Aug 26, 2025 … Our Good Shepherd ...

Aug 26, 2025 … Our Good Shepherd   ... 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the tme to hear music and lyrics with Patrick Mayberry singing… Lead On Good Shepherd,  … joyfully  following our “Good Shepherd”…  all the way to glory.

Lead on, Good Shepherd, ... lead on!!! 

Highlight Passage: …  Ezekiel 34:15 … [NLT] … 

15 I myself will tend My sheep and give them a place to lie down in peace, says the Sovereign Lord.   

… God’s promise to His chosen people to provide them with a Good Shepherd.     

Highlight Passage (in context): … Ezekiel 34:11-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s word and assurance, thru the Prophet, Ezekiel, promises to give God’s chosen faithful a Good Shepherd to watch over His flock forever.    

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 23:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David, having been a Shepherd, declares that The Lord is his Good Shepherd, leading him (and us) to HIS pasture of peace and goodness. 

Reference Passage:… Isaiah 40:11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God, thru Isaiah, teaches that God will be a good Shepherd, tending, feeding, and leading His flock.

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 53:6  {NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Isiah compares God as a shepherd, chosen to lead His wayward sheep to His promised land. 

Reference Passage: … John 10:11-15  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus declares and describes Himself to be that Good Shepherd watching over and tending to His faithful flock.

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 13:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of the Book of Hebrews rightly shows that God’s Shepherd died for His sheep and was raised from the dead to be their (our) Good Shepherd.  

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 2:25 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Peter calls on fellow Christians to be like the flock of sheep which faithfully follows their Shepherd <b>(see photo)</b>.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Kirsten Holmberg … AT THIS LINK     … relates she was new to living in Idaho and one day was surprisingly stopped while driving by a heard of thousands of sheep being led across the highway as part of and annual drive of sheep in that state to the summer pasture lands.       

And if my readers have taken in the linked song, and meditated on the Scriptures shared above, I pray that Jesus is that Good Shepherd, promised by Isaiah and sung about by King David and exemplified by Jesus in His birth, life, death, and resurrection.  He’s my Good Shepherd. Is He yours?    

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for being my Good Shepherd.

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … Lord. … for being our Good Shepherd; … lead on, Lord, … we will follow You!   … Amen

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