PJP2 THANKS - 161101 - THANKS Focus: John 14:15-18, 26-27........SPEED DIAL - 1 Chronicles 16:8-10 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Oh Give Thanks To The Lord; Call Upon His Name; Make Known His Deeds among the peoples! Sing To Him, Sing Praises To Him; Tell Of ALL His Wondrous Works! Glory In His Holy Name; Let The Hearts of those who SEEK The Lord Rejoice!".... PJP2 THANKS TEXT - 161101 - SPEED DIAL - John 14:15-18, 26-27 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And Jesus Said, 'If you LOVE Me, you Will Keep My Commandments. And I Will ASK The Father, And He Will Give you Another HELPER, To Be With you Forever, Even The Spirit Of TRUTH, Whom the world cannot receive, Because it neither SEES Him Nor Knows Him. You Know Him, For He DWELLS With you And Will Be IN you.....I Will NOT leave you as orphans; I Will Come to you. 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 Blessed WORD of Encouragement to Be Thankful for! Just LOOK at all our Lord Promises here.... His HELPER (The Holy Spirit) VFR Direct from God The Father He Is With Us FOREVER He will Both Be With us and Within us We are Adopted now as God's own children through our Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Is Coming BACK HELPER will Teach us HELPER will Remind us PEACE - God's PEACE is Here for us RELY on HIM vs the world's way of anxiety and fear Thus my Prayer of Thanks for us today would be a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise based on His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD to John as recorded in John 14:15-18, 26-27 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we do indeed LOVE You and Praise You. Lord Jesus, Strengthen us to Ever Keep Your Commandments. Holy Spirit Come to us and Fill us anew. Father God, In Answer to Your Son's Prayer for us, Open us to Receive Your Holy Spirit. Lord Jesus, may we Surrender All to Your HELPER that The Father Has Given to us. O Spirit Of TRUTH, Please Be With us Forever. Father God, Help us to Reflect You, Your Son and Your Holy Spirit, even though the world, if they remain lost in their darkness, cannot receive Him, Because, we know, due to the blindness caused by sin, they neither SEE Him Nor Know Him. BUT, Lord Jesus, Because of You, Your Life, Your Sacrifice and Your Resurrection, we Do Know Him. For Holy Spirit, we Know You DWELL With us And You Are Within us. Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Thank You that You Have Adopted us as Your Own children, and That You Will NOT Ever leave us as orphans. Come Lord Jesus, Come! Father God, Ever Open our Inner Minds To Connect with Your HELPER, The Holy Spirit, Whom You, O God, our Heavenly Father, Have Sent In Your Son's Holy Name. Holy Spirit, Teach us ALL Things that we Need Know. Lord Jesus, Through Your Holy Spirit Within us, Bring to us Remembrance of ALL That You Have Said to us. Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, especially during these tumultuous times we face, May Your PEACE that You Have Left With us Be Evident to all. May Your PEACE That You Have Given, Be Like Oil Upon the Raging Waters of our world's life. O Lord, May we Always and Ever Turn To You! May we Never turn to the world and seek the false peace it gives. In You, Lord Jesus, we Trust and Know our Hearts will Not be troubled, Neither Will we be afraid, As Long as our Focus is On You and You Alone. In Your Holy Name we Pray....Amen and Amen....jaj