Shepherd - Kingdom Peace with Pastor Marci Glisson

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Now enjoy this message. Psalms 23 Psalms 23.

You know, we know and have been taught here at Anchor Faith

Church that you know, God is a king and we are here as

citizens, come on, and ambassadors in his Kingdom,

Amen. And so we know the facet of God

as King. We know through Scripture, you

know, the Bible calls Godfather Father God.

We know that God is King of the Kingdom, Amen.

But we can also see another facet of God, or, you know, the

nature of God by looking at what the Scripture says is that he is

the shepherd. He's the shepherd, Amen.

So in these next two Wednesday nights coming up, we're going to

be discussing him, looking at the side of him as the shepherd.

Amen. And and looking at some of the

benefits that he talks about with him being our shepherd.

Hallelujah. You know, Pastor actually

brought up a scripture on Sunday concerning the shepherd, and it

just seems like these last few weeks there's been some things

about the sheep hear the shepherd's voice.

We've been talking about this in prayer as well, how important it

is that we are hearing his voice in this day and in this hour

that we are living so that no other voice we will follow.

So we won't follow a stranger's voice, something that sounds

strange, right? And so, you know, in looking and

Psalms 23, let's read it, it says this, the Lord is my

shepherd, the Lord's my shepherd.

Is he your shepherd? He's my shepherd.

He's my king, but he's my shepherd as well.

Hallelujah. And we see here it says I'm

going to be reading out of the amplified.

It says the Lord is my shepherd to feed, to guide and to shield

me. Say my shepherd guides me.

Come on. He feeds me and he Shields me.

Hallelujah. He guides me.

He feeds me and he Shields me. Oh, Hallelujah.

Glory to God. You know, we've talking about

that Iron Dome over Israel. It's like a big shield, isn't

it? Hallelujah.

That's able to penetrate all those fiery missiles that are

coming at them. And he lets us know as our

shepherd, Come on, there is a shield about us.

We know that Scripture talks about this, but he is a shield

so that when all the fiery darts come on, all the things that are

being said, whatever the circumstances are that are just

coming to bombard you one after another after another, He says,

don't worry, I'm your shepherd. Come on, I I am a shield about

you. Glory to God.

I'll be your shield. Come on.

I'll be your shield on the front side.

I'll be your shield on the backside.

Come on. So no matter what, I've got you

covered. Hallelujah.

Because he is a great shepherd. Glory to God.

Glory to God. So He's here to feed us exactly

what we need to be fed. He's here to guide us and lead

us exactly where we need to go, exactly where we need to go,

Hallelujah. And he is that shield about us,

Hallelujah. And then he goes on to say, and

I shall not want. He lets me lie down in green

pastures. Hallelujah, glory to God.

He leads me besides still and quiet waters.

He refreshes and restores my soul.

Hallelujah, He restores life. He leads me in paths of

righteousness. You know why?

For His name's sake. For his name's sake.

So that his name can be glorified.

Hallelujah. And lifted high and lifted up.

Glory to God. Even though I walk through the

sunless valley of the shadow of death.

What does he say? I will fear no evil.

You know why? Because he's with us.

Come on, He's with us. Glory to God.

He is in US. Come on, He's upon us.

Glory to God. He's surrounding us.

Listen, there's nowhere we can't be that he is not.

He is with us. Glory to God, He's with us.

Hallelujah, He says this. You are with me.

Your rod protects me and your staff guides me.

They comfort and console me. You prepare a table before me in

the presence of my enemies. You have anointed and refreshed

my head with oil. Glory to God, Hallelujah.

We're going to get into that later, probably next week.

My cup overflows. Shirley.

Goodness and mercy and unfailed love shall follow me all the

days of my life, and I shall dwell forever throughout all my

days in the house and in the presence of the Lord.

Come on, that is something to shout about.

Glory to God. Hallelujah, the Lord is my

shepherd. Hallelujah, glory to God.

Oh, thank you, Lord. Hallelujah.

Whoa, I could just laugh. I could just laugh.

Glory to God, Hallelujah. I'm excited that He's my

shepherd. Hallelujah.

I'm excited that I'm reminded when I read through His word

that He is my shepherd. Glory to God.

John, chapter 10. I believe this is where Pastor

John 10 · chapter mention

came out of on Sunday, but I want to read verses one through

15. And are they amplified?

It says this, I assure you, and most solemnly say to you, he who

does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up

from some other place, come on. This is saying, listen, there's

only one way. Come on, There's only one way to

the shepherd. There's only one way through the

Kingdom of God, and that is by him.

This is what he's saying here, the door into the sheepfold.

But if you climb up from some other place on the Stonewall,

that one is a thief and a robber.

Come on, there's not going to be anybody in the Kingdom

illegally. It's not going to happen.

Mama's not going to get you in unless you confess Jesus Christ

as your Lord. Grandmama's not going to get you

in and smuggle you in by her, Her grace and her whatever.

No, there's only one way in, and it's if you confess Him as your

Lord. Come on as your shepherd.

Glory to God, Hallelujah. Glory to God, Hallelujah.

Where was I verse 2? But he who enters by the door is

the shepherd of the sheep. Hallelujah, the protector and

provider. The protector and provider, the

doorkeeper opens the gate for this man and the sheep.

What? Hear the voice?

Hear his voice and pay attention to it.

Hallelujah. Say pay attention.

Come on, pay attention. Isn't that what you tell your

kids after you've said stuff several times?

Come on now, pay attention to what I am saying.

Hear my voice and pay attention to it, He's saying and knowing

that they listen. He calls his own sheep by name.

That's personal. And he leads them out to

pasture. Hallelujah.

Say he knows my name. He knows my name.

Come on. He knows my name.

Come on. I wish I could sing it like

Tasha Cobb. He knows our name.

We're in the sheepfold. And you ought to be thankful

that he knows your name. Let me get to my place.

And then he says this. He calls his own sheep by name

and leads them out to pasture. And when he has bought brought

all his own sheep outside, he walks on ahead of them, and the

sheep follow him, because they know his voice and recognize his

call. They will never follow a

stranger but will run away from him because they do not know the

voice of strangers. Jesus used this figure of speech

with them but they didn't understand what he was talking

about. South Jesus said again, I assure

you and most solemnly say to you, I am the door for the sheep

leading to life and all who come before me as false Messiahs self

appointed leaders are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep

did not hear them. I am the door.

Anyone who enters through me will be saved and will live

forever, and we'll go in and out freely and find pasture.

Listen to what he says. Spiritual security.

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy.

But I came that you may have life and have it to an

abundance, to the full, till it overflows.

Here he is saying this. I am the Good Shepherd,

Hallelujah, I am the Good Shepherd.

Say he's a Good Shepherd. Oh, he is a Good Shepherd.

Glory to God, the Good Shepherd. And he lays down his own life

for his sheep. But hired man who merely just

serves for wages, who is neither the shepherd nor the owner of

the sheep, when he sees a wolf come and deserts the flock, runs

away, and the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

The man runs because he is a hired hand who serves only for

wages and is not concerned about the safety of the sheep.

But I am the Good Shepherd, and I know without any doubt those

who are mine, my own and my own no me, and have a deep personal

relationship with me, even as the Father knows me.

I know the Father and lay down my very own life, sacrificing it

for the benefit of the sheep. Hallelujah.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd, Hallelujah, that laid his life

down for us so that we can walk and be LED into those green

pastures. Hallelujah.

Be fed properly. That's what a green pasture

represents. Be fed properly and taken care

of, nourished properly, Hallelujah.

Given everything we need to be able to sustain life because he

is a Good Shepherd and he's never going to lead us to a

pasture that's not going to feed us, that's not going to take

care of us. Hallelujah.

Now look at Matthew 935 through 38.

It says this. And Jesus went about in all the

cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching

the gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every sickness and every

disease among the people. But when he saw the multitude,

he was what moved with compassion on them, because they

fainted, and were scattered abroad as sheep, having no

shepherd, So then sayeth he unto his disciples, The harvest truly

is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that He will send

forth laborers into his harvest. You know how good of a great

shepherd Jesus is that He knew that when He left, you would

still need a shepherd in your life, in the earth, in the earth

to lead you, to feed you, to help guide you into all truth.

And you know what he said? And Jeremiah 315, it says this.

I will give you spiritual shepherds after my own heart and

in the final time who will feed you with knowledge,

understanding and judgement. You see how good He is that He

knew that the sheep were scattered.

They're everywhere and that when he left that they would still

need a shepherd to take care of them in the natural.

Even though he is our spiritual shepherd, Hallelujah, this is

how good he is that he said you still need a shepherd in the

earth. Not one of us are to be without

a shepherd in our life, someone to care for us, to lead us, to

guide us into knowledge, into the truth, into understanding,

into the judgement that is to come if we do not call on this

Great Shepherd. Amen.

So he left you pastors after his own heart to make sure that they

would feed you the knowledge that you needed.

Hallelujah. So you are.

I want to say thank you that you honored us as pastors this past

Sunday. I want to say thank you for all

the cards and the gifts and the love.

And thank you that you honor all the pastors on staff, Pastor

Mike and Angie, Pastor Vanessa, Pastor Chase and Alyssa.

Because when there is honor there, knowing that they are

shepherds over our soul in the earth and that God ordained

that, you're going to then be able to receive from that.

But if you don't honor it and you don't think you need it,

well then actually you're saying to Jesus, who was the great

shepherd that said we needed a shepherd in the earth.

You're saying that towards him. And Pastor Tim and Bridget,

Let's go to first Peter chapter 5, First Peter chapter 5 and

1 Peter 5 · chapter mention 1 Peter 5 · chapter mention

verses one through 4, it says. Therefore, I strongly urge the

elders among you pastors, spiritual leaders of the church,

as a fellow elder and as an eyewitness called to testify of

the sufferings as Christ as well as one who shares in the glory

that is to be revealed. Shepherd and guide and protect

the flock of God among you. You see that this is what He's

telling us as ministers to do. Shepherd the flock, guide the

flock, protect the flock among you, exercising oversight, not

under compulsion, but voluntarily according to the

will of God, and not motivated for shameful gain, but with

wholehearted enthusiasm, not lording it over those assigned

to your care. Do not be arrogant or

overbearing, but be examples of Christian living to the flock.

Set a pattern of integrity for your congregation and when the

chief shepherd so he's what's in one scripture called the Good

Shepherd. Now he's called the chief

shepherd Hallelujah. So when the chief shepherd

Christ appears, you will receive the conquerors unfading crown of

glory Hallelujah, glory to God. So there is a crown of glory

waiting for us who have talked and walked and lived before the

congregation exactly how they should be in the earth.

Psalms 100 and verse 30. Excuse me, no, go to Acts 20.

I skipped that. Acts 20.

I'm just laying a foundation because I I think it important

that you see all through Scripture where he talks about

the shepherd. Verse 28 through 30.

It says take care and be on guard for yourselves and for the

whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as

overseers to shepherd. Look at the same thing that

Jesus that Jesus as the Good Shepherd says that he would do.

He lets those know that are overseeing you.

How they should be the shepherd should tend, should feed, and

should guide the Church of God, which he bought with his own

blood. And I know that after I am gone,

false teachers, ferocious wolves will come in among you, not

sparing the flock. Even from among your own selves.

Men are going to arise speaking perverse and distorted things to

draw you away, or to draw away the disciples after themselves

as their followers. You see that?

That's why it's so important that you're in a sheepfold and

that you have a shepherd over your soul so that you can be in

that covering and under that protection.

So that when the wolf or false teacher or false prophet tries

to come in, no, the shepherd can see them come on a mile away,

can sniff them out and deal with them so that they do not affect

the fold. Hallelujah, Psalms 103 says

this. Acknowledge that the Lord is

God. He made us, and we are His.

We are His people, the sheep of his pasture.

Hallelujah, we're the sheep of his pasture.

So let's look at how the shepherd leads us.

OK, look at how the Shepherd leads us here.

As he says, the Lord is your shepherd, what you shall not

want, and that is want for anything.

The Lord is your shepherd, and you shall not want for anything,

because He's your shepherd. You shall not want for anything,

for any good thing. You shall not want because He is

your shepherd. Look at Psalms 34, nine through

10. Oh, reverently fear the Lord,

you, his Saints, believers, holy ones.

For to those that fear Him, there is no want.

For those who fear Him, there is no want.

Hallelujah. For those who fear Him there is

no want, no lack for any good thing, no want.

If you fear Him, if you fear Him, verse 10 says the Young

Lions lack food and grow hungry, but they who seek the Lord will

not lack any good thing. Those who seek the Lord will not

lack any good thing. Hallelujah.

You know why? Because He is a Good Shepherd.

Hallelujah, glory to God. Look at Luke 1231 through 32.

It says this. But seek the Kingdom of God, and

all these things shall be added to you.

Do not fear little flock, for it is your Father's Say good, good

pleasure. Come on to give you the Kingdom,

and that is everything. Come on within the Kingdom that

you have been promised and that you inherit from Him as heirs of

salvation. Glory to God, glory to God.

So if we fear Him and if we seek Him, come on and His Kingdom

first, guess what? There is nothing, no good thing

that He is going to withhold from us, Hallelujah, because He

is a Good Shepherd and He takes care of his sheep.

Hallelujah, he takes care of his sheep.

Romans 832 It says For he who did not spare his own son, but

delivered him up for all of us, how shall he not with Him also

freely give us all things, All things.

He's freely going to give us all things, Hallelujah.

All things. Y'all are not even acting

excited. Are there some things?

Come on, whatever, I'll get up here and dance myself because I

know what's happening here. Glory to God.

So He is a Good Shepherd and He doesn't want us to want for

anything. Hallelujah, glory to God, and He

has given us freely all things. And then he goes on to say now

#2 He lets me lie down in green pastures.

He lets me lay down in green pastures.

What does this mean? It also means rest.

Just as Pastor April had auction as singing that song that we

would lay in pastures. Come on and rest in Him, glory

to God, rest in Him. Just enjoy what he's done for

you. Rest in Him and his good

pleasures. Come on and what he has done for

you. And so he says, here he rests.

Or what else does he say? He leads me beside still and

quiet waters. Hallelujah, still and quiet

waters. Hallelujah, still and quiet

waters. Just think about that.

Just think, close your eyes. Just think that maybe you're up

in the mountains somewhere. Beautiful mountains and you're

down in the valley and you see a stream going through and you're

walking, taking a nature bath. That's what I call it, walking

in the outdoors, not a nature bath like that.

You're naked. So don't.

Don't imagine that in your mind. If it was up to my grandchildren

and you know, son, they would be butt naked all the time.

But anyway, got y'all off sidetracked.

OK, so you're walking down, you see a quiet little stream down

in the valley and you just hear the trickle, right?

The calming. You're not.

Maybe you're hearing the birds chirping, but then you're also

hearing the calming, peaceful trickle of that Stillwater just

trickling along. And isn't that what we call kind

of like tranquility, right? You know, he created nature and

everything in it. And he said because he created

that, we're without excuse even by the creation of nature.

And so it's good for you to get out sometimes and enjoy nature

because it reminds you. It will remind you of him.

He created it, Hallelujah. So he lets us lay down in green

pastures. I remember driving, you know,

we've driven places and I think it was actually one time when we

were driving up to East Coast camp.

And in Virginia, they have these rolling hills in some places and

big, old pastures, and you just see the beautiful green pastures

and, you know, see flowers. And I've always wanted him to

stop so that I could run out, jump the fence that was in the

earlier days and lay just in the middle of that field in that the

middle of that green pastures. Has anyone ever been tempted to

do that or have done that? Raise your hand.

Yeah. Why do you have that desire to

do it? Because of this right here.

He makes us lie down in green pastures.

Come on. He wants us to be able to rest

in him, to lie down in him and enjoy everything that he has

done for us. Amen.

So let's look at this in Matthew 11 and 28 and verse 29.

It says, come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, burdened.

I love the way the amplifies reading this by religious

rituals that provide no peace. Do you know even in spirit

filled Kingdom teaching, faith, teaching churches that people

can take on a ritualistic service that you have to back up

and say, hey, am I working this in the flesh or am I working

this in rest and peace and come on.

Because especially for those that are bent with that

personality that are, you know, those that are workers, if

you're bent with that personality, you can easily do

it in the flesh and even get caught up.

Even though you're spirit filled, even though you know

this is not of works, your flesh will always want to take that on

and it can become religious and ritualistic in your life.

That's why you always have to back up and say, am I doing this

because I just love God and because he's a Good Shepherd,

and because in Him there is rest and I don't have to work this

thing, I can rest in Him and flow with him.

And that's what grace is about, flowing in the rhythms of grace

in your life through every season and tapping into it so we

all could. You know, isn't that what

Galatians says? Who so easily bewitched you?

You started this thing out in the Spirit.

You were doing this by the spirit, but you got called up

into doing it through the flesh. You see what I'm saying?

So he doesn't want us doing that because it's going to burn us

out. That's what it says.

It's going to keep us burning down or like we're we're never,

it's like a, a hamster on that wheel.

You're working, running that wheel, but you're never getting

anywhere. That means you're doing it in

the flesh and you're not doing it in his rest.

You see that? So he says, come on, all who are

weary, heavy, burdened by religious rituals that provide

no peace, and I will give you what rest, refreshing your souls

with salvation. Verse 29 take my yoke upon you

and learn from me. Well, you know what he's saying.

Learn how to lay down in those green pastures.

Learn how to take a minute to what we call smell the roses.

You see what I'm saying? And so he says, listen.

Learn from me, following me as my disciples, for I am gentle

and humble in heart and you will find rest.

Listen to what it says, renewal and blessed quiet for your

souls. This is how you know you're

resting in God is when your mind is in control.

You have soul control that you're in rest because you've

actually learned how to quiet your mind.

You're not letting all the thoughts, all the concerns, all

the processing, all the things that just keep you wound up in

your mind. I mean, it is like you're wound

up tight, like one of those little top things or whatever

you're, you want. You're wound up in your mind and

that is why you actually have no peace.

When he says we're going to see that he is the Prince of Peace.

And so we have to ask ourselves, why is there no peace?

When he says he is my Good Shepherd, He's going to lead me

into rest. He's going to lead me into

quiet, still waters. He is going to be there to give

rest to my soul. Hallelujah.

So Psalms 91 one says this. Those who live in the shelter of

the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

There is no reason why you should not be at rest period,

period there. You should be at rest no matter

what's going on. Our spirit should be at rest.

There should be peace for our soul.

We should be at rest internally. That is a promise from our Good

Shepherd. Rest, resting in him.

Hallelujah. Glory to God and the way that

it's going to be found as if we come to Him and if we allow

ourselves to be up underneath what the shelter of the most

high, that's that protection again.

So when you're up underneath that shelter, you're being

protected from everything that is going to try to cause unrest

within you, right? You you hear of how they call

when something's going on into other countries, they're in

unrest because wars are all kinds of things are going on.

But we can be up underneath the shadow of the Good Shepherd.

Come on in the midst of all kinds of things that's going on,

all the wars, all the things in the natural and you know, things

that may be warring that you're struggling with or things that

are happening. But if you'll get up underneath,

come on the shadow of the Almighty, if you'll let him be

the Good Shepherd to you, you'll find rest in the midst of those

things, right? Hallelujah.

And it's important, as He says here, He lets me lie down and

green pastures. That means it's OK to rest your

physical body. Your body will actually let you

know when you need to rest it because the spirit man is alive

and ready to run. As long as you are feeding it

properly and as long as you're taking care of your spirit man,

it's always ready, willing to go, to run, to do.

And then if you tap into the supernatural, the anointing can

keep you running. The anointing can keep you

running, but your physical body will eventually not be able to

outlast the anointing. Or you know, you're ready to run

because your body can get physically tired because your

body is not glorified yet and it needs the rest physically,

right? And so we have to rest our body.

That's what he's talking about. Lie down in this green pasture a

minute. It's OK Roll around, chew on

some grass with a straw hanging out your mouth.

Smell the flowers right? Rest for a moment in me.

Let your body physically rest. Jesus rested.

Let it rest so that then during that time of rest I can refresh

you and your soul. He says even when you sleep, his

spirit can speak to you and refresh you and you can wake up

with a download because your spirit is alive.

It's always alive unto God. Hallelujah, and give you exactly

what you need. So and we must be those that

know how to rest up in enter into his rest through him

Hebrews chapter 4 verses one through 10.

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Therefore, since a promise remains, listen to this Hebrews,

since a promise, this is a promise remains of entering into

what? His rest.

This is a promise. Praise God that we get to enter

into his rest and just rest in Him.

Every single time there's something going on, just go on

and rest in Him. Don't let all the things

overtake you or whatever the case may be.

Just go and just say, you know what?

I'm just going to walk out my backyard and listen to the birds

chirp for just a minute and I'm going to rest in him.

I'm going to sit. And just rest in Him and just

remind yourself that He is your Good Shepherd, Hallelujah, and

let Him bring you the rest you need.

Now look, look what it says though in Hebrews chapter one

through 10. It says, Since a promise remains

of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to

have come short of it, So you can come short of entering into

His rest, right? For indeed the gospel was

preached to us as well as to them.

But the word which they heard, This is why you will not enter

into rest. I don't care how many times you

come to church. I don't care how many

conferences you listen to, how many YouTube things you listen

to, you can still not have true rest from God if you don't enter

into it. Listen to why it says because

they heard. That did not profit them because

they did not mix their faith in with those who heard.

So you can hear what to do all day long.

You can hear that He is your Good Shepherd and He wants to do

all these things for you. But listen, unless you actually

put your faith to it, you won't enter into the rest.

That, He says, is a promise for every single one of us.

He says it's a promise to us, but we have to mix our faith

with it. That's with everything that he

says, every promise that belongs to us.

We have to mix our faith with what we have heard.

What does that mean? We have to believe it.

We have to receive it. We have to act upon it.

We have to do it. And the way you do it is say,

you know what? I'm going to sit on my back

porch. I'm going to listen to the birds

and I'm going to say thank you, Lord, You are my Good Shepherd.

I believe that you are my Good Shepherd.

Hallelujah. I believe that you said I will

not want. So this bill I don't really care

about because you said I will not want for any good thing.

Here it is. You take care of it.

I don't have to worry about it. I'm in covenant with you.

I am actually believing that when I tithe, you will rebuke

the devourer. Come on, all of these things, I

believe it. I'm acting lean upon it and you

know what? I'm mixing my faith to enter

into that rest Hallelujah. So we must be people that

believe because it doesn't matter that we're hearing, we

have to believe. It says For we who have believed

do verse 3. For we who have believed do

enter that rest, as he has said I, so I swore in my wrath, they

shall not enter my rest. Although the works were finished

from the foundations of the world.

For he who spoken in a certain place of the 7th day in this

way, and God rested on the 7th day from all of his works, and

again in this place they shall not enter my rest.

Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those

whom it was first preached did not enter because of

disobedience. There's another reason why they

don't enter into rest, because they're actually simply just

disobeying what they've heard. Again, he designates a certain

day saying in David today after such a long time as it has been

said today, if you will hear my voice, there it is again, if

you'll hear my voice, if we'll listen to the Shepherd's voice,

if we'll just yield to his voice and the time and the situation

of whatever it is that do not harden your heart.

But what is he saying in the midst of you that could possibly

be offended because of somebody else that just said something

about you? Don't harden your heart to what

His voice is saying. This is what it's saying.

Don't harden your heart to what you know the word is saying in

the midst of your situation. Don't back bite or or or lash

out at your husband or your spouse because that's not love.

And in that moment, you get to choose.

Am I going to enter into the promise of rest in my marriage

or whatever the case may be? And the way I'm going to do that

is I must obey what I'm hearing His voice say in the midst of

the situation. Because if you don't, there will

be no rest. And we know there'll be no peace

in your home. You'll constantly be this

because you're not listening to His voice and mixing your faith

with what He says in the midst of the thing that you're going

through. That's just how it is.

It's what it says today. Don't harden your heart.

For if Joshua had given them rest, then he would have not

afterward have spoken to another day.

There remains therefore rest, listen, rest for the people of

God. For he who has entered his rest

has himself also ceased from his works, as God did from his.

See that Hallelujah, glory to God.

Let me read verse three out of the Amplified of Hebrews.

It says this For we who believe, that is, we who personally trust

and confidently rely on God, enter that rest so we have His

inner peace now, because we are confident in our salvation and

ensured of His power. Just as he said, as I had swore

an oath in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest.

This he said, although his works were completed from the

foundations of the world, waiting for all who would

believe. Do you believe that He's the

Good Shepherd? Hallelujah #3 He leads us beside

still and quiet waters. Still in quiet waters.

Literally serenity. Think of this tranquility,

right? Peace.

This is what he's talking about. This ought to be ongoing in your

life. You can have tranquility.

You can have peace. Come on, you can have serenity

in the midst of every situation, but you have to activate it.

You have to activate and say, I just need you to be my shepherd

today in this situation. I need you to be my shepherd

today. And He'll do it every single

time. Hallelujah.

So He'll lead you. Look at that, He'll lead you.

That again goes back to the sheep hearing the shepherd's

voice. He's going to lead us into a

place of peace in the midst of whatever we're going through.

If we'll say, Lord, I need you to be my Good Shepherd and I

need you to lead me into that place of peace about this

situation. You know what he's going to do?

He's going to lead you straight there, straight there to peace,

straight there to tranquility, straight there to serenity, that

in the midst of whatever chaos is going on in your life, if you

say, Lord, you're my Good Shepherd, I just need you to

lead me into peace about this situation.

And he's going to lead you right there.

And therefore you can be at, what did he say?

Perfect peace, perfect peace trusted in Him that He is the

Good Shepherd. He's going to lead me.

He has never LED me astray. Come on.

He's never forsaken me in the midst of situations.

That's what you've got to continue to call on that every

time, Father. You have led me to a place of

peace in the midst of the situation.

John 14 One, do not let your hearts be troubled, afraid,

cowardly. Believe confidently in God and

trust in Him. Have faith, hold on to it, rely

on it and keep going on. Hallelujah.

Keep going on. Believe also in me, Hallelujah.

He does not want our hearts troubled at all.

Again, He wants to lead us into peace in every situation.

You know, follow peace. That's what Pastor Angie means

when she always says that follow peace.

What are we saying? The Good Shepherd is going to

lead us into a place of peace in this scenario or this situation.

Amen. Hallelujah, glory to God.

Look at John 1427. It says peace.

I leave with you. My perfect peace I give to you.

Not as the world gives do I give to you.

Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.

Let my perfect peace calm you. Here's those calm still waters.

Let my perfect peace calm you in every circumstance and give you

courage and strength for every challenge.

Glory to God, we get ourselves in some places of challenge,

don't we? We get ourselves in some places

that we need courage to be able to say, Lord, come on, I I'm not

going to let my heart be troubled about this situation.

I'm going to need your peace. I'm going to need courage Come

on in the midst of this because I want to be upset about it.

I want to get anxious about it. I want to get stirred up about

it. But you know what?

The Lord is my shepherd. I've always listened to his

voice, I always will listen to his voice, and he's going to

lead me into peace in this situation.

So Shepard, lead Hallelujah and bring strength for whatever is

the challenge that's going on in the situation.

And we know we can do that also through prayer.

Philippians 4-6 and nine, don't be anxious or worried about

anything. You mean anything, anything,

anything. Just as he said.

I don't even want you to want for any good thing.

I don't want you to have to worry about anything.

Don't be anxious about it. Don't be worried about it, just

ask me as your Good Shepherd to help you in the midst of it.

Come on, He says this, but in everything, in every

circumstance, in every situation, by prayer and

petition with Thanksgiving to continue.

Make your specific request known to God.

I love that specific. He cares about every detail in

your life. He cares about the specifics

that you're going through because he's a Good Shepherd and

he wants to take care of you and lead you properly in the midst

of whatever circumstance and situation is going on.

And he does not want you to have to be anxious.

He does not want you to have to be worried.

He does not want you to have to doubt.

He doesn't want you to have to fear.

He doesn't want any of that for you.

He only wants peace. He only wants you to walk in

that perfect peace. And we can do that through

again, making our specific request known to God and the

peace of God, the peace. Listen to what this peace does,

which reassures the heart. He wants to reassure your heart.

Listen, you don't have to stress about this.

You don't have to be worried about this.

You don't have to be troubled about this.

Don't fear anything because he's a Good Shepherd.

He doesn't want us to fear any good thing.

He doesn't want us to fear anything.

He doesn't want us to fear, man. He doesn't want us to fear

anything. Anything, anything, Hallelujah.

Who reassures your heart that that peace which transcends all

understanding, that peace which stands guard over your heart and

your mind. Again, your mind can be still.

You need to start say speaking to your mind and say peace be

still to it. Like he stood up and said it to

the raging storms of the sea. Some of you that have that rage

going on in your mind, that's always going, going, going,

going, going, going in your mind.

You need to say in the name of Jesus, peace, be still to your

own mind, to your own mind. Finally, believers, whatsoever

is true, whatsoever is honorable, worthy of respect,

whatever is right, confirmed by listen to this God's Word,

whatever is pure, because we know that the world is calling

what is evil good and good evil. So it's got to be confirmed by

the Word. That's what you are to meditate

on and to think on. Come on the Word of God, that

will prove everything. It's the truth, right?

In the midst of people calling good evil and evil good, all the

things that are going on now, where was I at?

Stand guard over your hearts, your minds, in Christ Jesus, in

your believers, whatever's true, whatever's honorable respect,

whatever's right confirmed by God's Word, whatever is pure and

wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings you peace.

You can watch things, you can listen to things, you can put

things in your ears and in front of your eyes that will not bring

you peace in the natural. So what are you watching?

What are you thinking on? What are you listening to?

What are you meditating on? What are you allowing to go in

your eye gate, your ear gate that is helping not bring peace

to you? Are you listening to crazy

thoughts and crazy things that people are saying to just bring

fear into you? I want to think on and I want to

listen to and I want to only meditate on His Word because

people that have their opinions also have a spirit about them.

And I don't want to hear their opinion on something if it's not

in line with God's Word and it's not coming from the right

spirit. I don't care if they're a

psychologist, a doctor, because a doctor can come in with their

own fear. You're getting ready to die and

are you going to take hold of that?

Because it's sure not going to bring you peace.

You see what I'm saying? So what are we listening to?

Some of the things we're listening to, agitating us, not

bringing peace to the situation, but just stirring up more

thoughts that you're having now to take captive.

So guard. Guard your mind, guard your

hearts, guard your ears and what you're allowing to be put in

you. Hallelujah.

So whatever is lovely brings peace, whatever is admirable and

of good repute, repute if there is any excellence, if there is

anything worthy of praise. Think continually on these

things. Center your mind on them, listen

to that. Center your mind on them and

implant them in your heart. Hallelujah.

The things which you have learned and received and heard

and seen in me. Practice these things in daily

life and the God who is the source of peace and well-being

will be with you. Hallelujah.

Aren't you thankful that He'll be with us and that He will

bring peace in every situation in our life?

But we have a responsibility. Amen.

To be able to call on the Good Shepherd and say Shepherd, lead.

Come on, Shepherd, guide me. Do these things in and through

me in this situation that I'm going through.

Come on, let's bow our heads. Father, we just thank you so

much for your word. Thank you so much for listening

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