I often face the challenge in my own life and the lives of others:  How do I stir up faith?  Micah Joy Williams’s book Christ the Wonderful Counselor  highlighted seven variables which can stir up faith.  When I need to remember areas that play a role in cultivating faith, I will refer to my mnemonic for these variables:  It is “PUT J PEG”.P for pictures or mental visions;U for unconditional love;T for testimonies;J for Jesus’s works and character;P for prophetic encounters;E for experiencing God personally; andG for God’s voice.No one single variable is more important than the others for stirring up faith, in my opinion.   There is a constant interplay among them. To illustrate I will share (1) a single personal experience which has become a key part of my testimony.  After that I’ll share (2) a picture or mental vision that was combined with a prophetic encounter from the Word which drove home the fact of God’s unconditional love.(1) On October 22, 2015 at Cultivate Revival my right wrist was miraculously healed.  It has been crippled from a spiral fracture 10 years previously and became 80% functional that night and 95% functional within the next few months.  That experience has given me a powerful testimony and has caused a paradigm shift in my faith.(2) Just this past week I was meditating on Isaiah 63:9b.  In English it translates “In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.”  In Hebrew (simply gleaned from the interlinear version in the Blue Letter Bible) it reads:  “In His love (ahavah) and in His mercy (chemlah), He redeemed (ga-al’)  them and lifted them (natal)  and carried (nasa) them all they days of old.”This meditation became for me a prophetic encounter. The word picture for ahavah is to be bond together in love with a cord over yours and the lover’s wrists, like in a marriage ceremony.  The word picture for chemlah is God in his mercy grabbing my wrist to lead me away from destruction, as the Angel led Lot out of Sodom. The word picture for ga-al' is what happened between God and Issac on the altar of sacrifice at Mt Moriah.  Twelve-year old Issac sacrificed himself, expecting his own resurrection. (Yes, Abraham was involved too.)  But the Angel of the Lord reached down and stayed the father’s hand and provided the ram or ransom for the sacrifice. That act is ga-al’ . The final word picture is that God will lift me up (natal) and carry me forward (nasa) into his unconditional love.When I work in my garden to stir up the fruit/flowers in it, I don’t do just one thing:  I use all tools at hand, and access all possible means to make the garden reach its full potential.   So that is how we should stir up our faith.   Remember PUT J PEG. In Christ,