Why you downcast, O My Soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior, and my God. Psalms 43:5 Life can be hard. It can be depressing. People can zap all your joy out of you. Life experiences can weigh heavy on you. This can make a person’s soul feel down. We can get stuck there. However, we have to keep our hope in our Triune God. We have to trust in His plan for our life. He is not out to get us, to harm us, to hurt us. He is there to mold us, form us, to grow…
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The Good Shepherd
. I Am the Good Shepherd. John 10:11 Have you ever had bad guides in your life? Things or people who misdirected your paths? Have you had good guides in your life? A good guide is a person who shepherds. Let’s read John 10:11-39. Do we know who our good shepherd is? The greek word for shepherd is poimen. It describes Christ as our Good shepherd. In order for us to remember and consider Christ as our Shepherd, it needs to be something that we cherish and find comfort in. In Matthew 9:36, 26:31, and 1 Peter 2:25, the early church remembered Jesus as the shepherd. They even applied old…
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God Speaks Through Prayer
The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the Saints in accordance with God’s will. Romans 8:26-27 Do you use a journal to write down what God speaks to you? The Holy Spirit reveals truth. Truth is just not a concept to be studied. Truth is a person. Jesus stated in John 14:6. I am the truth. When God gave you eternal life, he gave you himself. And the Holy Spirit…