tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255061167072169918.post1006565001198942255..comments2024-02-23T08:33:09.845-08:00Comments on MichaelQuicke.org: Preaching at Wheaton (4)MichaelQuickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268769366142928882noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255061167072169918.post-10354616114059290582010-06-30T10:51:18.764-07:002010-06-30T10:51:18.764-07:00Thanks for your messages on Jesus' questions, ...Thanks for your messages on Jesus' questions, Michael! I've never studied them before, but I've often thought how neat it was that Jesus asked them. It's hit me that it isn't until someone is hungry, thirsty, etc., for spiritual food and drink that they respond to all that Jesus has to offer them. Jesus won't force-feed us. We have to want His teaching. One time a young man from our church came up to me after he graduated from high school and told me he didn't think our youth group had taught him enough. I responded that I had seen the notebooks of lessons from the youth group that my own kids had and knew they had been taught a lot of Biblical truths. I told him that I thought they had been taught a lot but that he hadn't been hungry enough to take it in up to that point. I told him to ask God to make him hungry and thirsty for His Word. After my mom died from ALS and I had cancer, I surrendered my life in a way I had never done before. God's Spirit poured out on me in a new way and I became so hungry and thirsty for more of Him. He's so amazing! Thank you again!Cindynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255061167072169918.post-6375014008486624912010-06-10T18:46:39.221-07:002010-06-10T18:46:39.221-07:00I have spent several hours this week turning your ...I have spent several hours this week turning your message over in my head. The thing about the message that really struck me was the question of what do I want from Jesus? Not what do I want from Christianity or what do I want from the church experience, but what do I want from Jesus. It's a question I have never really considered before on such a specific level - I have always sort of lumped them all together. I think that working through my answer has allowed me to have a more open and honest dialogue in my prayers this week. As I talk to Jesus about what I need and want from Him, it reveals gaps in what I really believe He will or will not do for me. Thank you for creating a truth space for me as I work through the things I am discovering about myself and my relationship to Jesus in this process.BellofWheatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08146712039698136462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255061167072169918.post-81678226574062660792010-06-10T13:53:54.442-07:002010-06-10T13:53:54.442-07:00Thanks Michael for your very practical explainatio...Thanks Michael for your very practical explaination of the passage. We have been repeating the words from the June 6 sermon over and over this week, "you know we have a side by side Jesus". It is so wonderful to know that we are in the same "space" and that we can count on Him to guide each day in every need that arises.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06513085354397978136noreply@blogger.com