PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161126 - SEASONS SEASON: Saved for Eternity by the Advent of the SON/Savior It is just hard to believe, now with Thanksgiving Day past that we've entered into another run of the Thanksgiving - Christmas and New Year Holiday Triad. Interesting that we pause to first say "Thanks" for All The Blessings that have been poured upon us (both past, present and future). Then we pause to Celebrate our Lord Jesus' First Advent, where He both Presented and actually Was The First Gift of Eternal Christmas from God The Father. We round up the Triad By our New Years Celebrations which we Focus on HOPE for the Coming Year of our Lord. Yep, it is the last of the Holiday SEASONS for 2016. BUT for today, I am Hearing The Holy Spirit's Guidance as being for me to Focus this PJP2 161126 on Christmas. No question for me, JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON! I also Hear The Holy Spirit's Recommendation to Share His Inspired WORD as Recorded by Paul. I Sense His Sharing, for me at least, is a Boost and Reminder of our own entry into pondering our Lord Jesus' First Advent. This time of year can be quite challenging for some due to a wide-variety of road-bumps, loss, and other tensions that have arisen through our Life's Journey. As we Travel this year's Road to Bethlehem together, I am Hearing Him Repeatedly Mention that I need to Focus the PJP2s on our Lord Jesus and The HOPE He Brings to us. May Paul's writing of What The Holy Spirit Shared be God The Father's Inspiration to you as well.... ....Philippians 2:1-11 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."SO If There Is Any Encouragement In Christ, Any Comfort From LOVE, Any Participation In The Spirit, Any Affection And Sympathy, Complete my Joy By Being Of The Same MIND, Having The Same LOVE, Being In Full Accord And Of One MIND. Do Nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, BUT In Humility Count others More Significant than yourselves. Let each of you Look Not Only to his own interests, BUT Also To The Interests of others. Have This MIND Among yourselves, Which is yours In Christ Jesus, Who, Though He Was In The Form of God, Did NOT Count Equality With God A Thing To Be Grasped, BUT Emptied Himself, By Taking The Form Of A Servant, Being Born In the likeness of men. And Being Found in human form, He Humbled Himself BY Becoming OBEDIENT To The Point Of Death, EVEN Death On A Cross. Therefore God Has Highly EXALTED Him And Bestowed On Him The NAME That IS Above Every name, So That At The NAME Of Jesus Every knee Should Bow, In Heaven and on earth and under the earth, And Every tongue Confess THAT Jesus Christ IS Lord, To The Glory Of God The Father.".... I would Lift Up Philippians 2:1-11 as our Overall Prayer for today. Lord Jesus, May Your WORD, as Paul Writes in these POWS, Seep into our Hearts, our Soul, our Being and Be Reflected As Your Truth of Your First Advent to our world. Holy Spirit, Shine Your Light into Every Corner of our Lives and Make us Whole Again with Your Presence. Father God, May we Be Your Ambassadors of HOPE, By Your Grace and Your Son's Gift of Salvation, to our dying world. Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name, The NAME Above all others, we Lift Up our Prayers to You....Amen and Amen....jaj Proverbs 15:23 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."To Make An Apt Answer Is A JOY to a man, And A WORD In SEASON, How GOOD It Is!"..... ....So....in Light of His WORD.....A Very Merry and Blessed Christmas Season to You and Yours. A Happy and Hopeful New Years as well.....