Week 1 | The Lord is My Shepherd

From Psalm 23

SERIES THEME:

My does not come from in but by to be .

Getting my confidence back:

1.   my .

📖 Psalm 23:1 (ESV) The LORD is my shepherd

📖 Psalm 100:3 (ESV) Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

The last two years did produce fear. They only our to .

God is Shepherds.

📖 Ezekiel 34:10 (ESV) Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.

📖 Isaiah 40:11 (ESV) He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

📖 John 10:11 (ESV) I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Getting my confidence back:

2.   God’s . 

📖 Psalm 23:2 (ESV) The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

📖 Psalm 90:2 (ESV) from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

📖 Psalm 40:6 (NIV) Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced…

📖 Revelation 14:1 (ESV) Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.

📖 John 10:27 (ESV) My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

What does God provide?

📖 Psalm 23:2 (ESV) He makes me lie down in green pastures. 

A: My Shepherd me .

Four things the Shepherd gives:

1. Freedom from .

2. Removal of .

3. Removal of .

4. .

B: My Shepherd me. 

📖 Psalm 23:2b (ESV) He leads me beside still waters. 

📖 Matthew 5:6 (ESV) “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

📖 John 4:10 (ESV) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Concluding thought:

The world is struggling with the question: Who am I?

But the question is “ am I?”

”The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

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