MARCH 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#07 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 8:26)

MARCH 03  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#07 “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 8:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS, You know our hearts and therefore You know our minds, our intents, and most importantly, You know our desires. There is no place deep enough or secret enough within our wretched souls that Your Knowledge cannot penetrate — but there is no place that Your Great Knowledge penetrates that is not also filled with Your Great Compassion — HAVE MERCY ON ME O GOD!! Lord Jesus, fill me with Thy Spirit, anoint me with Thy Love, send me Lord into Thy Service that daily I may “die with Christ” that I may “live as Christ”!!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS never asked a Question while on earth that was not asked without a Specific Spiritual Purpose and Divine Intent. Jesus is the Supreme Communicator and He uses these Questions to motivate us to “know” Him and His Divine Intent {see Matthew 7:23}; it behooves us therefore to study His Divine Questions and “trust” that His Divine Intent will lead to Inspired Insight into the “mysteries” of God. >>>It is a far greater advantage for us in these “earthen” vessels to gain a “glimpse” of “God’s Spirit” while on our soul’s journey to the “Truth of God” than to have secular knowledge and “gain the whole world, [but] lose [our] own soul” (Mark 8:36). <<<. It is hard for us to see the “big picture” because our mortal finite knowledge cannot wrap around an Immortal God’s Infinite Knowledge so through God’s Infinite Wisdom He takes us a step at a time just as Isaiah proclaimed to God’s people as they were learning God’s Ways: “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little…” (Isaiah 28:13) Because knowing the Whole Mind of God is impossible for us, Isaiah reminds us, “His understanding is unfathomable…” (Isaiah 40:28) For example, if we take each “JESUS Question” we have studied and look at the path Jesus has taken us down so far, we can see that even though each Question has its own “Divine Merits”, that if we look at them together as a “Spiritual Progression” then we learn another valuable lesson — God has a Master Plan which will be executed “precept upon precept, little by little”! For example, the Holy Spirit has led me to give a personal summary title for each lesson as I review the previous JESUS Questions before moving to the next one and this is what I have so far: JQ#01: “Salt & Light” —  JQ#02: “Unconditional Love” —  JQ#03: “Worry”  —  JQ#04: “Judge Not”  —  JQ#05: “Ask-Seek-Knock”  —  JQ#06: “By Their Fruits”  —  JQ#07: “Of Fear & Faith”  —  “JQ#08: “Arise And Walk”. If you read the Questions in order you will see that Jesus Teaches individual Lessons but He is fulfilling Isaiah’s Prophecy that the Messiah will reveal God Himself to us by Teaching us “precept upon precept, line upon line”! Clearly the Divine Intent of the “JESUS Questions” is to give us Insight into God Himself and we will “know God” and our lives will become a “living sacrifice, wholly and acceptable unto God.” (Romans 12:1) The next “JESUS Question” is found in Matthew Chapter 9 and the context for JQ#08 is Matthew 9:1-8 with the JESUS Question being found in Matthew 9:4 where Jesus asks His followers to answer a very personal question, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?” (Matthew 9:4) The Question itself shows us that Jesus expects us to “think” on our own and He never pulls His punches for He wants us to learn the “precepts” of God. By answering JQ#08 honestly we will come to a better understanding of the “source” of evil and it will make us take a serious Truthful look inwardly at our own heart. Jesus knows that we will not “grow our faith” if our “faith is not tested” and the harder the test, the stronger will be the results and it is through the “testing of our faith” that our “little faith” will enlarge to the point that we will have “great faith” like Jesus pointed out about the centurion and through our “Great Faith in God” we will have enough strength to not only help ourselves but we will also be able to help others - Jesus commands us, “Arise, take up your bed, and go…” (Matthew 9:6b)