PJP2 SEVEN - 170118 - PIN

SEVEN: Share/Seek; Encourage; Verily Verify the Victory; Evaluate NOW (Note On WORD)

PIN: Power In (The) NAME

Proverbs 22:1 (ESV)...."A Good NAME Is To Be Chosen Rather Than great riches, And Favor/GRACE Is Better Than silver or gold.".....

Have you ever stopped to Ponder the how and why you were given the NAME you have?  I will not go into the long details of how I became JEFFERY, though it is a hoot of a story.  BUT, suffice to say, I had little choice in what Pops and Mom Johnson had determined to NAME me.

I am making the presumption most of us, at our birth anyway, had little opportunity to share our input with what our NAME should be.

BUT (Behold the Underlying TRUTH) our Lord Jesus is an Exception.

Not only did our Lord Jesus (Hebrew Name: Yeshua....more on that in a moment) fulfill well over 400 Old Testament Prophecies......Here's one where God's Angel Shared with Joseph, Jesus' earthly step-father......Matthew 1:21-23 (ESV)...."She will bear a son, and you shall call his name JESUS (Yeshua), for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet (Isaiah): “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” which means, God with us."....

So God The Father Shared what His Only Son's Name would be upon His Birth.

And so what?  What's In This NAME of Jesus/Yeshua?

Great Question, thanks for asking.....

Yeshua itself means: "To Rescue; To Help; To Defend; To Preserve; To Set Free; To Assure/Attain Victory; To Bring To Safety; To Heal; To SAVE

When we utter "Yeshua" we are Proclaiming: "He Has Become my SALVATION."

Our Lord's Holy Spirit Affirms this....

John 3:14-17 (ESV)...."And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “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."....

And once more, even more direct....

Acts 2:21(ESV)...."And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the NAME of the Lord shall be saved."....

Oh, and one small bit of Prophecy connecting the Old and New Testaments, to include Revelation and The Last Days.....

 Philippians 2:1-11 (ESV)...."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."....

In a Word....OUTSTANDING!!!!

Ok, so what's In The Name of JESUS/YESHUA?

Let me summarize my Ponderings, borrowing just a bit from J. Kahn's 'Book of Mysteries'.....
God The Father Sent His Only Son, our Lord Jesus, His Christ/Messiah, to Become The One and Only Answer we would ever Need for each and every Question of LIFE.  

Philippians 4:19 (ESV)...."And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."....

Our "Mission" (and Team I know it is NOT an easy one) Is To Learn, Little-By-Little to Take Every Question and True Need we have in our LIVES To Him and Join them To His NAME.....

Oh my Dear Friends, do NOT hear what I am NOT saying....NOT saying I have arrived at this point yet.....not even close.....BUT what I am Saying.....His Holy Spirit Says Best as Paul Records in Philippians 3:12-16(ESV)..."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. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained."

Thus my Prayer for us today would be.....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Raise our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name, our Yeshua!  Lord Jesus, Thank You for Surrendering and Obeying Fully Your Call from God The Father.  Holy Spirit, Thank You for Strengthening our Lord Jesus as He Walked Among us, Lived as one of us, and Gave The Ultimate Sacrifice, Once and For ALL Time and All our sins upon His Cross.  Father God we Praise You for Your Power of Resurrection Poured Upon Your Son, our Lord Jesus, which Assured Your VICTORY over darkness and death.  Lord Jesus, Help us and Encourage us to Always Bring Every Question and Every True Need to You.  Holy Spirit, Align our Thoughts with Your Thoughts.  Father God, Open our Inner Minds to Little By Little Be Transformed to Be More Like Your Son, Day by Day.  Lord Jesus, we Do Praise You, Yeshua.  We Lift Up our Prayers in Your Holy Name....Amen and Amen....jaj




BONUS:  Short Version - HIS STORY....

Acts 2:36-39(ESV)...."Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”