Week 2 | God’s Direction for Disorderly Sheep

From Psalm 23

SERIES THEME: My CONFIDENCE does not come from BELIEVING in MYSELF but by BELIEVING MYSELF to be HIS.

“The Lord is my .” (“Shepherding me”)

📖 Psalm 23:3-4 (ESV) He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me…

Whatever my season – the Lord is still .

1.  God is even when I have been .

📖 Psalm 23:3a (ESV) He restores my soul.

“It is not only the shepherd who keeps a sharp eye for cast sheep, but also the predators.”

📖 Isaiah 53:6 (ESV) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

I may – but the Shepherd’s .

📖 Psalm 56:13 (ESV) For You have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling (stumbling), that I may walk before God in the light of life.

2. God is even when I am .

📖 Psalm 23:3 (ESV) He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

📖 Proverbs 14:12 (ESV) There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

📖 Psalm 106:7-8 (ESV) Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. 8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

what I – I’m being for .

3. God is even when is .

📖 Psalm 23:4 (ESV) Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me

📖 Isaiah 43:2 (ESV) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

When a Christian experiences a – the Lord .

Sermon in a Sentence:

The Lord doesn’t when I fail, stop when I , or when life gets . He is me in every .

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