Shepherd
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HELD IN THE ARMS OF LOVE I fondly remember times as a child when my parents carried me tenderly in their arms. When I was in the first grade I came down with a bad case of the measles. In spite of my Mom doing everything she could to alleviate the symptoms, my fever kept…
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The great evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon said this about Psalm 23:“It begins on the ground, among the sheep, but up it goes till you may hear its blessed notes echoing among the stars: ‘I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23 is located in our Bibles between “The Psalm of the…
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Joel 2:25 – “So, I will restore to you the years…” The Hebrew word (shanah) translated as “years” means “a cycle ; to do again, but differently.” Did you notice that the meanings of this word are almost completely opposite? To “repeat” and yet “change” are seemingly contradictory. Only Holy Spirit, our Teacher, can give…
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Joel 2:25 – “So I will restore to you the years…” In our last post, we studied the word translated as “restore” and found out that it means: to repair what has been broken; to replace what has been lost; to make whole; to make complete; to bring to peace. We can see in this…
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We are all on a journey. We are all “on the way”. We are all a “work in progress”. No one is completed. No one is perfected. As His people, we are the “sheep of His pasture.”(Psalm 100:3) We know our good Shepherd leads us, protects us, and provides for us. (Psalm 23) But sheep,…