Monday, October 31, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161031 - PROLOG Focus: Exodus 14:13-14........ON FEAR....NO fear -
Psalm 136:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Give Thanks To The Lord, For He Is Good, For His Steadfast LOVE Endures Forever."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161031 - ON FEAR....NO fear -Exodus 14:13-14 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And Moses said to the people, “Fear NOT, Stand Firm, And SEE The Salvation Of The Lord, Which He Will Work For you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you Shall Never See again. THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR you, And you Have Only To Be Silent."....
I know whenever I see the word 'fear', the first thing that comes to mind is the 'fright/flight' reaction that's hard-wired into every man/woman/child. We all have a 'fear' of something.....(also reminds me of Lucy's diagnosis for Charlie Brown.....he's afraid of everything.....). So, it is easy for me, as we read today's PJP2 PROLOG POST 161031 POWS (Exodus 14:13-14) to visualize why the Israelites would be a bit jumpy as they see the Pillar of Fire begun to shrink, the Egyptian Army roaring down upon them, and the Red Sea still billowing and churning in front of them.....faith, trust, hope....they would potentially all be a bit thin at this point in time (would be for me I'm certain).
BUT, think about it - isn't that exactly where we need to be? I mean, don't we have to get to the point that we understand, fully, that we can NOT do this, face that, even hope to succeed without His Presence in our midst?
The Examples our Lord Jesus, His Holy Spirit, and God The Father Provide us of His Truth go on and on. Let alone the Examples we could each share from our own Walks With Him.
Thus, for This Halloween 2016 (and for the next Eight Days and beyond our U.S. Presidential Election - regardless of what candidates are elected) - My Prayer for us would be - Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Ever Being with us. Lord Jesus, regardless of the circumstances we personally face, or we face as a Nation - Encourage and Strengthen us to Ever Look First To You. Holy Spirit, Calm our worried Hearts. Remind us, Father God, that You Are In Control, and Ultimately, no matter what, Your Will, Will Be Done. Lord Jesus, Help us Ever to Reflect Your Light and Grace. In Your Holy Name we Pray....Amen and Amen....jaj
Psalm 27:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."The Lord Is my LIGHT And my Salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord Is The Stronghold Of my LIFE; of whom shall I be afraid?"....
PJP2 THANKS - 161031 - THANKS Focus: 2 Timothy 1:6-7........ON FEAR....NO fear -
Psalm 136:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Give Thanks To The Lord, For He Is Good, For His Steadfast LOVE Endures Forever."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161031 - ON FEAR....NO fear - 2 Timothy 1:6-7 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."For This Reason I Remind you To Fan Into Flame The GIFT Of God, Which Is IN you through the laying on of my hands, For God Gave us A Spirit NOT of fear BUT Of POWER And LOVE And Self-control."....
I am so Thankful that God The Father understands us so well that He Knows, left to our own devices, we so quickly slip into that spirit of fear which the world offers as 'the way'.....which leads to darkness, doubt, destruction and ultimately death. BUT as our Lord Jesus Shares with us.....
John 14:6 (ESV)...."Jesus Said to him, 'I Am The Way, And The Truth, And The Life. No one Comes To The Father Except Through Me.'"....
John 8:12 (ESV)...."Again Jesus Spoke to them, Saying, 'I Am The Light of the world. Whoever Follows Me Will NOT Walk in darkness, BUT Will Have The Light Of Life.'”....
John 16:33 (ESV)...."Jesus Said, 'I Have Said These Things to you, That In Me you May Have Peace. In the world you Will Have tribulation. BUT Take Heart; I Have Overcome the world.'”
Thus, we can say, In Him...ON FEAR.....NO fear!
My Prayer of Thanks for us today would be....Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Your Presence and Your Continuous Encouragement as we move forward in our lives. Lord Jesus, Help us to Grow ever Deeper into Your Presence in our Souls. Holy Spirit, we Surrender to You and Ask You to Remove any remnant of the spirit of fear that has blinded us so long. Father God, Open our Inner Eyes to See Your Way, Follow Your Light and to Take Heart In Your Son's WORD in our Souls. In Your Name, Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise.....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 161031 - ON FEAR....NO fear - Psalm 5:1-2, 4, 7, 11 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God we raise our voice in praise to You. O Lord, thank You and we Know You Give Ear to our words. Holy Spirit, Thank You as You consider our groaning. Father God, Thank You as You Give Attention to the sound of our cry. Lord Jesus, You Are our King and our God, to You we Pray. O Holy Spirit, May we Ever Reflect That You Are Not a God Who delights in wickedness. Father God, May we Show By our word, thoughts, and deed that evil May Not dwell With You, Only Goodness and Light! BUT, Lord Jesus, we Are Humbled that Through The Abundance Of Your Steadfast LOVE, You Provide The WAY for us to Enter Into Your Father's House. We Will Bow Down Toward Your Holy Temple In Faithful Esteem, Adoration and Reverence Of You. BUT Let All who Take Refuge In You REJOICE! Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Let them Ever Sing For JOY, Because of You. We Pray that You Spread Your Protection Over them and us. O Lord May those who LOVE Your Name Ever Exult In You. We Lift Up our Prayers, Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161031 - ON FEAR....NO fear
ON FEAR....NO fear:
Only kNowing the Father, Eternally Accesses us to Reconciliation/Redemption, and New assured Opportunity to forever escape awful results
1 John 4:18 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."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."....
A Blessed and Happy Hallow's Eve to you and yours. I have been praying and waiting before The Holy Spirit, today, asking specifically what WORD He would have me Share today as we prepare for another Halloween.
The WORD He Kept bringing up through my devotional time.....FEAR....thus we find the J-ACRONYM today to be ON FEAR....NO fear. :)
In a nut shell, makes total sense (well at least in my noggin')....IF we go through LIFE without our being linked (even lashed) to God The Father....That is attempting to accomplish our LIFE's Mission solo, without Him, then indeed the results of our doing this on our own are guaranteed to be awful. Our human tendency, due to Adam/Eve's fall from God's Grace by their selection to sin, can only lead to our further disobedience, destruction and ultimately death. Yes, that is a horror-story from beginning to end.
BUT (Behold the Underlying TRUTH) - IF we would TURN from this way of wickedness, to His Path, Being Drawn To His ROCK by HIS LIGHT of LOVE, MERCY and GRACE.....then ON FEAR.....NO fear becomes our Blessed Reality.
And The Gate, The Door that Opens onto His Path....None Other Than His Son, our Lord Jesus.
So, as you and yours celebrate Halloween 2016 - I'd pray for Safety and overall our Lord's Presence in our Midst. May His Light Shine Through us as we gather. May we Stand Upon His ROCK of Grace and Share His Eternal Treat of Salvation.....In Your Holy Name we Pray....Amen and Amen....jaj
Saturday, October 29, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 16102829 - PROLOG Focus: Matthew 5:14-16........LIGHT HOUSE -
Psalm 43:3-4 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Send Out Your LIGHT And Your TRUTH; Let Them Lead me; Let Them Bring me To Your Holy Hill And To Your Dwelling! THEN I will Go To The Altar Of God, To God my Exceeding JOY, And I Will Praise You with the lyre, O God, my God."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 16102829 - LIGHT HOUSE - Matthew 5:14-16 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And Jesus Said, 'You Are The LIGHT of the world. A city set on a hill Cannot Be hidden. Nor Do people LIGHT a lamp and put it under a basket, BUT On A Stand, AND It Gives LIGHT To All in the house. IN The Same Way, LET your LIGHT Shine Before others, SO That they May See your Good Works AND Give GLORY To your Father Who Is In Heaven.'"....
Here we are just 10-days away from the U.S. Presidential Election of 2016. I am fascinated that The Holy Spirit has Shared this Imagery of a LIGHT HOUSE via this PJP2 Entry (16102829).
I had at first Asked Him, "Why now? How's Your LIGHT HOUSE connected?" Silly me.....
As I stated months ago, I promises then and do again, that I will remain out of the 'side-taking' postings in regards to my own person candidate selection, at least as best I can. I believe I've tried to remain true to that promise.
I have to admit, though, the mud-slinging and literal 'darkness' that has surrounded this campaign cycle, from all the candidates, has been overwhelming. Those of you who know me well, know that I am a news-hound. I am constantly scanning and reading (much to General J's chagrin) news stories of the day (usually aloud to her, which really does drive her bonkers). However, her of late, with all the hubbub and 'spin' that all the pundits seemed to have applied to every tidbit of news swirling around, well, to be frank, it seems even more challenging than usual to catch a glimpse of TRUTH, let alone reality.
What a Blessing and Encouragement to Be Reminded That Not Only is God's LIGHT HOUSE Still Blazing Bright and Clear through all the storms raging all around us....BUT (Behold the Underlying TRUTH).....His LIGHT of LIFE Shines Through us as well, piercing through the darkness to Lead and Guide us to His TRUTH. Indeed, we can say with Honesty and Integrity...."In God we TRUST.".....
Thus my Prayer for us today would be a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise based on His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD to Solomon as he records in Proverbs 3:1-8 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise Your Holy Name. Lord Jesus, Thank You that Through Your Sacrifice and Resurrection, we Have Been Adopted as God's Own children. Holy Spirit, Ever Remind us that we may Never forget Your Teaching. Father God, May we Ever Obey and Keep Your Commandments in our Hearts. Lord Jesus, Lead us In You Way, Helping us to Know You Are With us For whatever the length of our days and the years of Life we may have. Holy Spirit, With You Within us, You Bring Peace to us all. Father God, May Your Steadfast LOVE And Faithfulness never forsake us. Lord Jesus, In Your Grace, Bind Your WORD Around our necks. Holy Spirit, Write Your WORD On The Tablet Of our Hearts. Father God, Let Your LIGHT Shine Through us that we May Find Your Favor and Grace. Lord Jesus, May Any and All Good Success we Experience, Remind us that You Are With us, Forever, In The Sight of God The Father, Reflecting Well Your Light to All men. Holy Spirit, Help us to TRUST in You With All our Hearts. Father God, Train us NOT to lean on our own understanding. Lord Jesus, in All our Ways May we Acknowledge You. Holy Spirit, we Surrender Fully to You and Ask You Make Straight our paths. Father God, May we Never Be wise in our own eyes, For True Wisdom Comes From You Alone. Lord Jesus, Teach us to Faithfully Esteem, be in Awe and Respect You, Lord. Holy Spirit, Guide us to Turn Away from all evil. Father God, You Bring Healing to our flesh And Refreshment to our bones By Your Grace, Mercy, LIGHT and LOVE. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
John 8:12 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Again Jesus Spoke to them, saying, 'I Am The LIGHT Of the world. Whoever Follows Me Will NOT Walk in darkness, BUT Will Have The LIGHT Of LIFE.'”....
PJP2 THANKS - 16102829 - THANKS Focus: Genesis 1:14-19........LIGHT HOUSE -
Psalm 43:3-4 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Send Out Your LIGHT And Your TRUTH; Let Them Lead me; Let Them Bring me To Your Holy Hill And To Your Dwelling! THEN I will Go To The Altar Of God, To God my Exceeding JOY, And I Will Praise You with the lyre, O God, my God."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 16102829 - LIGHT HOUSE - Genesis 1:14-19 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And God Said, 'Let There Be LIGHTS in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And Let Them Be For Signs And For Seasons, And For Days And Years, And Let Them Be LIGHTS in the expanse of the heavens To Give LIGHT upon the earth.' AND It Was SO. And God Made The Two Great LIGHTS—The Greater LIGHT to rule the day and the Lesser Light to rule the night—And the stars. And God Set Them in the expanse of the heavens To Give LIGHT on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate The LIGHT from the darkness. And God Saw That It Was Good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day."....
I am Thankful that God's Creation, our world, as well as 'the expanse of the heavens' REFLECT not just His Created LIGHTS (Sun and Moon), BUT Also His LIGHT of Love, Mercy and Grace.
I am Thankful that at the Beginning of Each Day, then as the Sun sets and night-time begins, we still See His LIGHT all around us.
John 1:4-5 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."In Him Was LIFE, And The LIFE Was The LIGHT of men. The LIGHT Shines in the darkness, And the darkness Has NOT overcome IT."....
My Prayer of Thanks for us today would be - O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Your LIGHT of LIFE in our Lives. Lord Jesus, May we Ever Reflect Your LIGHT through our Thoughts, Actions, Words and Prayers. Holy Spirit, Ever Guide us on Your Path with God's LIGHT Showing us Your Way. Father God, May we Be Your LIGHT HOUSE, Shining Your Signal of Grace to all those weary sea-tossed travelers still Looking For Your Haven of Hope. Lord Jesus, we Raise our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 16102829 - LIGHT HOUSE - Psalm 27:1, 3, 5, 13-14 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise and Thank You, Lord, for Your Love, Mercy and Grace towards us. O Lord Jesus, You Are our LIGHT and our Salvation! Holy Spirit, with You Within us, whom really shall we fear? Father God, You Are our Lord, and You Are The Stronghold Of our LIFE! Lord Jesus, Again, With You In Front, Behind, Above, Below, Beside and Within us, of whom shall we be afraid? Holy Spirit, May we Ever Walk With You. Father God, Ever Remind us, even though an army of the enemy would encamp against us, our Hearts Shall Not fear, Because You Are With us. Lord Jesus, especially in these troubled times we are witnessing, and war seems to be rising all around and against us....YET, Because Of You, Your Sacrifice, Your Resurrection and The Gift of Your Holy Spirit Within us, we Will Be Confident In You. O Holy Spirit, we Know You Will Hide us In Your Shelter of Grace in the day of trouble. Lord Jesus, Thank You for You Will Conceal us Under The Cover Of Your Tent. Father God, Please Lift us Up High Upon Your ROCK, Your Son, our Lord Jesus. Holy Spirit, we Do Believe That we Shall Look Upon Your Goodness yet in this land of the living! Father God, Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Strengthen and Encourage us to Ever Wait For You, O Lord! Help us to Ever Be Strong, And Let our Hearts Take Courage In You! Lord Jesus, we Do Wait For You, O Lord, Come soon.....In You Precious and Holy Name we Pray....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 16102829 - LIGHT HOUSE
LIGHT HOUSE - Live In God's Hope/Heart and Truth/Trust....He's Our Ultimate Source Eternally
Jeremiah 17:7 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Blessed Is the man who TRUSTS In The Lord, whose TRUST Is The Lord."....
My Lovely Bride of 38 years, Cindy (or General J as I call her) has always LOVED Light Houses. IF we are ever near a Light House during our travels, you can bet we'll find a way to visit said Light House. That's ok with me - the Light House draws me to its presence as well. As I was pondering that this morning, The Holy Spirit pinged me with the J-ACRONYM above.
Considering His WORDing through this J-ACRONYM, I too could see how His LIGHT Draws us to Him.
Then, as The Holy Spirit so often does during my writing up the PJP2 Entries for the day, He Shared the following Passage Of the WORD, Select (POWS) with me.....
John 6:35, 37, 40, 44 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Jesus Said to them, 'I Am The Bread Of LIFE; whoever Comes To Me Shall Not hunger, AND whoever Believes In Me Shall Never thirst. ALL That The Father Gives Me Will Come To Me, AND whoever Comes To Me I Will Never cast out. For This Is The Will Of My Father, That everyone who Looks On The Son AND Believes In Him Should Have Eternal LIFE, AND I Will Raise him Up On The Last Day.....'No one Can Come To Me Unless The Father Who Sent Me Draws him. AND I Will Raise him Up On The Last Day.'"....
Thus like ships on the sea, we 'sailors' aboard our sea-craft, watch and scan the shore for His Light House of Hope, Faith, Mercy and Grace. Regardless of the storms of life raging about us, with our TRUST Secured, and His Captain, our Lord Jesus Christ at the Helm, we will Be Drawn To Him By His Eternal Light of LOVE.
So my Overall Prayer for us today would be.....Psalm 37:5-6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Commit your Way To The Lord; TRUST In Him, AND He Will Act. He Will Bring Forth your Righteousness As The LIGHT, And your Justice as the noonday."....In Your Holy Name, Lord Jesus, we Raise our Prayer and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj
Thursday, October 27, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 16102327 - PROLOG Focus: John 14:18-21, 26-27......CLImE -
Psalm 145:3 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Great Is The Lord, And Greatly To Be Praised, And His Greatness Is Unsearchable."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 16102327 - CLImE! - John 14:18-21, 26-27 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Jesus Said to His disciples, 'I Will NOT leave you as orphans; I Will Come To you. Yet a little while and the world will see Me no more, BUT you Will SEE Me. BECAUSE I LIVE, you Also Will LIVE. In That Day you Will Know That I Am In My Father, And you In Me, And I In you. Whoever Has My Commandments AND Keeps Them, he It Is who LOVES Me. And he who LOVES Me Will Be LOVED By My Father, And I Will LOVE him And Manifest Myself To him..... BUT The Helper, The Holy Spirit, Whom The Father Will Send In My Name, He Will Teach you ALL Things And Bring To your Remembrance ALL That I Have Said To you. PEACE I Leave With you; My PEACE I Give To you. NOT as the world gives Do I Give To you. Let NOT your Hearts Be Troubled, Neither Let Them be afraid."....
What a Powerful Passage of HOPE and Encouragement!
Recently, through our work with Operation Pathfinders (OP), we've been working with some Veterans who are really struggling with some challenging life issues. (Note: Team PJP2, would appreciate your lifting up Prayer for these Veterans as well/jaj.). As Team OP has has worked to connect these Veterans with Resource Partners to assist them, this Passage Of the WORD, Select (POWS) keeps coming back as God's Anchor for us to Cling to to CLImE upon to weather the storms swirling all around us. May His WORD of PEACE ever Ring Loud and Clear in our Hearts, Minds and Souls.
My Prayer for us today would be - O Lord Jesus, Father God, Holy Spirit, Thank You for Your Amazing Grace. Lord Jesus, Help us to CLImE on You as our ROCK of HOPE that regardless of the storms, we Know In You we Are Safe. Holy Spirit, Open our Inner Minds that we May Learn from You, as You Teach us God The Father's WAY of LIFE. Father God, Thank You and Ever Remind us that You Are Ever With us. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 THANKS - 161023-27 - THANKS Focus: Jeremiah 10:6, Joshua 1:5-9, Matthew 28:19-20 ......CLImE -
Psalm 145:3 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Great Is The Lord, And Greatly To Be Praised, And His Greatness Is Unsearchable."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 16102327 - CLImE! -
I am so very Thankful for (a) We Serve God The Father, His Only Son and His Holy Spirit (within us) and There Is None Like Him; (b) His Provision of Encouragement to us regardless of our circumstances; (c) His Guidance on our Mission for Him.....
Jeremiah 10:6, Joshua 1:5-9 and Matthew 28:19-20 would be my Prayer of Thanks for us today.....
Jeremiah 10:6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."There is None Like You, O Lord; You Are Great, And Your Name Is Great In Might."....
Joshua 1:5-9 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."No man shall be able To Stand before you all the days of your Life. Just As I Was With Moses, SO I Will Be With you. I Will NOT leave you OR forsake you. Be Strong And Courageous, For you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I Swore to their fathers to give them. Only Be Strong And Very Courageous, Being Careful To DO According To All The Law that Moses My servant Commanded you. Do NOT turn from IT to the right hand or to the left, That you May Have Good Success wherever you go. This Book of the Law Shall NOT depart from your mouth, BUT you Shall Meditate On IT Day And Night, SO That you May Be Careful To DO According To ALL That Is Written In IT. For Then you Will Make your way prosperous, And Then you Will Have Good Success. Have I NOT Commanded you? Be Strong And Courageous. Do NOT be frightened, And Do NOT be dismayed, For The Lord your God IS WITH you wherever you go.”....
Matthew 28:19-20 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Go Therefore And Make disciples of all nations, Baptizing them In The Name Of The Father And Of The Son And Of The Holy Spirit, Teaching them To Observe ALL That I Have Commanded you. And BEHOLD, I AM WITH you Always, to the end of the age.”
Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Lift up our Thanks and Prayers in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 16102327 - CLImE! - Psalm 145:1-2, 4-5, 8-10 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Will Extol You, our God and King. Lord Jesus, we Will Bless Your Holy Name Forever And Ever. Holy Spirit, Every Day we Will Bless You And Praise Your Righteous Name Forever And Ever. Father God, as one generation Commends Your Works to another, we Shall All Declare Your Mighty Acts. Lord Jesus, on The Glorious Splendor of Your Majesty, And on Your Wondrous Works, we Will Meditate Upon Your Grace Towards us. Father God, Thank You that Your Are Gracious And Merciful, Slow To Anger And Abounding In Steadfast LOVE. Holy Spirit, we Praise You that You are Good To All. Lord Jesus, May Your Mercy Be Poured Over All That You Have Made. Father God, Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, May All Your Works Give Thanks To You. Lord Jesus, our Lord, we Your saints Bless and Praise You and Lift Up These Prayers in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 16102327 - CLImE!
CLImE - Christ Lives In me Eternally!
I have always loved the story of Zacchaeus.....
Luke 19:1-6, 9-10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. And Behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he Was Seeking To See Who Jesus Was, BUT on account of the crowd he could not, Because he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and CLIMBED up into a sycamore tree to See Him, for Jesus Was About To Pass That way. And when Jesus Came to the place, He LOOKED Up And Said to him, 'Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I Must Stay At your house Today.' So Zacchaeus hurried and came down and Received Him Joyfully. And Jesus Said to him, 'Today Salvation Has Come To This house, Since he Also Is a son of Abraham. For The Son Of Man Came To SEEK And To SAVE the lost.'”....
I know I will soon need to do a full PJP2 Entry just on this story - for today, though, suffice to say that I Hear His Holy Spirit Sharing that in Reality we can All Relate to Zacchaeus. In one way or another have we not all felt 'small in stature'? Have we not All, as well, been Curious to 'See Who Jesus Was'?
Then there's God's Grace of ensuring Zacchaeus had a tree to climb. :)
He is Still Providing His Grace for us as well. He is Still Ensuring by His Open Hand of Love that He Provides us Exactly What's needed, at Exactly His Perfect Timing.
Thus, here is my overall Prayer for us Today.....2 Timothy 3:14-17 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BUT as for you, Continue In What you Have Learned And Have Firmly Believed, Knowing From Whom you Learned It and how from childhood you have been acquainted With The Sacred Writings, Which Are Able To Make you Wise For Salvation THROUGH FAITH In Christ Jesus. ALL Scripture Is Breathed Out By God And Profitable For Teaching, For Reproof, For Correction, And For Training In Righteousness, That the man of God May Be Complete, Equipped For Every Good Work.".....
May God's WORD Speak to us and His Will Forever Be Done....Amen/Amen....jaj
Saturday, October 22, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161022 - EAGERLY - Crew, today is one of those days I Hear The Holy Spirit Sharing that His WORD is All the PROLOG POST I need to share......Thus Today's PJP2 PROLOG POST 161022 is found in Philippians 1:18-30....This is also my Prayer for us today....
Enjoy....Be Blessed...I am Thankful to Be EAGERLY Awaiting His HOPE with you as well....
Philippians 1:18-30 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."What then? Only That In Every Way, whether in pretense or in Truth, Christ IS Proclaimed, And In That I Rejoice. Yes, And I Will Rejoice, For I Know That Through your Prayers And The HELP Of The Spirit of Jesus Christ This Will Turn Out For my Deliverance, As IT Is my EAGER Expectation And HOPE That I Will NOT Be at all ashamed, BUT THAT With Full Courage NOW As Always Christ Will Be Honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me To LIVE IS Christ, and to die IS Gain. If I am to LIVE in the flesh, That Means Fruitful Labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and Be With Christ, For That Is Far Better. BUT to remain in the flesh Is More Necessary on your account. Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your Progress and Joy in The FAITH, so that in me you may have ample cause to Glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again. Only Let your Manner of LIFE Be Worthy Of The Gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are Standing Firm In One Spirit, With One Mind Striving Side By Side for The FAITH of The Gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This Is A Clear Sign to them of their destruction, BUT of your Salvation, And That From God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only Believe in Him but also suffer for His Sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.".....
Blessed Be His WORD!
Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name we Pray and Praise.....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 THANKS - 161022 - THANKS Focus: Galatians 5:5........EAGERLY -
Philippians 4:4 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Rejoice In The Lord Always; Again I will say, Rejoice."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161022 - EAGERLY - Galatians 5:5 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."For Through The Spirit, By FAITH, we ourselves EAGERLY Wait For The HOPE Of Righteousness."...
I am so Thankful for how our Lord Jesus, God The Father and His Holy Spirit Provide us this HOPE. How Encouraging to Know that This HOPE Rests on such a Sure Foundation that not even the gates of hell could ever prevail against it.
Thus my Prayer of Thanks for us today would be, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Your HOPE in us. Lord Jesus, Thank You for Your Sacrifice and Resurrection which Open The Gate for us to be Reconciled with God The Father. Holy Spirit, Guide us and Remind us, Ever, regardless of our Circumstances, You Are Ever With us, every step of this Way. Father God, Empower and Embolden us to EAGERLY Share and Witness for You and Your GRACE. Lord Jesus, in Your Holy Name we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 161022 - EAGERLY - 1 Peter 5:2-4 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise and Worship You. O Lord, as our Great Eternal Shepherd, Guide and Help us, as Part of Your Flock to Be Your Witness O God. Holy Spirit, Teach us to Ever Exercise Your Positive Oversight of Grace. Father God, Help us to Learn the Your Love is Never under compulsion, BUT Willingly Following You, as You Would Have us do. Lord Jesus, Protect us from ever seeking our own shameful and/or selfish gain. Holy Spirit, BUT EAGERLY Joining In with You, as You Work within, around and through us all. Father God, Keep from us the domineering spirit over those You Have Crossed our pathways with. Instead, Lord, Help us to Be Your Positive Example To Your Flock, Walking Ever In Step with You. O Father God, Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, when You are Chief Shepherd Appear again at Your Second Advent, May we EAGERLY Await Your Presentation of Your Unfading Crown Of Glory. In Your Holy Name Lord Jesus, May we Be Your Witness, as we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise to You.....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 PBJ - 161022 - EAGERLY - Philippians 3:20-21 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BUT our Citizenship Is In Heaven, And From It we EAGERLY Await A Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ, Who Will Transform our lowly body To Be Like His Glorious Body, By The Power That Enables Him Even To Subject ALL Things To Himself."....
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161022 - EAGERLY
OOWG2x9....EOT2x4
EAGERLY - Each of us Apply God's Eternal Effort to Redeem/Reconcile/Restore our Lives via Yoshua (YAHWEH's Son our Lord Jesus).....
I am Fired Up today (so what else is new).....Today I have the opportunity to reunite with Fellow Paintball Players that The Lord Graced me with their becoming Brothers, as well as Fellow Paintball Enthusiasts. Thus, I am EAGERLY awaiting that time where we'll meet up.
I am always Amazed How The Holy Spirit can interweave His WORD into our Daily Circumstances. The first POWS He Shared with me today (Philippians 3:20-21) has a Key Word within its verbiage....EAGERLY.....which then He Gave me The J-ACRONYM.....
EAGERLY - Each of us Apply God's Eternal Effort to Redeem/Reconcile/Restore our Lives via Yoshua (YAHWEH's Son our Lord Jesus).....
As I've been pondering this - I too begin to sense That EAGERNESS to Share His WORD....Which brings us to this first set of POWS.....And They Sum Up Well God's Thoughts for us today.....
Romans 8:31-39 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."What Then shall we say To These Things? IF God Is For us, who can be against us? He Who Did Not Spare His Own Son BUT Gave Him Up For us ALL, How Will He Not Also With Him Graciously Give us ALL Things? Who shall bring any charge against God's Elect? IT Is God Who Justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus IS The One Who Died—More Than THAT, Who Was Raised—Who IS At The Right Hand Of God, Who Indeed IS Interceding For us. Who shall separate us from The LOVE Of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As IT Is Written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” NO, In ALL these things we Are MORE Than Conquerors THROUGH Him Who LOVED us. For I am Sure That Neither death Nor life, Nor angels Nor rulers, Nor things present Nor things to come, Nor powers, Nor height Nor depth, Nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from The LOVE Of God IN Christ Jesus our Lord."...
So Join with me today, Please, as we Lift Up His Inspired WORD as Recorded in Isaiah 12:4-6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And you Will Say In That Day: 'Give Thanks To The Lord, Call Upon His Name, Make Known His Deeds among the peoples, Proclaim That His Name Is Exalted. Sing Praises To The Lord, For He Has Done Gloriously; Let This Be Made Known in all the earth. Shout, And Sing For Joy, O inhabitant of Zion, For Great in your midst IS The Holy One of Israel.'”
Friday, October 21, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161021 - PROLOG Focus: Jeremiah 29:11-13........SEEK -
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161021 - SEEK - Jeremiah 29:11-13 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“'For I Know The Plans I Have For you', Declares The Lord, 'Plans For Welfare AND NOT for evil, To Give you A Future AND A HOPE. THEN you Will Call Upon Me AND Come AND Pray To Me, AND I Will Hear you. You Will SEEK Me AND Find Me, WHEN you SEEK Me With ALL your Heart.'"....
As Gen J and I begin our Transition from the past 30-years of God's Adventure in our Lives, it is such a Reassurance to Read and Know in our Heart of Hearts that God's Got This Fully Under Control.
Now, that's not to say I have not (or will not) have moments of anxiety. In fact I am sure the evil one will throw darts of doubt at me, attempting to distract and despair us from SEEKING after God's Presence in our lives.
BUT when that happens, Praise God, His Holy Spirit Brings Up a Shield of Remembrance such as.....
Joshua 1:5-9 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just As I Was with Moses, So I Will Be With you. I Will NOT leave you Or forsake you. Be Strong And Courageous, For you Shall Cause this people To Inherit The Land That I Swore to their fathers to Give them. ONLY Be Strong And Very Courageous, Being Careful To DO According To AL The Law that Moses My servant Commanded you. Do NOT turn From IT to the right hand or to the left, THAT you May Have Good Success Wherever you Go. This Book Of The Law Shall NOT depart from your mouth, BUT you Shall Meditate on IT day and night, SO That you May Be Careful To DO According To ALL That Is Written In IT. For Then you Will Make your way prosperous, And Then you Will Have Good Success. Have I Not Commanded you? Be Strong And Courageous. Do NOT be frightened, And Do NOT be dismayed, For The Lord your God IS With you Wherever you Go.”
BaBaam!
So, Team, my Sharing with us today would be to Encourage us, each of us to SEEK Him in ALL we Think, Say and Do. May we TRUST Him for He Is Faithful and True to His WORD and His Promise to us. Lastly, Crew, May we Reflect His WORD as His Beacon of Loving Light, Drawing those who Do Not Know Him in His Way, to His Narrow Path of GRACE.
My Prayer for us today is slightly different than my normal PJP2 PROLOG POST PRAYER.....Today, The Holy Spirit is Guiding me to employ His Inspired WORD as is....Here we go..... Psalm 34:11-14 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you The FEAR Of The Lord. What man is there who Desires LIFE And Loves Many Days, That he May See Good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and DO GOOD; SEEK PEACE And Pursue IT." Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise.....Amen and Amen....jaj
Matthew 6:33 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“BUT SEEK First The Kingdom Of God AND His Righteousness, And All These Things Will Be Added to you."....
PJP2 THANKS - 161021 - THANKS Focus: Matthew 28:1-7........SEEK -
Isaiah 55:6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“SEEK The Lord While He May Be Found; Call Upon Him While He Is NEAR;"....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161021 - SEEK - Matthew 28:1-7 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see The Tomb. And BEHOLD, there was a Great Earthquake, For An Angel Of The Lord Descended From Heaven And Came And Rolled Back The Stone And sat on It.
His Appearance Was Like Lightning, And His Clothing White As Snow. And for fear of Him the guards trembled and became like dead men. BUT The Angel Said to the women, 'Do Not be afraid, For I Know That you SEEK Jesus Who Was Crucified. HE IS NOT HERE, For He Has RISEN, As He Said. Come, See The Place Where He Lay. Then GO Quickly And TELL His disciples That HE HAS RISEN from the dead, And BEHOLD He Is Going Before you to Galilee; There you Will See Him. See, I Have Told you.'”....
I am Thankful for His GOSPEL - God's Only Son Provides us Eternal Life.....I am Thankful He has Given us The Mission to Be His SEEKERS. I am Thankful He Provides each of us a Forum, a Platform to Share His GOSPEL to both those of His Household of HOPE, and to those who Do Not Yet Know Him as Lord and Savior.
My Prayer for us today would be - O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Thank You for Your GOSPEL of GRACE. Lord Jesus, Guide us Daily as we Search Every-moment/Everyday for You, our Eternal King. Holy Spirit, we Thank You and Ask You to Help us, Empower us, Embolden us to Share Your GOSPEL openly and frequently. Father God, we Praise You for Your Loving Grace, and, Lord, Setting Your Example of Seeking us first. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 LIGHT - 161021 - SEEK - Psalm 34:11-14 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Come, O children, Listen to Me; I Will Teach you The FEAR Of The Lord. What man is there who Desires LIFE And Loves many days, That he May See Good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn Away from evil AND DO GOOD; SEEK PEACE And Pursue IT."....
PJP2 SIP - 161021 - SEEK - Psalm 22:3, 5, 11, 22, 26-27 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God we Lift Up our Praises to You. Indeed, Lord Jesus, You Are Holy! Father God, You Are Enthroned Upon The Praises of Your people. To You, Holy Spirit, we Cry Out and Praise You, Thank You, You Rescue us. Lord Jesus, In You we TRUST, and we Know we Will NOT be put to shame. Holy Spirit, especially in the days of challenge and ongoing tensions in our world, Please Be Not far from us. Father God we see and know that trouble is near. O Lord, there is none, But You, to Help us. Lord Jesus, we Will Tell and Witness Of Your Holy Name to All the brothers/sisters. Holy Spirit, Inspire us to Share, even in the midst of the congregation. Father God, we Will Ever Praise You! Come Lord Jesus, Come! Holy Spirit, May The afflicted Eat of Your Love and Grace and Be Satisfied. Father God, May those who SEEK You, Praise You, O Lord, as You Guide them To You! Lord Jesus, In You May our Hearts LIVE forever! Holy Spirit, By Your Reminding, May All the ends of the earth Remember And Turn Back to You, O Lord! Father God, Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Upon Your 2nd Advent, May All the families of the nations Kneel and Worship Before You. Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name we Pray....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161021 - SEEK
OOWG2X8 / EOT2X3
SEEK - Search Every-moment/Everyday for our Eternal King
Ezekiel 34:11 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“For thus Says The Lord God: 'BEHOLD, I, I Myself Will Search For My Sheep And Will Seek them out.'"
Amos 5:4 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“For thus Says The Lord to the house of Israel: 'Seek Me And LIVE;'"....
Psalm 27:8 ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“You have Said, 'Seek My Face.' My Heart says To You, 'Your Face, Lord, Do I Seek.'”....
When we consider the Word "SEEK" the subtle undertow is that we are looking for something that's been lost....In Luke Chapter 15, our Lord Jesus uses three Parables (Lost Sheep; Lost Coin; Lost Son) to hone in on this Concept of SEEK (and Lost as well). My point, though, for today's PJP2 "7 PRAISES" 161021 is that our Lord Jesus, In His True Form of Leadership, Does Not expect us to do anything That He Himself would not do. God The Father (as shared throughout this PJP2 Entry, tells us to "SEEK" Him.....Yet, as we can read and see, He Was The First SEEKER (check out Genesis 3:9). So from man's Fall from God's GRACE, God The Father has continued to SEEK us to Restore, Redeem and Reconcile our Relationship With Him. Makes sense that His Expectation of us is to Reciprocate and SEEK Him as well.
So, Team, Let's Mount Up and Ride. Let us Search Every-moment/Everyday for our Eternal King.....
Thursday, October 20, 2016
PJP2 THANKS - 16101920 - THANKS Focus: Isaiah 30:21.......PATHSx2 -
Exodus 15:2 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."The Lord Is my Strength And my Song, And He Has Become my Salvation; THIS Is my God, And I Will Praise Him, my father's God, And I Will Exalt Him."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 16101920 - PATHSx2 - Isaiah 30:21 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And your ears Shall Hear A WORD Behind you, saying, 'THIS Is The WAY, Walk In IT,' When you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.'".....
I am Thankful for God The Father's Promise to Guide, Lead and Show us His Way for our Lives. Don't hear, though, what I am Not Saying.....Not Saying this is easy....Not at all. Our Hearing His Guidance, Leading and Showing us His Way Requires us to Daily, even Moment by Moment, being Engaged in Communication (to Included Listening) for His WORD. I am Thankful that God The Father Employs His Son, our Lord Jesus....His Holy Spirit Within us.....His WORD (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth....BIBLE)....His Angels....our Family and Friends.....even Circumstances around us to Provide us His Road-Signs on "THIS Is The Way, Walk In IT"....Thus today's J-ACRONYM....
PATHS - "Prayerfully/Patiently Approach/Apply Trajectories/Truth in the Holy Spirit/His Son".....
My Prayer of Thanks for us today would simply be - Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Your Love, Mercy and Grace. Lord Jesus, Thank You for Being God The Father's Living Example for us to Follow as a Perfect Model of The Relationship God The Father Wants with us. Holy Spirit, Thank You for Your Ever-Present Guidance in our Lives. Father God, Thank You for Your Eternal Steadfast Love that Never gives-up on us. May we, O Lord, Ever Reflect Your Light to those still struggling to Find You and Your Way in them. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise to You today and Forever. Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 16101920 - PATHSx2 - Psalm 16:11 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrases added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Your Love, Light, Mercy and Grace. Lord Jesus, You Make Known To us Your PATH Of LIFE for us. Holy Spirit, In Your Presence There IS Fullness Of JOY. Father God, Thank You, that At Your Right Hand, You Are Providing for us Now and Forevermore. Lord Jesus, May we Ever Reflect Your Hope and Grace in our Word, Actions and Thoughts. In Your Holy Name we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 16101920 - PATHSx2
Operation Off We GO/Obeying Onward With God (OOWGx2/Day 6).....
PATHS - "Prayerfully/Patiently Approach/Apply Trajectories/Truth in the Holy Spirit/His Son".....
So, Day 1 of our Transitional Leave has ended, Day 2 is on the way....I must admit it is an Odd Sensation not having a 'job' to come home to. BUT (Behold the Underlying Truth) I also Know God The Father HAS the Plan for us, and He Has Laid out The PATHS we will Follow in His New Mission for Team Johnson....so....today we're Focusing on Being Open to His PATHS.....
Off We Go....
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161018 - PROLOG Focus: Isaiah 53:5-6........DOC PAPPY J -
1 Chronicles 16:36 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Blessed Be The Lord, The God of Israel, From Everlasting to Everlasting!” Then All the people said, “Amen!” And Praised The Lord."
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161018 - DOC PAPPY J - Isaiah 53:5-6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...." BUT He Was Pierced for our transgressions; He Was Crushed for our iniquities; Upon Him Was The Chastisement That Brought us PEACE, And With His Wounds we Are Healed. ALL we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; AND The Lord Has Laid On Him the iniquity of us ALL."....
Team - If you have never had the chance, or taken the opportunity to spend much time reading/studying the Book of Isaiah, I would highly encourage you to consider doing so. Such an amazing Book of God's WORD to us.
In today's PJP2 PROLOG POST 161018 POWS (Isaiah 53:5-6) we clearly see YAHWEH Sharing via His Prophetic WORD to Isaiah what our Lord Jesus' First Advent Mission was all about. And this dove-tails so well into what we've discussed before - OAF A.....Once And For ALL.....Meaning, as you read Isaiah 53:5-6, there is no indication this Action by God's Messiah had to be repeated over and over. No, very clearly God The Father carried this out One Time for ALL mankind.
And Look at What our Lord Jesus' Sacrifice Brings us Via His Sacrifice for us....PEACE and HEALING......In a word.....OUTSTANDING!!!!
This is God's PROMISE that Opens His Door To our Renewed Relationship With Him....and As He Consistently Reveals, He Is Doing ALL The Heavy Lifting, All we have to do is Turn, Repent, Believe and Move Forward With Him.....
BUT, what about ALL The Commandments and Obeying His Will and Law? Thanks for Asking....our Lord Jesus Sums that up best....Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...." “Teacher, which is The Great Commandment in the Law?” And Jesus Said to him, 'You Shall LOVE The Lord your God With ALL your Heart AND With ALL your Soul AND With ALL your Mind. THIS Is The Great And First Commandment. AND A Second Is LIKE IT: You Shall LOVE your neighbor as yourself. On These TWO Commandments Depend ALL the Law and the Prophets.'”
Boiled down even a tad further.....LOVE (1) GOD; (2) Neighbors
Seems a small reciprocal to give back in return for The Huge Gift of Salvation/Redemption He Has Given us.....Let's do our Best and Know He Is With us Helping Every Step Along the Way....
My Prayer for us today would be....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God - Thank You for Your Gift of GRACE. Lord Jesus, we Praise You that You Stood Up in our place. That You Willingly were Crushed and Pierced for our sins. Holy Spirit, we do Surrender All to You. Father God, Teach us and Lead us to Ever Reflect Your Grace to All those who do Not Yet Know or Claim You as Lord and Savior. Lord Jesus, May All our Word, Action and Thought be Focused on Sharing Your Two Great Commandments. Holy Spirit, Instill in us Your Way. Father God, May we Always Be Your Positive witness. In Your Name, Lord Jesus, we Raise our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 THANKS - 161018 - THANKS Focus: Mark 2:17........DOC PAPPY J -
1 Chronicles 16:36 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Blessed Be The Lord, The God of Israel, From Everlasting to Everlasting!” Then All the people said, “Amen!” And Praised The Lord."
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161018 - DOC PAPPY J - Mark 2:17 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And when Jesus Heard it, He Said to them, 'Those who Are Well Have No Need of a Physician, BUT those who are sick. I Came NOT To Call the righteous, BUT sinners.'”
I am Thankful for our Great Physician and His Coming to Spiritually Heal us of the fatal disease called sin. I am Thankful, as well, that He employs our memory, NOT as a judgment, BUT as a means of Understanding of His GRACE employed in our Lives. Also as a Means for us to Reflect His Steadfast Love and Calling to those who do Not Yet Know Him as Lord and Savior.
My Prayer of Thanks for us today would be a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise from His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD as Paul records in 1 Timothy 1:12-17 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj).... O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Thank You, You Who Has Given us Strength! O Lord Jesus, God The Father's Christ, You Are our Lord. Holy Spirit, we Are Amazed and in Awe, Because You Have Judged us Faithful, Appointing us To Your Service, Thank You. Father God, even though formerly we were blasphemers, persecutors, and insolent opponents of Your Way and Will. BUT, Praise You Lord Jesus, Through Your LIFE, Sacrifice and Resurrection, we Received Mercy. Holy Spirit, Forgive us Because we acted ignorantly in unbelief. O Father God, Thank You that Your GRACE Overflowed for us By The FAITH And LOVE That Are IN Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus, May we Lift Up This Saying, Which Is Trustworthy And Deserving Of Full Acceptance By All: "That Christ Jesus Came Into the world To Save Sinners!" Father God, Thank You! Indeed, Holy Spirit, we Readily Confess that we Are The Foremost, the Chief of sinners, the worst of the worse. BUT, Lord Jesus, By Your GRACE, we Have Received Mercy For This Reason. Father God, we Would Pray That in us, May Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ Display and Demonstrate His Perfect Patience As An Example to those who Were To Believe In Him For Eternal LIFE. O Lord Jesus: To You, The King of the ages, Immortal, Invisible, The Only God, Be Honor And Glory Forever And Ever. Amen & Amen....jaj
PJP2 LIGHT - 161018 - DOC PAPPY J - Matthew 5:14-16 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Jesus Said....'You Are The LIGHT of the world. A city set on a hill Cannot be hidden. NOR do people LIGHT A Lamp and put it under a basket, BUT On A Stand, And It Gives LIGHT to all in the house. In The Same Way, Let your LIGHT Shine Before others, SO That they May See your Good Works AND Give Glory To your Father Who Is In Heaven.'"....
PJP2 SIP - 161018 - DOC PAPPY J - Psalm 17:6-9, 15 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Come Before You Purposefully and Approach Your Throne of Grace in an Attitude of Prayer and Praise. Thank You Lord Jesus, for we Know When we Call Upon You, In Your Name, You Will Answer us, O God. Holy Spirit, Ever Please, Incline Your Ear to us. Father God, Thank You for we Know You Hear our Words of Prayer. Lord Jesus, we Are In Awe How You Wondrously Continue to Show us Your Steadfast LOVE, O our Savior. Holy Spirit, Remind us that You Are Ever With those who Seek Refuge In You from their adversaries. Father God, In Your Grace, Please, Keep us As The Apple Of Your Eye. Lord Jesus, especially when the enemy is upon us, Hide us In The Shadow Of Your Wings. Holy Spirit, When the Household of Hope is under attack from the wicked who do us violence....and our deadly enemies surround us, Bring to our Inner Minds, Your Ever Presence AND That It Is You Who Fights for us. Father God, we Long For The Day, The Day of Your Son, our Lord Jesus' Second Advent, That we Shall Then BEHOLD Your Face In Your Righteousness. Come Lord Jesus, Awaken us That at Last we Shall Be Fully Satisfied With Your Likeness as You Transform us to Be Like You. In Your Precious Name we Pray, Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161018 - DOC PAPPY J
T-Minus 0.0....OOWG2 - 5.....AF Final Out/Trans-Leave Begins....
DOC PAPPY J:
I had someone the other day ask me where in the world my Call Sign (DOC PAPPY J) came from. Great question - IF you've never had a Call Sign, it is somewhat of a 'nickname' - sometimes the Call Sign is derived from an action you've done, for example "Wrong Way" could be applied to someone who consistently goes the wrong direction. "Too Tall" could be applied to either someone Too Tall, or even someone less tall in stature. "Mad Dog" - someone who displays excessive aggressiveness at times, perhaps. Call Signs, from my experience, have usually been a 'term of endearment' of sorts, even though at times they may not sound like it.
I have learned that often times it is wise to come up with your own Call Sign and begin to employ it on your own - however be advised that even then, IF your Team does not concur, you may well end up with a Call Sign they employ, even if you do not....
Thus my Call Sign, "DOC PAPPY J" is one that's been evolving over the last 30 years. And in true Johnson fashion, DOC PAPPY J is indeed a J-ACRONYM:
DOC PAPPY J - Disciple Of Christ Purposefully Approaching in Prayer and Praising You Jesus
To go into the history of how DOC PAPPY J was started, etc, I will not bore you with the details. Suffice to say, though, when I employ DOC PAPPY J, in my own 'noggin, I'm sharing the J-ACRONYM as well. My personal Prayer is that I will Reflect the J-ACRONYM in all my Words, Actions and Thoughts.
BLUF: DOC PAPPY J's existence is founded and grounded on the Foundation/Promise of God The Father, Demonstrated via His Son, our Lord Jesus, and Ever Present by His Gift of His Holy Spirit within us.....Isaiah 54:10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."'For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, BUT My Steadfast LOVE Shall NOT depart from you, And My Covenant Of PEACE Shall NOT be removed,' Says The Lord, Who Has Compassion On you.".....
Monday, October 17, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161017 - PROLOG Focus: Isaiah 43:11-12........YAM/YAM W -
Psalm 28:6-7 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Blessed Be The Lord! For He Has Heard the voice of my pleas for Mercy. The Lord Is my Strength And my Shield; In Him my Heart TRUSTS, And I am Helped; my Heart Exults, And With my Song I Give Thanks To Him."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161017-YAM/YAM W - Isaiah 43:11-12 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."'I AM The Lord, And Besides ME There IS No Savior. I Declared And Saved And Proclaimed, When There Was No strange god among you; And you Are MY Witnesses,' Declares The Lord, 'And I AM God.'"....
Can I get A Witness?
I have heard this Question many times - never gave it much thought.....until reading our POWS today.....
Here we Hear God The Father making very plain our Purpose (or at least One of His Purposes in our Lives)......we Are His Witnesses!
IF you search the word Witness in The WORD - The Holy Spirit uses the word Witness 166 times. God The Father establishes clearly that for something to be considered True, then at least 2-3 Witnesses must come forward to verify and validate the claim.
Our Lord Jesus also spoke on God The Father's Witness Concept.....Matthew 18:16 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BUT if he does not listen, Take One Or Two others along with you, that every charge May Be Established By The Evidence of Two or Three Witnesses."
Now here's a thought of Encouragement, God The Father Demonstrates His Own Use of 2-3 Witnesses.....He Gives us His WORD....His SON.....His HOLY SPIRIT as Witnesses to His Love, Light, Mercy, Forgiveness and GRACE towards us.
BaBaam!
Thus, isn't it Amazing that He Declares to us that we too are His Witnesses!
And what, then do we Witness too? Team, I can't Answer for you - I will Answer for me that I know, in my Heart of Hearts He is my Lord, my Savior, my Light, my Shield, my Strong Tower.......BLUF: Start at Genesis 1:1 and read through Revelation 22:21, and I'll Witness to His TRUTH.
Amen.
So.....my Prayer for us today would be a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise using The Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD as Recorded in Psalm 66:16-20 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You and Praise You for Your Love, Mercy, Light and Grace. Lord Jesus, Strengthen us as Your Witness. Holy Spirit, Help us and Give us Your WORD to say: "Come And Hear, All you who Faithfully Esteem Adore and Respect God The Father, And we Will Tell What He, The Lord our God Has Done For our Souls." Father God, Thank You, for even when we Cry Out To You in either despair, or Rejoicing, we Cry Out with High Praise for Your Grace. O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Make Clear Through us as Your Witnesses to those who Do Not Know You.....IF we had cherished sin and iniquity in our Heart, then, O Lord, how could You have Listened to our prayers? BUT, we Praise You, O Lord, for By Your Grace, God The Father Has Listened. Lord Jesus, Because of Your Sacrifice and Resurrection, God The Father Has Attended to the voice of our Prayers. Holy Spirit, Father God, Lord Jesus, May You Ever Be Blessed, O God! Thank You, O Lord, Because By Your Grace You Have Not rejected our Prayers. Thank You that You have Not removed Your Eternal Steadfast LOVE from us. In Your Name, Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj
Isaiah 43:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."'BUT Now,' Thus Says The Lord, He Who Created you, O Jacob, He Who Formed you, O Israel: 'Fear NOT, For I Have Redeemed you; I Have Called you By name, you Are MINE.'"....
PJP2 THANKS - 161017 - THANKS Focus: Isaiah 44:6-8........YAM/YAM W -
Psalm 28:6-7 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Blessed Be The Lord! For He Has Heard the voice of my pleas for Mercy. The Lord Is my Strength And my Shield; In Him my Heart TRUSTS, And I am Helped; my Heart Exults, And With my Song I Give Thanks To Him."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161017-YAM/YAM W - Isaiah 44:6-8 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."'Thus Says The Lord, the King of Israel And His Redeemer, The Lord of hosts: 'I AM The First And I AM The Last; Besides ME there is no god. Who Is Like ME? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before ME, Since I Appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen. Fear NOT, NOR be afraid; Have I Not Told you From of old And Declared IT? And you Are MY Witnesses! Is There a God Besides ME? There Is No ROCK; I Know NOT any.'”....
Revelation 22:12-13 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Behold, I AM Coming Soon, Bringing MY Recompense With ME, To Repay each one for what he has done. I AM The Alpha And The Omega, The First And The Last, The Beginning And The End.”
I am Thankful that our Lord Jesus makes it so Very Clear for us That He Is The First and The Last, we need not 'shop around'. As we have recently shared in a PJP2....HOOAH.....He is Our Only Anchor and HOPE...
It is such an Encouragement to Know, Once we have Surrendered and Accepted Him as Lord and Savior, there is no where else we need to go BUT Straight to Him.
My Prayer of Thanks for us today would be....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Thank You for Being The Alpha and Omega. Lord Jesus, we Praise You for Being our First and Last. Holy Spirit, Blessed Redeemer, Continue to Teach and Guide us On Your Way. Farther God, truly Lord, You and You Alone Are God! We Lift Up our Prayers, Praise and Thanks to You. Lord Jesus, In Your Name we do so Pray.....Amen and Amen.....jaj
PJP2 LIGHT - 161017-YAM/YAM W - Isaiah 49:6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."(YAHWEH Says)....'It Is Too light A Thing That You Should Be My Servant To Raise Up the tribes of Jacob And To Bring Back The Preserved of Israel; I Will Make You As A LIGHT For the nations/the Gentiles, That My Salvation May Reach to the end of the earth.'”....
PJP2 SIP - 161017-YAM/YAM W - Psalm 119:89-94, 105 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Bow Before You in Worship and Praise. Forever, O Lord Jesus, Your WORD Is Firmly Fixed in the heavens. Holy Spirit, Your Faithfulness Endures To All generations. Father God, we Know It IS You Who Has Established the earth, And it Stands Fast in You. Lord Jesus, from of Old we Know that By Your Appointment All of Your Creation and WORD Stand This Day, for All Things Are Your servants. Holy Spirit, If Not By Your Presence and God The Father's Law of Love, Mercy, Forgiveness and Grace....Had These Not Been our Delight, we would Have All perished in our sin and affliction. Lord Jesus, Help us to Never forget Your Precepts, For By Them You Have Given us LIFE. Father God, indeed, we Are Yours. Holy Spirit, Please Ever Remind us that You Have Saved us from ourselves. Lord Jesus, Guide us to Ever Continue to Seek Your Precepts. Father God, Holy Spirit, May Your WORD Always Be The Lamp to our Feet and The Light to our Path. Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name we Lift Up our Prayers.....Amen and Amen.....jaj
PJP2 PBJ - 161017-YAM/YAM W - John 17:6-10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."(Jesus Prayed)....'I have Manifested Your Name to the people Whom You Gave Me out of the world. Yours they Were, And You Gave them To Me, And they Have Kept Your WORD. NOW they Know That Everything That You Have Given Me IS From You. For I Have Given them The WORDs That You Gave Me, AND they Have Received THEM And Have Come To Know In Truth That I Came From You; And they Have Believed That You Sent Me. I Am Praying for them. I Am NOT Praying for the world BUT For those whom You Have Given Me, For they Are Yours. All Mine Are Yours, And Yours Are Mine, And I Am Glorified in them.'"....
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161017-YAM/YAM W
Operation Off We Go....Onward With God....Day 4.....OOWG2X4
YAM/YAM W.....You Are MINE.....You Are MY Witness
In a recent PJP2, we shared God The Father's Encouraging Statement where He Straight Up Says, "I LOVE you." (See Isaiah 43:4). Today, we follow this up with Him Following Up His Profession of His LOVE for us, with His Clarification (if there was ever a doubt), that Indeed we Are His.
The forces of darkness would whisper that this must be a bad thing.
I would counter - His Declaring His LOVE for us, and then Saying that we Are His.....is that NOT the Same as our Declaring our LOVE for our Spouse, our Children and Grand-Children, then saying, "I am theirs and they are mine"?
I would say, at least in my Noggin', Hearing our Lord Declare His LOVE for me, and then His Assurance that He and my Relationship are Secure in His GRACE - That is such a Freeing and Uplifting TRUTH. Regardless of the circumstances ongoing in our lives, the storms we may be facing, or the stumbles and falls we've caused - Praise God, He Is our Beloved, and our Relationship with God The Father, Through His Son, our Lord Jesus' Life, Love, Sacrifice and Resurrection, IS Guaranteed and Sealed, as Witnessed By The Presence of His Holy Spirit Within us.
So, may our Key POWS today Pour Over us As His Living Water of Love and Grace.....
Isaiah 43:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."'BUT Now,' Thus Says The Lord, He Who Created you, O Jacob, He Who Formed you, O Israel: 'Fear NOT, For I Have Redeemed you; I Have Called you By name, you Are MINE.'"....
Sunday, October 16, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161016 - PROLOG Focus: Acts 14:15-17........ANT -
Psalm 69:30 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“I Will Praise The Name of God With A Song; I Will Magnify Him With Thanksgiving."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161016 - ANT - Acts 14:15-17 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“(Paul said)....'Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, And we Bring you GOOD NEWS, That you Should Turn from these vain things To A Living God, Who Made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. In past generations He Allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. Yet He Did Not Leave Himself Without Witness, For He Did Good By Giving you Rains from heaven And Fruitful Seasons, Satisfying your Hearts With Food And Gladness.'”....
As I am a pondering this morning, I am struck By The Holy Spirit placing an image in my noggin' of God The Father, Being The Loving Father He Is, pushing me off on my bicycle for the first time without training wheels, and watching as I peddle off like crazy, going where I will.
I sense this imagery in today's PROLOG POST POWS, Acts 14:15-17.
I also sense a similar scenario playing out right now in our world today. The statement...."He Allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways"....really hits home, for as we hear, read and watch our daily news reports, this clearly is a True Statement as each nation does indeed walk 'their own way'.
BUT (Behold the Underlying TRUTH)....or YET (YAHWEH's Eternal TRUTH)....."He Did Not Leave Himself Without Witness, For He Did Good By Giving you Rains from heaven And Fruitful Seasons, Satisfying your Hearts With Food And Gladness."....
Rains....Harvest.....Satisfaction.....Good Food.....Gladness.....These are just a Few of God's NEW THINGS He Does Daily to Witness to us of His Love, Mercy and Grace....His GOOD NEWS that He Loves us.
And, let's not forget, EVEN if all of us of His Household of HOPE were to fall silent, refuse to Witness.....
Luke 19:40 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Jesus Answered, 'I Tell you, IF these (the crowds following His Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem) were silent, The Very Stones Would Cry Out.'”
Now, don't hear what I am NOT saying - NOT saying we shouldn't be Proclaiming Him and His GOOD NEWS, His A NEW THING.....Nope, Indeed, we Do Need To Do That....
I just Find It an Encouragement to Know God The Father's Employing His Entire Creation, to Include us, As His Witness of His Presence and Desire to Be In Relationship with us.
May we Raise His Banner and Be His Witness, Calling those still lost in this world's darkness to God's NEW THING, His GOOD NEWS of LIGHT, LOVE, MERCY and GRACE....
My Prayer for us today would be a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise using His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD as Recorded in Isaiah 43:18-19 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Worship and Praise Your Holy Name. Lord Jesus, Help us to Remember Not the former things, those things which distracted us From You. Holy Spirit, Teach us to Not consider those things of old that chained us in slavery to our sin. Father God, May we Witness for You and Proclaim Your WORD, as You Say to All, "BEHOLD, I AM Doing A NEW THING!" Lord Jesus, Work Within us that Your GOOD NEWS May Spring Forth From our Lives. Holy Spirit, Open the Inner Eyes and Heart of those who Do Not Know You that they May Perceive God The Father's NEW THING in their own Lives. Father God, we Surrender to You and Ask That You Make Your Way in the wilderness of The Lost. Release Your River of Living Waters in the desert of our Hearts. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 THANKS - 161016 - THANKS Focus: Isaiah 48:6 ........ANT -
Psalm 69:30 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“I Will Praise The Name of God With A Song; I Will Magnify Him With Thanksgiving."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161016 - ANT - Isaiah 48:6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“You Have Heard; Now See ALL This; And Will you Not DECLARE IT? From This Time Forth I Announce To you NEW THINGS, Hidden THINGS That you Have Not Known."....
I am so Very Thankful His Holy Spirit is Constantly at Work Within us doing this very action - He is Helping us See All The NEW THINGS God The Father Is Doing All Around us, In us and Through us. I am Thankful, as I have shared before, somewhat like a Prospector Seeking out Gold Nuggets, The Lord's WORD is Like That, His GOLD MINE of Truth, Wisdom, Love, Mercy and Grace, just waiting for us to Uncover and Discover His Veins of GOLD for us.
And I am Thankful He's Providing and Guiding this opportunity to Declare.
Thus my Prayer of Thanks for us today would be, O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Daily and Ever we Come to You Lord. Always Remind us Holy Spirit, that our Evocation is one of Worship, Praise and of All the Wonders You Have Done for us. O Father God, Guide us to Obey and Love You Daily. Lord Jesus, Thank You for Making In us New "Earth" and Creation as You Grown Within us By Your Holy Spirit's Presence. May we Ever Be Your Witness of Your Grace. In Your Holy Name, Lord Jesus, we Raise our Praise and Thanks....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 161016 - ANT - Psalm 98:1-3 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name. Lord Jesus, we Sing To You, O Lord, A New Song, For All The Marvelous THINGS You Have Done! Holy Spirit, we Praise You for Your Work Within us By Your Mighty Right Hand. Father God, Thank You for Your Holy Arm Has Worked Out our Salvation Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus, and His Life, Sacrifice and His Resurrection By Your Mighty Power. Lord Jesus, Help us and Teach us By Your WORD., For You, O Lord Have Made Known God The Father's Plan for our Salvation Through You. Holy Spirit, Open our Inner Ears and Mind that we May Know and Understand as You Reveal God The Father's Righteousness in the sight of the nations. Father God, Thank You that You Have Ever Remembered Your Steadfast LOVE And Faithfulness to the house of Israel, and us Your Adopted children Through Your Son's GRACE. O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, May we Ever Be Your Witness so that All the ends of the earth May See and Respond to Your Salvation of mankind. In Your Holy Name, Lord Jesus, we Raise our Praise and Prayers....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 PBJ - 161016 - ANT - Colossians 3:1-4 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“IF Then you Have Been RAISED With Christ, Seek The THINGS That Are Above, Where Christ Is, Seated At The Right Hand of God. Set your Minds On THINGS That Are Above, NOT on things that are on earth. For you Have Died, And your LIFE Is Hidden With Christ IN God. When Christ Who IS your LIFE Appears, Then you Also Will Appear WITH Him In Glory."....
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161016 - ANT
Operation Off We Go....Onward With God (OOWG/2) - Day 3.....G-Project: ANT (A New Thing)
:) Team PJP2 - my Thanks and Appreciation to you for your continued support of the PJP2 Series. As we continue down this road of Transition and Transformation, it hit me that God's Next Adventure is indeed A New Thing He is Doing within Team Johnson. So....in true military decorum fashion.....allow me to present the PJP2 "7 PRAISES", Operation Off We Go...Onward With God, G (God's) - Project: ANT.
As always, at present I'm clueless with what The Holy Spirit is going to do with OOWG/2, so, we'll be learning and living this together. Suffice to say, the below POWS focus on God's ANT....
Isaiah 43:18-19 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Remember Not the former things, Nor consider the things of old. BEHOLD, I AM Doing A NEW THING; Now IT Springs Forth, Do you Not Perceive IT? I Will Make A Way in the wilderness and Rivers in the desert."....
Saturday, October 15, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161015 - PROLOG Focus: Isaiah 45:2-3........BILY -
Isaiah 44:23 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Sing, O heavens, For The Lord Has Done IT; Shout, O depths of the earth; Break Forth Into Singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For The Lord Has REDEEMED Jacob, And Will Be Glorified in Israel."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161015 - BILY - Isaiah 45:2-3 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."(And God The Father Said)....'I Will Go Before you And Level the exalted places, I Will Break in pieces the doors of bronze and Cut Through the bars of iron, I Will Give you The Treasures of darkness And The Hoards in secret places, THAT you May Know That IT IS I, The Lord, The God of Israel, Who Call you By your name.'"....
Each year, as Cindy and I begin our yearly walk through His WORD, we have been, the past several years, trying to use a different Translation than the year before. I am always amazed at the new tid-bits The Lord Shares with me via the different Translations.
For example, this year I've been reading through His WORD using the "NIV Rainbow Study Bible (NRSB)". In the Introduction to Isaiah, the NRSB commented that Isaiah is somewhat of a 'mini-Bible'. Isaiah has 66 Chapters, the same number of Books in our Bible today. Isaiah is divided into two parts - Chapters 1-39 and Chapters 40-66. This division splits just like The Old Testament and New Testament.
My point of sharing all that 'back-story' is that from Chapters 40-66 The Holy Spirit Inspired Isaiah to Record a LOT of Messianic Prophecy and Statements regards our Lord Jesus' Characteristics and How He would Be with us, and even in His Second Advent.
In today's POWS (Isaiah 45:2-3) YAHWEH is actually speaking about King Cyrus, and How God The Father is going to employ Cyrus (a non-believer) to rebuild Jerusalem and re-start God's children repopulating Israel.
However, IF we go below the surface, would not Isaiah 45:2-3 also potentially be applicable to our Lord Jesus as well?
And one more Thought that The Holy Spirit has Laid on my noggin' today.....Could we not also see Him Employing this very same Principle in our own Lives?
BLUF, for me, anyway, the answer to Both these questions is YES....absolutely.
I Know over these past (almost) 62 years, there's been any number of times that I've Seen and Witnessed Him Go Before me, as well as those around me, And Done exactly what He States He Will Do for us, Because of His Steadfast LOVE for us, and His Eternal Desire for us to Have a Relationship with Him.
Thus, Team, Be Encouraged! Do NOT Let your current circumstances or challenges cause you to fear - He Is With you and He LOVES you, as He Has Continuously Said BOTH By His Written and His LIVING WORD.
My Prayer for us today would be to Offer Up a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise using Isaiah 45:2-3 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You and we Praise You for Your Amazing and Eternal Steadfast LOVE for us. Lord Jesus, as we face the myriad of challenges in our daily lives, Please, Go Before us, and Lead us In Your Way. Holy Spirit, as the mountains of circumstances loom before us, Please Level them and make our Path Straight In You. Father God, should the forces of darkness try to bar our Way In You, Please Break in pieces those doors of bronze. Lord Jesus, as You Cut Through the bars of iron of sin and our iniquity, Open our Inner Eyes that we May Know Your Freedom. Holy Spirit, Open our Inner Hearts and Minds that we May Understand The Treasures hidden by the darkness and Revealed By Your Light. Father God, Open us To Your GRACE that The Hoards of the evil one have tried to keep in secret places. May we Ever, Lord Jesus, Be Your Witnesses! May we Holy Spirit, Ever Proclaim You, that they, who do Not Know You, May Know That IT IS You, our Lord, Who Lives Within us. O Father God, Thank You that You Have Called us By Your Name. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise In Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
Isaiah 43:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BUT Now Thus Says The Lord, He Who Created you, O Jacob, He Who Formed you, O Israel: 'Fear NOT, For I Have Redeemed you; I Have Called you By name, you Are Mine.'".....
PJP2 THANKS - 161015 - THANKS Focus: Psalm 63:3-4.......BILY -
Isaiah 44:23 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Sing, O heavens, For The Lord Has Done IT; Shout, O depths of the earth; Break Forth Into Singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For The Lord Has REDEEMED Jacob, And Will Be Glorified in Israel."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161015 - BILY - Psalm 63:3-4 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Because Your Steadfast LOVE Is Better Than LIFE, my lips Will Praise You. So I Will BLESS You As Long As I LIVE; In Your Name I Will Lift Up my hands."....
"BILY".....That and That Alone is Enough to be Thankful for today - That God The Father, Through His Gift of His Only Son, our Lord Jesus, Demonstrates His LOVE for us. AND, as God The Father Ever and Always Does, He Instills His Holy Spirit in us as a Guarantee, a Deposit, a Seal of His LOVE for us (IF Giving His Son was not enough).
In a word.....OUTSTANDING!
Thus my Prayer of Thanks for us today would be to Offer up Psalm 63:3-4 in a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise for us.....
Psalm 63:3-4 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Come Before You in Worship, Thanks and Praise. O Lord Jesus, Because Your Steadfast LOVE Is Better Than LIFE, our lips Will Ever Sing and Say our Praise to You. Holy Spirit, Thank You for Your Eternal Presence in our Hearts, spirit and Souls. Father God, Because of Your GRACE towards us, we Will BLESS You As Long As we LIVE. Lord Jesus, In Your Name we Will Lift Up our hands and Prayers to You....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 SIP - 161015 - BILY - Psalm 109:21-23, 26-27, 30 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise and Worship You! Lord Jesus, our Lord and our God, we Come To You and Ask You to Deal on our Behalf for Your Name's Sake. O Holy Spirit, Because Your Steadfast LOVE Is Good, Please Deliver us! Father God, indeed we are all poor and needy, and our hearts are stricken within us, due to our sin and the darkness that pervades through our world. Father God, we Know that we are all 'gone like a shadow at evening'. We know, O Lord, that being mere mortals, we are 'shaken off like a locust'. Lord Jesus, we would Pray, Please, Help us, O Lord our God! Holy Spirit, Please Save us According To Your Steadfast LOVE! Father God, Empower and Embolden us, that By Your Work Within us, May we Be Your Witness to Let them who do Not Know You, THAT This Is Your Hand Upon us. Lord Jesus, May we Ever Proclaim that It Is You, O Lord, Who Have Done All in our Lives! Father God, Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, With our mouths we Will Give Great Thanks To You, O Lord. Lord Jesus, we Praise You In The Midst of the throng, and Lift Up our Prayers In Your Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161015 - BILY
BILY: "Because I Love you" (Isaiah 43:4a-b)
Wow.....I half have a notion to stop the PJP2 161015 right here....How much More can we Be Cheered and Encourage than to Hear God The Father, The Lord Almighty say, "I LOVE you"?
BUT.....I am going to press on. :)
BLUF - Let us Ever Remember, He LOVES us, each of us....and even more....
Isaiah 43:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BUT Now Thus Says The Lord, He Who Created you, O Jacob, He Who Formed you, O Israel: 'Fear NOT, For I Have Redeemed you; I Have Called you By name, you Are Mine.'".....
And, IF that's not enough to bring a Smile to us.....God The Father Confirms and Affirms His Eternal Steadfast LOVE towards us (as He States Repeatedly throughout The Old Testament)....He Reaffirms such via....
John 3:16-17 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“For God So LOVED the world, THAT He Gave His Only Son, THAT whoever BELIEVES In Him Should NOT perish BUT Have Eternal LIFE. For God Did NOT Send His Son Into the world to condemn the world, BUT In Order THAT the world Might Be SAVED THROUGH Him."....
So, Crew, regardless of what circumstances, mountains, or bumps-in-the-road we may be facing, REMEMBER..... Isaiah 43:4a-b (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Because you Are Precious In My Eyes, And Honored, And I LOVE you".....
Friday, October 14, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - As y'all have learned from previous PJP2s, there are times where The Holy Spirit's Guidance is such that it is Far Better to Let His WORD Speak than to clutter the message with my feeble diatribes. Today is one of those times....
Thus, if you will, permit me to simply share these following POWS as the PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! Entry.....
Philippians 3:7-14 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."But Whatever gain I had, I Counted as loss For The Sake Of Christ. Indeed, I Count everything as loss Because Of The Surpassing Worth Of Knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His Sake I Have Suffered the loss of all things And Count them as rubbish, In Order That I May Gain Christ And Be Found In Him, NOT Having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, BUT That Which Comes THROUGH FAITH In Christ, The Righteousness From God THAT Depends On FAITH— THAT I May KNOW Him And The Power of His Resurrection, And May Share His Sufferings, Becoming Like Him In His Death, That By Any Means Possible I May Attain The Resurrection from the dead. NOT That I Have Already Obtained This Or am Already Perfect, BUT I PRESS ON To Make IT my own, BECAUSE Christ Jesus Has Made me His Own. Brothers, I Do NOT Consider That I Have Made IT my own. But One Thing I DO: Forgetting What Lies Behind And Straining Forward To What Lies Ahead, I PRESS ON Toward The GOAL For The Prize Of The UPWARD CALL Of God In Christ Jesus."....
Philippians 3:7-14 would also be my Prayer for us Today....Amen and Amen....jaj
1 Samuel 2:2 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."There Is none Holy Like The Lord: For There Is none Besides You; There Is no ROCK Like our God."....
HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!!:
He's Our Only Anchor and HOPE....Rely On Christ our King....Onward Now
PJP2 THANKS - 161014 - THANKS Focus: Romans 5:1-.......HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! -
Isaiah 42:10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Sing To The Lord A New Song, His Praise From The end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants."....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - Romans 5:1-5 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Therefore, Since we Have Been Justified By FAITH, we Have PEACE With God THROUGH our Lord Jesus Christ. THROUGH Him we Have Also Obtained Access By FAITH Into This GRACE In Which we Stand, And We Rejoice In HOPE Of The GLORY Of God. NOT Only That, BUT we Rejoice In our Sufferings, Knowing That Suffering Produces Endurance, And Endurance Produces Character, And Character Produces HOPE, And HOPE Does NOT Put us to shame, BECAUSE God's LOVE Has Been Poured Into our Hearts THROUGH The Holy Spirit Who Has Been Given to us."....
I am Thankful for such a WORD of Encouragement. So humbling to realize all our Lord Jesus really ASKS of us is our FAITH in Him. I am so Thankful He is Indeed One of His WORD - for Not Only Does He Tell us, BUT Through His Life, Death on His Cross, and This His Resurrection, He Assures us His WORD Is Sure and True. And Indeed our HOPE is Not Based on some flimsy promise of man, BUT On The Very Tried and Tested PROMISE of God The Father, Built On His Cornerstone, our ROCK, the Lord Jesus.
Thus my Prayer of Thanks for us today would be - Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Lift Up HOOAH....ROCK ON as our Prayer of Thanks. O Lord Jesus, You Are our only ANCHOR and HOPE. Lord Jesus, we Rely On You, God The Father's Christ, our King. Holy Spirit, Guide us as we move Onward Now, Pressing On to Your Plan and Future for us. Father God we Thank You for Your Love, Mercy, Light and Grace. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 LIGHT - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - Isaiah 42:6 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“(God Said)...'I AM The Lord; I Have Called You In Righteousness; I Will Take You By the Hand And Keep You; I Will Give You As A Covenant for the people, A LIGHT for the nations'"....
John 8:12 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....“Again Jesus Spoke to them, saying, 'I Am The LIGHT of the world. Whoever Follows Me Will NOT Walk in darkness, BUT Will Have The LIGHT Of LIFE.”....
PJP2 RECALL - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - Hebrews 11:1-3 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Now FAITH Is The Assurance Of Things HOPED For, The Conviction Of Things NOT Seen. For By It the people of old Received their Commendation. By FAITH we Understand That the universe Was Created By The WORD Of God, SO That What Is Seen Was NOT Made out of things that are visible."....
PJP2 SIP - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - Psalm 33:1, 4-6, 8, 10-12, 18-22 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Lift Up our Worship and Praise to You. We Shout for Joy in You, O Lord Jesus. To You, O Righteous Holy Spirit, Thank You for Your Presence! Father God, our Praise befits You and Your Uprightness. For Your WORD, O Lord Jesus, Is Upright and Gives us Your Godly Guidance. Holy Spirit, we Praise You and Thank You, For All Your Work Is Done In Faithfulness. Father God, Teach us through Your LOVE of Righteousness And Justice. Help us, Lord Jesus, Ever Reflect that Your Creation is Full of Your Steadfast LOVE for All. Father God, May we Be Your Witness that By Your WORD, the heavens Were Made. Holy Spirit, By Your Breath, All The Starry Hosts Came to Being. Lord Jesus, Let All the earth Faithfully Esteem and hold You in Adoration and Respect. Father God, Let All the inhabitants of this world Stand In Awe of You! Holy Spirit, Remind us that even though the counsel of the nations of darkness rage against you, You Bring them to nothing. Lord Jesus, You Demonstrated by Your Life, Death and Resurrection, that You Frustrate By Your Grace, the wicked plans of the people. Father God, we Know that Your Counsel Stands Forever! Holy Spirit, The Plans of Your Heart Are True and Sure to All generations. Lord Jesus, Help us to Share Your Truth that "Blessed Is The Nation Whose God IS The Lord." Father God, May This Be True of our United States once again. O Holy Spirit, Help us to Be Your Witness and to Facilitate the people whom You Have Chosen As Your Heritage to Come To You! Father God, You have Taught us that, "Behold, The Eye Of The Lord IS On those who FEAR Him." Lord Jesus, Be With us as we are of those whose HOPE Is In Your Steadfast LOVE. O Holy Spirit we TRUST That You Will Deliver our Souls From eternal death. Father God, Please Feed us From Your Word, and Keep those who Follow You Alive in famine. Lord Jesus, our Souls WAIT For You, O Lord. Holy Spirit, You Are our HELP And our Shield. Father God, our Hearts Are Glad In You. Lord Jesus, Because we TRUST In Your Holy Name, we Rejoice. Holy Spirit, Let Your Steadfast Love, O Lord, Be Ever Upon us. Father God, Ever is our HOPE In You. Lord Jesus, we Raise our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj
PJP2 PBJ - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - Hebrews 6:19-20 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)....
"We have This As A Sure And Steadfast ANCHOR Of The Soul, A HOPE That Enters Into The Inner Place Behind The Curtain, Where Jesus Has Gone As A Forerunner on our Behalf, Having Become A High Priest Forever After The Order of Melchizedek."....
God’s Nod - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!! - Isaiah 28:16-17 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Therefore Thus Says The Lord God, “BEHOLD, I Am The One Who Has Laid As A Foundation in Zion, A STONE/ROCK, A Tested STONE/ROCK, A Precious Cornerstone, Of A Sure Foundation: ‘Whoever Believes Will NOT Be in haste.’ And I Will Make Justice The Line, And Righteousness The Plumb Line; And Hail Will Sweep Away the refuge of lies, and Waters will overwhelm the shelter.”....
1 Samuel 2:2 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."There Is none Holy Like The Lord: For There Is none Besides You; There Is no ROCK Like our God."....
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161014 - HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!!
T-Minus 0.4 BLOG.....
HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!!:
He's Our Only Anchor and HOPE....Rely On Christ our King....Onward Now
Team PJP2 - Though Team Johnson has .4 days left....as shared yesterday, technically we're done and on our Transitional Leave period. That said, today I will share my last planned T-Minus BLOG.....HOOAH....ROCK ON!!!!
As I've said a couple of times, I will say yet once again (for in reality I can not say this enough to all of you)....Thanks Y'All!
Thanks for such an amazing experience that Team Johnson has enjoyed via our time as AD/AF. Thanks for each of you in your care, support, leadership, mentorship and BLUF, Friendship with us. Cindy and I are humbled and in awe of how our Lord Jesus has employed each of you in such very cool ways to further us down this road of growth.
Team Johnson's excited for God's Next Adventure that He Has Planned for us. I can assure you we will keep you posted on His Vectors in our Lives.
Last, BUT certainly not least by any means, I Thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, His Holy Spirit Within me, and God The Father for His Love, Light, Mercy, Forgiveness and Grace.
Indeed He is Our Only Anchor and HOPE.....(I DO) Rely On Christ our King....(and we move) Onward NOW....
Isaiah 26:12 Isaiah 42:10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."O Lord, You Will Ordain PEACE for us, For You Have Indeed DONE For us ALL our works."....
Thursday, October 13, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161013 - PROLOG Focus: Isaiah 37:20......BE STILL -
Psalm 62:8 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."TRUST In Him At ALL Times, O people; Pour Out your Heart Before Him; God Is A Refuge For us. Selah".....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161013 - BE STILL - Isaiah 37:20 (NIV/emphasis added/jaj)...."(King Hezekiah Prayed)....'Now, O Lord our God, Deliver us from his hand, So That ALL kingdoms on earth May Know That You Alone Lord Are God."....
What a Concept....BE STILL....that is indeed a hard-one for me to grasp (and accomplish). Those of you who know me know, though I may seem shy and bashful....for me to BE STILL is NOT an easy skill to master.
As we look at today's PROLOG POST 161013....Isaiah 37:20....this is in the midst of King Hezekiah's Prayer to YAHWEH with regards to the evil King of Assyria (Sennacherib)'s insulting threats and diatribe for the Assyrians' preparations to flatten Jerusalem and destroy Judah. I can not begin to think what was roaring through Hezekiah's noggin. I mean as the Head Honyack, the safety and existence of his 'kingdom' rested solely on his shoulders, right? Then Sennacherib tosses in there the 'fact' that he had wiped away several other 'kingdoms' and those 'kingdoms' 'gods' had not slowed Sennacherib and the Assyrian War Machine down a bit.
So, I'm betting that Hezekiah was having a hard-time with the "BE STILL" directive.
Praise God, though, our Lord and Savior Is Indeed GOD.....And He, He Alone (AH-HA) IS GOD that Will Fight For us.....
And just like our THANKS POW (1 Peter 2:1)....we even See In God's Doing Good (that is His Response to Hezekiah's Prayer)...By Delivering Judah (as is Revealed in Isaiah 37:36-38) God's Witness to His Love and Grace Towards His children.....
That, Indeed, is a Strong Encouragement for us to practice God's "BE STILL" Guidance in our own Lives.....
So....my Prayer for us today would simply be....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise You for Your Ever Present Being in our Lives. Lord Jesus Teach us to Better Grasp Your BE STILL Principle. Holy Spirit, Guide us in our Daily Lives, Learning and Leaning on You as we Strive to BE STILL. Father God, Thank You, as our Heavenly Father, That You Have The Patience to Be With us as we squirm and squiggle in our trying to BE STILL With You. Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name.....Amen and Amen....jaj
Psalm 46:10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BE STILL And Know That I AM God. I Will Be Exalted among the nations, I Will Be Exalted in the earth!"....
Psalm 62:5 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."For God Alone, O my Soul, Wait In SILENCE, For my HOPE Is From Him."....
1 Samuel 12:16 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Now, Therefore STAND STILL and See This Great Thing That The Lord Will Do Before your eyes."....
PJP2 THANKS - 161013 - THANKS Focus: 1 Peter 2:1......BE STILL -
Psalm 62:8 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."TRUST In Him At ALL Times, O people; Pour Out your Heart Before Him; God Is A Refuge For us. Selah".....
PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161013 - BE STILL - 1 Peter 2:1 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)...."For This Is The Will of God, THAT By Doing Good you Should Put to SILENCE the blindness of those who Do Not Know God...."....
I am Thankful for His Guidance and Teaching that our Doing Good is NOT at all about our 'earning points' towards gaining God's Favor. I am Thankful that our Doing Good For Him is indeed (a) Because we LOVE Him; (b) Our Doing Good For Him is a part of our Witness of His Presence in our Lives; (c) Because our Doing Good For Him is The Right Thing to Do Due To His Presence in our Lives.....
Thus my Prayer of Thanks for us would be.....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You for Your Presence and Your Teaching Through Your WORD. Lord Jesus, Help us and Open our Inner Eyes to See Those Good Deeds You Have Prepared for us To Do. Holy Spirit, Strengthen and Empower us to Follow You in All our Ways. Father God, Help us Be Ever Your Witness. May Your Light Not Only SILENCE BUT Also Lead Forward To You those lost in the darkness and blindness of their foolishness without You in their Lives. In Your Precious Name, Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Praise and Prayers.....Amen/Amen...jaj
PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161013 - BE STILL
T-Minus 0.5 BLOG....
BE STILL....Believe Ever the Savior's TRUTH Is LOVE and LIGHT - or -
Believe Ever....Silence Teaches Immanuel's Lessons and Love.....
Due to some minor buffoonery, my actual AF/Final Out has been pushed back to Tuesday, 18Oct16. However, I am on Leave until that day, and then pTDY/Transitional Leave kicks in on Wednesday, 19Oct16....so, for all practical purposes, Team Johnson's Time with our USAF has come to a close.....
As I've been pondering this now for the past several days, I have, a few times, felt that sense of panic and anxiety start to bubble up with regards to...."Lord....What NEXT? What do we do now?".....
The Holy Spirit gave me a Agent Gibbs 'back-of-the-head' Re-boot this morning....And He Shared....BE STILL....
So....that's our Plan at present....to BE STILL.....Best Said By His Holy Spirit as Recorded in Psalm 62:5 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."For God Alone, O my Soul, Wait In SILENCE, For my HOPE Is From Him."....
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
PJP2 PROLOG - 161012 - PROLOG Focus: ......OWG....GWO -
Psalm 48:1, 14 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Great IS The Lord And Greatly To Be Praised in The City of our God! His Holy Mountain, That This IS God, our God Forever And Ever. He Will GUIDE us Forever."....
PJP2 PROLOG POST - 161012 - OWG...GWO - Isaiah 35:5-6, 8, 10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Then the eyes of the blind Shall Be Opened, And the ears of the deaf Unstopped; Then Shall the lame man Leap like a deer, And the tongue of the mute Sing For Joy. For Waters Break Forth in the wilderness, And Streams in the desert; And A Highway Shall Be There, And It Shall Be Called The WAY Of Holiness; the unclean Shall Not pass over It. It Shall Belong to those who Walk On The WAY; even if they are fools, they Shall Not go astray. And The Ransomed Of The Lord Shall Return And Come to Zion With Singing; Everlasting Joy Shall Be Upon their heads; they Shall Obtain Gladness And Joy, and sorrow and sighing Shall Flee away. "....
I am always in Awe and Amazed as our Lord places one of His Road-Markers in the Old Testament of our Lord Jesus' Coming (both His 1st and 2nd Advents). Isaiah 35 is one of those Chapters of The WORD that clearly points towards our Lord Jesus.
And there is So Much here in the PROLOG POST 161012.....Not just the actual physical Healing He Accomplished (and will Accomplish), BUT as we all know, His Healing of our spirit and Souls.....for are we not all in some way blind, deaf, lame, mute, parched - needing His Living Water....lost Needing His WAY....sad and song-less....needing His JOY and SONG? Oh how I do look forward to His Full Fulfillment of His PROMISE.
In the meantime, though, we Can Be Encouraged, even in the midst of our Trials, for Like The Coming Dawn after a night-filled with challenge, we Know His Son Will Rise and His Light Will Bring His Peace.
Thus my Prayer for us today would simply be....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God....Thank You for Your Love and Light. Lord Jesus, Please, especially in these days of growing tension and challenge, Encourage us To Place our Full Trust In You. Holy Spirit, Strengthen us from Within. Father God, Empower us to Ever Share Your Grace. In Your Holy Name, Lord Jesus, we Lift Up our Prayers....Amen and Amen....jaj
Isaiah 30:21 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And your ears Shall Hear A WORD behind you, saying, 'THIS IS The WAY, Walk In IT,' when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left."....
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