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MANY CALLED
FEW CHOSEN
FEED MY SHEEP
WELCOME BACK MY
FRIEND
Patience is a virtue. Virtue is strength or power.
I trust that you're waiting each day for the next step. By doing so,
you're gaining strength. The more strength you have, the easier it is
to succeed.
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Psalms 25:5
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my
salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. |
FEED MY
SHEEP is a command that Jesus gave to Peter three times.
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John 21:15-17
So when they had dined, Jesus saith
to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He
saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto
him,
Feed my lambs.
He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou
me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith
unto him,
Feed my sheep.
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me?
And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I
love thee. Jesus saith unto him,
Feed my sheep. |
Many wonder why Jesus said
the words FEED my sheep (Lamb is a sheep) THREE times. Even
Peter seemed a lil "grieved" that He said it THRICE. Hmmmmmm
"Thrice" ... Now where have I heard that word THRICE before?
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Matthew 26:75
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the
cock crow, thou shalt deny me
thrice.
And he went out, and wept bitterly. |
Perhaps it was a gentle reminder to Peter that he DID deny
Jesus THRICE and to remember these words. Peter DID run off
when the wolves came and this request made three times may
have been a way by which to say that Peter was to stay and
protect the sheep this time. At either rate, Jesus said it
THRICE to reveal the IMPORTANCE of the words ... FEED MY
SHEEP.
What
does FEED MY SHEEP mean? Does it mean that Peter and the
Apostles were responsible for making sure the sheep had
food?
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Matthew 6:11
Give us this day our daily bread. |
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Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said,
It is written, Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. |
No ...
The food they were to provide these sheep with was the WORD
OF GOD.
Who are the sheep that are
to be fed this Word of God?
The sheep are the children of God.
When
one feels called to serve God and begins to feed GOD'S
sheep, one can oft times become overzealous and blinded by
pride. This occurred with the Pharisees and it is written
that they ended up making it too hard for God's children to
enter Heaven by the heavy demands that they placed on them,
meanwhile they, themselves were secretly living in sin.
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Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the
kingdom of Heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither
suffer ye them that are entering to go in. |
We are all sinners. It may be that your sin
is different from the sins of another that you encounter but
how is it that you can judge their sin and think for one
second that God is not going to judge you for yours?
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Matthew 7:1-2
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye
shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you again. |
IF and
when you feel called to Feed HIS sheep ... In sharing TRUTH
with these precious lost souls and troubled Christians, one
should always keep in mind that these are NOT your children,
they belong to God.
It is not your place to discipline or verbally abuse HIS
children. You are merely a hired servant required to watch
over HIS children. Kinda like a babysitter who has had HIS
children placed in your care. Beware the child crying to the
Father of your verbal abuse and the Father hiring another in
your place.
God is VERY aware that these lost sheep have not been shown
the way to TRUTH as you MAY have been but that does NOT give
you the right to scold them in some vain attempt to uplift
yourself.
It is TRUTH that God does get angry and expresses HIS anger
thru His prophets but I tell you a TRUTH ... It had better
be HIM expressing this anger thru you to HIS child and not
just YOU ... Lest the cries of His child enter into the mind
and Heart of their Father. A bear beholding someone harming
it's cubs will be deemed gentle, in comparison.
Here is wisdom ... When one that has been called finds that
one of HIS children is in need of medicine, one should not
try and force it down their throat with words of anger. You
would not do so to your own child if they were taken by a
plague or sickness. You would try and find the best tasting,
yet EFFECTIVE medicine that you could. You may even play lil
airplane games saying "Zoooooom, Zooooooom here comes the
airplane" as you gently slide the spoon of medicine into the
child's mouth. This way, the child WILLINGLY takes the
medicine.
God is well aware of the "handicaps" of His lost children
who have been kidnapped by the enemy and enticed with the
worldly trends to stay there. God is also well aware that
YOU are or were one of those souls as well. It may be that
He has shown you the way to TRUTH, but that does not give
you the right to portray yourself as being better than the
child that is still caught up in the worldly web.
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John 8:7
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. |
It is
very sad that these individuals, who consider themselves to
be better than another of God's children (even though, they
know in their hearts that they were also forgiven of their
sins of the past, and received God's Grace and still sin)
and that these people would find it necessary to judge
another, in some vain attempt to appear to uplift
themselves.
It was some self proclaimed Religious leaders, back in
Jesus' day, that were constantly following Jesus around
quoting LAW. They became so afraid of losing their high
places, that they devised a plan and had JESUS crucified ...
They used LAWS to do it. They claimed they were doing a God
service.
God Service huh? That's a hoot. God does not seek those who
would condemn His children. God does not seek those who
would keep them encaged by fear and doubt by making the path
to Heaven appear unattainable. God does NOT seek those who
would make His children walk away from the Faith feeling
inadequate and unworthy of the GRACE that HE has provided
those souls at such a dear cost.
God seeks those who are sensitive to the needs of HIS
children. God seeks those few UNDERSTANDING shepherds that
know that we all fall short and we all fall down. That the
Christian Walk is one very tough path and that we all walk
it together and that fellowship is one of the best tools we
have to help one another. God seeks caring and loving souls
that seek only to HELP the lost souls get home. Those that
seek only to bring in HIS sheep.
CHOOSE to HEAR what the SPIRIT has just spoken to you.
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE LOST?
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STEP #10
In order to complete the step for today, you
must CHOOSE to tell one person about God's GRACE.
Continuing in EACH step daily
is so very important.
Go back over each step often to
be sure you have not missed anything.
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