PJP2 SEVEN - 170126 - DOOB

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

DOOB: Do, Obey, Observe, Believe

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."....

As I am reading through His WORD to us on my Annual Pilgrimage, one of the additional Devotionals His Holy Spirit has Shared is "The Book of Mysteries" by Jonathan Cahn.  The reason I'm bringing that to mind is I am fascinated How His Holy Spirit Weaves His WORD, as well as these additional Devotional Readings all together.  Today is a Perfect Example.....Bear with me, Team PJP2, as we meander through this....

IF we go back to the very Beginning (Genesis 1-2) we Witness that God The Father put Creation All Together for one purpose - To Shower His LOVE upon His Creation AND to Have A Right Relationship with us, His Created children.  Genesis 1-2 Reflect what Jonathan Cahn shares with us that Creation Reflects God's EMUN (Hebrew for 'That which is Solid, Sure, TRUE).  Adam and Eve Believed/Had FAITH (EMUNAH) do to all that they saw around them AND their personal Relationship With Him.

Then the Fall, our selfishness and selection of our own way (sin) fractured our Right Relationship with God The Father.  In His TRUTH, He drove us away from The Tree Of Everlasting LIFE to Protect us from becoming Eternally Lost to Him by our own foolishness.

BUT (Behold the Underlying TRUTH), God's PLAN for His Reconciliation/Redemption of mankind had already Begun.....Even as Adam/Eve left Eden, God's GRACE and MERCY were already well ahead of them (and us).  Every step of our way through this earthly life, God The Father, Through His Son, our Lord Jesus, and His Holy Spirit within us, God's Ensuring that His EMUN ("That which is Solid, Sure, TRUE) is Evident in our Lives and we can BANK on....

....Hebrews 11:1 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Now FAITH (EMUNAH) IS The Assurance of Things HOPED For, The Conviction Of Things Not Seen."....

In Response to God's EMUN and our EMUNAH (FAITH) we can Readily Respond - AMEN.....

(By-the-way....AMEN comes from the same root-word in Hebrew as EMUN....AMEN literally means: "It Is TRUE.  I Agree/Believe!  YES!!!!".....Thus, in essence, our Saying AMEN is our saying YES to God!)

{J-Note: The intel on EMUN, EMUNAH and AMEN all courtesy of J. Cahn's 'Book of Mysteries'}

Ok.....so....where does DOOB, our J-ACRONYM for the day work into all of this, Jeff?  Thanks Team for Asking.....YOU ROCK!

Well.....have you ever noticed that God The Father, His Son, our Lord Jesus and His Holy Spirit makes a Simple Statement (be that on how we're to Follow Them, Pray, Live) - YET we find Their Simple Statement a Puzzle....For Example.....

Luke 12:22-31 (ESV)...."And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you."....

I can just See our Lord's disciples going...."AMEN....HooAh...HUH?....OH"

BUT, God The Father has Been Consistent (EMUN) within our EMUNAH (which also means Steadfast, Stable, Steady, Established) and AMEN with our Relationship with Him.....Check out His Guidance via His WORD to us.....

Deuteronomy 5:32-33 (ESV)...."You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess."

Leviticus 19:37 (ESV)...."And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”....

Colossians 2:6-7 (ESV)...."Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."....

Acts 17:28 (ESV)...."'For In Him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are indeed His offspring.’"

Yes (AMEN), Consistently Throughout His Old Testament AND New Testament to us, God's EMUN has Steadily/Steadfastly Revealed That He IS THE LORD and He LOVES us.

Which Brings us back to our FAITH/EMUNAH and our AMEN.....BLUF, as Oswald Chamber shares with us in "My Utmost For His Highest" - "The Way for us to Maintain The Simplicity of Jesus IS By Receiving His Holy Spirit.  As we Recognize/Rely and Obey (Do, Observe, Obey, Believe) Him, He Brings To us (via His WORD) God's TRUTH....we Find our LIVES Become Amazingly Simple."....

And we Learn His TRUTH (in our LIVES, as well as The Saints who've gone before us).....Hebrews 11:6 (ESV)....."And without FAITH (EMUNAH) it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would Draw Near To God MUST BELIEVE (AMEN) That HE Exists And That HE Rewards those who SEEK Him."....

So in conclusion.....

I would Lift Up this Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise for us today....Psalm 36:5-12 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, Your Steadfast LOVE, O Lord, Extends To The Heavens.  Lord Jesus, we Thank You, for Your Faithfulness Goes Beyond the clouds.  Holy Spirit, we Are In Awe, for Your Righteousness Is Like The Mountains Of God The Father, Towering Over us to Infinity and Beyond.  Father God, we Praise You for Your Righteous Judgments Are Like The Great Deep of the Largest Ocean.  Lord Jesus, Thank You for You Have SAVED Both man and beast.  O Lord, How Precious IS Your Steadfast LOVE!  O God The Father, The children of mankind Take Refuge In The Shadow Of Your Mighty Wings.  Holy Spirit, By Your GRACE, we Feast On The Abundance Of Your Spiritual and Holy House.  Lord Jesus, God The Father's Living River of LIFE, Thank You for You Give us Drink From The River Of Your Righteousness.  Indeed, O Lord, For With You IS The TRUE Fountain Of LIFE.  Holy Spirit, Open our Inner Eyes, For In Your LIGHT Do we SEE God The Father's LIGHT.  O Father God, Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, Please Forever Continue Your Steadfast LOVE To those who Know You, And Your Righteousness to the Upright of Heart By Your GRACE!  Lord Jesus, Help us to Be Your Witness.  May our AMEN Share and Reflect Your Mercy and GRACE, Calling to those who do Not Yet Know You!  Holy Spirit, Let NOT the foot of arrogance ever come upon us.  Father God, May the hand of the wicked NEVER drive me away from You. Lord Jesus, May we Share Your Story and Reflect, should man NOT Choose You and Your WAY for LIFE, The End is the evildoers will lie fallen; they will be thrust down, unable to rise.  Lord Jesus, Thank You for Your LOVE, MERCY and GRACE.  We Raise our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name....AMEN and AMEN....jaj

Remember:   Acts 17:28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

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."....