The Good Shepherd

March 24, 3033

Devotions:

          “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” ‭Psalm‬ ‭23:1‬ ‭KJV‬‬

          Paul says that a part of our salvation is receiving the Lordship of Jesus over our lives. When we understand that without Jesus, Satan is our lord because we were all born into sin because of our father Adam. Adam changed lordship in the garden when he chose to believe Satan over God. Jesus died to set us free from Satan’s lordship.  

          From Psalm 23 we see that with God as our Lord we have every need met. One translation says, “The LORD is my shepherd, I have no want or lack of any good or needful thing.” So if we are lacking in an area of our lives one of two things is happening.  One is Jesus is not your Lord in the area where you are lacking or two we have not exercised our faith in that area to receive our need met. Our faith is exercised though the words that we speak in faith. We are commanding of the circumstances to come in line with the Lordship of Jesus that is in our lives. As we demand that these circumstances line up in Jesus name, Satan has no choice but to release the provision that we need.

          Jesus called Himself in John 10  the good shepherd. The worth of a shepherd is reflected in the health and prosperity of his sheep. If the sheep are sick, poorly fed, ragged, not well kept and constantly in peril of predators, then the shepherd is not a good shepherd but one who does not care about his sheep. But if the sheep are healthy, well fed, protected from predators and glistening with life then he is a good shepherd. 

        Our well being depends on who is our shepherd.