“What do you want Me to do for you?” He inquired.He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
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And then I want you to ask this question, you listening? Jesus, what do you want me to do for you? and then just listen. Jesus, thank you for what you gave to save me. Jesus, what do you want me to do for you? I'm gonna leave you with the Holy Spirit for just a couple of moments there with your heads bowed and then at all of our campuses, our worship teams will come.
… at one point he's calling, son of David, have pity on me. And Jesus calls him and Jesus asks the man, what do you want me to do for you? It's kind of like the question, how can I pray for you? Now, Bartimaeus has a great answer. Bartimaeus knows. I think there's something really, really good. I think if Jesus ever asked us, what do you want me to do for you? To have an answer is good. Or if you're someone to say, hey, how can I pray for you? To have an answer is really good because it reveals something. To be able to, I think this, if you can give an answer, that means you have the insight, you have the confidence, you know the desires of your heart. If you can give an answer, you know what's going on inside. That's really good. That's wise. And if you can give an answer, you also know that you can trust God by being vulnerable. I don't know if you've ever experienced this. Sometimes people experience this hesitation to actually be vulnerable with their heart, what they really want with Jesus. They're hesitating to approach to the Father with like this thing, okay, here's what's really on my heart. So I'm going to talk about something else. I'm going to ask for something else because the thing on my heart, I know it's silly. I know it's small. So I'm not even going to bother God with that. No, the people who have great trust know that I can trust God with a silly prayer. I can trust God. …
… your life. It genuinely does. And here's what we tend to do. So many of us as Christians, we tend to think about God's will in terms of what we do. What we do. God, what do you want me to do? God, what do you want me to do now? God, what do you want me to do next? God, what do you want me to do then? God, what do you want me to do later? God, what do you want me to do? The challenge is this, that I would suggest at a deeper level, God isn't thinking do, do, do, do, do, that God, God's will is more about a who than it is a do. That when you look at God's word, He's more concerned with who you're becoming, are you becoming more like Jesus, than exactly what job you take or where you live. That God is more concerned with who you are, your character, the way you treat people, than he is about your profession. …
… Because sometimes the question that we're asking God is the wrong question. Sometimes the question we're asking is, God, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? And the first question that God must answer in our life is not, what do you want me to do, but who is it that you say that I am? Point number one today, I want to encourage you with this, is you got to know whose you are before you know who you are. You got to know whose you are, who you belong to. Who you are is a child of God. You belong to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Nobody can take that away from you. Nobody can write that out of your story. You belong to who? belong to God. So I got to know whose I am before I know who I am, because when I know who I am, then I can walk in what God has for me. Look at what it says here in verse three. It says, neither this man nor his parents sinned, said Jesus, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. What you've experienced, what you've walked through, doesn't mean that's who you are, but I realize first that I'm a child of the most high God. Maybe you've seen this. Have you ever seen this? You ever walk out to your car and you see that flyer that's on your car, …