PJP2 PROLOG 160322 PROLOG Focus -

Ezra 3:11 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And they Sang Responsively, Praising And Giving Thanks to The Lord, 'For He Is Good, For His Steadfast Love Endures Forever toward Israel.' And all the people Shouted With A Great Shout When They Praised The Lord, Because The Foundation of The House of The Lord was laid."....

PJP2 PROLOG POST 160322 - Deuteronomy 7:7-9 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."It was Not Because you were more in number than any other people That The Lord Set His LOVE On you And Chose you, For you were the fewest of all peoples, BUT It Is Because The Lord LOVES you And Is Keeping The Oath That He Swore To your fathers, That The Lord Has Brought you Out With A Mighty Hand And REDEEMED you From the house of slavery, From the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.  Know Therefore That The Lord your God IS God, The Faithful God Who Keeps Covenant And Steadfast LOVE With those who Love Him And Keep His Commandments, To A Thousand Generations,"....

I Hear The Holy Spirit, through Deuteronomy 7:7-9, referring me to John 3:16 - "For God So LOVED the world That He Sent His One and Only Son, that whosoever Believes In Him Shall Not perish, BUT Have Eternal Life."....

As I am pondering these Passages Of the Word, Select (POWS) this morning the thought that keeps running through my noggin' is one that The Spirit has pointed out both in Deuteronomy 7:7-9, but also in Deuteronomy 8:14 & 17 and 9:5...The Point I Hear Him making is three-fold:

AWACS (A Warning And Caution Statement) - "Be Careful!  Don't go down the slippery slope of 'thinking', "Ha, Because of my ________(ability, smarts, good-looks, suaveness, etc) I accomplished________{fill in the blanks}".....Nope, That kinda of prideful/arrogant thinking leads only to a great fall....(For example - Check out Revelation 18:1-24....these POWS depict a very great fall due to such a poor prideful attitude/jaj)....
God Is The Center of All.  On one hand this is such a straight-forward concept to hear, BUT in Reality our world thrives on convincing us that we are the center of our existence.  Truth be told, There Is Only One Center of Life and it ain't us.
"It Is Because The Lord LOVES you"....The ongoing, recurring Theme that The Holy Spirit Inspires to Thread Throughout ALL His Word....Once more circling back to John 3:16...."For God So LOVED"....  

Thus for my Prayer for us today, permit me to employ a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise using The Holy Spirit's Inspired Word to His Psalmist as he writes in Psalm 36:7-11 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love, O Lord our God!  Lord Jesus, Thank You that we, Your children of mankind Can Take Refuge In The Shadow of Your Wings.  Holy Spirit, we Are Humbled that we May Feast On The Abundance of Your House.  Father God, Every Day we Are Amazed that You Give us Drink From Your River of Living Water and Righteous Delights of Your Grace. O Lord Jesus, Help us to Be Your Witness to those who do Not Yet Know You.  For With You, O Lord, we Know There Is The Fountain of Eternal Life; Holy Spirit, Thank You that In Your Light Do You Enable us To See Your True Light. O Father God we Thank You and Ask You to Continue Your Steadfast Love to those who Know You as Lord.  Lord Jesus, Help us and Let us Reflect Your Righteousness to the Family of The Faith, those Upright of Heart By Your Grace!  O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we earnestly Pray that You Let Not the foot of arrogance come upon us, Nor May the hand of the wicked drive us away from You and Your Love.  We Lift Up our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy and Righteous Name, Lord Jesus....Amen/Amen....jaj