JANUARY 02 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-02:
Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33
(Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, we pray as You instructed us to pray:
“Our Father who is in heaven,
give us this day our daily bread…”
(Matthew 6:11)
and we have such confidence in Your Daily Provisions
for us that we will proclaim as did King David,
“The LORD is my shepherd,
I shall not want…”
(Psalm 23:1)
Lord Jesus we come humbly
before You each morning to start our day knowing
that You ARE
what You say You ARE:
You Lord Jesus ARE
“The Way, the Truth, and the Life…”
(John 14:6)
Lord we cannot know Your Truth on our own without “Faith”
in Your Holy Word and “Trusting” that the “Way” that You have
so Graciously Promised to daily lead us will produce “Abundant Life” —
Lord we know that You are good to us because You choose to Love
us in spite of ourselves and we thank You and give You praise.
Lord I pray that You and Your Holy Spirit will move me and my selfish
desires out of the darkness and into
YOUR LIGHT!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus is a Name that is unlike any other name in history and
this blog seeks to discover the TRUTH of Jesus because there are some
very bold and “miraculous” claims associated with the Name of Jesus
in the Holy Bible! The challenge of this blog is not to provide “proof”
because this blog does not seek to be neither the “judge” nor the “jury”
but rather this blog is simply a common ordinary, everyday “Joe”
that takes the “witness” stand and with my left hand planted firmly
on the Holy Bible and my right hand raised toward the heavens
I proudly proclaim before all men,
“I swear to tell the TRUTH,
the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH,
so help me God!”
I seek no personal secular gain but seek desperately for Spiritual
guidance to live my life in “peace” and in the many years that I have
been searching for a “shelter in the storm” I have learned that when
you find that unexpected umbrella that it is smart to open it up and
let it protect you from the rain. I stand before you and say that I did
not expect to find TRUTH in any particular place, person, or philosophy
because all my previous expectations and explorations of places
where I “just knew” that TRUTH could be found had landed me in
some very peculiar predicaments!
My “witness” that I share in
this blog is a daily journal started in 2001
and has continued to the present that is the results
of the reality of applying the TRUTH that I
found in a book called the Holy Bible to my daily life — and I can
document through that daily journal of my journey seeking TRUTH
that by following God’s instructions found in the Holy Bible I have
avoided personal spiritual disaster and I know that my
“deliverance” came not because of anything that I have done! My
personal efforts are all selfish in nature and have always landed me
in some form of trouble from which the TRUTH of GOD
always has come to rescue me!
The Bible then has given me confidence that the
Holy Scriptures are the Inspired Word of God
and that the
Holy Scriptures are designed to reveal
The TRUTH of GOD.
In my life and my personal experience,
the TRUTH that I have discovered
in the Holy Bible has been constant
and it consistently produces successful results in my personal life
when I follow the TRUTH found in God’s Word.
This blog then does not look to “prove” that the
Word of God is infallible, this blog is simply to document how in
my personal life the Word of God has proved Itself to me to be infallible
in the results the WORD OF GOD produces in my personal physical
and spiritual life and I challenge you to answer for yourself the
question posed by a man who was desperately seeking answers in
his life, “What is truth?”.
Take any book or any philosophy and search
for the TRUTH within that book or philosophy and when you apply
what is proclaimed by that book or philosophy to be the “truth” to your
own life, you must then “test” your newly discovered “truth”: Ask
yourself “Is this ‘truth’ actually making an improvement in my personal life?”
The success or failure will be determined by what you “believe”
and you must ask yourself and respect yourself by answering
honestly this very personal question:
“Am I willing to bet my life,
my soul, and my eternity on this newfound ‘truth’ ?”
The world was telling me loudly and rudely
“You can find ‘TRUTH’
without God” — but MY Reality is:
GOD IS TRUTH!!!
CONCLUSION: NO GOD = NO TRUTH!!!
I close with the words of a famous country song:
“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!”
Remember,
“You are only ‘lying to yourself and living the lie’ if you
are not believing in and living your life through the
TRUTH as TRUTH proves itself
TO YOU BY THE FRUIT IT PRODUCES IN YOUR DAILY LIFE
AND DOCUMENTED THROUGH YOUR OWN
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ———
ONLY YOU KNOW
WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE!!!!
