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