Psalm 23. We've looked at this
at least a dozen times or more together. We just looked at it
back in May when this plague started back in March and subsequent fear from it began
to heighten. We looked at Psalm 23, The psalm,
the word from our Lord, is meant to give us great courage and
freedom from fear. Though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. And here we are again. We're
going to look at it again. I thought of this. I was thinking
the other day about the job of a pastor. The word means shepherd. And I immediately thought of
this scripture. It made me thankful the Lord
gave me a good pastor, but even more so, I was thankful that
the Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is. David, he's called
the sweet psalmist of Israel. He wrote many, if not most of
these psalms. I can just imagine he was sitting
on the hillside when he wrote this, don't you? That he was
looking over the sheep. He himself was a shepherd. He
was a good one. In fact, he never lost a sheep
as a type of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was called the son of David,
the good shepherd. David, I just imagine, was sitting
on the hillside looking over those sheep of his and he began
to write this song. This song gives God great glory.
It gives our Lord great glory and gives his sheep great comfort. Great comfort. David wrote with
gladness and joy of heart, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. The Lord. Jehovah-rah. We've looked many times at the
seven names. seven that we know readily, but
there are many more than that, aren't there? But Jehovah-rah-ah,
Jehovah-rah-ah, the Lord our shepherd. As I said, David was
a very good shepherd, but he said, I'm thankful that the Lord
is my shepherd. Jehovah is my shepherd. Now, before we look at the shepherd,
to have a shepherd you must be a sheep. All right, let's try
to ascertain whether or not we are sheep. Okay, because this
is for the sheep. And as we read, we read it twice. John picked John 10 to read in
the study. I said, well, we'll read it for
everyone upstairs. But he said, my sheep hear my
voice. They know me. They follow me.
I know them. They follow me. We know something
about our Lord, the shepherd, a little bit. We know something
about ourselves, a little bit. He knows everything. He knows
us. We know Him. But sheep have to have a shepherd.
They have to. They can't live without a shepherd.
Goats can't. Goats don't need a shepherd.
They don't want anybody to lead them. They won't follow you anyway. Sheep need a shepherd. Sheep
must. If you want and need a shepherd,
do you? It must be a sheep. Sheep are
dumb animals. They're dumb. They must be led.
They must be fed. They're helpless. Sheep are animals
of prey. They have many predators and
they're helpless. They're helpless. They're dirty
animals. Yes, they are. They're dirty. They're weak. They're weak. They're helpless. They're totally
dependent. Is that you? They're weak and they're wandering. They're prone to wander. Is that
you? Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave
the God I love. Oh, great shepherd. The last
verse in Psalm 119, David said, I've gone astray. Seek me. Seek me. Sheep are gregarious animals.
Now, that's where we get the word congregate. Sheep must flock
together. It's their nature. They don't
like to be alone. They must gather together. They congregate. They flock together. They must. It's their nature.
They need to. If there's a flock, if there
are sheep, there'll be a flock. There'll be a fold. And if there's
sheep and a flock and a fold, there's a shepherd nearby. Always. Wherever there's sheep. There's
a flock, there's a foal, and the shepherd is very near. And
he's always speaking to them, he's always watching over them,
he's always feeding them, he's always caring for them. Are you
a sheep? Did I just describe you? Do you
need to congregate? Do you need to hear his voice?
He said, my sheep hear my voice. His voice soothes sheep that
are skittish, frightened, easily frightened, fearful creatures
that are helpless, harmless. Do you need to hear His voice
to soothe your fears? Are you a sheep? Then you have
a shepherd. You have a good one. You have a great one. The Lord
Himself. is your shepherd. That's what
David said. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. If you really believe the Lord
is your shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord God Himself
is your shepherd. Now, I didn't say this, sheep
are owned by someone. And our Lord said in John 10,
my father gave these sheep to me. They were given to him to
come and to save. He left the 99 and went after
the 1. Every single sheep he must bring into the fold. The
Father gave them to him. And he bought them. He purchased
them. He bought them with a price.
He purchased them with his own precious blood. He's not going
to lose one single sheep which he laid down his life for. He
said that then, I lay down my life for the sheep. And I must
bring them. Those that thou gavest me, he
said in his prayer, I have kept, not one of them is lost. No man
can pluck them out of his hand, or the Father's hand. So they're
his sheep, they're owned by him. And so if they're his sheep,
he's a good shepherd. He's a great shepherd. They shall
not want, they shall not ever want or lack for anything, shall
not ever be without anything. Anything they need, they won't
get everything they want. Well, they pretty much get everything
they want, above and beyond what we can even think or ask, don't
we? Our cups run over. But they shall not want, look
at Luke 12, just turn to one other passage, I think. No promises. But Luke 12, this has always
been a great, great blessing to me as a young believer. I
was just so fearful that I didn't belong to the Lord and walking
along alone and this scripture came to my mind. Verse 32, Luke
12, 32, our Lord says, Fear not, little flock. For it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom." To give you the kingdom. It pleased
the Lord to make some people His people. It pleased Him. Nobody
is worth He's worth having by the Lord. But it pleased the
Lord to make many, some, many, His people. And if you believe
you're a sheep, it pleased the Lord. It gave Him great pleasure
to make you one of His people. And it says He takes great pleasure
in them that fear Him and hope in His mercy. Brothers, that's
all I can do. You know that, Brother John?
I don't feel like I can give him anything. I don't feel like
I can do anything for him. And about all I can do is, I
do fear him, and about all I can do is hope in his mercy. He says
he takes great pleasure. It pleases the Lord. The Father's
good pleasure to give you the kingdom. And we shall not want. We shall not want. For food, in our psalm here,
it tells us about food, about leadership, guidance, we shall
not want for restoration, we shall not want for righteousness,
we shall not want for protection, correction, comfort, consolation,
goodness and mercy, and a safe home and haven forever. Shall never want, never lack. Why? Because He's the Lord. Because He's the Lord, our Shepherd.
He's our shepherd. Verse 2, he says, He maketh me
to lie down in green pasture. He leadeth me beside the still
waters. He maketh me to lie down in green pasture. Now, sheep, like all clean animals, are prey,
creatures of prey, and they have many predators. And one of the
natural defenses that the Lord gave to prey animals is flight. Flight. To run. Like a horse,
you know, is born, you know, just in a matter of hours, he's
up and running. He has to. He's got so many predators. Well, sheep have many predators,
but here's what the Lord says for them to do. Don't run. Lie down. You don't need to run. You know, often the predators are
a lot, you can't run from predators. Fears, a wolf, a lion. Our adversaries are lion, roaring
lion. You can't outrun that lion. So what does he tell us? Lie
down. Just lie down. Their strength, Isaiah 30 says,
their strength is to sit still. Sit still. In returning and rest
you shall be saved, Isaiah 30. In quietness and confidence shall
be your strength. Lie down. Just lie down. In green pastures. In green pastures. He maketh that. You notice it
says He maketh that. We're all in such a hurry, aren't
we? And in Isaiah it says their strength is to sit still. But they would not. They wouldn't
do it. What'd they do? They're going
to run. They're going to run. No. No. Lie down. The Lord has to make us. The Lord has to bring us here
into this fold. And what are we doing? We're
sitting still. We need to just come and sit
and be still and know that He's God. The battle is not ours. It's the Lord. We can't run from
our adversary. We don't need to. The Lord is
near us. The Lord is with us. We don't
need to fight. We don't need to run. The Lord
is with us. Be still. Know that I am God.
He maketh us to lie down. Everyone who came to our Lord,
our Lord Jesus Christ in need, fell at his feet. Every one of
them, they would lie down at his feet like he tells the sheep
to do. The leper came down and fell
at his feet and worshipped him. Blind Bartimaeus, the woman with
the issue of blood, came crawling. Mary Magdalene, you would always
find her at his feet. The story of Ruth, and it wouldn't
take much for me to preach from that if somebody got 12 requests. He told, Naomi
told Ruth, she said, your kinsman redeemer lies down. You find
out where he is and you go uncover his feet and you just lie down
at his feet because that man won't rest until he finishes
his matter. You don't need to just lie at
his feet. He'll tell you what to do. So everyone that came to our
Lord would just lie down and read. Be still. The Lord is our
shepherd, our keeper. Now, Psalm 22 is the psalm of
the cross, isn't it? Psalm 22 is the psalm of the
cross, those of you who know that. Psalm 23 is the psalm of
the shepherd. Psalm 24 is the psalm of the
king. But after the psalm of the cross, He tells us, lie down. Just rest. foot of the cross,
at our Savior's feet. He's finished the work. Lie down.
Rest in Him. He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures, leadeth me beside the still water. Green pastures.
This is the sheep's food and this is the sheep's rest. The
sheep, the place, the thing that they eat is also the thing they
rest in. Their dwelling place is their
food. All of this is Christ Himself. The green pasture is the Word
of God, and Christ is the Word in it. The Word of the Lord,
our resting place. We rest in Him, our food, our
drink. Green pasture. This grass never
withereth, nor fadeth. Our Lord said, Heaven and earth
shall pass away, not one word of mine shall wither. or pass
away or fade away. Green is the living word, full
of life, fresh, alive, new every morning. He maketh us to lie
down, and I cannot counsel you any better than to tell you to
begin every day in the green pastures of his Word. Have you
ever gone out on a sunny day in summertime or spring in a
green pasture or place and just lay down in the grass? Sure you
have. Do you know of anything more
restorative or calming or wonderful than lie down and look up at
that blue sky? Huh? I've done that many times.
Falling asleep. There's only one thing better
than that. What we're doing right now. The green pastures of His
Word. And the soul still in waters,
He leadeth me beside the still waters. What's that? Well, it's
His Word, yes. But what? What is the water of
life? Christ. He said, the water that
I give will be a wellspring. That's Christ in you. The margin,
this is why I love this production of this Bible so much. The margin
says, waters of quietness. Don't these waters steal that
raging man within you? Don't you find that they steal
that rage? That old man just rages against us. We come in
here and the word soothes us. stills us. Doesn't the waters
of his word, the gospel, the precious good news of the gospel,
doesn't it block out the noisome pestilence all around us? This
world is just full of nothing but noisome pestilence. But when
I come in here and we all lie down in these green pastures
and these souls still in the water of his word, it just blocks
out all the noise, doesn't it? For a little while. And it restores my soul. Doesn't
it, you? We're saved by His Word, but
we're kept by His Word. We're saved by the Gospel, but
we're kept by the Gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ redeemed
our souls. The Lord Jesus Christ reconciled
us to God. He restored us in favor to our
God. But the Gospel He sends through
the preacher restores us daily. replenishes us, renews us. 2 Corinthians 4.16 says it. Though
our outward man perisheth, yet the inward man is renewed day
by day. How? Right here. Right here. Day by day. And with
each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here. Where? Where do you get this
strength? The Lord is our strength. And this Word is His voice. So
he leadeth me beside these still, soul-stilling waters. And in
verse 3 he said, he leadeth me in paths of righteousness. For
his name's sake. Paths of righteousness. The path,
the way to God is a path of righteousness. Not one that we produce. Not
one that we work at. No, no, no. It's not by works
of righteousness which we have done. That's according to His
mercy He has saved. But it is a work of righteousness
which the Lord Jesus Christ has done. He said, I am the way. He is the path of righteousness.
In Him, we're righteous. He's made under us righteousness. And so we walk in Him, by faith
in Him, in the right path, the path of righteousness. For His
name sake, that's His name. Another name of Jehovah is Jehovah
Sid Kenu, the Lord our righteousness. Jehovah Sid Kenu, that's His
name. His name is who He is and His name is what He does. He's
Jehovah Ra, the Lord our shepherd. That's who He is. That's what
He does. Jehovah Sidkenu, that's who He is. That's what He does.
He's our righteousness. Jehovah Shalom, the Lord our
peace. That's who He is. That's what
He did. He made peace with the blood
of His cross. Jehovah Nissi, the Lord our banner. That's what
He is. That's what He did. I can remember
Aaron and her. Jehovah Sidken, Jehovah Jireh. Remember that? Genesis 22. Abraham told Isaac, son, Jehovah
Jireh. That's what he said. Jehovah
Jireh, son. You know what that means. The
Lord will provide. That's who he is. That's what
he does. Provides everything you need.
Everything you do. Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
redemption, justification, food, protection, salvation, everything.
That's who He is. That's what He does. Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. He healeth all thy diseases. All of them. Yeah, all of them.
You say, but I may die from a disease. Then he healed you, didn't he?
That's right. One way or another, he healeth
you from all your disease. And all of us have the disease
called sin, which makes us a leper, which makes us blind, which makes
us halt, which makes us lame, which makes us deaf and dumb.
And he healed them in the gospel. Jehovah Rapha, Jehovah Shammah. That's who He is. That's what
He does. The Lord is present. Always present. So He leads,
that's His name. He does everything for His name's
sake. Verse 4, yea! Stop right there. Yea! When do you say yea? When something
makes you happy or something you agree with. Yea! You know what the scripture says
about the promises of God? Where they are and what they
are? They say they're all in Jesus Christ and they're all,
yay! And amen to the glory of God by us. Yay! No yay and nay. Not God loves
you, but, no. Not Christ died for you, but
yay and nay. No, it's all yay. Sure. Amen. That's the way it is. All
the promises of God. What? Salvation, safety, all
things. Yay! Though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Walk. Don't run. Walk by faith. He that believeth shall not make
haste. Just be patient. Walk with the
Lord. Okay. Walk. Don't run. There's no hurry. Our times are
in His hands. Don't have to run. In fact, walk,
stand, sit, lie down. So I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death. Can a shadow hurt you? Can a
shadow hurt you? When you were a child, you were
afraid of shadows, weren't you? Every child is afraid of shadows.
When you get older, you don't think like a child anymore. You're
not afraid of shadows. Well, Brother Bruce Crabtree, he's
so honest. I love his honesty. One time
I was listening to him say, he said, you know, sometimes I am
afraid of the dark. He said, and I'm 68 years old.
Well, I've got to be honest. But a shadow can't hurt you.
And that's what the Lord called death. It's a shadow. You know,
a shadow hangs over this world. Shadow of death. Death hovers
over everything and everyone in this world. It does. And this
is what people fear. This is the thing that people
fear the most. Whatever they're confronted with,
they're afraid it might kill them. They might die. There is no dark cloud of death
hanging over God's people. No. Death is not death at all for
God's people. He called it sleep. What do you
do when you sleep? Rest. As I've said so many times, the
older you get, the more you look forward to going to sleep. Men
and I are often in bed at 7 o'clock. Don't you love it? We sure don't
sleep very long and wake up at 3 a.m. But, the point is, the
older we get, the more we ought to look forward to falling asleep
in our Lord. Rest. It's over. It's over. Walk through the valley of the
shadow of death. There is no dark cloud hanging
over God's people. Fear not, you saints. Fresh courage
take. The clouds you so much dread
are filled with goodness and shall break with blessings on
your head. Why? Because the Lord is your
shepherd. I fear no evil. He says, I will
fear no evil. Now, was David ever afraid? Some of you love, all of you
love Psalm 27 and know it. He said, the Lord is my light
and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is
the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When
the wicked, my enemies, and my foes came upon me to eat my flesh,
they stumbled and fell. Though a host should encamp against
me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against
me, I'm confident. It's one thing I desire of the
Lord. That's what I'll seek after. And here in our psalm, he says,
this thing that you desire, he said, it's going to happen. You're
going to dwell in the house of the Lord forever. That's my last point. If it's
your desire, it's going to be a certainty. I'll fear no evil. David said, what time I am afraid,
I'll trust in Him. And believe me, people read the
scriptures. He had enemies all his life. Fearful ones. I'll fear no evil. Thou art with me. Thy rod and
thy staff, they comfort me. I've had this in my study for
years now and I don't want to let go of it. I look at it all
the time and I think of God's rod and his staff. It comes from
that. The shepherd's rod and staff is something he uses for
his sheep. He uses the rod to chase them,
doesn't he? He uses a staff, this hook here,
to bring them back. He uses the rod to ward off enemies,
you know, beat off the foes. By rod and by staff. What's that?
That's His Word. That's His Word. That's what
we're looking at. And Christ is the rod. He is the Great Shepherd. The Lord does everything by His
Word. You know that? He created everything
by His Word. He regenerates His people. We're
born again. We're begotten by His Word. He
feeds us. He leads us. He corrects us. His Word is our defense. His
Word is our offense. His Word is everything. His Word
is the staff that we lean on. Remember thy Word which thou
hast caused me to hope. His rod and His staff. The rod
to chasten, the staff to bring us back, A staff to constrain
us? A staff to restrain us? We need
restraining, don't we? We need kept back from so many
things. The rod and the staff to comfort
us? He said, thy rod and thy staff
comfort me. Tell me, don't you find great
comfort in the Lord's correction from His Word? loveth, he chastened them. And
he does it 99% by the word. Didn't you? When your children
were young, did you, you know, as soon as they did something
wrong, get a whip out and start beating them? No, no. You spoke
to them. You spoke to them. You spoke
to them. And then, there were times when nothing would work
but the rod. But our Lord uses His rod to
reprove, rebuke. The Word of God reproves, rebukes,
corrects, instructs. Don't you find great comfort
in being rebuked? So many times, some of you come
up to me and say, that really convicted me. And I think, wonderful. You must be His child. Whom the
Lord loves, He rebukes, He corrects, He chastens. And chastening is
not punishment, it's correction. It's correction. We need it.
It comforts me, as do you. It comforts me when God's Word
convicts me, when I feel sorrow, when I feel guilt. Guilt's a
good thing. I don't mean You know, fearful
guilt, but we need to feel guilty of our sins because then we'll
run to Christ to take away our guilt. And he has. But I've told you that story
about Brother Walter and Betty Groover in Mexico adopting
that Mexican girl, Chela. And they had five children of
their own, natural-born children, and they adopted another one
while they were there in Chela. And of course, Walter would not
spare the rod on his son. If you'd ask Cody, he'd tell
you. And Kevin, and even the girls, Lisa, and Jane, and Testa,
they'd tell you. He did not spare the rod. One
time, he picked up one of them in the service and was leaving
the service. And he had that child, Testa,
I believe, had that child over his shoulder. And he's walking
out the door. He's going to spank her. And
she said, y'all pray for me. I wonder if anybody heard anything
else the preacher said after that. But he didn't spare the
rod. Well, anyway, he would spank
his natural-born children. And Chela was so grateful to
be adopted into the family. And so she was just a model child.
She never got in trouble. She never did anything wrong. And they told this story that
one day she just acted so out of character. She just pitched
a fit. And they told her, Jalen, straighten
up now. She wouldn't. She just acted
up. So finally Walter said, if you
don't quit, I'm going to have to spank you. She just carried on
something awful. He said, OK. They took her in
there and he spanked her. And it's got to be a painful
lesson to learn, doesn't it? And she had big tears running
down her face with a big smile on that little brown face. Big
smile and tears running down. And Walter said, huh? What is
it? She said, now I know you love
me like one of your own. And the Lord loveth. He chastens.
You don't correct other people's children, do you? The Lord corrects
His people and makes them smart for it. He makes them smart for
their sin. But we don't pay for our sins.
Christ did. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort
me. Verse 5, Thou preparest the table before me in the presence
of mine enemy. That's what we're doing right
now. You know that? We're sitting at the Lord's table. Quite often
we partake of the Lord's table. You have to be here to do that,
don't you? But we do that quite often. Well, not often, but whenever
we do it. But whenever we come here, we're
sitting at the Lord's table. We're eating His body and drinking
His blood. Right before the Lord went to
the cross, you know what He did? Right before He went to face
our adversary, the enemy, to defeat our foe, to bruise, crush
Satan's head, you know what He did? He prepared a table. Remember? And He made them Sit
down. They all knew that something
bad was about to happen. They kept telling. There were
enemies all around them, weren't there? In the midst of their
enemies. All of Jerusalem was in a turmoil. And they were all
out to get their Lord. And he said, just sit down. And he himself curled himself
with a towel and washed their face and their feet. And then
he got up and he got some bread and got some wine and he served
them. He said, be still. I'm going to the cross, not you. Brothers and sisters, the battle's
not ours, it's the Lord's. Be still. He prepares us a table
right in the middle of our enemies. We're surrounded by enemies. Those that are with us are more
than they are against us. He that is with us, if God be
for. Huh? Is that just a slogan? Or is
it the truth? He's the truth. He prepares us
a table right in the middle of our enemies, where the gospel
is. This is the Lord's table. We
come, we sit, we dine, we sup with the Savior. Eat His flesh,
drink His blood. Verse 5 says, Thou anointest
my head with oil. Psalm 133, don't you love that?
Oh, how precious. Turn there. I said I wouldn't
have you turn it. You know, all men are liars. Psalm 133, Behold
how good, how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together
in unity. To get together, to congregate
in sheep, David said in Psalm 22, he said, My praise shall
be of thee in the great congregation. I'm going to be in the congregation.
How good it is. Isn't this good? You wouldn't
have gotten this anywhere else. You wouldn't have gotten this
at home alone. No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. That's what
pastors are for. Right? It's like the precious
ointment. that ran upon the head. Christ
is the anointed one, isn't He? He's the one anointed with the
oil of gladness above His fellows. But you know, that anointing
flows down. Read it. Ran down upon the beard. Aaron's beard went down to the
skirts of the garment. That's us. Hanging on the hem
of His garment. It's like the dew of Hermon,
the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion. From there,
Mount Zion, the church, The flock, the fold, the gathering, that's
where the Lord commanded the blessing. We ask for it, don't
we? Whenever a man prays, Lord bless
us. And I pray, whoever pray, Lord bless us. You know what?
He commands a blessing. Where two or three are gathered,
bless these people. What? Life forevermore. Thou anointest my head with oil.
Does this gospel soothe your aching head? Is it the oil of
gladness to you? Oh, my cup running over. David said this in Psalm 116,
he said, The Lord is my portion. He's the portion of my cup. How good has the Lord been to
you? How much mercy has the Lord shown to you? What all has the
Lord done for you? And he keeps pouring it. Keeps
pouring it. Surely. Don't you like the certainties
of Scripture? Surely. Surely. Verse 6. Surely, goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Surely, goodness
and mercy shall follow me. Someone liken that to sheep dogs
that follow the sheep always. Always follow the sheep, keeping
the predators at bay and keeping the sheep in line, following
the sheep. Goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the day. What shall follow me? Surely,
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Whatever
happens to you, whatever happens to me, Whatever happens to us,
the Lord purposed it and it's for our good, isn't it? Isn't
that what he said? All things work together for
what? Good. So whatever it is, no matter
how it may seem at the time, goodness will follow. You just
wait. Wait on it. David said, I would
have fainted if I hadn't believed to see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living. Just wait, you're going to see
goodness follows. And mercy. Every time. Every time. Goodness and mercy.
And as we said, if Psalm 27.4 is your desire, one thing if
I desire the Lord, that will I seek after. Or rather Him. I seek Him. that I may dwell
in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. Behold the
beauty of the Lord and the quiet of His temple. If that's your
desire, then this is the promise. Surely, you'll dwell in the house
of the Lord forever. Forever. My old dog, Abner, I
still miss him. He loved me so much. I loved
him. I was his life. And he lived every day to see
me come out that door. And you know, he was an outside
dog. That's where dogs belong. Do you understand me? Kelly. Helen. Karen. Yes, they do. It's a dog. They belong outside. But now
some masters are very merciful, aren't they? And my old dog Abner,
every now and then, he just wanted in the big house. He slept in
the barn. He wanted in the big house. You
know what I'd do? If it was really cold outside,
I'd let him in the house. He'd go over there, he'd lie
down in front of the fire or whatever, and he'd say, I ain't
moving. I won't cause any trouble. Just let me lie down. Just let
me lie down right here. I won't cause any trouble. Just
let me stay in the big house. You want to be in the big house?
You want to be with your Lord forever? You want to do this
forever? You want to do this forever? Surely. Surely you shall. Why? Because the Lord is your
shepherd. Okay. Stand with me. Heavenly Father, thank You
so much for Your Word. The yea and amen, certain promises
that are in Christ Jesus our Lord and our Savior and our Shepherd. Thank you, thank you, thank you
for sending Christ to be our Shepherd. Thank you. He is our salvation.
We trust in Him. We trust in him. Thank you for
your word. Thank you for your foe. Thank
you for your sheep. Thank you for your people. Thank
you for your kingdom. In Christ's name, amen.