AUGUST 04 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#23 “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Matthew 20:32)

 

AUGUST 04 THE JESUS QUESTIONS   

JQ#23 

 “What do you want Me to do for you?”  

(Matthew 20:32)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Praise God from whom ALL Blessings Flow — Lord,

 my DAILY prayer will remain - “…not my will but Thy Will be done…” -

 You Lord have proven Yourself Faithful in doing that which is 

best for us, so Lord, regardless of the circumstances I will trust You

 and rise to the next level of Faith. Lord, for all those that prayed

 for me and my specific needs I pray BLESSINGS back to them, 

LORD, bless them and address their specific needs. You Lord Jesus

 are Gracious and I thank You that You have begun a good work 

in me, and when I stumble and fall back into “my worldly self” it is 

not because of any change in You, but a worldly weakness 

re-surfacing in me and I pray that You give me the strength to 

let go of my old weakness and let You change that “worldly” weakness

 into a “spiritual” strength, Your strength which always shows

 itself when I reach out to others.   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus certainly is the Master Teacher for how could a mere mortal use

 9 words to express so great a Truth of God? In 2004 I wrote this 

prayer to Jesus, 

“Jesus, O Precious Jesus, You have blessed us so 

Graciously that if we were to start praising You now and continued 

throughout all Eternity, there would not be enough time or words

 to express our gratitude. How can one repay so great a debt? What gift

 could we give to the Creator that could equal the gift of God dying for us?

 Lord Jesus, You have not accomplished these great things in order

 for us to be indebted to repay You, for repayment of such a gift is

 IMPOSSIBLE for there is no “gift” equal to the gift of God giving the

 world His Only Begotten Son to die for ALL sin and through 

His Death reward repentant sinners with Everlasting Life!” 

(Written 9/3/2004) 

Lord Jesus, when I read that 2004 prayer and then look at Your 9 word question 

JQ#23 “What do you want Me to do for you?” 

all I can think of is:

 

“It is finished!” (John 19:30)

 Jesus has truly “Paid it all” and there is nothing we can 

give in return for Jesus having already “done” ALL 

that needs to be done for our Eternal Salvation.  

I then have to bow in utter humility and give my answer to Your JQ#23: 

“Lord I can ask nothing from You but Grace, and there is nothing 

more that You need to do for me other than what You have already 

done so Lord keep me always in a humble and thanksgiving attitude!!!”  

I know that personally when I consider the Question 

“What do I want Jesus to do for me?” 

that my thoughts turn to looking at what He has already done in my life and 

I thank God that He has a Plan and that His Plan of Salvation

 has already been executed! The only thing left for us 

to do is to ACCEPT HIS GIFT of EVERLASTING LIFE !!! 

I find myself repeating a John F. Kennedy quote (paraphrased)

 “Ask not what can God do for me, ask what I can do for God.” 

As soon as I ask that question from my heart, 

Jesus speaks through the scriptures: 

“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, 

and those who are great exercise authority over them. Yet it 

shall not be so among [the followers of Jesus]; but whoever 

desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 

And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—

—— just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but 

to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” 

(Matthew 20:21-28)

 Quite often I catch myself marveling at how great a gift Salvation is —

—— when you know God, then you know there is nothing that 

we can repay Him with except 

“repentance” and “obedience” to His Word!!! 

Therefore if you find yourself wanting “more” from Jesus perhaps you

 should stop and evaluate your personal desires and  and ask yourself,

 “just how much is enough?” 

—- Greed is entitlement —- 

Grace is enough!!!

AUGUST 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#23 “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Matthew 20:32)

 

AUGUST 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS   

JQ#23

  “What do you want Me to do for you?”  

(Matthew 20:32)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS I come praising You for Your UNCONDITIONAL LOVE 

and Lord for all the prayers lifted up for our country in Your Name, 

the ONLY Name that heals and forgives. 

Lord, I know it is Your hands guiding 

our nation back to greatness again and Lord, even though there

 are still those who desire to control us with their lies and deceptions,

 I can see that when these issues are “brought to Light” then the 

quality of our lives will grow exponentially!  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 our Love for You and for others.   

IN THE NAME OF CHRIST  

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is always Teaching and then Jesus holds a pop quiz test to see if

 we are paying attention, this spiritual pop quiz is not to punish us —

—— Jesus never spoke or did anything while on earth that did not

 have a purpose AND A PLAN FOR OUR GOOD associated with it —

 Jesus was and always is Teaching us about THE FATHER and 

each Lesson has “ETERNITY” written all over it! 

On a rare day that I miss my morning devotionals, I still commune

 with God throughout the day, hour by hour and minute by minute —

—— by late in the afternoon I understand that living my daily life

 for Him is my best devotional and is “LIVING THE WORD!” 

God proves daily to us 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 HIM and the Truth of God that God is not just a genie

 that suddenly appears to grant us “3 wishes” — 

for the attitude that God is a “genie” is the essence of “sin” in itself. 

God is not there at our “beck-and-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 for us and is in control of every second of 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 of my 2016 surgery there was a 

man having the very same surgery, his surgery was done just

 before me by the same doctor went very well but my surgery had 

some complications and though we never plan nor pray for complications

 for ourselves, complications can lead to unexpected opportunities! 

The man that had the successful surgery the day before mine was

 in the bed next to me and he observed my complications. The next 

day he was able to talk to me privately for he had previously 

experienced 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.

 The interesting result of my “complications” and the man’s “success”

 is that the same diagnosis the man was given  several years ago

 is the same diagnosis that I am currently getting and I have been 

trying to resolve the same problem myself 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 becoming (through GOD’S WILL) 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”!!!