Sermon
Jehovah Rohi
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I'm excited that you are here today. Thank you so much for coming.
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You have spent your most valuable asset with us today, and thank you so much
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for coming. Thank you for tuning in online.
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We appreciate you being here, being a part of what God is doing here.
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My name is Devon Alexander, and I have the honor of pastoring True Life Fellowship
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Church, and I'm excited about the word that we will share together today.
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Thank you for connecting with it and spending time with me.
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Over the last several weeks we've
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been talking about the names of God and how many have been
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excited about this series the names of God come on yeah put
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your hands together if you have been I've been really thrilled
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about this series the names of God matter of fact Wayne came to me last week
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and said man I'm learning so much in these names and Tenelle came to me and
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said I haven't heard of some of these names and I think that's the purpose for
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talking about the names of God because God reveals different aspects of himself
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through the many names that he uses.
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Each one with its unique meaning and power, offering us a deeper glimpse into his limitless nature.
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And three reasons why we started this series is because we want God's nature
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to be revealed and his character to be known.
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We want to deepen our relationship with him, and we also want our prayer life
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to be guided and our worship experience to be enhanced.
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And so every name of God is like a perfect puzzle piece fitting exactly where we're broken,
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filling what's missing and completing the picture of who we were created to be.
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Just like you I have many
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names that I go by right I've shared some with you in the past I'll share it
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again my nickname as a kid was boo boo was my nickname and so until I was about
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12 years old everybody called me boo and then when I got into middle school
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my nickname became smiley,
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And while I was in middle school playing football, one of the football coaches
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gave me that nickname, Smiley.
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And around town, I became known as Smiley. I didn't really like that nickname,
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but nevertheless, I was known as Smiley.
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They said because I smiled a lot, but so the joy of the Lord is our strength. Amen.
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And then as I got going, my nickname became Devo.
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And so I know where you met me when you say the name Devo.
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I know how we met. I know where we met. And as we got going,
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obviously, my government name is Devon, Pastor Devon, so on and so forth.
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We all have various names that we go by that will distinguish the relationship
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that we have with someone or even a time frame that we have with them.
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Recently, I was sharing this message and Zage, my six-year-old,
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was listening and she started calling me Smiley around the house. Hey, Smiley.
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I just laughed. I just smiled. at least she's paying attention. Amen.
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And so that's exciting. And so just like you and I, God has many names.
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Matter of fact, Stacey said she went to a Jewish barista.
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Is that right? There you go. Say it again.
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Barmista. She went to a Jewish barmista and she said, as they were praying,
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they were calling out the various names of God.
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I thought that was so special. She would say, and as they would say,
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El Shaddai, the mighty God, and Jehovah Shammah, God is here.
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And they begin to call out his specific names. And I thought that's very special.
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I believe we're supposed to do the same thing in our prayer life and in our
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worship experience, call out his various names because it identifies who he
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is and who we're calling upon in the time of need.
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And so today we're going to talk about a new name. And let's start out in Matthew
Matthew 9 chapter mention
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chapter 9, meet me at verse 35, and we'll read through to verse 38,
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Matthew 9, 35 through 38.
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Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages,
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teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
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and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
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But somebody say, but when he saw the multitudes, watch this,
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he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered
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like sheep having no shepherd.
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Verse 37, then he said to his disciples, the harvest truly is plentiful,
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but the laborers are few.
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Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
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I want to back up to verse 36.
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And verse 36 is a powerful verse because when he saw the multitudes,
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Jesus saw the multitudes, scripture said he was moved with compassion.
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He wasn't moved with sympathy.
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Sympathy just simply means I feel bad.
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Compassion means I'm going to do something about it. He was moved with compassion
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because the people were weary, aimless, tired, helpless, and scattered.
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And he said they were like sheep having no shepherd.
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And what impacted me in this passage of Scripture was the problem is the people are aimless.
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The people are helpless, scattered.
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The people are tired, confused.
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But the solution is also found in that passage of Scripture.
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The solution is people need a shepherd.
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Every person needs a shepherd. Somebody say shepherd. Say it again, shepherd.
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People need a shepherd and the shepherd is the solution to being weary,
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scattered, confused, aimless and helpless.
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But then he said in the next passage, he said, pray to the Lord of the harvest
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that he would send laborers into the harvest.
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If everybody in Charlotte, all of the population in Charlotte were to show up
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at church on the same day in our great city,
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do you know that we don't have enough space in all of our buildings combined
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to fit the entire population in a Sunday morning service?
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That tells me that there should be prayer, that there will be more laborers.
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And I believe, as I was setting this out, I believe what the Lord was saying
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there is pray that there will be more shepherds.
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Pray that there'll be more shepherds to take care of people.
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Pray that people would have a shepherd's heart to care for their neighbors,
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to care for those that are aimless and weak and suffering and confused and are helpless.
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That there would be laborers, shepherds that would take care of people because
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that is the solution to a weary heart.
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That is the solution to confusion. that is the solution to waywardness,
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is a shepherd. And I believe every person needs a shepherd.
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One of the names that we're going to talk about today is the name Jehovah-Rohai.
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Jehovah-Rohai. Say Jehovah-Rohai.
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Now say it like you mean it. Jehovah-Rohai.
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Jehovah-rohi is the name that means the Lord is my shepherd.
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The Lord is my shepherd.
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Notice this name does not mean the Lord is the shepherd.
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This name does not mean the Lord is every Christian's shepherd.
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This name means the Lord is my shepherd.
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I don't know what he is to you, but to me, he's my shepherd.
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The Lord is my shepherd. That word shepherd means the Lord is the lover of the flock.
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He is the one that will lead, feed, and protect his people.
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The Lord is my shepherd. So when we call on Jehovah Rohi, we're calling on the
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shepherd who is my shepherd.
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Not your shepherd. I don't know who your shepherd is. He's my shepherd.
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And he's the one that's going to lead, feed, and protect. Your shepherd,
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Jehovah Rohi, meets your spiritual, emotional, and physical needs.
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Every need you have, your shepherd, Jehovah Rohi, will meet those needs.
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His character is revealed as a personal, caring, and guiding shepherd who watches
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over his people with love, protection, and provision.
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Say, the Lord is my shepherd.
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In John chapter 10 let's look at verse 11 and we're going to go through several
John 10 chapter mention
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verses here in John 10 verse 11 Jesus says I am the good shepherd,
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Jehovah Rohi I am the good shepherd the good shepherd watch this,
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gives his life for the sheep let's look at verse 14.
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John 10 and verse 14, he says again, I am the good shepherd and I know my sheep and am known by my own.
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Let's look at verse 16.
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And other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also I must bring and
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they will hear my voice and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
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And let's look at verse 27.
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My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.
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So in John chapter 10, and I encourage you to read the entire chapter of John
John 10 chapter mention
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10, Jesus says, I am the good shepherd.
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I am the one who will lead, feed, and protect you.
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The shepherd knows each sheep by name, showing there's a real, genuine bond.
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He knows each sheep by name. He knows your name.
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I said the shepherd knows your name. He knows who you are. He sees you.
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He knows when you were born. He knows why he placed you on the earth.
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He knows exactly what you're thinking, how you feel, where you come from, where you're headed.
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He knows the obstacles you're going through, the challenges you're going through.
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He knows you by name.
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Isaiah says that your name is actually written in the palm of his hand so that
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when he looks at his hand, he sees your name.
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And not only does he see your name he sees your face he sees you he sees your soul.
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He sees you. How many of you know it's exciting when people remember your name?
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I went to a place recently and I walked in and they just remembered my name
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and something about that just excited me. Wow, you remembered my name.
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Well, guess what? The good shepherd has never forgotten your name.
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He knows your name and he sees you and he has not forgotten about you.
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When others overlook you, Jehovah Rohi knows you.
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When you feel forgotten by others, family members, friends, children,
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Jehovah Rohi knows who you are.
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And he calls you by your name.
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That's important that you're being called by your name, not calling you big
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head, not calling you apple head. He calling you by your name,
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Robert, Jeannie, Josh, Charles.
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He calls you by your name.
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And although a shepherd, although watch this, although a shepherd has not been a sheep, right?
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A shepherd, just think about it. A shepherd is not a sheep.
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But, somebody say but. It's different with Jesus. Jesus came to earth and lived as a sheep.
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And now he's your shepherd. Who could be a better shepherd than one who has been a sheep?
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Amen. He came, stripped himself of all divinity to come, put on human flesh
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to know how you feel and think and act,
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know how to correspond and interact with you.
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And now he's the good shepherd, and he knows how to lead you,
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Protect you and provide for you Come on
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somebody say amen He knows how you feel
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And he knows exactly How to
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lead you This is Jehovah Rohi He is
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your shepherd You are not alone You are not worthless You are not doing life
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By yourself You are not just trying to get by You're not just trying to make
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it You're not just trying to figure it out You have your personal shepherd.
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And he loves you and he knows you and he knows everything about everything.
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Glory to God. And he's rich.
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Glory to God. And he's a healer. Amen. And he's always present.
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Glory to God. Say, the Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd.
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Now, let's read Psalms 23.
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Psalms 23, very familiar and famous passage of scripture. And like we said earlier,
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pride says, I've heard this before.
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Humility says, I need to hear it again. Amen.
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The Lord is my shepherd. Matter of fact, read it with me. Read it with me. Ready?
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Read. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
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He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
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He leads me beside the still waters.
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He restores my soul He leads me in the paths of righteousness For his name's sake Yea,
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though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil
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For you are with me Your rod and your staff,
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they comfort me You prepare a table before me In the presence of my enemies,
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You anoint my head with oil.
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My cup runs over.
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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
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and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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Come on, somebody say amen. Amen.
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Years ago, Stacey, I just felt led to share this story.
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Stacey went to a workout class, and now she goes to workout classes,
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but this story I'm telling you was years ago. Okay.
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All right, that makes sense? So she works out.
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But years ago, she went to this class and she said, Devon, there was this lady
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in the class who didn't do anything. The instructor said the instructor would
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say, come on, let's do some jumping jacks.
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The lady would stand there and watch. The instructor say, come on, let's touch your toes.
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Lady would stand there and watch. The instructor would say, come on, let's do some squats.
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The lady would stand there and watch. And she said, it was kind of weird.
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The lady didn't do anything. And when she told me that, the first thing that
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came out of my mouth was, well, at least she showed up.
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And the Holy Spirit arrested me. As soon as I said that.
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He says, what good is it to show up and not participate?
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And that hit me because a lot of times we come to church.
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And I don't want to say all this stuff. Pastor, make me say all this stuff.
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Make me read all this. I don't want to do none of that. what good is it?
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To show up and not participate. We got to engage and participate. Amen.
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See, what happens is that we have created, unintentionally I think,
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the church has created this show up and sit mentality.
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Show up, the pastor would do everything for me, the worship leader would do
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everything for me, and y'all just sit.
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And if you like it, you know, then maybe you smile. If you don't like it,
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then you won't come back. Screw all that.
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We are here to participate.
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Amen. Come on, put your hands together.
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We come to engage and to participate. Amen.
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I was talking to a guy one time. He's like, I never say when the pastor says
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something, I never say what he says back. Well, stay broke then.
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You know what? Stay poor. Stay lacking then. We're trying to get you from point A to point B.
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Amen. And so follow our lead. Amen.
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And so we're up here reading all this stuff. It's so that we can participate.
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I didn't come to get you going.
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Come on, somebody. If you would just run. I didn't come do all that.
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I came to encourage you that Jehovah Rohi is with you. And he's my shepherd.
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And he shall, I shall not want.
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Amen. And so we say, read the chapter. We're gonna read the chapter.
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Out loud, amen. Somebody say out loud.
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Amen. So watch this, Psalms 23, the Lord is.
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That's a promise that he is anything and everything you need him to be.
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The Lord is, watch this, my shepherd. That's a promise to lead, feed, and protect you.
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I shall not want. That's a promise of provision that you will lack nothing.
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Glory to God.
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He makes me to lie down in green pastures. That's a promise of rest.
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Sheep won't rest unless they feel safe.
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And so the shepherd makes you feel safe. And then you will lie down in green pastures.
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Watch this. He leads me. That's a promise of his leadership.
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He leads me beside the steel waters.
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What's that? The promise of peace and refreshment. Glory to God.
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He restores my soul.
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That's a promise of renewal and a promise of strength.
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Even though I walk, that's a promise of continuation. Glory to God.
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Through the valley of the shadow of death, shadows can't hurt you.
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A shadow of a dog ain't never been anybody.
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You're listening to me now. Shadows can't hurt you. But I like this part.
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Let me pause here through the valley.
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Somebody say the valley. The valley is only a transition or a pathway between two mountains.
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And mountains are always synonymous with victories. And so when you're walking
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through the valley, you're just walking from victory to victory.
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It's a season of transition. And God is stripping you of what you don't need.
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So when you get to the next mountain, you got everything you do need.
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Hallelujah. Glory to God.
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Hey, we're not supposed to stay in the valley. We're supposed to walk through
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the valley. Keep your head up because the shepherd is leading you every step
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of the way. Say amen to that.
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Valleys are seasons of difficulty, but God promises the good shepherd,
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Jehovah Roha, that he will walk with you through the valley into something greater.
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I will fear no evil. That's a promise of love.
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You know, love casts out all fear.
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Amen. 1 John 4, 18, love casts out all fear. You are with me.
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That's a promise of nearness to God.
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You are with me. Last week, we talked about Jehovah Shema.
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The Lord is here. The Lord is there. The Lord is with you.
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And that is a promise that he's with you.
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I mean, y'all this week need to be thinking more about the Lord being with you than anything else.
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Robert don't got to be with you. Shanene don't got to be with you.
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Your mama may not be with you.
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Your grandchildren may not be with you. Your boss may not be with you.
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Your spouse may have transitioned to heaven, but God is with you.
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Come on, somebody. And that's all you need.
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You don't need anybody but Jehovah with you. Say amen to that.
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Watch this. Your rod, that's a promise of protection.
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Your staff, that's a promise of power, shall comfort you. That's a promise of reassurance.
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You prepare, that's a promise to get you ready. Come on, somebody, it's time to get ready.
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T.D. James used to say, get ready, get ready, get ready. We got to get ready
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for what God has ahead of us.
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You prepare, a promise to get ready, a table, a promise of abundance.
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I love this. You will even be blessed while your enemies watch a table set before
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you in the presence of you while they are looking.
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You're being blessed. Glory to God. Can you take the hate? That's the question I have for you.
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Can you take the hate people when you're blessed?
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People will hate you. They don't even know why.
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And it's probably someone closest to you. They're going to start hating you.
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Start talking about you. Start making fun of you. Start saying that you're doing something illegal.
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And hate you. Can you handle the hate? If you can't, you don't want the blessing.
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Because the blessing comes with persecution. Can you handle it?
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When God begins to increase you more and more, can you handle the talking,
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the gossip, the things that people will say behind your back and even to your face?
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Can you handle relationships being broken because you're so blessed?
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I'm talking about what I know, how God has had to sift certain people out of
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my life because they can't handle someone being blessed.
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Can you handle it? Can you handle the talking? That's the key, the making fun of.
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I may have shared this story in the past, but someone had given me this Rolex.
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No, no, it wasn't a Rolex. It was a Breitling. A Breitling watch.
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You ever familiar with a Breitling? There was an expensive watch.
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As a matter of fact, short story, we went to the mall, and there was a little Brightlands store.
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And I told Stacey, I said, I didn't know how much Brightlands cost at the time.
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I said, let's go in this Brightlands store. And I started looking,
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and I saw this watch right here. It was on sale.
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I said, oh, glory to God. I looked. I said, woo, that's a nice watch.
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And she came with me, and I asked the man, I said, how much is this watch,
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Dana? I said, how much is this watch?
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I said, this is nice. He said, $10,000.
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I said, glory to God.
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Woo. That's a nice. I'm a pass on that today today. I'm a pass on it,
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but that's nice. Nice I you give me your car cuz I you know,
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I'll be back. He was like, okay, you know, it won't be on sale for long Yeah,
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I know. I know that's really nice.
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I kept it moving but one time someone gave me a.
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A nice Breitling type watch. I think it was sort of a knockoff,
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but it was bling bling, okay?
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It was shining and glistening, okay?
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And I used to not wear the watch because I was ashamed that someone may talk about me.
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Somebody would be like, Pastor, up there preaching, look at that big old watch he got on.
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I was ashamed, Wayne, and I didn't wear it.
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And I'd be lifting my hands up and I thought, oh, I better put that hand down
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because, you know, You know, somebody might see the bling bling on that watch.
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And I start and the Lord start talking to me, say, you ain't ready for the blessing
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there. If you ain't ready to be talked about, you ain't ready for the blessing.
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And so I had to I actually gave that watch away because I was too embarrassed to wear it.
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Now, I'm believing for a hundredfold harvest to come back on that watch.
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And when it does, I'm going to be up here wearing it. OK, I don't care what y'all say about it.
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The Lord can get anything to me from anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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It don't mean I paid for it.
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You don't know how I got it. And let me share this with you.
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I didn't mean to go this direction.
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But if you got something nice and someone compliments you on it,
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don't say, well, I got that on sale at the JCPenney.
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Now you're trying to justify why you got something nice. Are you listening?
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Don't justify it and say thank you.
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Thank you. The Lord blessed me with this. Thank you. But we're trying to justify,
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well, you know, I got to say, oh, this is just a little hand-me-down.
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No, just say, thank you. The Lord blessed me with this. And guess what? He can bless you too.
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Amen. And so can you eat a feast in the presence of your enemies?
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That's the question you have to answer. Can I operate with increase on my life
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in the presence of all of the haters?
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That's the question you're going to have to answer. And for me,
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I gave that watch away because I did not want to be talked about.
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I wanted to hide under the radar, and I don't want anybody to know about this.
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And the Lord blessed me with it, but I didn't want to wear it.
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I've heard of a minister say that he was blessed with a nice new car, and he never drove it.
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Someone bought it for him. As a matter of fact, it was an anniversary and their
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church got together and bought him a nice car.
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And he never drove it because he was embarrassed because it was so nice.
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My question is, can you handle the haters that are going to talk about you?
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Because there's a table prepared getting you ready in the presence of will you eat?
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Will you eat at the table or will you say nah I'm unworthy we know you're unworthy,
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we know that God through Christ Jesus has made you worthy in and of your own
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self you are filthy rags we understand that but God has made you worthy through
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Christ Jesus can you receive it.
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Can you receive it I was promoted at my secular job three times in two years,
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started out making $28,000, started making well over $100,000.
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People started talking about me. Well, who does he know?
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Who is he booty kissing? You know, what's going on? All this stuff. None of that was true.
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Just the blessing of the Lord will make you rich and add no sorrow to it, right?
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I just stood and just smiled. Y'all just keep talking. This is the blessing of the Lord. Amen.
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And I'm going to eat at the table that's being prepared for me. Say amen to that.
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You anoint my head. That is a promise of an assignment.
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An anoint meaning is also an appointing or a promise of notoriety.
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You anoint my head with oil. Praise God.
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My oil is abundance, is the Holy Spirit.
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You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
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Are you ready for a life that just runs over?
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Not a life that just barely half full all the time.
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A life that runs over. And you have to ask your spouse or your friend,
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what do I do with the extra?
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I'm just running over. What do I do with the extra? Say that.
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What do I do with the extra? See, we're so used to saying, well,
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how am I going to make it? because I got all this lack.
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Start the same energy that it takes to think more about lack is you can think about extra.
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I do the bills in our home and I sit down, I do them, you know,
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the bill pay or whatever.
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And, you know, I see that bank account
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dwindling down and I get a little nervous. I start biting my nails.
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Oh Lord, the count's going down to zero. And I changed all that several years
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ago. I said, when I'm paying the bills, I say, there's extra.
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Lord, what do you want me to do with the extra? Amen. What do you want me to
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do with that? My cup overflows.
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I went and spoke somewhere. This was pre-COVID and it was an impromptu speaking
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somewhere and someone asked me to come and I don't charge anybody to go speak anywhere.
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I don't have a charge to preach the gospel.
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Now, if you want me to officiate your wedding, I do have a charge.
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Okay. That's another thing.
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That's not preaching the gospel And I get a lot of people ask me Tasha handles
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this for me They're not in our church Don't get me wrong If you're in our church
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I handle that But I get asked a lot to do weddings That are not in my church
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And I do have a charge for that But I don't know why I'm telling you that Back to this thing,
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In case somebody trying to ask me Just know I will charge If you got an open bar,
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I'm going to charge Because you're paying a whole lot of money For that open bar,
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Somebody say amen to that Sometimes the open bar Is more than the venue,
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But we don't want to get Pastor nothing for No, no, you know I'm going to charge,
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Pastor, we want you to do Pastor Devon, can you do our wedding?
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Yeah, we don't have no budget for you You have a budget for the bar?
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We do Hey, you got a budget for me too Amen You with me, H&G? Yeah Yeah.
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And so this particular ministry really blessed me.
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They blessed me for coming to speak. And it was a nice honorarium check for
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coming. And they really honored me with it.
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And Stacey and I got really, really excited about it. Yes, we're going to go on vacation.
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Nothing wrong with vacation. We're going to, you know, buy this.
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Nothing wrong with buying something.
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But I turned to the Lord. I said, Lord, this is extra.
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What do you want me to do with the extra? Amen.
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The Lord said, here's what I want you to do. I want you to take half of it.
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I want you to do this one. I want you to take the other half of it. It was nothing for me.
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And I said, okay, that extra came in for somebody else. Amen.
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So you need to begin to ask yourself, what should I do with the extra?
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Now watch this. Where were we?
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You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over a life that overflows. Watch this.
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Goodness. Somebody say goodness. That's a promise of generosity Goodness and
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mercy A promise to not give you what you deserve.
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Mercy is you're not going to get what you deserve,
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Man, I deserve a whole lot of bad things But the mercy of God doesn't give me
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what I deserve Watch this We'll follow Somebody say follow,
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So this is a promise to cover your rear end, cover your rear. This is a promise.
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It's going to follow me all the days of my life.
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This is a promise of daily blessings.
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This is what Jehovah Rohi is promising us.
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If we allow him to be our shepherd and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
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forever. This is a promise of longevity, longevity, dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.
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When we call on Jehovah Rohi, we're calling on the shepherd,
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the shepherd that promises all these things to us.
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Now, I want to read this from the Passion Translation.
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This is Psalms 23, 1 through 6 from the Passion. Watch this. Let me read it to you.
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The Lord is my best friend and my shepherd.
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I always have more than enough. Can that be your testimony? I always have more than enough.
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He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to
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an oasis of peace, the quiet brook of bliss.
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That's where he restores and revives my life.
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He opens before me pathways to God's pleasure and leads me along in his footsteps
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of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name.
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Lord, even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness,
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fear will never conquer me, for you already have.
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You remain close to me and lead me through it all the way.
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Your authority is my strength and my peace.
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The comfort of your love takes away my fear. I'll never be lonely for you are near.
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You become my delicious feast even when my enemies dare to fight.
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You anoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit. You give me all I can
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drink of, you, until my heart overflows.
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So why would I fear the future?
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For your goodness and love pursue me all the days of my life.
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Then afterward, when my life is through, I'll return to your glorious presence to be forever with you.
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Amen. Amen. Again, Jehovah Rohi, your shepherd, you have a shepherd that loves you, sees you.
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Even when you feel forgotten, he sees you.
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Even when you feel overlooked, he sees you.
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He still has plans for you. He knows how to lead you.
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He knows how to get you from point A to point B.
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He knows how to direct you. He knows what you don't know.
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I'm glad I know someone that knows what I don't know.
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That's so comforting that I don't have to know it all, but I know someone that knows everything.
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I have access to someone that has excess. Glory to God.
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It is time for you and I to yield and surrender to Jehovah Rohi.
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Stop trying to figure it all out.
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Even as we're searching for this new building and the Lord's leading and guiding
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and directing us, I've been leaning into Jehovah Rohi.
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Like, Lord, you're the shepherd. I'm not going to worry about this.
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You're going to lead and you're going to guide and you're going to direct.
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And you're going to make the crooked places straight in. And you're going to
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reveal exactly what needs to be revealed at the right time.
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That's Jehovah Rohi. One translation says, Yahweh is my shepherd.
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I shall not want or lack or decrease.
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Oh, I love that. He's going to always be there for you.
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But you have to make him your shepherd.
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He's not the shepherd. He's my shepherd. He's my shepherd. Say he's my shepherd.
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He's my shepherd. He he's going to my emotions don't leave me.
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My feelings don't leave me. The bank account doesn't leave me.
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Pookie and Ray Ray. They don't leave me.
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Jehovah Rohi leads me. He he guides me and he will protect me.
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Amen. Man, even when you miss the mark and make a mistake, Jehovah Roi is still
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there, leading, guiding, protecting.
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He'll never leave you nor forsake you. And it's time for you and I to just surrender.
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Surrender. Surrender all of your cares.
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Surrender all of your concerns.
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Surrender all of your fears. As a matter of fact, just close your eyes right now.
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All of your fears, all of your concerns, all of your cares,
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all of your anxieties, surrender them to him. Humble yourself.
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One of the reasons you're carrying a lot of worry is because you're carrying
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it and you haven't surrendered it to him.
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Humble yourself.
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Surrender all those things that are needed for daily life All those things that
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are needed For your future,
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Surrender all of the plans and the purposes All of the goals The finances it
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takes All of the energy it may take Surrender it unto him,
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All of the wisdom And knowledge that it may take surrender it to him.
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Jehovah Rohi. The Lord is my shepherd.
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Look at me. This is how you experience true life.