THE JESUS LIFE
christian’s inquiry
Helping You Live Biblically All Day
Long
It isn’t until
the Bible is brought into your life that it brings transformation and a close
and intimate relationship with Jesus.
By
Mel D Westbrook MBTh
Introduction
What Helps With Focus?
The purpose of the Christian’s Inquiry booklet
is to help you see what it is Jesus is trying to accomplish in you. There are two situations where you typically
apply yourself with a little more effort--if you know you are going to be
tested or if you are in a life-situation that the information is helping you
solve. You are in a life-situation that
Jesus is using these Biblical principles to solve. But, you may not
realize what kind of a solution Jesus is using.
He approaches solutions in a very different way. These questions help you read and pray with
much greater focus being applied to them.
Also, these questions are great for group discussion and time spent with
a mentor. Just circle the questions you
feel would be good for discussion.
How Do
These Principles Help?
Once a week, you need to meet with your mentor
or a group of friends and discuss that week’s Biblical principles. The objective isn’t to see if you learned
anything. It is to see if you are being
helped with your life’s issues. Did you
see Biblical truths that are able to help you be set free from your life’s
challenges? Did you learn important
Biblical principles? Did you see them as
principles that could be applied to your relationships? Did you see how the principles could be used
in your daily activities? Did you try to
use them on those things you faced that week?
Did the principles make a difference?
Ask Jesus to help you keep these questions and purposes in front of you
all during your week.
How Do
These Principles Help You?
The breakthroughs you have already experienced
in your life are proof that Bible principles work. As you go over the material and the questions
in this Christian’s Inquiry booklet, where do you fit into the subjects? Have you applied these principles to your
life in the past and received breakthroughs you could share with your friends? Were there times when you struggled with
applying the principles and learned important things about how to apply
them? Ask Jesus to help you get yourself
and your friends involved in this study and prayer process.
An
Open-Book Test
When you are aware of what questions you need
to be asking yourself, and when you discuss these questions with a mentor or a
group of friends, frequently you will get more out of your studies and
prayers. Pray and ask Jesus to help you
take full advantage of this Christian’s Inquiry booklet and the questions in
it.
The Jesus
Life Christian’s Inquiry
LIFEstyle:
“The Jesus Life” Truth/Prayer Pages
Version: 25.10.10
Week One Day Three
Chapter One
Living Victoriously
How Do You
Live What You Have Learned?
Why can’t you just read a truth in the Bible and start living it?
Why do you need to ask Jesus to empower you to live Biblical truth?
What does Matthew 7:7 provide that is needed in all of Christianity?
How Do You Apply
The Truths To Everyday
Living?
What causes Biblical truths to sometimes get forgotten and lost?
How would you go about living Christianity moment-by-moment and issue-by-issue?
What happens if you use the SEEK Key?
What Does It Mean To YIELD Your
Life to The Truths
Once you hear a Biblical truth, is that all you need to do?
Once you learn a Biblical truth, can you start living it?
What must be used so you can hold to Jesus’ teaching?
What Did Jesus Mean When He Said To “Hold To”?
Is Jesus just trying to inform you about what your responsibility is?
Can you use your best efforts to live the Christian life?
How does Jesus’ teaching help you do what you couldn’t do before?
How Do I “Do What It Takes” To Hold to Jesus’ Teaching?
What are the two steps for truth to set you free?
Steps To Freedom
What are the three steps to freedom?
Chapter Two
The Three Keys
Week One Day Four
How To Benefit From The Three Keys
1. ASK Jesus to Teach You How to Use the
Three Keys to All of Christianity
How are The Three Keys To All Of Christianity like you using your hand?
2.
ASK Jesus To Help You Know The “ASK” Key Is The
Most Powerful And Important
What helps you get good gifts from your heavenly Father?
3.
ASK Jesus To Help You Understand Your Permission Based Relationship With Him
Does God require your permission to do things for you?
If you give God your permission, will He do it?
What criteria does God use in deciding whether or not He will do something you ask for?
4.
ASK Jesus To Protect
Your Free Will
Does everyone have to honor your God-given free will?
5.
ASK Jesus To Help You Understand That Free-Will Requires Invitation
Why does God require you to make the first move now that Jesus died on the cross?
6.
ASK Jesus
To Help You Understand That Power Requires Righteousness
What kind of person is starting to succeed with righteousness more and more each day?
7.
ASK Jesus To Help
You Ask, Seek, And Knock For Only Doing Good
(Righteousness)
Is learning truth all it takes for it to set you free?
8.
ASK Jesus
To Set You Free From Using
Human Effort To Get Your Needs Met
After you have done everything in your power to get what you need, what is missing?
If you ask for something and don’t get it, what could be the reason?
9.
Being Set Free From
Human Procedures And Efforts
How do the Three Keys help you to look to Jesus rather than to yourself?
Chapter
Three
Did
You Know You Have a God-Given Free Will?
Week One Day Five
How To Direct Your
Will
1.
Ask
Jesus To Help Your Will Only Desire Good Things
Does Mark 11:24 in the American King James Version mean that you can ask for anything you want or can desire and you will get it?
2.
Ask
Jesus To Help Your Will Only Want Eternal Things
Does 1 John 2:17 mean that all you should think about is eternity?
3.
Ask
Jesus To Help Your Will Only Seek The
Righteous Life
What’s wrong with setting unrighteous goals and humanistic plans?
Can you think of any goals or plans that you set without consulting Jesus?
4.
Ask
Jesus To Help Your Will Only Desire To Live Honorably
What is your definition and example of what living honorably looks like?
Is it possible to function and succeed in business, marriage, and friendships with honor?
5.
Ask
Jesus To Help Your Will Only Desire The Truth
What is wrong with wanting things that God doesn’t want you to have?
Is there a Biblical truth that you don’t like?
Yielding To The Holy Spirit’s Will
Can you have your mind set on the desires of the sinful nature and the Holy Spirit?
1. Ask Jesus To Help You
Willingly Respect God’s Abilities
Does God’s will also deal with things that aren’t sin?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help Your Will Be Based On Faith
And Trust In God
What if God wants something for you that you don’t like?
3.
Ask Jesus To Help You Be Willing To Have The Right Mind-Set
Is having a mind set mean it is you making up your mind?
Is there a way for you to make up your mind through the Holy Spirit’s power?
4.
Ask Jesus To Help You Be Willing To Have The Same Desire The Holy Spirit Has
Are you wanting the same things the Holy Spirit wants for you?
5.
Constantly Ask Jesus To
Help You Be Willing To Have The
Right Desires
Did you do something yesterday that you didn’t consult God on?
Chapter
Four
Where
Did You Get Your Education?
Week Two Day One
How
To Get The Truth
1.
Ask
Jesus For The Goal That Sets
All Your Training Goals
Is there a way to succeed now that would apply to your rewards and treasures in eternity?
2.
Ask
Jesus For Truths That Are Better Than All Other
Information
Are the truths of the Bible able to help you make less and less mistakes in life?
3.
Ask
Jesus For The Right Meaning
So You Will Have The Truth
What’s wrong with misunderstanding the meaning of a verse?
Studying The Right
Way
1.
Pray That You Will Do The Right Thing
Is there anything in your thoughts, feelings, words, or deeds that Jesus is against?
Will these kinds of things keep you from being helped by Biblical truth?
2.
Pray That You Don’t Do The Right Thing For The Wrong Reason
Can you study the Bible with selfish or prideful motives?
Could selfishness or pride cause you to misinterpret the meaning of a verse?
3.
Pray That You Get The
Right Information
Do life-problems help you study the Bible better?
What toolset helps you to not mess up?
4.
Pray That You Don’t Get The Right Information And Then
Reject It
What could cause you to reject truth?
5.
Pray That You Get The
Right Information And Accept It
What would help you read the Bible with the attitudes of a little child?
6.
Pray That You Have A
Seeking Type Of Bible Study
How does the seek key influence your attitudes?
Have you asked Jesus to empower the things you ask for with the seek key?
Chapter
Five
Who Do You Consult
for Your Answers?
Week Two Day Two
How
To Get The Right Answers
1.
Pray That You Get Good Gifts
What does Matthew 7:11 say you have to do to get good gifts from your heavenly Father?
2.
Pray That You Don’t Miss Out On God’s Good Gifts
What does James 4:2 say you have to do to get good gifts from your heavenly Father?
3.
Pray That You Get Specific Good Gifts
What is the prayer we should start our day with?
4.
Pray That You Follow The Simple
Process
What happens when you include Jesus in your decision-making process?
5.
Pray That You Always Use The Three Keys
What happens with you ASK for something Biblical?
6.
Pray That You See The
Good Attitudes Of Your Heavenly Father
If you ASK God for something, will He give you something bad?
7.
Pray That You Understand The Words, “How Much More”
Is God good or supernaturally good?
If You Can See The Evil In It….
What’s the difference between your heavenly Father and your earthly parents?
How Much More?
Do you have any distrust with your heavenly Father?
Are you ever concerned that God might do something you don’t like?
The Reverse Is True
Do bad things come from God?
Can bad things happen to Christians?
What does God do with bad things coming your way?
Chapter Six
What
People and Things Do You Trust?
Week Two Day Three
How To Get Reliable Faith
1.
Ask
For Jesus’ Faith That Gets Results
Who or what do you have to have faith in?
Is it okay for you to use your faith to get things from God?
2.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Understand The Definition Of
Faith
According to Hebrews 11:1, what are the two evidences of true faith?
Can you believe for anything you want?
3.
Ask Jesus To
Give You The Type Of Faith He
Speaks Into You
How do you get Hebrews 11:1 kind of faith?
According to James 1:6-8, what is wrong with human faith?
Is it okay to try to believe something?
4.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Wait For Faith To
Come
Should you believe in healing or believe in Jesus for healing?
5.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Understand The Authoring Of
Your Faith
What does the Bible mean when it says Jesus is the Author of your faith?
6.
Ask Jesus To
Perfect Your Faith
If you have perfected faith, will you then get everything you pray for?
7.
Ask Jesus To
Help Your Faith Become Constant
What does Jesus mean when He says you have little faith?
8.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Have The Right Motives
Is it okay to pray for things that just help you?
9.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Get Faith Through Love
Is it okay to pray for your sports team to win?
Chapter
Seven
How Do You Feel
About God, Yourself, and Others
Week Two Day Four
How To Live Love
1.
Thank God For His Love
According to 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, can you do
really nice things but not have love?
According to Romans 5:5, what kind of love do you have?
2.
Ask For Jesus’ Help With
The Three Number One Requirements
What are the three number one requirements?
Should you love yourself?
3.
Ask Jesus To Help You Understand That He Is All About Love
According to John 3:16, who will perish?
4.
Ask Jesus To Help You Understand That He IS
Love
According to 1 John 4:8, who doesn’t know God?
5.
Ask Jesus To Help You Take Advantage Of
What You Have
Whose love is 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 describing?
Should you pray for God’s love or yield to it?
6.
Ask Jesus To Help You Learn The
Characteristics Of Love
Should you be living 1 Corinthians 13:4-8?
7.
Ask Jesus To Help You Understand That You Don’t Get Better
Is your goal to be a better Christian?
8.
Ask Jesus To Help You Understand That Improvement Is A Gift
What causes you to live a better Christian life?
Chapter
Eight
How Do You
Know When You Have God’s Answer?
Week Two Day Five
How To Start Living The Bible
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Start Living On The
Basis Of The Fact
What is faith-action?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help You Live The
Christian Lifestyle Through Faith-Action
How do you know when Jesus has given you something you have been praying for?
3.
Ask Jesus To
Help You With A Three Step
Process
What is the three step process?
4.
Ask To Understand That Jesus Wants
These Things In Your Life
What is the objective of Luke 6:46?
5.
Ask For Jesus’ Help In
Taking These Three Steps Into The
LIFEstyle Of Jesus
What are the three steps given in Luke 6:47?
6.
Ask Jesus For The Lifestyle
What does the flood represent in Luke 6:48?
7.
Pray Against Not Taking Faith-Action
What might keep you from putting Jesus’ words into practice?
8.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Put Them Into Practice
What does Jesus want you to do with those things He is teaching you?
Chapter
Nine
Do You Know What The Objective Is?
Week Three Day One
How To Remain In Jesus
How Do You
Start Putting Bible Things Into Practice?
What Bible passage teaches you how to put Jesus’ words into practice?
What Keeps You From Increasing
Your Potential?
How do you get God to change bad trends, circumstances, and relationships?
How Do You Evaluate Victory?
Why don’t the things of this world give people satisfaction, completeness, and peace?
Have You Added Outside Resources?
What or who do you turn to when you aren’t adequate for a life challenge?
Are You Connected To A Better Outside Source?
What outside resources do you rely on when you run out?
Are You Connected To The Best?
How would you evaluate or rate the resources you typically depend on?
How Do You Eliminate Your Limitations?
How much does it cost to get God’s help?
Are You On The
Self-Improvement Program?
What is the problem with self-improvement?
Is Your Life Based On Wages Or Gifts?
What is it like being a child whose Father is God?
Born In The Right Family
What is it like having a Father Who owns everything?
Did You Know You Have Been Adopted Into
The Right Family?
Are you taking advantage of being a child of God?
Chapter Ten
How Does
Life Work?
Week Three Day Two
How
To Get Life Working Right
Do You Believe Jesus Knows How Life Works?
Where have your philosophies of life come from?
What Is Running, Shaping, and Controlling Your Life?
What kind of an influence do your philosophies have on you?
Are You
Willing To Stop And
Take Out Time To Reconsider?
When would be a good time for you to evaluate your philosophies?
Are You
Willing To Stop And
Take Time To Set Some Goals?
When would be a good time to make sure your goals are godly?
Have You Stopped
And Thanked God For What He
Has Already Done?
Why is it important to thank God for those things He gives you?
Have You Stopped And Prayed For Those You Know Who Are Suffering?
Why is God so good to you, when so many other people are suffering?
1. What are
the things that are bothering you the most?
2. What goals
have you set up as being the most important accomplishments for your life?
3. What plans
have you put in place that are now influencing most of your decisions?
4. What kind
of circumstances have come your way that have shaped a lot of your life?
5. What
relationships have you established that are major contributors to the way you
live?
6. Are you
happy with the way you are living?
7. Are you
satisfied with the way your life is heading?
8. Would you
like Jesus to help with it all?
Chapter
Eleven
A Very Important
Illustration
Week Three Day Three
You
Are Now In A Very Wealthy
Family
How are you reacting to inheriting God and all He has?
Two Rich Kids
How
Will You React To The Wealth
and Power of Your Heavenly Father?
What is the greatest thing you have inherited from God?
The Younger Son
Should You Receive God’s Gifts With
No Appreciation?
Are you taking your inheritance for granted?
What Are You Going To Do With God’s Generosity?
Have you ever asked God for anything through selfish motives?
Do You Feel Like You Deserve God’s Blessings? Or, Do You See Them As
Gifts?
What difference does it make how you see God’s blessings?
Are You Ready To Face Reality?
Have any of your philosophies proven to be wrong?
Did You Know Your Greatest Inheritance Is Your Father?
Why should want God more than what He has?
How Should You Learn Your Lessons?
Have you ever tried to fix one of your mess-ups?
Do You Have God’s Power-Attitudes?
What do the first four power-attitudes do for you?
Are You Ready For A Change Of Life?
How do you typically try to fix your mistakes?
Chapter
Twelve
Seeing What
Separation Does
Week Three Day Four
Which Word
Motivates Your Goals?
What eight THINGS typically motivate people?
What Do You
Think?
What can cause you to think you control the laws of life?
What Should You Do Now?
What methods have you used as you tried to get yourself to spend more time with God?
How To
Spend More Time With God
DESIRE: Why do you have to want something before God will give it to you?
STUDY: If you don’t know a Scripture or a Biblical principle, will God use it to help you?
PRAY: If you don’t ask for something, will God give it to you anyway?
BELIEVE: If you doubt something is true, will Jesus do it anyway?
LOVE: If you don’t care about others, will God just take care of you?
FAITH-ACTION: If Jesus gives you the faith and you know you now have it, will it just start working in your life?
THANKFUL: If you aren’t thankful for all the previous gifts Jesus has given you, will He just keep giving them to you?
Chapter
Thirteen
What Do You Do When
You Are In The Wrong Place?
Week Three Day Five
Should You Stay Or Leave?
If you mess up, why shouldn’t you just stay there and see if you can fix it?
Do You Try To Make The Best Of It?
If you mess up, what is wrong with you just making the best of your situation?
Do You Get Ready To Make A Change?
If you mess up, who should you check with to see what to do next?
Where Is Reality and
Truth?
Do You Get Ready To Take A New Look?
Are you willing to where you went wrong, why you went wrong, Who you should have listened to?
Do You Get Ready To Take A Hard Look At Your Situation?
What are some reasons why you wouldn’t be able to see your mistakes?
Do You Get Ready For A New Plan?
What are some reasons why you wouldn’t be able to accept a new plan?
Do You Get Ready For A New Relationship?
What are some reasons why you wouldn’t be willing to talk to God about your mistake?
Do You Get Ready For A New Attitude?
What are some reasons why you wouldn’t be willing to examine your attitude?
Do You Get Ready To Be Trained: Be
Poor In Spirit?
What are some reasons why you wouldn’t be willing to be retrained by Jesus?
Chapter Fourteen
How Do You Spend Your Time With Your Heavenly Father?
Week Four Day One
How To Spend Time With Your Heavenly Father
Is your prayer more about what you think, feel, and want?
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You Be Open To Instruction
If you don’t know what a truth is, what do you need to do to find out about it?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help You Have The Right Desire
What kind of desires could keep you from getting what you need from God?
3.
Ask Jesus To Help You Use “The Three Keys” To Deal With
Desire
Can’t you just change your attitudes and desires and start desiring the right things?
4.
Ask Jesus To Help You Get The Right Objective
What are some things that your body wants that are against what Jesus wants for you?
5.
Ask Jesus To Help You Understand The
Situation
How should you see your body as it relates to living the Christian life?
6.
Ask Jesus To Help You Pray The Prayer
What are some things that are causing you to mess up that you need to pray about?
7.
Ask Jesus To Help You With The
Suffering
What are some things the Bible is asking you to accept and do that you don’t want to do?
Chapter Fifteen
Heading In The Right Direction
Week Four Day Two
The Power Of Repentance
· Are You Ready To Make The First Move: What is the process of you repenting?
· Do You Believe God Loves You In Spite Of What You Did: What does repentance do to your relationship with God?
· Do You Know What Is Holding Up Your Help From God: What does a lack of repentance do to your relationship with God?
Dealing With
Worthiness
1. Are You Ready To Be Untrained So You Can Be Trained: What did the world teach you about worthiness?
2. What Is Better, Having To Repent Or Not Doing It In The First Place: What could you do to not sin in the first place?
3. Do You Understand God’s Grace Plan: How does grace deal with worthiness?
4. Do You Understand God’s Forgiveness Plan: Why would God forgive you, if you are not worthy?
5. Do You Understand God’s Gifts Plan: Since you need God’s gifts, how do you get them?
6. Are You Ready To Drop Worthiness and Establish Appreciation: What should you do when God gives you gifts?
No Inheritance But A Relationship
· Do You Believe This Is The Way Your Father Feels About You: What is the best way for you to benefit from reading something like this?
· Can You Start Over and Be Much More Successful: What does your future with Jesus look like, if you have totally messed up your life?
· What Does Your Future Look Like: What do you need to forget?
Death Is A Separation
·
Do You See Death as a Separation: Do
you just cease to exist, when you die?
·
Do You See Life as a Connection: What
is most important with God?
Chapter
Sixteen
Did You Know You Control The Quality?
Week Four Day Three
How To Have A Relationship With
God
1.
Pray That
Jesus Helps You Benefit From The
Information
How could you start benefiting from this information more?
2.
Pray That Jesus Helps You Have Relationship Growth
What is different between your goals and God’s supernatural goals for you?
3.
Pray That Jesus Helps You Get Relationship
Growth Through Time Spent Together
What would you like to see increase in your relationship with God?
4.
Pray That Jesus Will Help You Go From Learning To Living
What could you do to make the time you are spending with God, more meaningful?
Pray That
God Will Help You Face The Facts
Desire
Are there areas in your faith where you need Jesus to enlarge your desire?
Study
What Old Testament heroes could you read about that would help you believe for
Pray
What has God done for you that you haven’t yet really appreciated and praised Him for?
Believe
What gift from God should you be waiting on Jesus’ faith for so you can know Jesus gave it to you?
Love
Where are you struggling with loving someone?
Faith-Action
In what area of your life has Jesus given you the faith to know He has given you what you prayed for but you haven’t lived on the basis of the fact that you have it?
Thankful
How can you make sure you will notice and appreciate all God is doing for you?
Chapter Seventeen
The Older Son
Week Four Day Four
Do You Not Have Time For Fun?
Are there any aspects of the fruit of the Spirit that aren’t elevating your spirit to its highest level of emotional excitement?
What Gets You Out Of Touch With Your Father?
Is their any area where you are mad, disappointed, questioning, or frustrated with God?
Are You Struggling With Love
Relationships?
Is there anyone you are judging, not forgiving, or not loving to the fullness of God’s love?
The Secrets Of Your Heart
Are You Letting Your Emotions Build Up?
Are there areas where you are allowing yourself to think and feel things that are not good?
Where’s A Good Place To Release
Emotions?
Can you see that there is nothing you can hide from God?
Are there things where you need to go ahead and get them out before God?
Good Connections Heal Your Heart
What is in your heart that is keeping you from having a total and intimate relationship with your heavenly Father?
Free To Be Healed Or Stay Sick
Since God won’t force you to do anything, is there any area where you need to invite Him into it so He can help you with it?
Chapter Eighteen
Are You
Sure You Should Be Mad?
Week Four Day Five
How To Get Your Emotions Healed
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You “Do What It Takes.”
Are there some Biblical principles you are able to talk about, quote, explain, and teach but aren’t living?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Discover The Most Important Information In The World
What gets what you know and installs it in your life?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Get At The Truth Of
The Matter
What are people trying to tell you but you aren’t listening to them?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You With Love In Action
What are you thinking and saying that need more information before you address them?
5. Ask
Jesus To Give You Freedom
From Excessive Emotions
What are you about to react to that you haven’t prayed and allowed Jesus to analyze?
6. Ask
Jesus To Give You A
Righteous Life
What are you doing to yourself, others, and God’s plan that isn’t good?
7. Ask
Jesus To Help You Handle Strong Emotions
Are you trying to be nice by just not saying anything and not praying for power to be nice?
8.
Ask Jesus To Help
You “Do What It Takes” To Be Healed From Emotional
Problems
What kind of emotions that aren’t the fruit of the Spirit that you see as being important for you to keep, use, and apply to various situations?
Chapter Nineteen
The Healing Process
Starts
Week Five Day One
How To Bring Healing To A
Relationship
1. Release The Bitterness To God
What kind of attitudes and feelings do you need to release to God?
2. Reveal Your Philosophies
What beliefs, opinions, and feeling are you trying to hide from God?
3. Reveal Your View Point
What kind of relationship, position, or connection do you feel you have with God?
Healing By
Identifying The Offense
1. Express The Broken Relationship
Where do you feel you are being mistreated?
2. Express The Reason For The Broken Relationship
What makes you think you have been mistreated?
Two Bad Philosophies
1. The Demanding Relationship
Are there any areas where you feel you deserve better treatment?
2. The Waiting And Wishing
Relationship
Are there any areas where you wish you were more worthy of a better relationship?
Chapter
Twenty
Are You
Sure It’s God’s Fault?
Week Five Day Two
How To Stay Close To God
1.
Release The Bitterness To God
DESIRE: What are some reasons for why you might not want to release the bitterness?
STUDY: What does the Bible say that disagrees with your bitterness?
PRAY: Are you praying in bitterness? Or, are you praying to be healed for bitterness?
BELIEVE: Do you believe your evaluation or what the Bible says about God?
LOVE: What is contaminating your love relationship with God?
FAITH-ACTION: What could you do toward God that would heal your heart toward Him?
THANKFUL: How could you change your thought-life and be healed of negative thinking?
2. Reveal Your Philosophies To God
DESIRE: How do you feel your philosophy fits in with God’s philosophy?
STUDY: What does the Bible say about your philosophy?
PRAY: When you prayed, what did God tell you about your philosophy?
BELIEVE: What part of your belief system is Biblical and what is not?
LOVE: What parts of your philosophy are selfish?
FAITH-ACTION: What parts of your philosophy do you need to take action against?
THANKFUL: What parts of your philosophy are devoted to what is negative?
3. Reveal Your View Point To God
DESIRE: How do you see God, as good or as being harsh and judgmental?
STUDY: How do you see the Bible, as good or as being harsh and demanding?
PRAY: How do you think God feels about your prayers?
BELIEVE: Is God and the Bible your final authority?
LOVE: Who is most important to you?
FAITH-ACTION: What is your purpose for life?
THANKFUL: How do you feel about your relationship with God?
Chapter Twenty-One
The Faith
Relationship
Week Five Day Three
Faith Because Of Sonship
Why do you think God gives you gifts?
Faith Because Of Generosity
What gifts, that you read about in the Bible, would you feel were too generous for you?
Faith Because Of A Perfect Record
What is in your behavior that hinders you being willing to receive certain gifts from God?
Faith Because Of The Gift
What is God telling you to believe that you are having problems believing?
The Grace And Faith Relationship
It’s All About People
Are there people that you feel God is being too gracious with?
It Is About Who Or What You Use
What is your purpose for earning money?
Chapter Twenty-Two
Did You
Know You Inherited God?
Week Five Day Four
How
To Live In Your Inheritance
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You Choose Your Approach To Life
What could cause you to read the Bible as being fictional?
2. Ask Jesus To Help
You Understand That “Everything I Have Is Yours”
What is the Bible telling you that it is yours but you haven’t believed it yet?
Are you like the younger son and only asking for selfish things?
Are you like the older son and not asking for anything?
3. Ask Jesus
To Help
You Get The Keys
Why are the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12 so important for you getting what you need?
4. Ask Jesus
To Help
You Not Be Locked Out Of Your Own Inheritance
How do The Three Keys and the Beatitudes help you get your needs met?
5. Ask Jesus
To Help
You Know He Is Faithful
Why can’t Jesus always trust you will those things you have inherited?
6. Ask Jesus
To Help
You Be Healed From This Human Decision
What should you be doing with those parts of your inheritance that you have already received?
7. Ask Jesus To Help You See His Gifts In Seven Ways
DESIRE: What do you want from God?
STUDY: What kind of Scriptures are you trying to learn?
PRAY: What kind of prayers are you praying?
BELIEVE: What parts of your inheritance are you trying to believe for?
LOVE: Who or what do you find yourself loving the most?
FAITH-ACTION: What kind of a life are you trying to live?
THANKFUL: What kind of life are you not appreciating?
Chapter Twenty-Three
Sin Separates;
Salvation Connects
Week Five Day Five
How
To Remain Connected
Separation
What are you doing that may be separating you from your heavenly Father?
Connection Brings Life
What could you start doing that would help you be more connected to your heavenly Father?
Finding The Lost
Who have you lost a relationship with and are separated from them?
What Is Important?
What are you doing with the things you have been given so far?
Who Is Important?
Why is Jesus so important for you to hang on to and to let
Him hang on to you?
JESUS
Jesus Is The Way
What ways are you walking all during your day? Can you think of some paths you take from
time-to-time that lead you away from your heavenly
Father?
Jesus Is Your Way
What way is Jesus asking you to take each day that would
enhance your relationship with Him?
Jesus Is Your Truth And Life
What has Jesus done for you so far that has helped you know
He is your truth and life?
Jesus Is The Vine
Remain In
How does a branch connected to a grape vine help you better
see the importance of staying connected?
Winning Over Life Issues
What does a son connected to a father and a branch
connected to a grape vine have in common?
Chapter
Twenty-Four
Are You On The Right Path?
Week Six Day One
How To Travel With Jesus
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Choose Your Path Wisely
How does an express way force you to go where it goes?
2. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand Destination
Consequences
What destination-consequences have you experienced in your life?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand Destination
Benefits
What destination-benefits have you experienced with Jesus so far?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Know What To
Do When The Right Road Looks Wrong
In what ways have you struggled with going in the direction Jesus is taking you?
5. Ask Jesus To Help
You Not Neglect All The Right Information
What Biblical road signs have you read but haven’t applied The Three Keys to yet?
6. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand New Or
Untrained Christians
Why does God wait for you to decide you want to do the right things?
What is the difference in being a new Christian and an untrained one?
1. Where is your sinful nature located?
2. Why can’t you just do what you desire to do in Christianity?
3. What keeps you from being able to use human effort and world training to live the Christian life?
Chapter Twenty-Five
Following Jesus’
Teachings In John 15:1-17
Week Six Day Two
Living Out Your
Purpose Through Matthew 5:3-12
Poor In Spirit – Open To God’s
Teaching: Matthew 5:3
What could keep you from being open to Jesus’ teachings?
Mourning – Open To God’s
Correction: Matthew 5:4
Why would God need to correct you?
How do you feel about it when God corrects you?
Is there anything in your life you need to mourn and repent of?
Meekness – Open To God’s Leadership And Expertise: Matthew 5:5
Is God and the Bible your final authority on how you should live your life?
What should you do when you find out you are doing something wrong?
Righteousness – Only Doing Good: Matthew 5:6
What are you doing that looks like what the two sons were doing?
The Beatitudes: Learning The System Of God
Is there anything in your life that you think God may be trying to prune?
Associating With Good People
What might you be basing your life on that actually came from world training?
Getting The Training And Power You
Need
Why do you need adult spiritual food?
Chapter Twenty-Six
How Are You
Going To Be Open To All Jesus
Has?
Week Six Day Three
How To Be Receptive To Jesus’ Teachings
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You With Your Attitudes
What attitude is Jesus currently dealing with in you?
2. Ask Jesus To Help You
Take His Word For It
What happens to you if you don’t take the Beatitudes as truth?
3.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Get His Power-Attitudes
What can Jesus’ power-attitudes do that your human attitudes can’t do?
· Do you desire Jesus’ power-attitudes?
· Are you willing to study the Bible and find out why you need Jesus’ power-attitudes?
· Will you make Jesus’ power-attitudes a matter of regular prayer?
· Will you wait for Jesus to give you faith until you can believe you are in the process of receiving Jesus’ power-attitudes?
· Are you willing to love Jesus, yourself, and others enough to devote yourself to living on the basis of Jesus’ power-attitudes?
· Are you willing to take faith-action and start practicing living on the basis of Jesus’ power-attitudes?
· Are you willing to give Jesus thanks for helping you start living His power-attitudes?
4.
Ask Jesus To Use These Power Attitudes To
Help You Be Receptive
What door does each of these four power-attitudes open up in your heart?
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Who Is Setting The Rules?
Week Six Day Four
John 15:2-3: Why does your heavenly Father cut off
some branches?
Behavior Inspection
What does bearing fruit mean?
Bad Behavior
How is a person with a bad behavior like a cancer?
Bad Behavior Transformed
What does spiritual pruning in your life look like?
The Solution
What produces the “fruit” of good relationships?
What Is Helping You?
1.
Salvation Is Helping By Connecting You To Your Source
What is the word Jesus uses in telling you to stay connected to Him?
2.
Justification Is Helping By Keeping You Connected To
Your Source
What is the difference between a clean record with God and a clean record with yourself and others?
3. You Are Being Helped By Choosing Justification Rather Than Sin
Why doesn’t being cut off apply
to you?
4.
You Are Being Helped By Understanding Why Some Get Cut Off
In Romans 7:18, what part do fake
Christians ignore?
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Did You
Know You Can Live A Righteous Life?
Week Six Day Five
How To Live A Righteous Life
How does you not wanting to be
cut off help you know you won’t be cut off?
1.
Ask Jesus To Use Justification To Keep You Connected To Him Your Source
How does your “want to” keep you
from being cut off?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Go From Justification To
Sanctification
What does “want” and “hate” have
to do with your perfect record?
3.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Succeed With Him and With Humans
How can you fail to treat others
with good and still have a perfect record with God?
Taking
Advantage Of Justification
1.
Pray For
Help With The Fact That It’s A “Little Bit” Confusing
What helps solve your confusion
about the Christian life?
2. Pray For Help With
The Fact That You Are Agreeing
But Failing
If you agree with the Scriptures
in the Bible, why are still failing to live some of them?
3. Pray To
Understand Justification’s Perfect Record
How did you get a perfect record with God?
Why did you get a perfect record
with God?
4.
Pray To
Understand That Sanctification Requires A Faith
Transfer
Does “nothing good lives in me” apply
to your spirit or your body?
5.
Pray To
Understand That Sanctification Requires The Power Of God
How does sanctification help with your relationships with
yourself and others?
6.
Pray To
Understand That Sanctification Requires Acceptance of Justification
How can you know you have the vital “want” and “hate”?
7.
Pray To
Understand That Sanctification Requires Facing Your Problem
What happens to you if you ignore your mistakes, failures,
sins, and shortcomings?
8.
Pray For
Help Understanding That Sanctification Requires “Divorcing”
Your Body
What are the differences in your body’s desires and you,
your spirit’s desires?
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Are You
Ready To Be Pruned?
Week Seven Day One
How To Bear Fruit
Cut Off Or Pruned
What helps you know you are just being pruned and
not cut off?
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You Be Clear
On This Point
According to Romans 7:15, what is wanted and what is
hated?
2.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Get A Power-Relationship With
Him
What chapter in Romans helps you get a power-relationship
with Jesus?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand The
Condition Of No Fruit
What do you have to allow God to separate you from?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand More About The Principle Of Being Pruned
Why does God label somethings sins?
How does God keep the “sins” you commit from separating you
from Him?
5.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Understand That Pruning Is The
Process Of Sanctification
What is sanctification?
6. Ask
Jesus To Help You Get Pruned Rather Than Cut Off
What do you use to empower you to only be pruned?
7.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Apply The Three Keys
To Being Pruned
Why would you desire to be pruned?
Why would you expose yourself to studying Scriptures
that God would use to prune you?
Why would you pray and ask God to prune you?
Why would you ask for faith to believe you are being
pruned?
Why would you allow love to help you want to be
pruned so you can treat others better?
Why would you take faith-action and live your life
based on the fact that you have and are being pruned?
Why would you be thankful for being pruned?
Chapter Thirty
What Is Your
Responsibility?
Week Seven Day Two
How To Accept Your Responsibility
1.
Your Responsibility Is To “Do What It
Takes.”
How do you accept your responsibility in remaining in
Jesus?
2.
Your Responsibility Is To Believe You Are Remaining In
Jesus
What is your clean record giving you time to do?
3. Your Responsibility Is To Learn
How To Love
How is you remaining in Jesus helping you fulfill Mark
12:31?
How Does This
Connection Help You?
1.
Staying Connected Helps You Love One
Another
Who do you love in real life?
2.
Staying Connected Helps You Know How To Start This Way Of Life
When God commands you to do something, what does He do to
help you fulfill it?
3.
Staying Connected Helps You See That
Jesus Takes Your Behavior Personal
How does Jesus feel about the way you treat yourself and
other people?
4.
Staying Connected Helps You Show Your
Love For God
What is it about you that you should love?
Chapter
Thirty-One
Did You
Know You Are In Jesus?
Week Seven Day Three
How To Remain In Jesus
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You Have Life Through Being
Connected To Him
What keeps a dead tree from
growing?
2. Ask
Jesus To Help You Take The
Steps To Remaining In Him
DESIRE: What causes you to want
to remain in Jesus?
STUDY: How does the Bible help
you remain in Jesus?
PRAY: How does prayer help you
remain in Jesus?
BELIEVE: How do you know when you
have what you have been desiring, studying about, and praying for?
LOVE: How would you know you have
ceased to be remaining in Jesus?
FAITH-ACTION: What does remaining in Jesus do to your abilities to do what you
couldn’t do before?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand That He Honors
Your Steps
Where should you get your desire,
the meaning of each Scripture, the subjects to pray for, the faith to believe,
the ability to yield to God’s love, and the power to live on the basis of the
fact that you have the ability to remain in Jesus?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Do This: “Remain In Me, And I Will remain In You.”
How to your “want” and “hate” affect your best human efforts?
5. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand That You Are Connected For A Purpose
Why did Jesus make you alive in Him?
6. Ask
Jesus To Help You Bear Fruit
What can keep you from bearing fruit?
7. Ask Jesus To
Help You Live Out His Purpose
How would having your mind set on the desires of the Spirit help you bear fruit?
Chapter Thirty-Two
Do You Know How To Succeed In Life?
Week Seven Day Four
How To Use The Vital Ingredient
What is your number one goal in life?
Is Mark 12:30-31 your main goal in life?
How To Setup For Winning
What will help you yield to God’s love?
Taking The First Step
What is your heart’s assignment?
Taking The Second Step
What is going to change your heart?
Remaining Is A Personal Decision
What makes your salvation eternally secure?
You Are Back To The
Goal
How are you going to say connected to Jesus?
Why Do Some Get
Rejected?
1.
They Are Rejected Because They don’t
want To Live A Life Of
Love
According to Romans 7:15-25, what should you concentrate on?
2.
They Are Rejected Because They See Failure And
Give Up
What makes a new or untrained Christian look like they are failing and
need to be cut off?
3.
They Are Rejected Because They Get
Confused And Give Up
Why does your body resist you, a spirit being?
4.
They Are Rejected Because They Refuse To Get Healed From Selfishness
What helps you diminish your failures, mistakes, and sins?
Chapter Thirty-Three
Did You
Know Jesus Offers Victorious Living?
Week Seven Day Five
How To Succeed At Life
The World Does Not Know How
If getting money, possessions, positions, popularity, prestige, power,
pleasure, or accomplishments aren’t evidences of success, what is?
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You Identify
What Success Is
In the vine illustration, what only produces leaves and not fruit?
2. Ask
Jesus To Help You Accept Him As
Your Success Authority
What is the definition of what fruit are?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Accept His Words As
Truth
How do you stay connected to Jesus?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand That The “Best” Get
Tossed
How do you create a mutually beneficial solution to a problem?
5. Ask
For Help Understanding That The Jesus-Connection Has
Power And Benefits
Who is supposed to come up with the win/win procedures and solutions?
6. Ask
Jesus To Help You Not Take Matters Into
Your Own Hands
How do you change over to the win/win way of life?
7. Ask
Jesus: What Was I Thinking?
What commitment did you get involved in that you now know you shouldn’t have?
8. Ask
Jesus To Help You Not Forget About Justification
Who is supposed to get you out of unsuccessful attachments?
Chapter Thirty-Four
Do You Pray Prayers
That Work?
Week Eight Day One
How To Pray Effective Prayers
1.
You Have To Qualify
What keeps God’s supernatural power from being used by unqualified people?
2. You
Have To Qualify Through Grace And
Mercy
Why don’t you get all your prayers answered just like you request them?
How Does The Perfect Record From Jesus Work?
What is God’s system based on?
1.
Grace And Mercy
What does Jesus use grace and mercy to credit to your record?
2.
Faith For The
Right Things
What does the Holy Spirit speak to so you can move from credited to actual?
Why doesn’t God always give you what you think is best for you?
3.
Gifts Without Appreciation
What is your evaluation of God?
4.
Misunderstanding Gifts
In Christianity, what makes you valuable?
In the world, what makes you valuable?
5.
Good Works Produced Through You
Who is actually doing the good works that you are doing?
Chapter Thirty-Five
Do You
Qualify For Praying Effective Prayers?
Week Eight Day Two
How To Wish For The
Right Thing
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Arrive At The Goal
In order for you to get what you wish, what does your will have to be in relationship with God’s will?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Find Out Why You Failed
If you fail, what should you do?
3.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Pursue The Reward
What does it take to win the prize?
I Press On Toward The Goal
DESIRE: What should you want as a top priority?
STUDY: What should you be looking for, as you study your Bible?
PRAY: What should be on the top of the list of your ASKING Jesus for things?
BELIEVE: What should you be ASKING Jesus to give you faith for?
LOVE: Why should you want to remain in Jesus?
FAITH-ACTION: What should you do when Jesus lets you know you are remaining in Him?
THANKFUL: What should you do once you know you are remaining in Him?
4. Ask
Jesus To Empower You To
Always “Do What It Takes”
Once you start remaining in Jesus, what should you do?
5.
Ask Jesus To
Teach You How To Always “Do What It Takes”
Which Key, in The Three Keys To All Of Christianity, was applied in Romans 7:24?
Crying
Out To Jesus
DESIRE: What could cause you to stop remaining in Jesus over time?
STUDY: How can continual Bible study help you remain in Jesus over time?
PRAY: How can continual Prayer help you remain in Jesus over time?
BELIEVE: How can aways looking to Jesus for your faith help you remain in Him over time?
LOVE: How can not being selfish, help you remain in Jesus over time?
FAITH-ACTION: How can allowing Jesus to join you in the activities of your life help you remain in Jesus over time?
THANKFUL: How can being thankful, help you remain in Jesus over time?
Chapter Thirty-Six
Do You Believe You
Are Being Trained And Empowered?
Week Eight Day Three
How To Be Trained And Empowered
This is to My Father’s glory: How
can your life help other people to want to become a Christian?
This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit:
Since
bearing fruit is to love one another, what does that look like in “real”
life?
This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples: How does Matthew 7:7 help you live God’s power-attitudes in the Beatitudes of Matthew 5:3-12, that then lead you into Jesus’ character found in Galatians 5:22-23, that then help you yield to God’s love described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, which brings you to the place where you can ask whatever you wish, and it will be given to you?
So:
What should you do before you go out to start your day?
What Does Accepting
Jesus’ Love Do For You?
1.
Accepting Jesus’ Love Gives You
Relationships From Your Heart
What can cause you to not trust people?
2.
Accepting Jesus’ Love Teaches You How To Be Real
What makes you real?
3.
Accepting Jesus’ Love Gives You
Healing For Your Heart
What kind of a love does God love you with?
4.
Accepting Jesus’ Love Gives You
Relationships From A Healed
Heart
What love does Jesus use to love you?
Chapter
Thirty-Seven
What Kind Of Person Do You Want To Look Like?
Week Eight Day Four
How To Look
Like Jesus
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Help Others
What would make you happy and
give you feelings of great accomplishment?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Give Him The Glory
How does sharing Jesus with others bring glory to Him?
What Do You Look
Like When You Are Bearing Much Fruit?
1.
You Look Like A
Person Who Remains In Jesus And
His Words
How does remaining connected to Jesus help you bear much fruit?
2.
You Look Like A
Person Who Joined God’s Purpose For You
Who needs you to praise and give glory to God?
3.
You Look Like A
Person Who Shares How Wonderful God Is
What should you be doing, as you are growing spiritually?
4.
You Look Like A
Person Who Is Jesus’ Disciple
What is a disciple?
What does it mean that Jesus’ grapes aren’t seedless?
5.
You Look Like A
Person Who Shows
Yourself
What is one reason God is doing all these wonderful things to you?
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Are Your Love,
Emotional, And Personal Needs Already Met?
Week Eight Day Five
What Does It Take To Have Healthy Relationships?
What is one reason Jesus meets your needs?
1.
Get Healthy Relationships By Remaining In Jesus And Him Meeting Your Needs
What does Jesus’ love do to your relationships?
2.
Get Healthy Relationships By Remaining In Jesus’ Love And Get Jesus’ Life
Since you were crucified with Jesus and are no longer living, how are you still living?
3.
Get A New Life Of
Faith And Confidence, Producing Healthy Relationships
Where is your new source of life coming from?
What do you have to do in order to keep getting that source of life?
4.
By Remaining In Jesus’ Love, Bring
Blessing To Those Around You
What does Jesus’ love do to selfish people who come to Him for healing?
5.
By Remaining In Jesus’ Love, Bring
Truth To Your Relationships
What does Jesus’ truth do to dishonest people who come to Him for healing?
6.
By Remaining In Jesus’ Love, Bring The Spirit To Your Relationships
According to John 6:63, what does Jesus speak into you?
7.
By Remaining In Jesus’ Love, It Brings
Freedom To Your Relationships
What should be your motive when you tell people the truth?
8.
By Remaining In Jesus’ Love, You End
Up Winning At Life And
Relationships
What degree of freedom do you get when Jesus sets you free?
Jesus
help me make love-decisions:
What will your relationships be like through love-decisions?
Chapter
Thirty-Nine
Do You Know
How Much Jesus Loves You?
Week Nine Day One
How To Feel Jesus’
Love
1.
Ask Jesus For His Flow Of Words And Love
Where does God’s love flow before it gets to those around you?
2.
Ask
Jesus To Help You Know You Are Loved And Blessed
Why don’t you need to get people and things to meet your needs?
3. Ask
Jesus To
Help You Feel His Love And Blessings
Since Jesus died on a cross for you, what is He asking you to do for others?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Use What You Have
Rather than changing
your job, career, location, or your lifestyle, what should you change?
5. Ask
For Jesus’ Words And Love To
Flow Through Your Career
What is the knock key motivated by?
6. Ask
Jesus To Help You Know How To
Follow His Instructions
What keeps you from being left with a command from Jesus that you don’t know how to respond to or obey?
Rather than a day filled with trying to get your needs met, ask Jesus to
change your purpose:
DESIRE: What should you want Jesus to change in this situation?
STUDY: In order to help people, what should you be looking for in your
Bible studies?
PRAY: In order to be at the right place, doing and saying, the right
things to the right people, what should you be praying and asking
for?
BELIEVE: For you to overcome any fears, hesitation, feelings of
inadequacies, or lack of concern, what should you be looking for faith from
Jesus so you can believe?
LOVE: For you to be able to see other’s needs, how should you be yielding
to God’s love?
FAITH-ACTION: How should you yield to Jesus so you and He can meet the
needs of others supernaturally?
THANKFUL: How can you use your thankfulness to share Jesus with other people?
Chapter
Forty
Did You Know Freedom
Comes Through Obedience?
Week Nine Day Two
How To Obey Commands
1.
Understand Vital Commands
Why doesn’t Jesus make suggestions?
How much can you do without Jesus?
3.
Understand The Instructions
How should you view Jesus’ words?
4.
Understand God-Given Free Will
Why doesn’t Jesus make you do the right thing?
5.
Understand That Free Will Needs
Commands
Why shouldn’t you view Jesus’ words as suggestions?
How To Obey Jesus’
Commands So You Can Remain In His Love
1.
You Obey Jesus’ Commands By Being Willing To Trade
Why can’t you die for your own sins?
2.
You Obey Jesus’ Commands By Knowing How The Trade Works
Why do you have to trade your old life for a new one?
3.
You Obey Jesus’ Commands By Actually Making The Trade
Why can’t you keep part of your old life and mix it with your new one?
Chapter Forty-One
Did You
Know Commands Create Transformation?
Week Nine Day Three
How To Be
Transformed
What is it Jesus is asking you to help people do according to Matthew 28:19-20?
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Understand The Reason For
These Commands
Why can’t you obey Jesus’ commands?
2.
Ask Jesus To
Speak Faith Into You Based On
His Commands
What do you have to do to obey Jesus’ commands?
3.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Understand Why You Should
What kind of power-flow do Jesus’ commands provide?
What Does Jesus’
Love Look Like?
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Know He Has What You Want
Why did Bartimaeus have to keep crying out in order to get Jesus’ help?
2.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Know You Must Do
What He Asks
Why couldn’t Bartimaeus ask Jesus to come to him?
3.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Respond Immediately
Why do you have to do what Jesus tells you to do immediately?
4.
Ask
Jesus To Help You Be Ready To
Respond To His Questions
Why did Bartimaeus have to tell Jesus what he wanted when it seemed to be obvious?
5.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Know You Have To Have The
Faith To Receive The Answer
When did Bartimaeus get his faith?
6.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Know You Have To Be Willing To “Do What It
Takes”
How does Jesus’ obedience to our Father set you an example of how you should obey?
Chapter Forty-Two
Are You Taking Full
Advantage Of Your New Life?
Week Nine Day Four
How To Trade Happiness For Joy
What helps you appreciate your new life?
Hunting For Happiness
Are you still doing what you think it will take to get happiness or are you seeking joy?
How Do You Get Joy?
What’s the difference between joy and happiness?
1.
You Get Joy Through The Words Of
Jesus
How does obeying Jesus’ words bring
joy?
2. You Get Joy Through Your Relationship With Jesus
What will Jesus’ joy do for you?
3.
You Get Joy Through The
Power Of Jesus
What are the emotions of your heart typically based on?
4. Stop Doing What You Think Would Bring
You Happiness
What does joy empower you to think?
5.
You Get Joy Through The
Completion Of Jesus
How does your joy become complete?
Your
Power Emotion
How would you go about running your life based on joy?
Why did Jesus take you through this training presented in John 15:1-17?
How does joy included in Jesus’ power help your desire to obey?
Chapter
Forty-Three
How Is Your
Joy Doing?
Week Nine Day Five
How To Stay In Joy
1.
Ask Jesus To Help You Find Out
What Is He Trying To Tell You
How do you keep from reading the Bible as if it is just a book of information?
2. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand What He Is Wanting To Give You
What happens if you read the Bible expecting God-sized thing to happen?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand Why He Is Giving You His
Joy
How does Jesus’ joy help your expectancy?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Understand How He Uses Your Joy
How does Jesus’ joy help you obey His commands?
Ask For Jesus’ Help
Getting The Four Things You Need
What are the four things you need, according to John 15:10-11?
First, List Them Out So You Can Identify Them
1. Why does Jesus say “if” when He talks about you obeying His commands?
2. According to this verse, what causes you to remain in His love?
3. According to this verse, why did Jesus tell you these things?
4. According to this verse, why did Jesus want you to have His joy?
Second,
Take The Three Keys To All Of Christianity And Ask, Seek, and Knock:
· DESIRE: Why do you have to have desire for remaining in Jesus and His love, receiving His joy, and your joy being complete?
· STUDY: How does studying and seeking the truths of the Bible help you remain in Jesus and His love, receive His joy, and your joy be complete?
· PRAY: Why do you have to pray and ask Jesus to empower you to remain in Him and His love, receive His joy, and your joy be complete?
· BELIEVE: Why do you have to believe you received Jesus’ to power to remain in Him and His love, received His joy, and your joy is complete?
· LOVE: Why do you have to love others enough to help them be empowered to remain in Jesus and His love, help them receive His joy, and their joy be complete?
· FAITH-ACTION: Why must you live on the basis of the fact that you are empowered to remain in Jesus and His love, have received His joy, and your joy is complete?
· THANKFUL: Why do you have to be thankful that you received Jesus’ to power to remain in Him and His love, received His joy, and your joy is complete?
Chapter Forty-Four
Do You Feel Better About
Commands From Jesus?
Week Ten Day One
How To React To Jesus’ Commands
Moving Into Love Through The Power
Of Joy
How do you start loving others as Jesus has loved you?
The Grace Provision
As a new or untrained Christian,
what must you have for love to be credited to your record?
Moving Into “The
Jesus Life”
Finding Out What The Benefits Are: What do you need that will help you love others as Jesus has loved you?
The Objective Is To “Do What It Takes:” What does Jesus’ command do to you?
The Result Of “Doing What It Takes” Is A Lifestyle Change: How does faith help you to obey Jesus’ commands?
Stepping Into “The
Jesus Life”
The First Step Is To Know What The Provisions Are
How should you read the Bible?
The Second Step Is To Know What The Benefits Are
What is filling you with God’s
power to yield to His love?
The Third Step Is To Accept Jesus’
Teachings As Commands
What kind of power does Jesus’
teachings have?
The Fourth Step Is To Not Join The Disobedient
What typically would cause you to
disobey?
The Fifth Step Is To Want To Remain In Jesus’ Love
Where does Jesus not want
your faith?
The Sixth Step Is To Take
Faith-Action
What is the difference between
faith-action and something being credited to your record?
The
Seventh Step Is To Be Thankful
What’s the difference between feeling
thankful and telling people how wonderful Jesus is?
Chapter Forty-Five
Are
You Ready And Willing To Live
By Faith?
Week Ten Day Two
The Objective Is To “Do What It Takes”
·
Step One: What
does Jesus’ commands do to you?
·
Step Two:
What does Jesus and Father do to you?
·
Step Three:
What does the Bible do to you?
·
Step Four:
What does Jesus’ creative power do to you?
·
Step Five:
What does faith do to you?
·
Step Six:
What does practice do to you?
·
Step Seven:
What does thankfulness do to you?
Having The Way To Fulfilling These
Seven Steps
How would you go about trying to
fulfill these six steps, if you didn’t have The Three Keys To
All Of Christianity?
Taking These Seven Steps Takes Supernatural Power Of Faith
1.
The First Step Is To Know What The Provisions Are:
How does
excitement help with you obeying Jesus’ commends?
2. The
Second Step Is To Know What The
Benefits Are:
Why don’t
you have to be worthy of God’s love?
3. The
Third Step Is To Accept Jesus’ Teachings As Commands
When Jesus
teaches you something through the Bible, what do you get?
4. The
Fourth Step Is To Not Join The
Disobedient
What
typically causes you to disobey Jesus’ teachings and commands?
5. The
Fifth Step Is To WANT To Remain In
Jesus’ Love
What verses
should you yield to so your emotions will respond to Jesus’ love?
6. The
Sixth Step Is To Take Faith-Action
Who is now
living your life in you, for you, through you, and as you?
7.
The
Seventh Step Is To Be Thankful
How do you feel about Jesus living your life in you,
for you, through you, and as you?
Chapter Forty-Six
What
Made David Such A Person Of
Faith?
Week Ten Day Three
David’s Example Of Living By Faith
Why couldn’t David take over as
king in Israel right after being anointed king?
A Man Living By Faith In Himself
Who received the Holy Spirit back
in the Old Testament?
Who can receive the Holy Spirit
now?
A
Man Who Looked Like He Lived By Faith
Where does God look, when He is
examining a person?
A
Man Who Didn’t Look Like He Lived By Faith
When did you get the Holy Spirit
inside you?
You Get The Same Power
What do you become, when you get
the Holy Spirit’s power?
You Have The Same Holy Spirit
How does David’s life help
you?
David’s Life Of
Faith
What would have happened to the
nation of Israel, if David had been killed by Goliath?
You Have The Same Faith
Why wasn’t David’s words
bragging?
You Have The Same Weaknesses
What kept David’s words from just
being positive confession?
Your Life Of
Faith
Your Battle Procedures
According to Romans 10:8, what is
in your mouth and in your heart?
Your First Spiritual Victory
What was your first spiritual
victory?
It Is Who You Believe Did It
What do you have to always realize in the back of your
mind?
Chapter Forty-Seven
Do
You Believe God Will Come Through?
Week Ten Day Four
How To Yield To Jesus
What kind of faith assignments should you start with, if
possible?
1.
Believe God Speaks With Power
What kind of life will you live, if you don’t take
advantage of the Holy Spirit inside you?
2. Know
Your Battle Is In The Spirit
Ream
Why did Satan’s opinion of you change?
3. Accept
The Way God Sees You
What happens to your opinion of yourself, when people
evaluate you as being inferior?
4. Fight
The Battle With Words
What happens to your opinion of yourself, when Satan
attacks your esteem and confidence?
5. Don’t
Listen To Satan’s Threats
When Satan speaks in your mind, who does he try to sound
like?
6.
Let Your Words Involve God
When you speak against Satan, what and who are you also
speaking to?
7. Make
Your Spiritual Proclamations
How does speaking like David help you live like Ephesians
6:10?
8. Keep
Your Spiritual Goal In Mind
When you talk like David, what should be your goal?
Take Faith-Action
1. When Satan Comes At You Move Forward: What
kind of attitude should you have when Satan tries to attack you?
2.
Move Forward With
Great Confidence: When should you start your attack against Satan?
3. Don’t
Fight With Human Effort Or
World Training: What should you do to keep your human battles
spiritual?
4. Finish
The Job: Once Jesus has empowered you to win the spiritual battle,
what should be your final objective?
5. Help
Others Join In The Battle: How
can you show love to people who have been critical of you?
Chapter Forty-Eight
Can You Move The Impossible To The Possible?
Week Ten Day Five
How To Do The Impossible
How should you allow David’s life have an effect on
you?
1.
Your Goal Is To
Move From The Impossible To The Possible
What keeps people from turning the impossible into the
possible?
2.
Your Goal Is To
Believe Two Things
What are the two things you need to believe?
3.
Your Goal Is To
Move Into Jesus
What happens to you when you move into Jesus?
4.
Your Goal Is To
Move Into Jesus Through Faith
What does it take for nothing to be impossible for you?
5.
Your Goal Is To
Make The Supernatural Swap
What kind of confidence and esteem cause you to fail?
Making The Trade
1.
Become Willing To
Come To Jesus For The Trade
What kind of confidence and esteem cause you to win?
2.
Become Willing To
Make The Trade
How do you let Jesus know you are ready and willing to make
the trade?
3.
Rest From Your Human Efforts As A Part Of
The Trade
Why do you have to make the first move?
4.
Resting
Keeps You From Leaving
What are you trading for Jesus’ rest?
5. Trade
Your Accomplishments For Rest In
Jesus
What is the spiritual condition of those in James 4:1-3?
What is the spiritual condition of those in Romans 7:15-24?
Chapter
Forty-Nine
Can
You Rest?
Week Eleven Day One
How To Keep Doing The
Impossible
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Lay Down Your Life
When do you have to give Jesus
control over an issue?
2.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Lay Down Your Life For Your Friends
Why would you want to give Jesus
control?
3.
Ask Jesus To Show
You What It Means To Lay Down Your Life For Your Friends
How did Jesus win, when He laid down His life for you?
4.
Ask Jesus To Help You Lay Down Your Life
Like He Did
What did Jesus use to help Him lay down His life?
5. Ask Jesus To
Help You Lay Down One Life For A Better Life
What is better about the new life you traded for your old
life?
6.
Ask Jesus To Help You Just Lay It Down
What are the two choices you have concerning the trouble
you are going to have in this world?
Steps
To Laying Down Your Life
DESIRE: Why would you want to lay down your life?
STUDY: How are you going to know how to lay down your
life?
PRAY: What do you have to do once you are ready to lay down
your life?
BELIEVE: When will you know Jesus has given you the power
to lay down your life?
LOVE: What might contaminate your love for your
friends?
FAITH-ACTION: When are you actually laying down your life
for your friends?
THANKFUL: How appreciative are you that Jesus is empowering
you to lay down your life?
Chapter Fifty
What
Is It You Are Wishing For?
Week Eleven Day Two
How To Get What You Wish You Had
What will help Jesus always answer your prayers
positively?
1.
Remain In Jesus And His Words
What’s a major reason some of your prayers aren’t being
answered positively?
What is one way you can know you aren’t doing what you do
out of love?
3. Obey
Jesus’ Command
What helps you live what you read in the Bible?
4.
Believe
What Jesus Says
What does your schedule indicate as to whether or not you
are living Matthew 6:33?
5. Join God’s
Financial Plan
What do you have to do with your resources in order to be
blessed by God?
6. Avoid
The Love Of Money
What do people want who fall into temptation and a trap?
Finding A Need And Exploiting It
What happens when you start out with what you want and need and then come up with a plan for how you
will go about getting it?
Why does the world get concerned
over what your needs are?
Supply And Demand
Why are some things so much more
expensive than other things?
Why do people have to work so hard and so long each
day?
Chapter
Fifty-One
How
Do You Get Your Needs Met?
Week Eleven Day Three
How To Get Your Needs Met
1.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Accept An Unusual System
Why would God base His blessings and provisions on you giving to others?
2. Ask
Jesus To Help You Get The Process Started
Since Jesus is taking care of your burdens, where should you start giving?
3. Ask
Jesus To Help You Be
Trained By Him
How is loving each other as Jesus loved you a part of giving?
4. Ask
Jesus To Help You Be
Trained By Him About Business
· How does you starting to look at other people’s problems help with your giving?
· How could Jesus teach you to get your needs met by meeting other people’s needs?
· What kind of system does Jesus use to help everyone get their needs met?
· How could you team up with others so they can start getting their needs met?
· Why should Jesus proper you?
5.
Ask Jesus To Help
You Be Trained By Him About
Life
How does the above system help you obey Jesus’ commands, remain in Him, His words, and His love, and bear much fruit?
How are you fulfilling your final exam in Matthew 25:31-46?
6. Pray For A
River Of Resources
How can you fulfill your final exam where everyone, everywhere, always gets their needs met?
7. You Might Pray Something Like This:
DESIRE: How can you use Matthew 25:35-36 to help your desire to line up with Jesus’ desire?
STUDY: What could you be looking for as you study your Bible that would help you fulfill Matthew 25:35-36?
PRAY: What could you add to your prayers that would help you fulfill Matthew 25:35-36?
BELIEVE: What could you ask Jesus to give you faith for so you could believe you can fulfill Matthew 25:35-36?
LOVE: How would you starting to notice other people’s problems help you start loving them enough to help them as you fulfill Matthew 25:35-36?
FAITH-ACTION: How can you join Jesus’ life and you and He fulfill Matthew 25:35-36?
THANKFUL: How would it help you fulfill Matthew 25:35-36 by being thankful that you are noticing other people’s problems?
Chapter Fifty-Two
How
Do You Handle Pressure?
Week Eleven Day Four
How To Get The Weight Lifted
A Heavy Weight Lifted
How do you add all these activities in Matthew 25:35-36 and get your burdens lifted?
Trading Burdens
Give Jesus All Those Things That Burden You
If your life is already full, how do you add other people’s burdens to it?
1. Come to Me: Why should you bring your burdens to Jesus?
2. Come to Me all you who are weary and burdened: What can Jesus do with your burdens that you haven’t been able to do?
3. Come to Me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest: How can rest help you with burdens that are consuming every moment of your life?
Take From Jesus All Those Burdens That Trouble Someone Else
1. Take My yoke upon you: What do you have to do with your burdens before you can take on the burdens Jesus wants to give you?
2. Take My yoke upon you and LEARN from Me: What could Jesus teach you that would help you be able to start solving other people’s problems?
Handle People’s Burdens Jesus’ Way
How would prophesying help people with their burdens?
How would serving help people with their burdens?
How would teaching help people with their burdens?
How would encouraging help people with their burdens?
How would contributing help people with their burdens?
How would leadership help people with their burdens?
How would showing mercy help people with their burdens?
Trading Happiness For Joy
In your pursuit of happiness, how would all this helping others let you experience joy?
Trading For A Key To Christian Financial Success
How can you help others succeed?
Being
Set Free From A
Misunderstanding
How could selfishness cause you to misunderstand Luke 6:38?
Chapter Fifty-Three
How
Do You Handle Living In This World?
Week Eleven Day Five
How To Live In The World
1.
Ask Jesus to Help You Be Able To Live In It Without Becoming Like
It
How is Jesus’ win/win system different from the world system?
2.
Ask Jesus to Help You Be As Shrewd As Snakes And As Innocent As
Doves
How can you use Jesus’ wisdom to protect you from evil people?
3.
Ask Jesus
to Help You Know Who
You Are Dealing With
How can Jesus help you see inside a person’s attitudes and character?
4.
Ask Jesus To
Handle Your Circumstances
What does God do with bad things that come your way?
5.
Ask Jesus To
Help You Get Your Prayers Answers In A Positive Way
What have you learned so far about remaining in Jesus and His words remaining in you?
Ask Jesus to Help You Be Blessed With
These Blessings
Mat 5:3 (NIV) BLESSED are the POOR IN SPIRIT, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
What do you think being poor in spirit means?
Mat 5:4 (NIV) BLESSED are those who MOURN, for
they will be comforted.
What do you think Jesus wants you to mourn about?
Mat 5:5 (NIV) BLESSED are the MEEK, for they will
inherit the earth.
What kind of person do you think you would have to be in order to be meek?
Mat 5:6 (NIV) BLESSED are those who HUNGER AND
THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, for they will be filled.
What is your definition of righteousness?
Mat 5:7 (NIV) BLESSED are the MERCIFUL, for they
will be shown mercy.
Does a person have to deserve mercy before you give it to them?
Mat 5:8 (NIV) BLESSED are the PURE IN HEART, for
they will see God.
What do you think it would take for you to have a pure heart?
Mat 5:9 (NIV) BLESSED are the PEACEMAKERS, for
they will be called sons of God.
What kind of a person would you have to be in order to be a peacemaker?
Mat 5:10 (NIV) BLESSED are those who are PERSECUTED
because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
What do you think you would have to do in order for people to start persecuting you?