PJP2 PROLOG 151129 PROLOG Focus 1 John....

Psalm 57:11English Standard Version (ESV)

11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
    Let your glory be over all the earth!

PJP2 PROLOG POST 151129 POWS from 1 John....

I have Shared in previous PJP2 PROLOG POSTS that The Holy Spirit's Inspired Word via the apostle John contains a lot of my favorite POWS (Passages of the WORD Select).  That remains the same as we read in John's First Epistle.  I mentioned yesterday that I have Heard The Holy Spirit's Guidance that the next month's PJP2s will primarily center upon ponderings regards our Lord Jesus' First Advent a broad topic indeed.  Thus for today's PJP2 PROLOG POST 151129, the POWS below, all from First John touch upon our Lord's First Advent in a wide and interesting pathway of Love and Light.  Appreciate you bearing with me on today's pondering adventure....

1 John 1:5 (ESV)/(emphasis and paraphrase added/jaj - same/same for all these POWS/jaj)...{Walking in the Light}...."THIS Is The Message we have Heard From Him and Proclaimed to you - THAT God Is LIGHT, and In Him Is NO darkness At All."

Multiple times throughout God's Inspired Word to us, He employs this Imagery (as well as Literal Use) of LIGHT to Reflect to us His Holy Character.  From Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:5 it is quite clear that God's Light (and as we see in 1 John 1:5, God IS LIGHT) is the Only Light we will ever really need

1 John 2:1-2 (ESV)....{Christ Our Advocate}...."My little children, I am writing These Things to you So That you May NOT sin. BUT If anyone Does sin, we Have An Advocate With The Father, Jesus Christ The Righteous.  He Is The Propitiation/Atonement For our sins, And Not For ours only BUT Also For the sins of the whole world."....

When we look upon an infant, we can only wild guess at what/how that baby will turn out.  As we ponder our Lord's First Advent, it's simply Amazing and Miraculous that He Became and Is our Advocate Before God The Father.  Not only our Advocate, BUT He is our Atonement, meaning He Paid The Ultimate Price to cover our debt of sin.  Who would have ever thought the infant in the manger from the backwater town of Bethlehem would have been the world's Supreme Advocate and Atonement....

1 John 3:1-3 (ESV)...."See What Kind of LOVE The Father Has Given/Lavished to/upon us, That we Should Be Called children of God; And So we Are. The Reason Why the world Does NOT Know us Is That it Did NOT Know Him.  Beloved, we Are God's children Now, and What we Will Be has Not Yet Appeared; BUT we Know That When He Appears (our Lord Jesus' Second Advent - Revelation 1-22/jaj) we Shall Be Like Him, Because we Shall See Him As He Is.  And everyone who Thus Hopes in Him Purifies himself As He Is Pure."....

1 John 3:1-3 is a fascinating bridge, at least in my noggin', between our Lord Jesus' First and Second Advent.  First and foremost, which is a hallmark of John's First Epistle, is the Central Theme of God being LOVE, and His Sharing His LOVE upon us.  Note - His Sharing is not just a 'here you go' - No, God The Father's Giving of His Love is LAVISH, Over-the-Top, Way Outside The Box.....there's not enough adjectives to describe how far Above the Top His LOVE for us is. Then The Holy Spirit Weaves in that God's LOVE continues on into our Lord's Second Advent....too cool!

1 John 4:4 (ESV)...."Little children, you Are From God and Have Overcome them (those deceived by the darkness of this world), For He Who Is In you Is GREATER Than he who is in the world."....

What a Phenomenal Word of Encouragement - I would strongly recommend we Memorize this POWS.....in the midst of the storms and challenges that continue to come around - May we Ever Remember that He is with us - AND He is Greater than any challenge or storm we may face

1 John 4:16-19English Standard Version (ESV)

16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us.

Thus for my prayer for us today, Lord Jesus Help me as I draft of Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise using Your Inspired Word via John's writing in 1 John 5:13-20 (ESV)....Father God, Thank You for Sharing Your Word and Your Light in our Lives that we May Know You and Your Love for us.  Lord Jesus, Thank You for Your Help as I write these ponderings.  First May Your Word Help and Encourage those who Believe in Your Name.  You Are Lord Jesus, The One and Only True Son of God.  Holy Spirit, Continue to Dwell in us and Help us Better Know that In You we Have Eternal Life. Father God, Because of Your Son and Your Holy Spirit, we Have This as The Confidence that we have Toward You.  Lord Jesus, Thank You for Your Promise and Your Word that If we ASK Anything According to Your Will, God The Father Hears us.  Holy Spirit, Because of Your Intercession for us, we Know that God The Father Hears us in whatever we ASK, we Know That we Have The Requests That we Have Asked of Him in Accordance with His Love, Will and Grace.  Lord Jesus Help us for we Know that everyone who has Been Born of God Does Not keep on sinning.  BUT he who was Born of God Protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.  Holy Spirit, Thank You for we Know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.  Father God we Praise You that we Know that Your Son, our Lord Jesus, Has Come and Has Given us Understanding, So That we May Know You, Father God, Who is True.  Holy Spirit Thank You that You are in us, and that we Are in Him, our Lord Jesus Christ Who is True.  Father God it is in Your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ that we Pray.  O people Hear His Truth - Jesus Christ is The True Son of God and in Him we find Eternal Life.
Amen/Amen....jaj