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Speaker 1: Good afternoon everyone, Welcome to our three PM service. Pastor
Speaker 1: Francis here, we're starting a new series entitled Perspective. What
Speaker 1: is perspective? Perspective is our attitude towards something. It's our
Speaker 1: point of view that we can actually receive the same
Speaker 1: information but look at it in a.
Speaker 2: Different lens perspective.
Speaker 1: As we enter this extended quarantine as now the government
Speaker 1: has imposed a May fifteen new deadline or a new date,
Speaker 1: my question is what is your perspective? How do you
Speaker 1: see it? Maybe your answer would be based on your
Speaker 1: economical status, demographics, or where you live the condition of
Speaker 1: your family and health. We all have different perspectives. But
Speaker 1: I believe today as we start the series on perspective,
Speaker 1: my prayer is that we will see a different kind
Speaker 1: of perspective. That this is the perspective based on who
Speaker 1: God is, the perspective of our faith. You know, we
Speaker 1: can actually respond two ways in every situation, and that
Speaker 1: is through.
Speaker 2: Fear or faith? What do we choose.
Speaker 1: Whenever we get information, regardless if it's a good information
Speaker 1: or a bad information, do we respond in fear or
Speaker 1: do we respond in faith? Perspective? As people of God,
Speaker 1: we are called to know who He is more and
Speaker 1: more so that we can live the right perspective. I
Speaker 1: found this quote in the Internet, and it's not all
Speaker 1: storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear
Speaker 1: your path. And so it's the way we look at things.
Speaker 1: What is our attitude as we face the life of
Speaker 1: crisis or in times of crisis? And this is my
Speaker 1: question that I want to answer today as we get
Speaker 1: into the Word. How do you see God today? How
Speaker 1: do you see God in this situation of our lives?
Speaker 1: How do you see God in terms of your provision,
Speaker 1: in terms of your health and your protection. We're going
Speaker 1: to go through one song for the next three weeks
Speaker 1: and this is one of my favorite sound Psalms twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's a song written by David And as you prepare
Speaker 1: for the Word, please get your Bibles with you. If
Speaker 1: you have a mobile Bible, that's good. We're reading from
Speaker 1: the ESV version and so this is what we'll do today.
Speaker 1: This might be different from how we do our online services.
Speaker 1: I want you, guys, to declare it and to read
Speaker 1: it aloud as I read song twenty three, because there
Speaker 1: is power in declaration. So if you're ready, if you
Speaker 1: have your Bibles with you now, if this is your
Speaker 1: first time to encounter the song, you can read with
Speaker 1: us as we show the Psalm right now, Psalm twenty
Speaker 1: three some of David. It says, the Lord is my shepherd.
Speaker 1: I shall not want. He makes me lie down in
Speaker 1: green pastures. He leads me besides still waters. He restores
Speaker 1: my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for
Speaker 1: his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley
Speaker 1: of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for
Speaker 1: you are with me. Your rod and your staff they
Speaker 1: comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the
Speaker 1: presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil.
Speaker 1: My cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
Speaker 1: all the days of my life, and I shall dwell
Speaker 1: in the house of the Lord forever. Lord, thank you
Speaker 1: that you allow us to declare your word today. Lord,
Speaker 1: allow your word to speak to us in a very
Speaker 1: personal way. Lord, give us that right perspective, that godly perspective,
Speaker 1: that biblical perspective on how we should face the situation
Speaker 1: that we are in. Lord, you are the God who
Speaker 1: can speak to us in a very personal way. Lord,
Speaker 1: I may be preaching at one text, but it can
Speaker 1: minister to every situation that my brothers and sisters are
Speaker 1: going through today. And so Lord, do your work in
Speaker 1: and to us. Thank you God, that you will anoint
Speaker 1: your word today in Jesus name, Amen and Amen.
Speaker 2: We are only.
Speaker 1: Going through one passage of scripture today, which is Punds
Speaker 1: twenty three, Verse one, very rich sound, very rich text
Speaker 1: that we can actually have three weeks on Psalm twenty three,
Speaker 1: and so we are focusing on the first verse and
Speaker 1: it says the Lord is my shepherd, the Lord. It
Speaker 1: begins with that statement, The Lord. We know who David
Speaker 1: was talking about. It is the God that we serve.
Speaker 1: The God that he is declaring during the time, is
Speaker 1: the God that we cry out to and pray to
Speaker 1: even until today.
Speaker 2: The Lord.
Speaker 1: When we go through the name of God in the Bible,
Speaker 1: especially when we study this text, we will understand the
Speaker 1: Lord that is used here from the Hebrew word comes
Speaker 1: from the word yeah y hh. Now we spell it
Speaker 1: as this way as how I show it in the screen.
Speaker 2: Yahweh.
Speaker 1: Who is, who was, and who is to come. This
Speaker 1: is the God of the past, the present, and the future,
Speaker 1: the all powerful God, the King of Kings and the
Speaker 1: Lord of Lords, the creator of heaven and earth, the
Speaker 1: sovereign God. And this is the God that David was
Speaker 1: talking about. When we hear this word yahweh, we can
Speaker 1: actually say it, and we can worship the Lord. But
Speaker 1: I actually experience this word in a very personal way.
Speaker 1: How There's a time that I was preaching in our
Speaker 1: five and seven in Victory Greenhills, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: that there was one who attended first time to attend
Speaker 1: a Christian church and first time to hear the word.
Speaker 1: He was actually a Jew. And so after the service
Speaker 1: he approached me. He was a foreigner, and he spoke
Speaker 1: to me and encouraged me that he got ministered.
Speaker 2: By the word.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he said, but Pastor,
Speaker 1: can I just share something because you actually pronounce this
Speaker 1: word wrongly. The right pronunciation is I need to I
Speaker 1: need paper and pen to type it so that you
Speaker 1: can read it.
Speaker 2: So I couldn't get.
Speaker 1: What he was saying at first, parago, if you're going
Speaker 1: to explain this, abimun Langueba, So I asked him, what
Speaker 1: do you mean, Sabina? You showed a name of God
Speaker 1: a while ago and you pronounced it wrongly, So how
Speaker 1: do I pronounce it? And that was my question? So
Speaker 1: I said, can you just borrow your phone so that
Speaker 1: I will write how it's properly pronounced?
Speaker 2: So I oblige.
Speaker 1: I gave him my phone and as soon as he
Speaker 1: typed it, he said, this is how you pronounced it now,
Speaker 1: and so I go it says yeah, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: not that way, and he said, I said, how do
Speaker 1: you say it, Sabina. We're not allowed to speak of
Speaker 1: this thing. We're not allowed to utter it. We're not
Speaker 1: allowed to utter it in public. We can just read it.
Speaker 1: And so I realized the Jewish culture until today, in
Speaker 1: reverence to this name, they choose not to say it.
Speaker 1: That's their perspective of this kind of God, that this
Speaker 1: name can.
Speaker 2: Be read out to or can't. You can't just say
Speaker 2: it or utter anyway you want.
Speaker 1: How do we see God today in our lives? Is
Speaker 1: it just like that person who is it that he's
Speaker 1: so holy, so up there that you can run to him.
Speaker 1: We can actually have a perspective of God today that yes,
Speaker 1: he's all powerful in that, but at the same time
Speaker 1: we see him as an angry God in this situation
Speaker 1: of our lives. He is angry and is bringing judgment.
Speaker 1: We can see him as a God who is disappointed.
Speaker 1: And that's why we hear comments like this from friends
Speaker 1: and until today a guy can invite me, oh, I
Speaker 1: know a man watch service or join the service, attend
Speaker 1: the service, and comments like hey, bahamas preaching Bahama nawaho.
Speaker 1: Because this is their perspective of who God is. A
Speaker 1: God who is so powerful and that's true, but someone
Speaker 1: that they can approach and they can go to in
Speaker 1: times of trouble. Some would say, maybe I deserve this
Speaker 1: because I've been doing this kind of life and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm having a hard time during this crisis. This
Speaker 1: is the perspective of how they see God, how they
Speaker 1: see Yahweh. But David as the author of this song,
Speaker 1: actually gives us a different perspective, a different picture of.
Speaker 2: Who God is, of who Yahweh is.
Speaker 1: And it says here in our main verse it says,
Speaker 1: the Lord is my shepherd, you know, as a king
Speaker 1: when he wrote this. This is the most probable time
Speaker 1: that he wrote it that he was already a king
Speaker 1: because of the description of the song that he was
Speaker 1: talking about enemies, he was talking about the value of
Speaker 1: the shadow of death. And so we know that he
Speaker 1: was already a king when he wrote this. And so
Speaker 1: I was thinking, why did he say the Lord is
Speaker 1: my king? The Lord is my lord. The Lord is
Speaker 1: the one who calls the shots. He chooses to describe Yahweh,
Speaker 1: the all powerful God as shepherd number one. We know
Speaker 1: that David used to be a shepherd before he defeated Goliath.
Speaker 1: He was actually tending the sheep. He knew what a
Speaker 1: shepherd really is a shepherd, Why did David call him
Speaker 1: a shepherd? Why is he saying that the Lord is
Speaker 1: a shepherd? You know, a shepherd's main job is to
Speaker 1: feed the sheep. When we say that the shepherd would
Speaker 1: tend the sheep, not only does he make sure that
Speaker 1: that they are protected, that they are safe Sanila, he
Speaker 1: also make sure that they are well fed and that
Speaker 1: they are healthy. And so what do shepherds do during
Speaker 1: those times with less technology and less properties of studying grass.
Speaker 1: What they would do is that they would travel in
Speaker 1: a far far place to check the best type of
Speaker 1: grass and make sure that they are near a water source.
Speaker 2: For the sheep.
Speaker 1: He would actually go and make sure that they would
Speaker 1: be fed on the right time.
Speaker 2: I've heard this study.
Speaker 1: That when you put sheep and don't give them space,
Speaker 1: they would actually eat from the allocation of the others AI.
Speaker 1: And so what do the shepherds do. They actually make
Speaker 1: sure that they are they have their own space, they
Speaker 1: have their own section of gas, and make sure that
Speaker 1: they bring them from place to place to be fed
Speaker 1: and to be healthy.
Speaker 2: What else.
Speaker 1: Not only that this is the things that we know
Speaker 1: that the shepherd do, but when you study really what
Speaker 1: the shepherd's way is, you'd be amazed that every sheep
Speaker 1: or the lamb, the baby ones, they would actually name
Speaker 1: them Pina, Pangalan and Palana shepherd.
Speaker 2: And every day every night baby they would talk to him.
Speaker 1: They would declare Alamo sheep, They declared, you will be
Speaker 1: named Matthew, Yeah, tiktokuse Alvi Jason and Korea Jason Dido
Speaker 1: Pinapala sheep. It the shepherd would actually talk with it
Speaker 1: and The reason why he does this is not only
Speaker 1: because he cares for the sheep, is that for the
Speaker 1: sheep to know the shepherd's voice. I've seen some virtube
Speaker 1: videos where people would try to mimic the voice of
Speaker 1: the shepherd. When he would actually call everyone home, he
Speaker 1: would say a word and they would actually look and respond,
Speaker 1: And so the people would try to mimic the voice. No,
Speaker 1: they would modulate, they would try to make sure it's
Speaker 1: the same voice, but.
Speaker 2: In the end they would not respond.
Speaker 1: But as soon as the shepherd says something, they would
Speaker 1: actually look and follow.
Speaker 2: You know, the shepherd. The way of the shepherd is
Speaker 2: living with them.
Speaker 1: He would actually be remotely staying with them, walking with them,
Speaker 1: and speaking to them in a.
Speaker 2: Very personal way. You know.
Speaker 1: The first thing that I learned from this song that
Speaker 1: I want to share with you is this that David
Speaker 1: was saying, The Lord is my Shepherd, was a picture
Speaker 1: that the Lord that we have.
Speaker 2: Is a very personal god.
Speaker 1: He is a god who knows the things that are
Speaker 1: going to He's a god who is very personal. That's
Speaker 1: why David said, my shepherd. Imagine this today, all of
Speaker 1: us know President, all of us know Trump, all of
Speaker 1: us know very popular people, but very seldom really know
Speaker 1: who they are in a personal level. Very seldom that
Speaker 1: people know what makes them happy, or how they move
Speaker 1: or how they operate. And what is the difference of
Speaker 1: people who know these people and us who know them
Speaker 1: from a farm. It's that personal encounter with them. And
Speaker 1: the Lord, the all powerful God that we have, is
Speaker 1: a very personal god. He knows everything about us. You know.
Speaker 1: The Philippines knows what we need today, and that's why
Speaker 1: they're trying to make sure that the health facility is ready,
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that we have allocation for food.
Speaker 1: But in the end, those are the things that they
Speaker 1: know for general. But only the God that we have
Speaker 1: knows what we truly need. That it's more than a
Speaker 1: food for physical health, but it's food for our mental
Speaker 1: and spiritual health. He knows every cry of our hearts.
Speaker 1: He actually knows the things that whenever we grow, we
Speaker 1: hear that Lord alimno Alimanu, the God that we have,
Speaker 1: knows us by name. He actually knows everything that is
Speaker 1: going through us today. He even knows the things that
Speaker 1: we don't know. This is the God that we have,
Speaker 1: a very personal god, you know. Jesus also defined himself
Speaker 1: as a shepherd because this is who he really is.
Speaker 1: In one of the i ams in the Book of John,
Speaker 1: he says that he is the good shepherd.
Speaker 2: Let me read that.
Speaker 1: It says in John chapter ten, verse fourteen, I am
Speaker 1: the good Shepherd. I know my own and my own known.
Speaker 1: He knows his sheep, and his sheep know him. Jesus
Speaker 1: knows everything that is going through you today, the things
Speaker 1: that you might need, the things that is going on
Speaker 1: in your life, that heartache, that mourning for people who
Speaker 1: close to you have passed. He knows every tear, every sadness,
Speaker 1: every joy. He is a God who is with us,
Speaker 1: and he's a God who is very personal to us.
Speaker 2: The question is do we know the voice of God?
Speaker 2: Do we consider us a sheep who follow the shepherd?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: David says, the Lord is my shepherd, that he's willing
Speaker 1: to follow him because he knows the voice of God.
Speaker 1: You know, God wants to speak to us today. He's
Speaker 1: been speaking to us. The question is do we hear
Speaker 1: his voice as we continue? It says, the Lord is
Speaker 1: my shepherd.
Speaker 2: I shall not want. What do I want in my life? Today?
Speaker 1: When I was studying these text I realize I want
Speaker 1: that security that I will have enough food until May fifteen,
Speaker 1: even though I don't go out that piece, that I
Speaker 1: will not get infected, my wife, my family will not
Speaker 1: get infected by this virus, including me, that I'll be healthy.
Speaker 2: This is the crime of my heart. Heay, Lord, I go, Lord,
Speaker 2: the things that I want.
Speaker 1: You know, this quarantine time makes all of us realize
Speaker 1: that the things that we want today is different from
Speaker 1: the things that we want two months ago, because of COVID,
Speaker 1: because of this quarantine, because of this global crisis. I
Speaker 1: believe that all of us have changed the things that
Speaker 1: we want now. Iba, we know what is important. We
Speaker 1: know now what we need, We know what we have
Speaker 1: to value, what we need treasure.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The things that we might want in life change depending
Speaker 1: on your situation, depending on the time, the season. But
Speaker 1: there's one thing that remains. The provider is the same.
Speaker 1: Whatever we want today, the Bible says we can have
Speaker 1: everything that we want through Jesus, through.
Speaker 2: The God that we worship. He is the Lord and
Speaker 2: our shepherd.
Speaker 1: I actually went through this research on the different kinds
Speaker 1: of versions Bible versions in Psalms twenty ty verse one,
Speaker 1: and I want to share with you a picture of
Speaker 1: how God is very personal and how God thinks about
Speaker 1: our provision. In the NIV version, it says, the Lord
Speaker 1: is my shepherd. I shall not lack or I will
Speaker 1: not lack nothing. The Message version says I don't need
Speaker 1: a thing. The NLT version says I have all that
Speaker 1: I need. And I like the last version that I'm
Speaker 1: going to share. It's from the easy to read version.
Speaker 1: It says I will always have everything I need. That
Speaker 1: the God that we have is not only the God
Speaker 1: of today. Yahweh is a God of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Whatever we needed in the past, he was there to
Speaker 1: give it to us. Whatever we need today, I declare
Speaker 1: that he will supply all your needs today and that
Speaker 1: whatever we need tomorrow he will be there to.
Speaker 2: Provide for all of us. The God that we have
Speaker 2: is a God who provides.
Speaker 1: My question for each and everyone today is this Who
Speaker 1: is this person who is provided for you today? If
Speaker 1: it's not God, how do you answer this blank that
Speaker 1: we're showing to you today?
Speaker 2: Blank is my shepherd? I shall not want you know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we fill in that blank with a bank account.
Speaker 1: The bank account is my shepherd. It leads me, and
Speaker 1: I shall not want for aslam as male a man. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: even today we can even access some of the accounts,
Speaker 1: or sometimes or some of us are actually depleting the account.
Speaker 1: What else It might be our career, this is my shepherd,
Speaker 1: this is the way, is the one leading me to
Speaker 1: renier pastures. But there's that fear of not knowing who
Speaker 1: I still.
Speaker 2: Have work tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Will my condition change, where my perspective change on the
Speaker 1: things I want? Is it still there tomorrow? It might
Speaker 1: be our parents who are actually helping us in providing
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 2: How on a bala?
Speaker 1: It's good that we get help, But are they are
Speaker 1: real provided? Are they the ones shepherding us? Are they
Speaker 1: the ones who are making us declare that oil and taio?
Speaker 2: For as long as they are there? Is it ourselves?
Speaker 1: Do we put our name there as our shepherds? And
Speaker 1: the one who leads us to make us not want?
Speaker 1: You know the examples I've given you to you today.
Speaker 1: That may be our career, or family or bank, how
Speaker 1: our even ourselves.
Speaker 2: We know this.
Speaker 1: It's all fleeting, can actually disappear, can actually run out.
Speaker 1: But the God that we have is a god who
Speaker 1: will stay until the end, and that the promise is
Speaker 1: he will provide for everything that we need.
Speaker 2: The Lord is our provider.
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that our God is our provider yahweh
Speaker 1: Jairah means the Lord will see it through, He will
Speaker 1: make sure, he will make a way.
Speaker 2: The Lord is my provider.
Speaker 1: Declared that right now, brothers and sisters, and to palin On,
Speaker 1: we know worship Matt and he is a provider. I'm
Speaker 1: going to share with your story of one of our
Speaker 1: Victory Group leaders who went through this crisis in a
Speaker 1: very personal way because her mom actually got infected by
Speaker 1: this COVID nineteen. It was very early, even before the quarantine,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of people didn't know how to
Speaker 1: handle this.
Speaker 2: And so as a daughter.
Speaker 1: Who also has her own family, she has also kids
Speaker 1: in a husband, she was so consumed about emotionally physically
Speaker 1: about how to go about the situation in the hospital.
Speaker 1: Boue leman Sean m stayed there. He can't stay. She's
Speaker 1: doing it remotely. She doesn't know if the mom being
Speaker 1: taken care of. We don't know the success rates yet
Speaker 1: in the Philippines. She was so worried and she was
Speaker 1: saying this to us because she wanted to share how
Speaker 1: God has provided for her because because of too much worries,
Speaker 1: because of too much being consumed by the mom in
Speaker 1: this situation, I'm sure tied to tile, we will also
Speaker 1: forget the other things that we need to take care of.
Speaker 1: And so because of that, because they are direct, they
Speaker 1: had a direct contact with her mom, they also had
Speaker 1: to be quarantine. They also had to be monitored, and
Speaker 1: so they were not allowed to leave the house.
Speaker 2: But before being.
Speaker 1: Locked in, you have to understand she was consumed by
Speaker 1: the concerns in the hospital and so when she got
Speaker 1: locked in, this is what she realized.
Speaker 2: She did not prepare for the quarantine. But because God
Speaker 2: is our provider, the cry.
Speaker 1: Of her heart was, Lord, heal my mom. You know what,
Speaker 1: this is her testimony that food just came in from
Speaker 1: friends began to bless them. I remember the husband was
Speaker 1: telling me it's the first time they actually received one
Speaker 1: sack of rice case they only buy a few.
Speaker 2: And provisions just came in.
Speaker 1: People wanted to continue to bless them, to support them
Speaker 1: with food.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: They haven't talked that much people, And this is how
Speaker 1: God provides for us to his people. You know, when
Speaker 1: God says he is our provider. It's for the things
Speaker 1: that we think of and ask from him, but it's
Speaker 1: also the things that we don't even remember asking. This
Speaker 1: is how much our God loves us. This is who
Speaker 1: our God is, the Yahweh, the Lord that we have
Speaker 1: is our shepherd.
Speaker 2: He is concerned about our provision.
Speaker 1: And so I want to share this that this is
Speaker 1: the truth that we have, that the truth that we
Speaker 1: live in is this, that we have a generous God.
Speaker 1: Let me say, Lord in Dylan shall be beginning something sapatlaan.
Speaker 1: He's a God who is generous. He's a God who
Speaker 1: wants the best for us. He's the God who not
Speaker 1: only delights in the things that we delight in, he
Speaker 1: actually wants to bless us. But but bless I realized
Speaker 1: not comingy Pam before we got in or after sorry
Speaker 1: we got to probably Ama to a month in we
Speaker 1: we actually began to realize a lot of things that
Speaker 1: God has provided us with. You have to understand, well,
Speaker 1: was coming internet as a house for the past since
Speaker 1: we moved in this place and we've been here for
Speaker 1: more than five years, and so we've been only dependent
Speaker 1: in our phones. I have my data allocation. She has
Speaker 1: hers for slums. We don't go over that, or we don't.
Speaker 1: We want to spend more time together and in the
Speaker 1: sweet internet Internet.
Speaker 2: But early this year.
Speaker 1: Or January, we been actually praying to God about this.
Speaker 1: We know it's additional expense, but I believe God allowed
Speaker 1: us now to have our own Internet connection. So we
Speaker 1: got a good deal and it was a blessing to us.
Speaker 1: And what else, For some reason, somebody gave us a
Speaker 1: tripod for the phone for me to shoot this video.
Speaker 1: A year back, somebody gave us this. They call it
Speaker 1: a phone soak. My mom gave us this phone soap
Speaker 1: and putting phone soak. It's a UV light where you
Speaker 1: put in stuff the phone, the case, whatever, so that
Speaker 1: it can disinfect. And this is what we realize now.
Speaker 1: God actually prepared us for this quarantine. He equipped us
Speaker 1: with the things that we need. The Internet that we need,
Speaker 1: the way to disinfect, the things that we need, the
Speaker 1: tripod to shoot this video, the light that we need.
Speaker 1: The God that we have is Genus, and the God
Speaker 1: that we have knows what we need even before we
Speaker 1: say it or.
Speaker 2: We ask of it. I hope you have that kind of.
Speaker 1: Picture or perspective of the God that we have, yo
Speaker 1: that he is willing to give us the things.
Speaker 2: That we haven't even asked for. They need to put
Speaker 2: and so to put.
Speaker 1: You question, gono, if the God that we have is
Speaker 1: very generous, if the God that we have is all powerful,
Speaker 1: all knowing, a Lemni Basi lord, he's not bound by time.
Speaker 2: We can go to them any time.
Speaker 1: He's not buying by kota and next year Indian lords
Speaker 1: am lord today next year. You know, the God that
Speaker 1: we have is so generous, is so loving. He is
Speaker 1: the kind of shepherd that would actually go the extra
Speaker 1: mile to just give us what we need. If the
Speaker 1: God that we have is this, why can't we go
Speaker 1: to him and ask for provision. Why don't we allow
Speaker 1: God to shepherd us in our lives? Why don't we
Speaker 1: allow God to be the provider of our lives today?
Speaker 1: The God that we have wants the best for us,
Speaker 1: The God that we have wants to provide for us.
Speaker 1: Allow him to be the shepherd of your life today.
Speaker 1: This is a picture of who Jesus is and the
Speaker 1: life that he wants for us. In John chapter ten,
Speaker 1: verse ten is one of my favorite verses. It says
Speaker 1: the thief has come to steal, kill and destroy. We
Speaker 1: hear this, and I think this might be a reality
Speaker 1: for you today. The enemy is trying to steal that
Speaker 1: joy that we have because of this time. The enemy
Speaker 1: is trying to kill the dreams that you have. It
Speaker 1: feels like the end of our world. He's trying to
Speaker 1: deceive us. But the reality is this that the coming
Speaker 1: of Jesus has given us.
Speaker 2: The next part of the verse, it says.
Speaker 1: I came that they may have life Agustani Lord cardinam
Speaker 1: Buh even today, and not just any kind of life.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, and have it abundantly excited out for you,
Speaker 1: because the God that we have wants a life that
Speaker 1: is full in abundant. We have to see God for
Speaker 1: who he is really a one, the God that wants
Speaker 1: to shepherd you, the God that wants to lead you,
Speaker 1: to protect you, to provide for you. And by doing so,
Speaker 1: you will actually want us to have that kind of
Speaker 1: abundant life. Are you willing that Jesus be the shepherd
Speaker 1: of your life today? This is the God that we
Speaker 1: have and the God that we worship. I'm going to
Speaker 1: end with this, The Lord is our shepherd. Let's make
Speaker 1: that more personal. Can declare it where you are today,
Speaker 1: say it with me. The Lord is my shepherd. Jesus
Speaker 1: is my shepherd. Our declaration today before I pray, how
Speaker 1: do we apply this word today? Two things that we
Speaker 1: can do right after the service, right after we pray,
Speaker 1: I want you to.
Speaker 2: Do two things. Go to your room, seek God and
Speaker 2: ask him this question, Lord, are you the shepherd of
Speaker 2: my life? Lord?
Speaker 1: I know that you are all powerful, that you can
Speaker 1: do miracles. Until today you intervene in our situation.
Speaker 2: You provide.
Speaker 1: A question that you want to ask God, is are
Speaker 1: you the shepherd of my life? And if your personal
Speaker 1: answer is no, I believe this is a time for
Speaker 1: us to go back to God and say, Lord, I repent. Lord,
Speaker 1: I want you to lead my life. I want you
Speaker 1: to be the shepherd.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: I can't shepherd my own life. The more I do it,
Speaker 1: the more I break it. The more I try to
Speaker 1: lead my life, the more that I cannot make it work.
Speaker 1: And it's a time for us to go back to
Speaker 1: God and say, Lord, lead me be the shepherd.
Speaker 2: Of my life. Church is the.
Speaker 1: Time for us to pray, and I pray that as
Speaker 1: you are home right now, disclose your eyes and allow the.
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit to minister to you today.
Speaker 1: Lord, thank you that as you have spoken to us, Lord,
Speaker 1: allow us to see you.
Speaker 2: Yes as that God who.
Speaker 1: Is all powerful, but also that God is very personal,
Speaker 1: who loves us, who knows where we are today. Or
Speaker 1: thank you that my brothers and sisters will feel your
Speaker 1: presence in their situation.
Speaker 2: On a lamb. Now you can be a shepherd in
Speaker 2: our lives. That you will shepherd our lives.
Speaker 1: Or thank you that you will be our provider or
Speaker 1: the lack that we have you complete, or thank you
Speaker 1: that we will not find completion in other things, you
Speaker 1: will find completion.
Speaker 2: In you lead us, guide us, Lord God, and thank you.
Speaker 1: That's just like that picture that you've given us of
Speaker 1: talking to the Lord. Give more, but you will talk
Speaker 1: to us Salama, point on salamat where we love you.
Speaker 1: We praise you today. We honor you today with our
Speaker 1: lives in Jesus name, Amen and Amen.
Speaker 2: God bless you all. I hope to see you guys
Speaker 2: next week. Thank you for listening. We hope that you
Speaker 2: enjoy today's episode.
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Speaker 1: God bless you all.