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WHO IS YOUR SHEPHERD? V
3. Your shepherd is your guide. Somebody sought my advice on an issue within the week. I spoke with him few days later and he told me that he carried out my advice to the letter and as a result he made so much money. You can have the best guide but do you recognize him? Are you ready to be guided? You can have the best shepherd but are you ready to be led? It is to the extent you are ready and willing to be led that anyone can shepherd you. Everyone wants to be their own lord, yet, they are very quick to recite Psalm 23. One…
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WHO IS YOUR SHEPHERD? IV
John 10:27-28 says, “My sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand”. The sheep does not follow the voice of the stranger. This is very fundamental. The instructions you follow determine whose sheep you are. Whose instructions do you follow? That is your shepherd. Today, it is very difficult to shepherd people. Every true shepherd is a warrior who does not fight for himself but for the flock. Jesus Christ is the shepherd of sheep; he is not the shepherd of cows, lions, eagles…
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WHO IS YOUR SHEPHERD? III
God never leads anybody outside the path of righteousness. Why? For his name’s sake! Because of his nature! His nature abhors his leading you in contradiction to his revealed will. One of the ways to know when someone is telling lies is when such a person says things that are not consistent with the revealed will of God. You don’t need to consult any pastor, just know that that person is lying. As a child, I used to attend a Church where they loved to prophesy. In one occasion, as service was in progress, someone stood up and started prophesying at the top of her voice. As she was ‘prophesying,…
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WHO IS YOUR SHEPHERD? II
I did a posting recently which reads, “If you are not led beside the still waters, the Lord is not your Shepherd”. I know that this statement is audacious and as expected, it triggered a reaction from one of the readers. His comment is as follows, ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for thou art with me’. He went further to say that ‘He sometimes leads us through trouble. He is ALWAYS our Shepherd. I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Let God be true and every man a liar. The quote highlighted above…
