AUGUST 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#23-04 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#23 “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Matthew 20:32)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

AUGUST 03  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#23-04  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<<  JQ#23  “What do you want Me to do for you?”  (Matthew 20:32)

Daily Prayer to JESUS    

Jesus I come praising You for my successful surgery and Lord for all the prayers lifted up in Your Name, the ONLY Name that heals and forgives. Lord, I know it was Your hands guiding the surgeon and Lord, even though there were complications I can see that when this issue is corrected then the quality of my life will be exponential! Truly “all things [do] work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”  Lord my prayer today is simply to grow my Love for You and for others.   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

AUGUST 03  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#23-04  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<<  JQ#23  “What do you want Me to do for you?”  (Matthew 20:32).        Jesus is always Teaching and then Jesus holds a pop quiz test to see if we are paying attention, this is not for punishment but because Jesus never spoke or did anything while on earth that did not have a purpose associated with it — Jesus was always Teaching us about the Father and each Lesson has “Eternity” written all over it! Today I missed my morning devotionals but I communed with God all day, hour by hour and minute by minute ——— so it was late in the afternoon that I was able to pull out my devotionals and “get into the Word”! God proved to me that He has a “Plan” designed specifically for all ——— Jesus is making us stop and think about “purpose”, not only God’s Purpose for our lives but also Jesus makes us stop and think about what “purpose” do we have for God! This is a very complicated thought because we are all about “me, me, me” and we are so lost in “me” that we overlook the Truth of God that God is not just a genie that suddenly appears to grant us “3 wishes”, for that attitude about God is a “sin” in itself. God is not there at our “beck an call” to give us our petty selfish desires, no, God has a Plan for our lives and part of that Plan is for us to trust God to work out His Plan in our lives —hence, like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane  we should pray: “Father, if it is Your will, take this [trial] away from [us]; nevertheless not [our] will but Yours, be done.” (Luke 22:42) I am amazed at how God will cause several seemingly unconnected different things to come together on a single day and make His point that He has a Plan and is in control of every second in our lives. For example in September of 2016 I ended up in surgery and it is obvious that in critical times we demand that God be on our side but we fail to see on the sidelines how everything is working together for good for on that same day just before me there was a man having the same surgery, his surgery went very well and my surgery had some complications which we neither plan for nor pray for ourselves! However, the man that had the successful surgery was in the same room with me and as he observed my complications he was able to talk to me privately for he had the same complications years earlier in his life and he shared with me what he had done to successfully resolve a 25 year problem that had been misdiagnosed by several doctors, it is the same diagnosis that I am currently getting and I have been trying to resolve the problem for 10 years now! The point here is that God had planned for both of us to have surgery the same day and God put us in the same room so that God’s will for our lives would be done, and now what was a “complication” is going to turn out as a “cure”. Also on Sept 1 Oswald Chambers wrote in his journal “My Utmost for His Highest” “…it is written, “Be holy, for I AM holy …” (1 Peter 1:16) and then Oswald wrote in his commentary: “We must continually remind ourself of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness…the only thing [in life] that truly matters is whether a person will accept the God who will make [us] holy.” Oswald asks almost the same question Jesus is asking in JQ#23 “What do you want Me to do for you” (Matthew 20:32) when Oswald points us to an intimate, close-up and personal relationship with God as Oswald asks: “Do I believe that God can come into me and make me holy?” Therefore we should keep our focus on God’s Divine Purpose for our lives and accept that God can use “complications” and turn them into “cures”!!!