Psalm
23:1
The
LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
The
LORD…
The terms “The LORD”
means, a divine master or divine ruler, and a divine superior; He is a
personality with subjects who are totally loyal to his instruction, desires or
expectations.
The bible did not say a Lord is my shepherd, the bible
says the Lord is my shepherd.
The, is a term that sets apart a thing from the rest. It reveals the
superiority of a thing over the others. It reveals the specifications behind a
word. There are many lords but one LORD rule over them. If the LORD Jesus
Christ is your shepherd, you will not want but if lord is your shepherd, you
will surely want. If you look closely into your bible, you will notice LORD and
not lord. This reveals the superiority behind the personality involved (Jesus). For it to be written in capital
letters reveals the nature of God or the divine personality.
The world is made of
the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness. Jesus is the LORD in the
kingdom of God while Sin is the lord in the kingdom of darkness. Who is your LORD? Who is in charge of
your life? Who defines your worth and priorities? Who influences your attitude,
manner of approach and mindset? Is it your money, pleasure of the world, your
car, your profession, or your position in the society etc? Who dictates the
pattern and approach of your decision making? Is Jesus in charge of your life?
Some believers look up
to Jesus for provision but they don’t want to stay under His authority. Some
believers desire God’s Grace but they deny His authority. They want the
blessings from the Lord Jesus but they are not ready to obey his instruction.
They are not ready to be led, rebuked and correct from the path of death in
order for them to walk in the path of life.
Whose desire are u
fulfilling? Before you claim the blessing in God’s kingdom, are you under His
authority. Is Jesus the Lord over your life? Are you submissive to his
instructions? Praise God you are free from the power of darkness but in Christ,
you are under the authority of God. Grace and authority are the lifestyle
involved in salvation race. You will enjoy His Grace but don’t forget His
authority. You are under an authority that will lead you into your destiny.
Who
is a LORD? A LORD discipline and influences you till His
desire is achieved in your life. He is not considerate and you His subjects
must be ready to put on His culture. What He eats is what you must eat? He
tutors, disciplines, and train individuals into a place of maturity according
to His plan. Your progress or delay is solely depended on His choice,
priorities, desires and expectations. His yes is your yes and His no is final.
You have no right to complain, and the only thing you are permitted to do is to
obey. When He says go, you must go and when he says stop you must stop. Obeying
the lifestyle for the sheep’s who are under His LORDSHIP.
Is…
Is, is a present terms.
This reveals that your relationship or fellowship with the LORD has nothing to
do with your PAST; it’s about the PRESENT. Thank God for whom the LORD use to
be to you in the past but, who is HE to you presently. Are you under His
LORDSHIP presently or your story is more like, when l use to serve the LORD? I
don’t care what your past relationship with the LORD use to be, my question for
you is; how intimate are you with the LORD presently? Thank God for the entire
past Encounter you have experienced with the Lord. Thank God for the past
prophecies and vision He has revealed to you. Thank God for the truth you know.
Thank God for all the words the LORD told you in the past but what is the LORD
saying presently? What is the LORD presently revealing to you? What is the
present Truth the LORD is teaching you presently? You can’t use your past
experience with the LORD to relate with Him today. IS He presently in
relationship with you? His Mercies are new, every morning. He is the Ever Constant Progressive LORD. To Moses at the Red Sea
He instructed, stretch the rod upon the sea, and the Red Sea was divided. To
Joshua at Jordan He instructed, Let the Priest step into the bank of the
Jordan, and Jordan divided. But to Peter the Apostle Jesus Instructed, COME!
WALK ON THE SEA and the sea submitted to Peter.
My…
My, is a personalized
word. Apart from what people have told you about the LORD, what is your
personal Revelation about the LORD? What is your personal experience with the
LORD? Using Moses as a case study, the children of Israel knew Him as God
Almighty but Moses, had a personal experience with Him as Jehovah.
Exodus
6:3
And
I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God
Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Jehovah was the
continuation of His personality as God Almighty. This is the advanced phase of
His personality. Moses had a personal Encounter,
Experience and Relationship with
the LORD. There is a side of God’s personality that no body has discovered yet.
The LORD has preserved that side of His personality for you alone due to His plan,
and purpose for your life. The LORD is more than your present knowledge. Apart
from the things people have told you about the LORD, who is He to you? Knowing
Him and relating with the LORD is a constant progressive journey.
Shepherd…
A Shepherd guards,
defend, lead and feed His sheep’s. It involves the sheep’s welfare and them
growing into maturity, and safety. For the LORD to be your Shepherd you must
function in the Revelation that you are under His Authority and you are His
sheep (Subject). Walking in this
Revelation will help you to rest in the available Grace of God for your life.
You need to understand that you are not alone. You are not left without a
leader, and protector. He is your guard, defender and leader.
Under His authority, you can’t do what you
like or say whatsoever you like. In this platform, your priorities, and
lifestyle will be dependent on your Shepherd’s life. Your desires and
expectations are no longer needed, His desire, and expectation becomes your
priority because, He knows what is best for you, and what you will need to
enter in your place of destiny.
In this place, your
knowledge, understanding, and wisdom must be dependent on what your shepherd’s
experiences and instructions. In this place, you must be sensitive to the instructions
of your shepherd. Shepherds always walk with the rod and the staff. Discipline
and care are the two platforms your shepherd will place you on for growth and
development. You must know that you are here to be corrected, rebuked and
encouraged.
I
shall not want…
This is a deep
statement. The first time the Holy Spirit revealed this to me, I was shocked
because this is new to me compared to what the people around me would believe
it to be. The Holy Spirit said, I is not the function of the physical body or
your selfish interest. The “I” is all about the real you that was created in
Genesis 1:26. This is the reality of your purpose, your abilities and your
ideas. The “I” is all about YOU. Your purpose, dreams, vision, abilities and
idea holds the total sum of YOU (I).
Mind you, the purpose, vision, abilities and ideas must be an extension of His
Grace to you. If He gives you a vision, ability, idea, and a purpose for your
living, he will provide for all the expense required for their fulfillment. He
will always be committed to what He creates, designs, and set up. If you create any thing by your strength,
you will provide for the achievement that is tagged to them.
If you submit to make
the Lord your Shepherd, you will not lack all it requires for you to fulfill
the purpose, dreams, vision, abilities and ideas that define you. The devil is
not fighting the physical you. He is fight the purpose, dreams, vision and
ability of God that is in you. He is afraid of who are about to become (YOU). Your physical body is just your
container, the real you is your purpose for existence, your dreams, vision and
ideas in God. That is the real you and that is what Jesus restored through His
death.
I
shall not want means; I will always have what I need
for the accomplishment of the purpose, vision, dreams and idea of God within
me. It means l will not lack the training, discipline, preparation,
revelations, discoveries, divine encounter and insight required for me in
becoming who God has planned for me to become. On the other hand it also means,
I will lack all the unnecessary knowledge, understanding, wisdom, training,
discoveries etc that is not required for the plan of God in my life.
As longer the LORD is
your shepherd, you will not lack the necessities. I want to know that the LORD
is not trying to plan for your needs. The LORD is not thinking of planning for
you. The LORD has provided for all the necessity you need in fulfilling the
dreams, ideas, purpose and vision within your life. There is an allocation set
apart for every thing you will become and do in life before you were born. The
LORD formed you into your mother’s womb. He has planned and provided in advance
for all you need to fulfill His plan before you were born.
This is a settled
issue. Every thing needed for discovering and fulfilling God’s plan for your
life are already fixed in the different phases of time and season of your life.
As you walk, each phase of time and season will deliver into your hand what is
due for you. Through the instructions of the LORD you will be able to know what
is available and what you should wait for.
Having the necessities
for your life means you will lack what is not necessary for your life. You must
be able to focus on the LORD in other for you to know the difference between the
good and the bad. Some things are available but not needed for your life and
for the plans of the LORD for your life. Joseph focused on the LORD and he was
able to stick to what was necessary for His life even thou His master’s wife
tempt him. Some things are available but not needed.
The path of salvation
you are walking on, you are new in it. You don’t know what will help your
destiny except the LORD who is the author of your destiny. For the fact that
you like some things does not mean you need them. It might be pleasurable but
not necessary for the plan of God in you. It might be what every body has
accepted but not needed for the dream of God in you. It might be what every
body pursue yet not needed according to the plan of God in your life.
In God’s kingdom, the
plan, the vision, the ideas, and the purpose of God for your life will
determine the provision available for your life. Whatsoever that will not lead
you into the discovery, preparation, and manifestation of God’s intention for
your life, God will not permit it in your life.
How
will you know that what you have is not necessary for the plan of God in your
life? The way to know it is not necessary is, you will be
struggling with it. You will be fighting to maintain them. Those things will
become a distraction to your walk with God and to your personal self
development. There will tear down your strength instead of building them.
I want you to be aware
that you don’t need all the knowledge, understanding, wisdom, discoveries,
revelations and divine encounter available. There are specifications
surrounding who you are and who God is changing you to become. There is a
specific knowledge, understanding, wisdom, training, discoveries and divine
encounter require for YOU (purpose,
vision, and ideas). What God wants to achieve in your life will determine
what the LORD will channel to your way.
Your purpose, vision,
dreams, and ideas will determine the discoveries, trainings, preparations,
experiences, pain, and joy, the LORD will permit you to undergo. This is the
major reason why you need to submit to His authority. He knows what is best for
you and He knows what will affect or impact YOU (purpose, vision, and ideas).
Here is another issue,
it is possible that He is your Shepherd and yet you are in want. If you are not
ready to follow and obey the instruction of your LORD, you will suffer and
struggle in the same vision the LORD has given you. Every provision required
for the trainings, preparation, discoveries, and divine encounters for the
fulfillment of the purpose, vision, abilities, and ideas in you are all buried
in the instruction the LORD will give you per time, per season. Be flexible to
His instruction and you must embrace a constant progressing approach to your
life (purpose, vision, dreams and ideas).
For you to have and
submit to the LORD, it means you must always listen to His instruction. It
means you must always ask question when you don’t understand His instruction.
It means you must know and understand the specification within His instructions
to you. It means, you must know when, why, and how to go about His instructions
to you. It means you must be sensitive to the timing behind His instructions.
It means, you don’t do or say any thing without His instruction. In this place,
Romans 8:14 is fulfilled; for as many as
are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The LORD is your Shepherd, you shall not want.
Your change is
here!
May The Holy Spirit Shine thew Light of Truth in your Heart in Jesus Name. May You walk in the consciousness of who you are in Jesus Name.
Be Inspired!
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