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24 THINGS JESUS WANTS TO DO FOR YOU
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God is love, and therefore he wants to do great things in your life.
It is astonishing to discover what Jesus wants to do in our lives.
Religious traditions and our present preconceived notions tell us one thing, but Jesus himself and the writers of the New Testament tell us something else.
Sometimes we imagine the early disciples were spiritual supermen. We forget that Matthew was a tax collector and James and John fishermen. Peter denied the Lord; Thomas doubted him. They were ordinary and imperfect men, but as they spent time with Jesus they became great in God's kingdom.
Jesus can and will do the same for you today, if you will let him. Here is a list of 24 things Jesus will do for anyone. You will notice that with some of the promises God also tells what steps he requires of you. Take those steps, and watch what Jesus will do in your life.
(1) HE WANTS TO MAKE YOU A CHILD OF GOD. "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." (John 1:12)
(2) JESUS WANTS TO SHARE EVERYTHING HE HAS WITH YOU. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:16-17)
(3) HE WANTS TO BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance," said John the Baptist, "But he...shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire." (Matthew 3:11)
(4) HE WANTS TO GIVE YOU INFLUENCE. "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." (Matthew 4:19)
(5) HE WANTS TO GIVE YOU WISDOM. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." (James 1:5)
(6) JESUS WANTS TO GIVE YOU JOY. "Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." (John 16:24)
(7) HE WANTS TO ANSWER PRAYER. "What things soever ye desire, when pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." (Mark 11:24)
(8) HE WANTS TO GIVE YOU HIS FAITH. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." (Galtians 2:20)
(9) JESUS WANTS TO BE YOUR PRIEST. "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15)
(10) HE WANTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOU IN HEAVEN. "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 10:32)
(11) HE WANTS TO GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE. "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." (John 11:25-26)
(12) HE WANTS TO MAKE YOU A FRIEND OF GOD. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:1)
(13) HE WANTS TO ENTHRONE YOU. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." (Revelation 3:21)
(14) JESUS WANTS TO GIVE YOU A NEW START IN LIFE. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
(15) JESUS WANTS TO HEAL YOUR BODY. "But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." (Romans 8:11)
(16) JESUS WANTS TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)
(17) HE WANTS TO HELP YOU CONQUER TEMPTATION. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:13)
(18) HE WANTS TO SET YOU FREE. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)
(19) JESUS WANTS TO CONQUER YOUR FEARS. "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7)
(20) HE WANTS TO GIVE YOU REST. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)
(21) JESUS WANTS TO PROVIDE YOUR MATERIAL NEEDS. "And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind...But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you." (Luke 12:29-31)
(22) JESUS WANT TO REWARD YOU FOR FOLLOWING HIM. "There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting." (Luke 18:29-30)
(23) HE WANTS TO MAKE YOU WILLING TO DO ALL THE WILL OF GOD. "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13)
(24) JESUS WANTS TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU. "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." (John 14:21)
Read the New Testament and you will find many other promises we could have put in this list. In view of his great love for you and the wonderful things he wants to do for you, it would make no sense for you to ignore Jesus or to turn him away. But what must you do to begin to receive what Jesus wants to give you?
The conditions are simple, as you have already seen:
ASK God. See notes 5,6 and 7.
BELIEVE or trust in Jesus to do the things he says he wants to do. See no. 1,7,8,11 and 12.
CONFESS your sins, and Jesus as your Lord. See 10 and 16.
DEVOTE your life to him, just as he has devoted his life to you.
Follow him, obey him, deny yourself for him, love him - all of this is part of your devotion. See 1,2,4,13,14,15,20,21,22, and 24.
Your part is as simple as A-B-C-D: Ask, Believe, Confess, Devote. All the riches of heaven await your response.
And if you want someone to tell you more about Jesus, or to pray with you, or just to talk, call:
Open Door Fellowship Ministry
PO BOX 141
LYCOMING,NY.13093
315-342-4209
Rev.Martin Lane
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