — there are no gender restrictions, nothing exists to prevent anyone of any age, of any culture, of any social status to talk directly to God! Prayer is a miracle and I thank You Lord for the answered prayer that You gave me yesterday as I was allowed to serve and to witness to Your Mercy and Grace that You have bestowed on my family. Forgive me all my iniquities and guide me deeper into Your Truth and to share Your Love to those You have allowed me to serve in Your Name!
The Jesus Questions
JQ#10 — The individual lessons with their simplicity but deep “Truth” is a lesson in itself. As I reflect on the lessons learned from JQ#1-9, the additional lesson I have learned is that Jesus takes us a step at a time with simple questions that we can easily answer even with our finite and limited intellect yet when put together as only the Master can, they become deep Spiritual Truths that give us guidance how to live successful Spiritual Lives and brings peace to our physical trials we all face during our worldly journey. As we seek to learn these Spiritual Truths we must focus on what the Master has asked us to focus on for the lesson before us and Trust Him to put it together so we can exclaim “…all things work together for good…” and watch as our Faith in the Rock grows stronger as we learn “precept upon precept”. JQ#10 is found in the middle of a tremendous chapter in Matthew therefore we will use the whole of Matthew Chapter 10 as the context for JQ#10 that Jesus uses to encourage us “Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Matthew 10:31) This encouragement follows immediately after JQ#10: “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.” Jesus is a Master Teacher because He asks a question that can always be easily answered by every individual just by observing the world around us. Also Jesus reissues us that none of these lessons are beyond anyone’s intellect, all we have to do is to look at our world and observe the “Truth”. Jesus then teaches us how to apply the “Truth” that we observe to living a successful life! Again we see that the “Question/lesson” is simple in nature, JQ#10 is about 2 sparrows which is a bird everyone is familiar with and a simple copper coin, and everyone is familiar with copper coins, but then look at the great “Truth” Jesus uses these everyday items to teach us about — our individual “value” to the “Father”! Jesus always encourages us if we but listen, for Jesus never lets us take off on a tangent with some wild answer for He immediately directs our attention to the “good” we will find with and honest open answer, such as is the case with JQ#10. For as soon as Jesus asks the question He assures us that the Father values us and that the Father’s will for us is as Jeremiah states: “… plans for good and not for disaster, to give [us] a future and a hope…” (Jeremiah 29:11). Matthew Chapter 10 is a great insiders look at what are the expectations and truths about being a “disciple of Jesus” and includes the “costs of discipleship” and the “rewards” and like everything in God’s Economy, the ROI (Return On Investment) is out of this world !!!
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