PJP2 SEVEN - 170128 - STEADFAST

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

STEADFAST:
Share (His) TALE (Gospel);
Encourage (one) Another Daily;
Follow Always (in the) Savior's TRUTH

Deuteronomy 7:9 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Know Therefore That The Lord your God IS God, The Faithful God Who Keeps Covenant And STEADFAST LOVE With those who LOVE Him And Keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations,"....

Team PJP2, there are simply so many words to employ when one Thinks, Meditates and/or Talks with/and about God The Father, His Holy Spirit and our Lord Jesus, His Christ and our Savior.

One WORD though that The Holy Spirit has Caught my attention with today is: STEADFAST.

For example..... Exodus 15:13 (ESV)....“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode."....

In fact if you Word Search STEADFAST, BibleGateway.com indicates there's 219 Passages Of the WORD, Select employing STEADFAST in their Wording.  Granted not all of these are Directly Speaking of God's Nature - BUT I would also submit, in one-way-or-another our own Reflection of Being STEADFAST Is A Statement of Validation of His Holy Spirit Within us, as we Rely On Him and His Strength to Work In, Around and Through us for God The Father's Kingdom.

Thus as I've been Pondering with The Holy Spirit this morning, He Proposed our use of the J-ACRONYM: STEADFAST as our 'outline' for today's PJP2 SEVEN posting....here we have it.

Perhaps note exactly in the order STEADFAST flows.....BUT here all the same.... :)

His Holy Spirit States Well The gist and core of these concepts.....

 2 Timothy 2:1-13 (ESV)....."You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself."....
And in Specific, His Holy Spirit Encourages us.....1 Thessalonians 5:5-11(ESV)...."For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing."

Let me Share 1 Thessalonians 5:11 one more time...."Therefore Encourage one another And Build one another Up, Just As you Are Doing."....

Such an Amazing Blessing and Promise our Lord Jesus Shares via His Being God's Living Example of His STEADFAST LOVE.  What an Encouragement and Opportunity for us To Also Be Able, In His Strength Via His Holy Spirit Within us, To SHARE and Encourage one another as well In His GRACE.

I would Offer Up Today's PJP2 SEVEN/170128 PRAYER for us employing His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD as Recorded in Numbers 14:17-19 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj).... O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Raise our Praise and Worship in Your Holy Name.  And Now, O Lord Jesus, Please Let The Power Of God The Father, Through Your Holy Spirit Within us Be Great in, around and through us, Lord, As You Have Promised.  Father God, we Praise You and Thank You, Saying, "The Lord our God IS Slow to anger And Abounding In STEADFAST LOVE, Forgiving iniquity And transgression."  O Holy Spirit, Help us to Be Your Witness, To Share our Lord Jesus' Gospel of GRACE, especially to those who are still guilty of sin and transgression.  Father God, Help us to Be Able To Reflect That You Are Ever Ready To Forgive, IF they will But Come To You.  Lord Jesus, Make Plain in hearts that Righteous Justice Demands one' sins be cleared, even visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.  O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we of Your Household Of HOPE, we Plead and Pray that You Please Pardon and Forgive the iniquity of this people.  Thank You, Father God, for According To The Greatness of Your STEADFAST LOVE, Just As You Forgave the Ancient Saints of old, You Have, Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus, His Life, His Sacrifice and His Resurrection, You Have Forgiven us and all of this people, from Egypt until Now.  In Your Holy Name, Lord Jesus, we Raise Up our Prayers....AMEN and AMEN....jaj

I would 'send-trans' or 'Sign-off' today with this....

REMEMBER/Bottom-Line/Up-Front (BLUF):  1 Corinthians 15:58 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)...."Therefore, my Beloved brothers/sisters, Be STEADFAST, Immovable, Always Abounding In The WORK Of The Lord, Knowing That In The Lord your LABOR Is NOT in vain."...