The Good Shepherd

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Good afternoon and welcome to Healing Stream Waters Daily Dosage. It's a privilege and it's an honor to be here in the land of the living. I'm going to be sharing with you out of the Word of God a very familiar passage of scripture. We were taught it from children. And today this scripture seals me a great deal in my life. It's one of those scriptures where you can just pull off the shelf at any given time. And it's the 23rd song. And I shall not want. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. And yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy saff thou comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. God is not slack concerning his promises. Thy rod and thy staff. One is to bring you back to where you have gone off course at. One comforts you. And God promised that he will never leave us nor forsake us. He will always, he's a comforter. In the midnight hour, lead me in the path of righteousness for your name's sake. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. So I cannot ask God to order my steps, and then I don't want to move my feet. You must move your feet because if he's going to order your steps, he knows the way that you take. Sometimes the sicknesses and things that we have to go up against, it can be fear, it can be anything that wants to uh hinder us from getting where God has for us to go. But he asks us in the book of Roman, the eighth chapter, what would you let separate you from the love of God? He will be with you even to the ends of the world. If you make your bed of hell, he said he'll be there. If you cover your feet, your hand gonna show you. Can't even hide from God. He says, Surely, goodness and mercy will follow you. He will follow you. Uh he will lead you with goodness and with mercy. It's the goodness of the Lord that brings about a change, brings about repentance, mercy. God don't give us what we deserve, he still keeps looking out for us, he still keeps stretching out his um arm to a disobedient and gain-saying people. He still does it, and he requires that we do the same thing. How many times shall we forgive? Seven times 70. That means on and on and on and on. If your brother asks you for forgiveness, we must forgive. Just as God, as we ask God for forgiveness, and he forgives us. Not only do he forgives us, he casts our sins into the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more. He tells us, I know you did what you did, but go in peace and don't do that thing no more. He's just, he's faithful, he's committed, he's a loving God. I thank God for God. I thank God for Jesus, for he loved us so much that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The Bible said, if he gave his son for me, for you, he didn't hold him back. What more? What more, what more would you ask for? What more do you desire? He held back not his only begotten son for us, freely he gave, and we are to pattern after that. Let the mind be in Christ Jesus, let it be in us. He'll prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies. Somewhere that says, Come over here, where I am, where the feast of the Lord is going on. We're gonna drink from the fountain that never runs dry. We're gonna shout hallelujah by and by. The young lions do lack and suffer need, but you that trust, you that love the Lord shall not want any good thing. I reminded when Peter he wanted to follow God, but he had some taxes that he needed to pay. Guess what? Peter was a fisherman, so he didn't tell him to go to the construction site, he didn't tell him to go to the supermarket, he gave him the answer in what he did for a living. Go to the fish mouth. Peter knew how to fish. So what you're looking for is going to be in that thing that you can do. Ruth was gleaning in the field, and when Naomi asked her, Do you want me to find you some rest? The man came in the field where she worked at. Whatever your hands you find your hands to do, do it. Go in the vineyard and work, and that which is right, God said, I will pay. The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. He makes me to lie down and green pastures, he leadeth me beside the sealed waters. That's life, that's life in the spirit, green pastures, prosperity. It is he that gives us power to get wealth by the sealed waters. That's calmness, that's peace. If we that keep our minds stay on him, he will keep us in perfect peace, he will give us peace that passes all understanding. You can have peace even in the midst of the storm. Chaos could be all around you, confusion could be all around you, but you can still have peace. The joy of the Lord is my strength. Yes, it is, and you can have joy despite of, in spite of, because the joy, as the song writers say, that I have, the world didn't give it to me, and the world can't take it away. Just like he told his disciples, my peace I give you, not as the world gives it. His peace is not like the world, his joy is not like the world's, his love is not like the world, it goes beyond the call of duty. Thank God for God's fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, long suffering, goodness, faith, temperance against such there is no law. People of God, this is a good news that when God is your shepherd, you don't have to want. My sheep know my voice, and a stranger they will not follow. The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside the sealed waters, he restores my soul. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. God did give me the spirit of fear, but of love power and a sound mind. People of God, this is healing stream waters. God loves you, I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it. The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want you to go.