Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video with song and lyrics from Jeremy Camp singing … The Answer … poignantly singing of how we need to bring our confusions and questions in life to the One with THE answers.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Exodus 3:12a [NLT] … 6 When Jesus saw him [the crippled man] and knew he had been ill for a long time, He asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
… Seems so obvious; so why would Jesus asked the crippled man if he desired wellness? … It’s to hear his heart expressed openly.
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Highlight Passage [context]: John 5:1-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus' question of the crippled man, ... asked and answered!
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Reference Passage : …Psalm 139:23-24 [NLT] … 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 Point out anything in me that offends You, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
… My humble prayer everyday.
Reference Passage : … Matthew 7:7-9 [NLT] … 7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
… Jesus’ teaching on our need to come humbly to petition the Lord.
Reference Passage : …James 4:2 [NLT] … 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.
… God, thru James, shows us that so many things don’t come to us because we’re painful and unwilling to bring them humbly to God.
Reference Passage : … 1Peter 5:6-7[NLT] … 6 So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor. 7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.
… Peter helps believers realize what it take to open God’s treasure chest of provision … i.e., HUMILITY.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, John Blase, used a curious incident involving Jesus and a crippled beggar to illustrate His teaching that we need to humbly come to Him for the answers to our questions. The ODB author wrote … Does the sun rise in the east? Is the sky blue? Is the ocean salty? Is the atomic weight of cobalt 58.9? Okay, that last one you might only know if you’re a science geek or tend to dabble in trivia, but the other questions have an obvious answer: Yes. In fact, questions like these are usually mixed with a hint of sarcasm.
If we’re not careful, our modern—sometimes jaded—ears can hear a bit of sarcasm in Jesus’s question to an invalid: “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:6). The obvious answer would seem to be, “Are you kidding me?! I’ve been wanting help for thirty-eight years!” But there’s no sarcasm present, that’s the furthest thing from the truth. Jesus’s voice is always filled with compassion, and His questions are always posed for our good.
We all have questions, … don’t we? But so often, as the reference scriptures above teach, we hold back and our pride gets in the way of bringing our questions to THE ONE with the answers. And that’s what Jeremy Camp sings in the linked song, doesn’t he?
Yes, the key to our getting GOD’S answers to our confusion and questions (see photo) is being willing to humble ourselves and bring those question to the Lord, … over and over and over again, if necessary. And in the Lord’s will and HIS timing, He will provide the answers … HIS answers.
That’s why I come to my King Jesus … EVERYDAY … humbly asking Him what David asked the Lord in Psalm 139:23-24 … to provide me with His way, especially if my way is the wrong way. Perhaps that’s a good prayer to help you get your answers as well … today …or maybe tomorrow.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for letting me come to You, praying humbly to receive Your grace.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me, to come humbly with our questions to God’s throne of grace. … Amen
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