#Jesus our Shepherd

[pilgriminprocess]

THE GOD OF MERRIMENT

God loves merriment! In fact, He commands us to be mirthful.

We recently attended Caversham Evangelical Church in the UK.  Pastor Bruce Jenkins gave an extraordinary exposition of Psalm 100. One phrase was not explicitly addressed, “We are the people of his pasture.” I discussed it with him over lunch, and he reflected on a book by a genuine shepherd turned theologian, who commented that as a shepherd he kept watch over the pasture from a vantage point,…

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

[livingfortheheartofchrist]

The Lost Sheep • Alfred Usher Soord

Oil on canvas • 1898

“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18‬:‭10‬-‭14‬ ‭KJV‬

[feastingonchrist]

oh my goodness this little baby girl today was the absolute sweetest. just loving all over me non-stop all day. she kept looking up and smiling at me in complete and total adoration. she wanted to be near me and hold my hand and was crawling all over me during nap time lol. i still have her sweet little face and smile in my head. i wonder if that is how God looks at us as His children & when we delight in Him.

[faithisthekey-23]

Hi dear brothers and sisters, today I come to you to share with you a poem I just wrote (on 18th May 2023). It is made of three verses and a short part that helps to ”see the line” between two parts of it. In the first part, I talk to God. In the second part, it is represented how I talk about God. In the third part, I personally talk to God again.

He will stay

With You I let go of my weaknesses

When I'm with You, I don't feel powerless

In You I find my strength

And I just know that in You, I can put my whole faith

In You I long to find out who I am what what is my worth

I can't stop thinking of how Precious is to feel Your love

Your love that made me finally see sense in living

Your presence is always with me in other people, in the Bible, it's revealed in everything

With You I keep on fighting the darkness

For You never leave me, You'll be here untill the end times

When the darkness comes, I do not fear

For I am well aware that wherever I am, You're near

Only You know how much joy it gives me, Lord

Only You know how and why You began to be my hope

Only You know how wonderful Your goodness is revealed in my life

Why are you the only One who knows about it all? Well, You're simply by my side

Always by my side

I don't want to hide

From You anymore

For You showed me Your love

You showed me where to go

When I didn't see the way, was lost

You have me Your hope and lead me to the light

That is present always in my whole life

He is the One Who goes before me and prepares my way

He is the One Who goes behind me to save my day

He is always there beside me to make sure I'm okay

He has never abonded me, always kept on defending me

He never lets others hurt me, is my Protection

He is my Comfort when my friendships are met with destruction

He is always there in the good times to celebrate together

He is always there in the worse times and lets me cry on His shoulder

I can always talk to Him whenever I feel like it

To Him I give my anxiety and worries, I do not hide it

He always does listen to me so, so patiently

He always makes sure that I know that I'm never lonely

He fills me with peace that is beyond my own understanding

His love is so strong that He accepted me as who I was but didn't let me

Keep on living while comitting the same sins over and over again

Instead, He was there to teach me how to get rid of the stronghold, break it

He gave me so much strength and always did everything to make me feel loved

He never stopped making sure that I am not alone

I used to feel not enough in the past

And it doesn't matter anymore for He took it away

He took it away and doesn't let the enemy lie to me

He constantly reminds me that he is a liar and I shouldn't listen to him

Always by my side

I don't want to hide

From You anymore

For You showed me Your love

You showed me where to go

When I didn't see the way, was lost

You have me Your hope and lead me to the light

That is present always in my whole life

You are always there to make me happy, to make me smile

And I really love it so, so much

For God, You were always with me for all of my life

And You won't ever give up on me but will continue to do the same for the lifetime

For You are my Faithful Lord of Lords, King of Kings

And never make promises that stay unfulfilled

And I trust You that just like You told me, You'll be there

And won't never leave, not even for day

I believe that You will stay

Always by my side

I don't want to hide

From You anymore

For You showed me Your love

You showed me where to go

When I didn't see the way, was lost

You have me Your hope and lead me to the light

That is present always in my whole life

[kingdomoftheheavens]

Jesus, the Great Shepherd, leads only one flock. And he is our only Shepherd.

Jesus is our only Shepherd, gives his life for the sheep, and has only one flock. He assigns us to where he wants, when he wants.

[thaunknowndreadhead]

CHARLIE KIRK | Parker From TIKTOK About Jesus & Resurrection.

Great but short explanation why God sent Jesus to us/for us.💙✝️💯🙏

[kdmiller55]

Jehovah-Tsidkenu

1 “What sorrow awaits the leaders of my people—the shepherds of my sheep—for they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were expected to care for,” says the Lord. 2 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to these shepherds: “Instead of caring for my flock and leading them to safety, you have deserted them and driven them to destruction. Now I will pour out judgment on…

[an-unanonymous-messenger]

This is the final part of our travel through Jesus' message of Him being the Way and the Truth and the Life, and what He really meant. Today we study what Jesus meant by being the Life, learning of the true meaning of the message.

[eimearkuopio]

OH I figured out the missing piece. It's 144000 unique souls going around again and again until they make the jigsaw together. And the problem is that the jigsaw itself needs to be created in linear time but the incarnations along the way are non-linear, but it's really hard to tell the difference between people who have actually spotted a new part of the jigsaw and people who just think they have.

And early on, it was better to have a few groups of... I'm going to call them unenlightened, not in a bad way but every one of the 144000 has to go through a lot of unenlightened incarnations to get to their single enlightened one, and not every enlightened soul needs to actually pass on a message about the jigsaw but if they do it should be in the lifetime when they achieve enlightenment, not the lifetimes before or after.

Some people get most of the way out of the cocoon and they get bits and pieces of their enlightened self's knowledge. But 144000 souls is still a lot of souls; and the number of lifetimes required to achieve enlightenment is a lot. That's why there are so many people alive now. People were afraid that the world wouldn't be able to sustain them, and so they hoarded their wealth. But we can begin to gradually reduce our numbers, because there have been almost enough people alive ever for all 144000 unique souls to hatch. (Thank you, Andy Weir!)

You don't need to be fruitful and multiply any more. Every child a wanted child. There is enough on Earth now for everyone to have their needs satisfied, and most people to have their wants met, but we need to change the structure from one that tolerates survival to one that promotes thriving. That's the mark scheme. That's how we pass or fail.

Stop forcing women to be pregnant against their will. We have enough lives to go around. Stop insisting that sex should only happen for the sake of procreation. Sex should only happen as an expression of mutual love (OF ANY FORM OR LEVEL OF HONEST COMMITMENT, BUT NOTE THE WORD MUTUAL AND THAT LOVE WITH A LARGE DEGREE OF POWER IMBALANCE CANNOT INCLUDE SEX AND STILL COUNT AS MUTUAL). Masturbation is only a problem if you're using it as a crutch or an excuse for treating other people like objects. Orgasms aren't sinful; degrading fantasies and porn that relies on constrained consent are. Gender is a social construct; it doesn't need to be a cage, but only if you stop insisting you're the only one with the key. If you say you're trapped in a cage, but you also say that you get to decide who is in the cage, you are definitely lying to someone. Might be yourself, might be other people, might be both.

Okay. That's my testament finished for now. I think I'm ready to start grading.

Also please stop going around to other people who are working on different parts of the jigsaw and tearing their pieces apart because it doesn't look like your bit. You are meant to be shepherds, not bandits.

[bibleteacher-org]

What Is The Gospel?

Preached at Riverview Sunday Morning. Sermon notes are at https://bibleteacher.org

Photo by Alan Bowman on Unsplash Romans 1:1-6 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness,…

[tuttamialittlemsblog]

Currently conflict among worldwide citizens seems be escalating.

Jesus shepherds His sheep…..He lives among us to care for us.

When the world is hostile…He wants us to be forgiving…..kind….patient. Not to be wolves.

❤️🐑❤️🐑❤️🐑❤️🐑❤️🐑❤️🐑❤️

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Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

-- Luke 6:28

What is the best way to defeat an enemy? Certainly it's not

to insult or abuse that person. No, the way we defeat our enemies is by having Jesus' grace capture their hearts by doing good to them and praying for them. Have you been mistreated, ridiculed or hated? Just bless the person who has been mean to you and pray for them and then see the peace and joy you will have in return!

PRAYER: Loving and gracious God, please soften my heart and toughen my resolve so that I can love as Jesus loved. Help me to love and pray for those who oppose, abhor, ridicule, and hate me. Use me, dear Father, to bring others to the grace of Jesus. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

[beepbeepkazoo]

oh my fucking god i almost lit my microwave on fire

[faithisthekey-23]

Hi, I would love to share with you a poem I wrote today (11th May 2023). It's called ”Heaven's road”. In another post, I will share with you the Bible verses that I used while writing this poem. Enjoy the reading :)

Heaven's road

Walk in the righteousness with Almighty

Try, give it a chance — change your clothes into new garments

The garments that please God without any doubts

What does please God? Being obedient, having it in the heart of yours — forgiveness and love

That cannot be overcomed with the power of the Holy Spirit

Who constantly reminds us about the God Almighty's will

Do not judge so you won't be judged

Don't let yourself pay too much attention to your brothers' speck of sawdust

Instead, pay attention to the plank in your own eye

Then you will be able to help your brother with the issue he has

Ask the Lord to give you what you lack and you'll receive it

For He doesn't make the promises He doesn't keep

He said that if we ask, He will give it to us

He told us that if we seek, we will find it so don't have doubts

If we knock on the door, He will open them for you and me

All we need is faith as big as mustard seed to believe how Faithful He is

Be with God for if you're with our Creator you're not against Him

Be sure you not commit the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

For whatever you do will be forgiven but not this one sin

Speaking against the Holy Spirit will stay as your sin for eternity

Listen to His words carefully and remember them

Don't let them be stolen from your mind by the enemy

Be just like the seed that fell on the good soil and produced a great crop

Be just like the sheep that knows the Good Shepherd's voice

Be obedient to the will of His and go wherever He wants you to go

Just trust Him that He will lead you to the Heaven's road

Ask Him for His grace to be born again in Christ

For He is the only One Who can give you that

Believe that He says Who He is and that every commandment of His is good

Leave everything at His Mighty Hands and say ”Lord, I surrender to You"

Put your faith and trust in Him for He knows what's needed the most for you

He will take care of everything, never leave nor forsake you

For He is the One that goes before you and always makes a way

Trust in Him and believe how the miracles unfold

Know that He's the Way, Truth and Life, He is the Lord of Lords

He deserves His throne for He's our King Who saved us from eternal punishment

For His Goodness, Peace and Love let's give Him praise

[kingdomoftheheavens]

Part 7H: Is God Speaking? Determining Who is Speaking.

Tests for whether a voice is God's. these apply regardless of whether the message comes from an internal voice or through the mouth or writings of another person who claims to speak for God.

Once again, this blog post and its accompanying video will mostly collect and organize Scriptures. Each passage will be more completely explained, by itself, in a later post. Here is a link to the video that accompanies this blog post: Is God Speaking? Determining Who Is Speaking. I will later correct a few small errors in verse citations in the video which I discovered while preparing this…

[pinestripe37]

Amen! <333 ✝️

“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” ~Jesus' Words in John 8:12

“I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” ~Jesus' Words in John 6:35

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” ~Jesus' Words in John 10:11

Three of my favorite Scriptures; so so beautiful, delighting in the Blessing of Who He Is. 🙏

Jesus is the light of this dark world, the living bread for empty souls, and the good shepherd for His sheep.

Steven Lawson