Part Sixteen
Yahveh is Our Shepherd
Psalm 23:1
“Yahveh (the LORD) is our shepherd, we shall not want … He guides us in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake … [His] rod and [His] staff, they comfort us.” (Psalm 23 vs 1-4). Those who are His sheep are going to feel His rod and staff. His rod and staff comfort us, most people want to go where they want to go, do what they want to do, and they do not want Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) rod and staff directing where their footsteps are ordered. For “Yahveh (the LORD) orders the footsteps of the righteous” and the righteous are so grateful, like little sheep, that they have such a loving shepherd who is leading them out of harms way into eternal safety and blessings. (Psalm 37:23)
“He prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies” (Psalm 23 v 5). Our enemies are all around. As we feast on Him in the presence of our enemies we are going to feel protection of the surrounding of His indwelling Spirit. Do you feel the blessing of having your Good Shepherd’s rod and staff ordering your footsteps as the word says? His sheep are hearing His voice and lovingly following Him. He is taking us out of harms way through the narrowing path where only He knows where the safe pasture is.
Let’s not wait until it is taken; let this be a time of exchanging the worthless to get the preciousness of the light of Yahshua (Jesus) as was told in Jeremiah “if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman.”
- Jeremiah 15:9 -
Our Father is pulling, leading and drawing us upward with wooing cords of love— beckoning us to come up higher and leave this earthly realm. Yahveh is crying out on our behalf to the enemy, “Let My people go that they may serve and worship Me.” (Exodus 8:1) “The Son will set you free”, but you have to choose and recount the cost continually; you inevitably will be leaving more and more of your familiar comfort zones—which will be taken down with the judgments of the earth. (John 8:36) Let’s not wait until it is taken; let this be a time of exchanging the worthless to get the preciousness of the light of Yahshua (Jesus) as was told in Jeremiah “if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman.” (Jeremiah 15:9) That is a prerequisite to discern and distinguish our Shepherd’s voice, which is the preciousness of truth. Then “He will anoint [our] head with oil” (Psalm 23:5) and call and choose us to speak the truth that will set others free. If we are surrendered through our heart’s desire to follow our Good Shepherd at any cost He will continually be tearing down strongholds over our mind leading us to repentance so that we can be set free by the Son to run and finish the race victoriously. (see 2 Timothy 4:7)
Yahveh is not pleased and cannot work with us when we have adopted a form of religion that is a mixture of the holy and the common (the spirit and the world). You cannot please Yahveh and man. (Galatians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 2:4) You cannot be a friend of the world and be welcomed into the kingdom. (see James 4:4) It is an offense to Yahveh because we are to be a separated people who are peculiar, distinct, and holy as we worship in His Spirit and uncompromised truth. (2 Corinthians 6:17, 1 Peter 2:9, John 4:24)
