"A Shepherd's Heart," ♥️ "Lost and Found."
He rescued the fawn, and used his mobile phone to take a recording of the fawn's distress cry. Then he played it loudly over the speaker. It worked, and drew the mother deer's attention. She was reunited to her baby fawn, and began to nurse him. All thanks to this man's gentle shepherding.
Our heavenly Father does the same thing with us, and Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He rescues us, loves us, feeds us, and protects us. And we follow Him because we know His Voice. We will not listen to the voice of a stranger. Just like how our beloved pets also recognize our voice, when we call out to them and talk to them. So we also respond to the call of Jesus, who is our Good Shepherd. We recognize His voice, and follow Him everywhere He goes.
Hymn Lyrics: "Softly and Tenderly" 🎶🕊️🔥💖🌿🌷
Lyrics: "Come Back to Me" 🎶🔥🕊️💖
Ezekiel 34:11-30 was a scripture that I was led to read today. It holds significance, because it relates to my testimony. How I came back to the Lord in 2001, after wandering away from the faith during my teenage years.
I met the wrong guy when I was 17, and was with him for 6 years. He wasn't a good influence, and I fell into the wrong crowd and the trappings of the world. My ex-boyfriend was an atheist, and he was verbally and emotionally abusive. Sometimes physically abusive too. At that time, I got involved in drugs, and the party scene. And I also started to abandon my faith and beliefs. Even though I still did secretly believe in God, and knew that something was wrong. I still could hear the voice of God in my heart convicting me that I was on the wrong path. But I didn't want to listen at that time. I was stubborn and stiff-necked, and ruled by my emotions. Until everything in my life started to fall apart, and I hit rock bottom.
Then one day I started to have dreams that literally shook me to my core. In the dream, I saw thick black clouds of darkness swirling all around me. I got scared and called on the name of Jesus, "Jesus, Jesus save me!" Then all of a sudden He appeared to me in the dream, but the look on His face was very stern and serious. It frightened me. It is a scary thing, to fall into the hands of the living God. Especially after knowing all of the wicked things that I had done deeply displeased Him. I actually had that same dream for three nights in a row. It was definitely a warning.
After that happened I decided to change my ways. I repented, and got out of that unhealthy relationship with God's help. He led me to a prayer group called, "Kairos Christian Ministry," where I met some new godly friends, who helped me on the path to healing and deliverance. They helped me to cut the soul ties with my ex-boyfriend, and stuff like that. And after I fully surrendered myself completely to our Lord Jesus Christ, a deep peace came over my mind and heart. I felt like a new creation. I changed my life around completely, and never looked back. That was over 30 years ago now, and my life has never been the same since.
After I came back to the Lord, and rededicated my life to Him, He led me to read Ezekiel 34. And I was surprised to see how closely it relates to the dream I had too.
Jesus, the True Shepherd 💖
“Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord God. “I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment... You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God,” says the Lord God."
Comments
Post a Comment