LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional
MAY 24 SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-13
365 Prayers to JESUS
Jesus, Praise be to the One! You LORD and You Alone are Worthy of all the Praise, Glory, and Honor that men utter, for there is no one that has done a single righteous thing to be worthy of any praise. Lord Jesus please accept this offering of Praise and Thanksgiving because of “who” You are and what You continue to do for a lost and dying world. Lord, I pray that Your Light will shine through my darkness so that all anyone sees when they look at me is You! Jesus, I know that daily I must die to self that I may be resurrected in You, so my prayer is that I may become “one” with You that I can reflect all that You are. AMEN
The Jesus Questions
SRJQ#1-13 (Day10) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.
Lesson 8 JQ#8 “How do you put ‘Feet’ to your ‘Faith’?” Matthew 9:1-13
Jesus has in the first 7 Jesus questions taught us to see that we should follow His example as He teaches us how to be “salt and light” (JQ#1), the meaning of “True Love” (JQ#2), forget about “worrying” because God is worrying for us (JQ#3), then Jesus starts in on some characteristics we should develop as He tells us “not to judge” because that’s God’s responsibility (JQ#4), and that we should pursue the kingdom as we “Ask-Seek-Knock” (JQ#5), with our goal to be producing “good fruit” for ourselves and for others (JQ#6), so that our “Faith” will overcome our “Fears” (JQ#7), and then Jesus says that as His disciples we should follow His example of “walking the walk” and not just “talking the talk” as He teaches us by example in JQ#8 how to “put ‘feet’ to our ‘Faith’”. To learn these lessons and develop the characteristics of Jesus and not share them with others is a huge problem in doing kingdom work because Jesus says we should take what is “in here” to the problem that is “out there”! Jesus teaches us in JQ#8 the importance of “doing” for the “kingdom’s sake” instead of just talking about it. JQ#8 points to the importance of “going” as Matthew writes “So [Jesus] got into a boat, crossed over, came to His own city. Then behold, they brought to [Jesus] a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.’” (Matthew 9:1) In this one verse we see one “action” after another (1) Jesus got into a boat (2) He crossed over (3) [He] came to His own city (4) they brought to Him a paralytic (5) Jesus saw their faith … then as a result of all these actions Jesus (6) forgave the paralytic of his sins and (7) Jesus healed the paralytic and the paralytic (8) took up his bed and (9) walked. Jesus not only accomplished all these miracles but He taught us that our faith is to be used to help others and that we are to actually put “Feet to our Faith” for when Jesus sees us exercising our “Faith” to help others that Jesus will perform miracles in the lives of those that come into contact with our faith. Jesus confirmed He wanted us to “exercise” our “faith” as he commanded “Arise and walk” (Matthew 9:5) — Isn’t it obvious that if we “Arise” and “Walk” that we are going to accomplish more if we just “Sit” and “Talk”??
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