Restoration And Rest

Published on 4 March 2024 at 10:05

Good morning, wow how amazing is that? He restores our souls and leads us down the paths to Him for His names sake. Owe there's more....

Psalms 23:1-6
[1](A Psalm of David.) The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[2]He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
[3]He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
[4]Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
[5]Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
[6]Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

I shall not want, this doesn't mean that everything I want will be provided to me, but everything I need will be available. He will provide our needs. However, we still need to do our part. We can't just sit back lazy waiting on Him to give our needs to us.

I skipped the most important part, He's our shepherd. This means He's our guider and protector. A shepherd guides , watches and protects his sheep.

Verse 2, Jesus brings calming peace! If a shepherd brings his sheep to lie down in a green pasture near still water, they will be calm and have everything they need.

I have already talked about verse 3, let's go to verse 4. This verse is often used in funerals or as comfort during the loss of a loved one. It isn't just for that though. Walking the path He has laid for us in this sinful world is like walking through the valley of death. People who don't know Jesus as their Savior are destined for death. As we walk this world, we're surrounded by them. We don't need to fear them or evel though or this world. Jesus is always with us, He comforts and protects us.

Wow, so He sets us a table before our enemies. What says "chill I've got this" more than sit down at a table and eat while being attacked. Verse 5 continues with us being anointed and our cup running over. So understand this, not only will we be calm in the face of adversity, but we will be overflowing with our needs being met.

The big finally in verse 6. This sums up the reward for us as faithful children of God! Goodness and mercy all of our days. Wrap it up with a bow, icing on the cake, fireworks; the analogies go on.... We get to live in The House of The Lord FOREVER!!!!!

If all of this doesn't get you excited as a child of God, then you need to get a spiritual check up! We just covered how we have provision, peace, protection and perpetuity of life. How much more could we ask for? If you don't know Jesus as your Savior, trust in Him today.

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Salvation Safety Service

14 Mar 2024 12:43

John 17:1-26[1]These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:[2]As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.[3]And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.[4]I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.[5]And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.[6]I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.[7]Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.[8]For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.[9]I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.[10]And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.[11]And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.[12]While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.[13]And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.[14]I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[15]I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.[16]They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[17]Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.[18]As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.[19]And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.[20]Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;[21]That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.[22]And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:[23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.[24]Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.[25]O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.[26]And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.