Prayer for this week….

Heavenly father,

I am do thankful for the precious and merciful gift of Christ Jesus sacrifice. Lord I pray the renewing work within me would show on the outside and demonstrate that you are my greatest treasure. If you are calling me to offer something that I am holding back, I ask the Holy Spirit to reveal that and draw me closer. Please in your precious name help me follow the way of Jesus. In Jesus Christ name I pray Amen.

This prayer is for all people of all regions to bring people to God and keep close for believers

Justin “Humble Witness”

False Teaching: Look Out

Peter 2:1-3, 19 read these scriptures in your Bible. I forgot to put it in this post. This read is my interpretation of that abov scripture I hope you can learn from it.

My friends it is vital to fact check and claim to teach and prophesy. Even check me! (2:1) tells us and seceret and subtle destructive doctrine that will lead you in the hands of the evil one.

Fighting against this is knowing your Bible, read it and check their teaching because their word would never match biblical scripture.

Lots of people will unfortunately follow this false conduct and turn the truth into a fallacy.

Greed and pride cause these false teachers to exploit you with fabricated stories and doctrine, and this will bring their ultimate doom because it’s not sleeping it’s waiting for their just time.

Please my friends do not fall into these schemes, while they dont realize they aren’t free and slaves of Satan.

Remember this proverb

A dog returns to it’s vomit, and a clean sou returns to wallet in the mud.

Prayer for the Week

Lord in heaven. We se guidance and wisdom through you. Bless the people who read this for they know and are willing to submit to will and be disciples of your son Jesus.

Without you we would be lost sheep. Also Lord bless me the wisdom to continue to spread the word, I love all people and the people reading this and learning I give an extra blessing.

Thank you Lord

In Jesus name I pray 🙏

Amen

PSALM 23:2 (part 2 of 4)

This is talk on these verses, read the totality for the context)
Here we read in the second verse Psalms 23:2 (ESV) ​
2He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.”

From the 23rd Psalm is probably one of the most popular passages and most read in the whole bible. I am tinking of breaking a message into three parts. That way we can look at this in detail without the post going way to long and boring you to death. I hope it is not anyway, and even if it is not a bore to you. To at least keep it fresh in your mind afterwards to give you something to think about without it wondering about. Still I say read the whole passage if you have never heard it, or if you have.

1.) Ministry of the shepherd- The shepherd Ministers or teaches his sheep how to obey and bot to stray from him. The shepherd carries a rod, a staff and ointment. You see there are three types of sheep and they are as follows:

1. First we have the Stubborn sheep- These are the sheep who do not listen, and if the shepherd repeatedly has to correct the sheep, he then has to go extreme and break the leg of the sheep with the rod. It hurts the shepherd to do this, this was a corrective measure. So he quickly picks up the sheep and carries him home to splint the leg of the sheep, and nurse him back to health by keeping an extra eye on him. By doing this the sheep will stay close to the shepherd. The same applies to how Christ has to correct us at times. Do you ever remember being spanked as a child? I do! Sometimes we as humans can be stubborn. In fact in (Hosea 6:1) it states that “he tore us and he will heal us; he struck us down and he will bind us up” It hurts God to do this, but is simply a punishment for when we dont listen, and go over the line. This restores our fellowship with the father. God is not in the business of health or happiness, but in the business of holiness, in turn bringing that happiness. Breaking us down builds up the stronger in the faith.
2. Second we have the Straying sheep- These are the curious sheep who tend to wander off, fall in ditches, brier patches. They just love to run and play and even tally they get lost. dealing with this type of sheep the shepherd uses the staff, better known as the crook. With this the shepherd can corral the straying sheep by putting the crook or staff around the neck and gently pull him back in. This is also one when the mother abandons the sheep. The shepherd uses the staff to makes sure to keep them together so the lamb does not lose its mother. When we go astray as Christians and go in sin and the devil almost has use snared in. That is when the good shepherd God pulls us back closer to him, he let us wonder. Not far enough to put us in grave danger.
3. Third is the Sick sheep- Sick sheep are cared for very gently and the shepherd cares for its scratches, contusions and and scars with the oil. It soothes and heals the sheep, and doubles as a bug repellent keeping pests from infecting or agitating the sheep. Thank God that the oil of the Holy Spirit keeps the flies of the devil away. God knows his sheep one by one and name by name, and each of their problems and when we are bruised or have a spiritually lacerated. The Holy ghost oil nurses us back to health.

We ought to be thankful for chastisement, guidance, and comfort, God is a great shepherd, if you just let him in the door to your heart.

2) Mastery of the shepherd. Not only does the good shepherd restore us spiritually, but he also guides us in the right direction and always, always, ALWAYS finds ways to comfort us in times on strife or discouragement. Just being restored and not seeking righteousness will lead you right back where you started. We need to take a lesson from the corrected sheep and stay close to our Shepherd (God).

There are three things before I conclude on part 1 of this message on 23 Psalm

1. love the shepherd
2. stay close to the shepherd
3. obey the shepherd

Spend time with fellowship with God, I spend an hour a day, if we dont we cant follow a shepherd we can’t hear.

Good Shepherd (1 of 4)

Psalm 23:1

We are all familiar with the 23 psalm. It may be the best, most read well rehearsed passage of scripture in the bible. I am attempting to put into view of what this famous Psalm is trying to say in it’s message.It is recited in kindergarten and on the battlefield. Even sweet to children, but complex to the best of the scholarly world. So in part one of this study, I am goiong to start with the very first verse.

“1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

In other words Jehovah is my Good Shepherrd, Great Shepherd, and Chief Shepherd, I am satisfied
The very first word is a talking point to the fact it says “THE” Lord, not “A” Lord or like the egyptians and greeks had many Gods. This is a singular THE Lord. The one soverign God.

In the KJV of the bible the word Lord is in all caps LORD means Jehovah. The word Jehovah to the jews used to be so scared it was only pronounced one time a year. Even when the scibes dictated, translated, or wrote a passage when the name Jehovah came up. They used a brand new pen just to write that name. So in the first verse we have Jehovah, the one sovereign God who pulls our shades to bring darkness and a bright pink sky as a new morning comes. It is the great Jehovah who rules over all the heavens, above and underneath the earth.

Jehovah is the Jesus of the New Testament, as Jesus is Jehovah to the Old Testament. When we say the name Jehovah, it speaks of deity and the word shepherd speaks of humanity. In John 10:11 Jesus lets us know the mystery of who the Good Shepherd is that David speaks on in the very first verse of this Psalm. Jesus says in John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd.” The Sovereign is the Shepherd and his Deity is him being God in human form.

Through our salvation we have both sovereignty and sympathy, both a God who is able and the availablity of a shepherd. A god in Heaven and a shepherd in our hearts. Also in John 10:15 Jesus also says “…I Lay down my life for the sheep.” Notice he doesnt emphasize simply losing his life, he is saying he will as the Good Shepard LAY down his life, or DIE for the sheep. Only Jesus in history chose tp die when he did not have to. He LAYED down his life for the sheep. It was love that held Jesus to that cross. Out of love for me and you, his sheep. He shed his blood for us so we can gain our salvation

Jesus is the good shepherd who dealt with the penalty of sin of which its wages are death and thats why our sins will be forgiven in christ or punished for in hell. You men and women who think that this is not the only way and there are other ways to heaven, my friends you are completely wrong. There is not but one Good Shepherd and his name is Jesus Christ.

Now in Hebrews 13:20-21 Jesus is referred to as the GREAT shepherd, this speaks of the resurrection, as the good shepherd he DIED for his sheep, but look as the GREAT shepherd, he is RISEN for the sheep. Jesus died for us as a great shepherd and then the great shepherd who rose from the dead, defeating death and now lives within us. Giving us eternal salvation, a free gift from Jesus. Making him be the chief shepherd for giving his life that day at Calvary.

That gives us the Ministry of our Lord

i. The good shepherd died for us to pay our penalty which was sin

ii. The Great shepherd rose from the dead not only to pay for our sin, but the power of our sin

iii. The Chief shepard is the one who will return in the days of tribulation and take us into the clouds and glory with him. Judging by the news and just observation it will not be long.

So as we get on with this verse we have:

1. Jehovah the sovereign
2. Jesus the shepherd
3. The Sovereign + The Shepherd = Satisfaction

Satisfaction is the key word to he last four words of this chapter. If one is satisfied it renders: “I shall not want”
A God that gives you everything is not satisfaction. Things will never satisfy you, unless the desire of your heart is met. The desire for jesus is what the heart yearns for. Man is created to fellowship with God. When we can say this first verse adn mean it and not just say it, then we shall not want.