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Questions for Jesus: Conversational Prayer Around Your Deepest Desires Paperback – September 15, 2013
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Jesus longs to speak to your deepest desires. These powerful yearnings for things like love, approval, freedom, belonging, and significance animate our lives and lie at the root of the thorny behaviors we most want to change. Our true desires were designed to be filled in our relationship with Jesus. But most of us never learned how to ask.
Questions for Jesus takes you on the exhilarating adventure of hearing Jesus speak to the deepest places of your heart. Your own desires will surface as the meditations help you enter into the thoughts and feelings of characters in the gospel of Matthew. After watching Jesus touch that person’s desire, the book will launch your own heart encounter with with five creative, intimate questions for Jesus, like these:
- “Jesus, what are you proud of in me today? How am I touching your desire?”
- “Jesus, what will it be like for you to tell the story of the life you and I have lived together to all of heaven?”
- “How am I valuable to you? What makes me worth your time and attention?”
- “So what’s it like for you to not be afraid of anything?”
- “Who do you say that I am, Jesus?”
Using this BookWritten in a devotional format, Questions for Jesus focuses on the passages in the book of Matthew where Jesus touches an individual's deep desire. The author weaves each scene into a powerful story that brings the bible to life, putting you inside the thoughts and feelings of the characters (Jesus included!) Then, you simply take one of the five desire prayers given for each story and ask Jesus that question.
You'll talk about what Jesus was experiencing in those situations, how he feels about waiting for and preparing for your arrival in heaven, what your meeting there will be like, Jesus' own deep desires, and much more. Talking with Jesus is much easier when you are asking the right questions!
With 52 devotional meditations (each with five questions) this book can provide a year's worth of encounters with the goodness of God. Facing pages offer space to journal your answers, and pithy articles spaced throughout the text show you how the heart works, how to create your own desire prayers, ways to overcome obstacles to hearing God speak, etc. A free Questions for Jesus Group Guide is also available, letting you use Questions for Jesus with small groups, leadership teams or churches.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 15, 2013
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.29 x 11 inches
- ISBN-101492177350
- ISBN-13978-1492177357
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 15, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1492177350
- ISBN-13 : 978-1492177357
- Item Weight : 11 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.29 x 11 inches
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Tony has spent several decades coaching leaders to encounter God in their most difficult moments, based on a lifetime of engaging God in pain and loss. He developed the Encounter Coaching method (detailed in the book, The Invitation), where change is created by asking Jesus questions that lead to powerful encounters with God. He has started multiple coaching organizations, including an NGO has provided roughly 60,000 hours of coaching to leaders in emerging nations and is acknowledged as a thought leader and founding figure in the Christian coaching movement, where he has been active since 1999.
Tony is the author of 20 books on coaching, leadership and emotional health, as well as many multimedia resources and leadership training courses. For more on his work visit:
Leadership Metaformation (Meta-Formation) offers professional training in the encounter coaching process.
LikeaHumanBeing offers an innovative approach to studying scripture with the emotional brain.
TheCallingJourney is a free calling timeline generator based on his research on how leaders are called.
At HeavensPerspective you can sign up to have part of your life story rewritten from heaven's point of view.
Tony enjoys building Frank Lloyd Wright-style furniture (replacing what was lost when his home burned to the ground), reading, star-gazing, working outdoors and laughter. He lives in beautiful Redding, CA with his wife of 35 years, a dog who worships her, and a constantly breaking sprinkler system.
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Customers find the book helpful for drawing closer to Jesus and experiencing God's love and goodness. They appreciate the practical devotional pages and additional teachings that continue to develop. The content is described as instructive, refreshing, and insightful, with scripture references and clear explanations of desires.
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Customers find the book helpful for a closer relationship with God. It guides them through listening to Jesus in conversational prayer, helping them experience his love and goodness in a deeper way. The devotional pages are great for growing in intimacy and self-awareness. Readers describe it as a profound and impactful resource for coaching the heart.
"...There's also a journaling page with each desire. The questions are deep and creates an atmosphere of asking and listening." Read more
"...authors really helps the group understand how to affirm others, connect with Jesus, and begin to change the world around them. I highly recommend it." Read more
"...Tony's and others' questions have lead me into great dialogues with God and as Tony says, there are no unanswered prayers that way...." Read more
"This is a powerful book for those that are building their relationship in a conversational prayer frame of reference...." Read more
Customers find the book instructive and refreshing. They appreciate the practical devotionals and additional teachings that continue to develop. The book provides a concise explanation of desires and how they work. It is described as an excellent way to learn how to ask questions, with scripture references. Readers also mention it's a great starting point when stuck or struggling with issues.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2024Each desire (such as joy, to be known, justice and significant just to name a few) are each explained in detail with scripture references and ends with 5 questions for Jesus.
These 5 questions are in relation to the respective desire. There's also a journaling page with each desire. The questions are deep and creates an atmosphere of asking and listening.
Each desire (such as joy, to be known, justice and significant just to name a few) are each explained in detail with scripture references and ends with 5 questions for Jesus.
These 5 questions are in relation to the respective desire. There's also a journaling page with each desire. The questions are deep and creates an atmosphere of asking and listening.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2016I discovered Questions for Jesus after taking one of Tony’s workshops on Transforming the Heart. This devotional workbook helped me first focus on how to get out of the rationale part of my brain and identify the desires, or deep longings, of my heart. Tony provides a concise explanation of what desires look like and how they function in our lives. He lists 16 major desires such as belonging, approval, recognition, significance, joy, and being known that help me discern my own desires. I find this incredibly helpful because I can't always understand or categorize what desire I am experiencing in a given situation.
In the second part of Questions for Jesus, I have learned how to take my desires to Jesus through prayer and let him meet them. For example, when I am feeling insignificant, I can turn to page 20 and read about significance in the Kingdom of God through the lives of Peter and Andrew. Next the book provides questions I can ask Jesus such as “What is one place in my life where you see more in me than I do in myself?” Before I know it, I am engaged in a conversation and Jesus speaks to me about my significance. I am always amazed at what I hear in response. Jesus is always eager to have a conversation and remind me of who I am to Him.
As a coach, I have also used Questions for Jesus over the course of 8 weeks with a small group. The interactive study that is available from the authors really helps the group understand how to affirm others, connect with Jesus, and begin to change the world around them. I highly recommend it.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2013Questions for Jesus is an incredible vehicle to take your relationship with God out of your head and deep into your heart. For those that struggle with understanding the concept of having a relationship with God but have not been able to experience what that is like, this book will launch you into the experiential. For those that already are close to God in their relational walk, but enjoy going deeper this will provide the questions that will send you to places you might never have explored.
I bought one copy for myself and within 10 minutes after describing it to my husband, he wanted a copy. After describing it to a friend, she wanted a copy. It's one of "those" book. Like Jesus Calling it begs you to go deeper and gives you the tools to do it. Tony's and others' questions have lead me into great dialogues with God and as Tony says, there are no unanswered prayers that way. The added bonus for me has become that my husband is now experiencing and communicating new levels of relationship with God. Always the internal processor, he now has a very deliberate model to contemplate and it is something we can mutually share in experiencing our relationship with God.
A heartfelt Thank You Tony for taking your giftings, talents, and experience as a life coach and releasing it in such a profound and impactful way. The readers' relationship with God Will change because of this. It cannot remain the same!
- Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015I started by reading 'The Invitation' also by Tony Stotzfus which lead me to this devotional. It has revolutionized the way I understand relationship with Jesus. When you stop to ask Jesus His opinion and then take time to listen, it results in transformational conversations with the Living God and the Man who is also God and the King of the Universe. Jesus really does want to answer our questions. Often, we are afraid to ask because the church has long taught that the primary and sometimes only way you can 'hear from Jesus' is through the bible. Stoltzfus reminds us that Jesus himself said 'My sheep HEAR my Voice!'. It's true, we need the Word of God to check what we hear but we can actually hear Jesus speak directly to us in daily conversation. Since I have done this, it has revolutionized my life on more levels than I can possibly recount. Give it a try. I promise it will be different from mainline teaching but you will be amazed at what happens when you stop hearing just men's thoughts about God's Word and begin to hear the thoughts of Jesus Himself.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015This is a powerful book for those that are building their relationship in a conversational prayer frame of reference. Very instructional and refreshing approach to rather.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020God spoke through "Questions for Jesus" and its companion volume, "The Invitation," to transform my faith and relationship with Himself, more than through any other book except the Bible. "The Invitation" gives the biblical and practical foundations for back-and-forth conversation with Jesus that transforms lives. "Questions for Jesus" gives 52 practical devotionals and additional teachings that continue to develop amazing intimacy with Jesus. The two books can be read in any order.
I am a Christian life coach, author, and speaker, specializing in helping people find and fulfill their Christian calling. God continues to work through both of these books to transform my own life and the lives of my coaching clients, readers, and conference attenders. I could not recommend Tony Stolzfus books any more highly. God speaks powerfully through him and his coauthors, Kathy Stoltzfus and Sarah Herring. I believe God will speak powerfully through them to you as well. God bless!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2014I was waiting for this book! Tony crafts meditations that touch my heart both deeply and gently. I'm learning to ask great questions of Jesus, whether about my big challenges or the littlest of things, and I'm finding they are all important to Jesus.
Using them in my own life also helps me to bring the value of asking great questions to my life coaching clients. Thanks Tony!
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- christaReviewed in Canada on September 25, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome devotional book
This is a beautiful way to connect with Jesus! I love it and it can be used and re-used many times. The blank pages for journaling are great, but when filled, one could just use another book to write in also.
- Angel of HopeReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Romancing with Jesus
I have both the app version and the kindle version.
The author takes the reader into an encounter with Jesus on focussing a passage from Matthew and hear what Jesus has to say about the reader.
This is more than an app or book; this is about learning to romance with Jesus, in hearing from Jesus His desires, His heart about the reader. So questions like ' Jesus, how have you been pursuing me for the last 24 hours?' or what He feels, brings Jesus into intimacy with the reader, me. The journey of praying from faith that He is already operating out of love towards me, rather than praying in a way that expresses doubt about His good intentions is what the reader will learn; in the 'how' to lean into hearing Jesus tenderness towards the reader, me.
It is a book to the lived, everyday, every hour, every minute of our lives, such that it is normal to lean into the tender intimacy of romantic Jesus.
It can be used for individual leaning in and group learning with accountability and testimony for Jesus.
A must for every believer or non-believer to experience Jesus heart towards you
- DebReviewed in Australia on November 18, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Questions for Jesus
I loved this book and received so much inner healing revelation from praying in such an intimate and positive way
This read could change people’s lives in many ways but mostly to know the love and grace of God
- Peter RandewijkReviewed in Germany on November 6, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Vanessa
Very refreshing to have a devotional that doesn't push to act more, do more or repent more, but that encourage us to have fellowship with Jesus and listen to him. The rest comes naturally when we are hearing His truth about us.
- CA LingReviewed in Australia on September 30, 2020
4.0 out of 5 stars warm, encouraging but needs editing!
designed to reinvigorate and personalize the reader's relationship with Jesus, this book takes a very different approach to engaging with daily scripture readings. I've been blessed by using it, however it is full of errors which are distracting.