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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