Shepherd And Sheep—The Secret To The Abundant Life (Classic Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner

God wants you to lack in no area. Now the Lord said this to me. My people have received me as their Savior, but many are still lacking because they do not know me as their shepherd. There'll be no lack in your life when the Lord is your shepherd. Jesus, how come you're so worried? It's my responsibility. I will not look good if you're not taken care of. Are you a ship? You qualified to hear his voice? You don't have to be smart to be blessed by God. Amen. You just need to follow Him because He

has all the smartness. He has all the wisdom. As long He's in front of you, goodness and mercy will hunt you down. What a perspective. What a way to face life. Amen. Hallelujah. And we have something fresh from the throne of God and I'm so excited that my concern is that I might really keep you here for the next three hours. Hallelujah. I'm just teasing. Praise the Lord. But it's really a wonderful time that I had with the Lord in the word where he open up some things and he wants you to know some things.

Church, your father wants you to know something from him. He wants you to believe that he loves you. Not just know it, but believe he loves you. He wants you to see Him especially, especially Jesus. He wants you to see Jesus as your shepherd. Amen of all the pictures that God gives us in the Bible. Alright? The most frequent expression or picture of God is dead of a shepherd and God's people is dead of a flock. The most frequently used. Now, the Bible uses a picture of God as the eagle, mother, eagle, or mother hand,

and rightly so, but it's not frequently used the picture of God as master, and we are his servants. That's true. It's all true, but it's not frequently used the picture of God as the master workman and all of us as workman in his vineyard. It's all true, but the most utilized metaphor of the Lord or picture of the Lord that God wants us to have, and it's often used both in the old and the new. It is something that both old and new used often. Amen is dead of the shepherd and the sheep. I think

that's something that we rub ourselves off when we don't remind ourselves of this relationship. Amen. You don't have to worry about faith when you see yourself as a sheep and the Lord is your shepherd. You don't have worry about faith because faith springs fourth. Amen. The moment you see the Lord as your shepherd, for example, when you go to a copm or a coffee shop, you go to the back, you see a lot of rats. What do you think of? You don't think, oh, this uncle in Copam, he owns a lot of rats. You don't

think of rats that way. You don't think of the keeper of the rats. Amen. But when you see sheep, whether it's in Australia or New Zealand or Israel, when you see sheep on the hillside, you the shepherd is not too far away. You relate the sheep to the shepherd. You don't relate rats to the copia man. Amen. The idea of a sheep has someone protecting them. Watching over them, loving them is a very beautiful thought. And goats can be independent. Goats can go their own way and follow a cliff. And usually goats are proud sheep.

Usually people think of sheep as dumb, alright? They may be dumb, but you know what? They are not proud. Amen. And I'd rather be dumb and have the Lord as my shepherd, and I shall not lack all the days of my life than to be smart and follow a cliff and die smart. Amen. Praise the Lord. And you don't have to be smart to be blessed by God. Amen. You just need to follow him because he has all the smartness, he has all the coolness, he has all the wisdom that you and I need. Hallelujah.

We just have follow him and as long you know how to follow him, you'll do fine. Amen. So the beautiful picture that he gives us is especially on this wonderful resurrection morning reminder of what Jesus has accomplished 2000 years ago, very early in the morning, he rose from the dead. So in Hebrews 13, the Bible says, the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep, there you see it again. Alright? The picture of the great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

not through your efforts but through the blood, make you complete in every good work to do his will working in. Lemme stop here and say that in this service there is a rain. It is raining inside here. Can you feel it? It's like spiritually, it's raining. It's already raining all over this place. And I'm telling you, people are blessed in this service because I didn't sense this rain in the first two, but it's falling. It's like I can hear the sound of the abundance of rain. Like the prophet says in the Old Testament, I hear

the son of the abundance of rain and God spirit is falling on you. I know some of you're receiving your miracles already. Thank you Father God. Praise your wonderful name, Lord Jesus. The great shepherd is really pouring in his oil and his wine, amen, binding up our wounds and healing us. Amen. The picture of healing is tied up with the Lord being our shepherd. In one Peter two, chapter two, verse 24, the famous verse, all of us quote, by his stripes, we are healed. And sometimes we forget the context, but you look at the context,

look at the last line by whose stripes you were healed for you were like sheep going straight, but you have now returned to the shepherd. To the shepherd and overseer of your souls. So the moment you see Jesus as your shepherd, something happens to your body. I believe healing becomes easier when you see him as your shepherd, when you see yourself as his sheep. Amen. And praise be to the Lord. The Lord has all kinds of sheep, but they're all sheep, all sizes, all shapes. Some of them vary round very cute, but they're all his

sheep. Amen. When the Lord is your shepherd, you shall not want. And I know that many of you know this passage and therein lies the danger. Alright, your familiarity with the shepherd Psalm, Psalms 23, this Psalm is the, in fact, when people talk about the Bible, they talk about Psalms 23 and it's so well known that even Hiddens know this Psalm, Psalms 23, and if you don't watch it, he said the devil's device is always to try to keep a revelation down, a good revelation down. But when he can and too many voices are preaching

that revelation, he'll try to push that revelation to the realm where it becomes meaningless, where it becomes repeated like a par will repeat something and becomes a cliche or becomes so familiar. Your danger with this psalm is that it becomes an over familiar passage to you that you forget what God is saying to you from that psalm today. Amen. Are you listening? So write off Psalms 23. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not. One notice, there's no qualification. One you shall not lack. In other words, I shall not lack. Lack for what? There's no

qualification then does not say, I shall not lack for joy does not say, I shall not lack for peace. I shall not lack full stop. That means what? It covers everything. There'll be no lack in your life when the Lord is your shepherd. Now the Lord said this to me. My people have received me as their savior, but many are still lacking because they do not know me as their shepherd. It is when you realize the Lord is your shepherd. You don't have to try to believe when you see him as your shepherd and you

are his sheep. Faith just brings forth. You feel a sense of love. You feel a sense of being cared for. You feel a sense that you're being washed over. Amen. Amen. It's a wonderful sense and I'm feeling it right now and I believe that the Lord is doing that to all of us right now. The anointing. Alright, behind this sermon is here. Praise the Lord. Thank you Jesus. And the Lord asked me, and when I was preparing this sermon and last week the Lord asked me this, he says, does the sheep keep the shepherd or

does a shepherd keep the ship? Yeah, the shepherd keeps the ship then how come you're so worried? Amen. That's why he asked me. He said to me when I said the shepherd keep the ship. He says, how come you're so worried? How come you're still worried about this and about that? It's my responsibility. I'll not look good if you're not taken care of. I'll not look good if you're not provided for. Amen. I'm your shepherd. Amen. So the very first thing he wants you to learn in order for you to walk in his provision, you

see God wants you to lack in no area. Amen. In other words, all your ones are provided for I shall not want for anything. Amen. Church. So put a limit there. There are people who preach Psalms 23. Unfortunately Psalms 23 is famous for bedtime. I was going to say bedtime scripture or even your death bed scripture, do I walk to the valley of the church of death our evil? And that's what a preacher would do and he will quote this to someone who's dying in the hospital bed or whatever. But unfortunately this is the perspective

of Psalms 23 is more than that. And there are those who preach, I shall not want. Oh, I shall not lack. That means we all know we are going to heaven one day. So we don't. The greatest lack people have is not having salvation and that is true. But why limit that? That verse doesn't say, I shall not lack salvation. It says, I shall not lack full stop. I shall not lack for help, I shall not lack for provision. I shall not lack for a life partner. Amen. And those who are single, set and locate

yourself. Amen. Praise the Lord, I shall not lack when the Lord is your shepherd. Now I know many of you receive him as your savior. Now he wants you to know him as shepherd. Praise the Lord and the very first thing he tells you to do, the very first thing he does to you to help you enjoy his provision. The first thing he does, he makes me to lie down In green pastures. He makes you lie down in green pastures. And time and time again, there are people who don't understand what I'm trying to say

when I say God wants you to rest, God wants you to relax. Even the Hebrew word healing in that word is the word relax. In the Hebrew word healing the word relax is the root of the word healing. God wants you to rest. God wants you to rest inwardly, especially now it helps to rest physically or even as I preach, you know what? But God wants you to rest inwardly. And then there are those who want us to motivate the people to take up this course and that course and this course and that course. I

cannot do the job of the Holy Spirit. My job is to make you rest, to make you lie down in green pastures. When you're truly rested in the Lord, the Holy Spirit inside you will tell you your assigned portion in the Lord's vineyard. For this one, he may tell you the goal to this country to be an evangelist for this one, he may tell you to be a homemaker for this one, he may tell you to be an entertainer or for this one, he may tell you to make money for Jesus. Whatever he does, he's

going to anoint you for it. Amen. Amen. Are you listening? Amen. I cannot do the part of the Holy Spirit, but I can do the part of as His under shepherd help you to lie down, make you lie down in green pastures, one of the things that sheep does when he lies down, it tucks in its feet and stop running around being so busy. And the law began to show me that many of you, you are eating as you go, even your physical food, you are eating as you go. So spiritually you're putting on iPod.

Now it helps that you are at least listening to the word, but it shall not be a lifestyle. God wants you to relax. Have a time where you open up the word or listen in a relaxed environment, relaxed way. He makes you lie down. Mary sat at Jesus' feet and listen to his word. He wants you to lie down where In green pastures. Now if you are sheep, green pastures is good news. He makes you lie down in the abundance of food and the word green in the Hebrew, I check it out. It means fresh

spritely just sprung of grass. Not all hay dried up grass, but new grass, it's a picture of the new covenant. Amen. When you hear the old covenant being preached, make sure you are hearing fresh revelation. The old being brought out in such a way, the light of the new covenant is sin. Amen. So it becomes food for the people of God. Can I have a good amen Church? Amen. He makes you lie down in green pastures. Praise the Lord. And I'm telling you this Psalm is so anointed that John g Lake, the man of God

who when germs touch his flesh, every disease germ dies is proven under microscope. The medical doctors saw him and they didn't believe until he proved to them under a microscope the disease germ that touched him during the bubonic plague where he was ministering in Africa during the thirties or the forties, 1940s, the old died instantly when he touched his body and he told them about the love of the spirit of life in Christ and they did a check on him under the microscope. They saw them instantly touched his body, it died. I want that anointing.

Amen. Amen. But you know what John Ek did? One time he asked his scientist friend one way he has a few scientist himself was a scientist before he went into full-time ministry and he said, they have all these electrodes that can show your brainwaves. He had them fix him up and then all the professors were looking at the brainwaves and then he started quoting Psalms 23. As he quoted the scriptures, not only Psalms, he began in Psalms 23, but other Psalms and other verses, they found that his wavelength began to change into a wavelength where

only the most highly intelligent and the most creative state was produced until the middle had nowhere else to go. And one professor exclaimed and said, this is amazing. You are a brilliant man. The guy says eternal said brilliant, nothing. This is the power of the Holy Spirit that came on me while I was quoting the scriptures. So there is something very powerful about the word of God. It is not the word of man, a man. There is a man in a church. I read this years ago, this church in Buffalo in us, his pastor shared

about this in one of the books I read many years ago. It's a powerful thing that kept with me as I step out secular work years ago and became a success. One of the things that I learned is this, that God's word will make you a success. And this little thing that I read about where this particular businessman has this neck of coming up with ideas that makes money. People can come up with ideas, but not all ideas are surefire. But this guy, his ideas is always ideas that bring in money. So he was asked

for his secret. He says actually almost an embarrassed way. He is not a secret at all. What I do is that I sit down in a relaxed way, close my eyes whenever I need a new idea from the Lord or need to know what to do with business, I just close my eyes relax and I begin to quote Psalms 23 slowly without trying to get an idea, I just quote Psalms 23, I see the Lord as my shepherd and I in the environment of a pasture and all of a sudden the ideas just pop up

like a toaster popping up the toast. It's just like, oh, the idea is there and I know what to do. So I read that years ago and I've been practicing that it's something I can't sleep at night. You know what I'll do? Psalms 23 always comes out, the Lord is my shepherd. Before you know it, the shepherd has gently touch my eyelids in wonderful deep sleep. But don't you do it right now in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Amen. So I tell you this, it's a wonderful picture of lying. The very first thing it tells you to

do is rest. Salvation begins with resting on Jesus'. Finish work. Healing begins when you stop trying to earn it and rest in Jesus' finished work. Amen. All blessings begin with a new rest, so to speak in the book of efficiency is divided into sit and then the chapter walk comes up. How well you walk as a believer is how well you sit, how well you rest in Christ, and how well you rest in the finished work. Amen. Amen. And he lets you beside the steel waters, the word steel, both in this new King James as

well as the oldest. Unfortunate it's not the word steel still has the idea of stagnant. And if you see stagnant water, it has its breeding, mosquitoes and things like that. Alright? It's not stagnant. The word steel is Hebrew, manuka and manuka means quietness, waters of quietness, waters of peace. Literally it's a resting place. Manuka waters of rest. The Lord lets you beside waters of rest. Now look up here. Do you know that the primary way God lets you is with rest or unrest? You don't have to be smart, you don't have the brilliant mind. All

the Lord does is that he lets you the presence or absence of peace waters represent the Holy Spirit. If the waters are troubled, there's no waters of rest. Don't do it in major and minor decisions. If you are deciding on a career change or you are trying to think about whether they invest or not, if there's waters being troubled, don't do it. If there's waters of quietness, do it. Last year I stood up in this church and I gave a prophecy and many of people remember, including Pastor Mark, I said that if you want to

invest in goal, I dunno how, remember midweek Bible study invest in goal. And I said that it's not popular last year to say invest in goal. People say, oh, those days are gone really faster. I mean nowadays goal is not. But you know what? I saw the papers. Mark came and showed me the papers just now pastor, look at this and it says, goal is an all time high for the last 25 years. Imagine for all those who invested in goal. Amen. Amen. Now, how did I receive that? I saw gold in the Bible and

all of a sudden there's waters of quietness and I felt like the Lord is telling me invest in goal. Amen. Telling you to invest in goal. So I pass the word to you right? Then he tells you, the Lord lets you in the paths of righteousness after he restores your soul. I just want to talk about the path of righteousness. Before I talk about restores. My soul actually restores my soul. I really showed you just now restores my soul is the idea of healing. The word soul is nefesh. And nefesh means he restores my life.

He breathes back life into me. Alright? Now he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name sake. Again, another leading, but this time leading in the paths of righteousness for his name sake. Now listen carefully. Righteousness is not something you do. Righteousness is a gift. Jesus Christ is the gift of righteousness. So when the Lord leads you, now, when you go to Israel next time, in fact I'm going to make it a point to tell all our tour guides to point out to you. Whenever you pass by grazing pastures you'll always see, invariably

you'll see a mound or not a very tall heel, just a little heel, maybe 20 feet or whatever. And you'll find sheep love these short heels and you'll find tracks around those hills. We'll make sure the bus stops and for you take pictures and they are tracks around the heel that goes right to the top. The Jewish people in Israel call this paths of righteousness or the food paths of the ship. The interesting thing is that they call the very top, the apex thick there, which means hope. I mentioned that a few weeks ago. Alright?

That means when the Lord leads you, he'll always lead you to hope. And not only that, the paths always lead you right to the top. The Lord will always make you end up on top. You don't have to be smart, all right? If you know how to sense the peace or the absence of it, you know how to follow Jesus. And whenever you follow the Lord, he will always cause you to end up on top. Amen. You end up doing the right thing at the right time. Pastor Prince is not an investor, he's not a

strategist, he's not. I do not know a goal. All the goal I know is on some of people's nose and I mean nose ring, I mean nose ring. After I study, I realized there are also connotations and anyway, praise the Lord. But I know one thing I know. When the Lord speaks to follow Therein lies life more abundant. You know we quote that verse so much, John 10 10, the thief comes to steal and kill and destroy. But Jesus said, I come that you might have life. Let's look at the verse. The thi does not

come except to steal, kill and destroy. We know this is the devil. Whenever you are stolen from is the work of the devil. Whether it's your possession, your joy, your relationship, your peace of mind, your health, your finances, it's always the devil. Here's the culprit, not God. Okay? And he kills and he destroys. But Jesus clearly DeMars, all right? What the devil does and what he does. Jesus speaking here, he says, I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly and all the people of God said. But have you ever seen

the context, the context of this verse? Let's look at the verse before and after chapter 10, verse eight, all whoever came before me are thiefs and robbers. There you have it, thieves and robbers referring to the Pharisees, the thief singular operates through thiefs and robbers, plural. The thiefs and robbers are religious teachers. Jesus did not come to give you religion. He came to give you life and life more abundantly. A man, the Pharisees gave religion a man and Jesus calls them thiefs and robbers. The thief singular operates through and robbers the devil doesn't just rob

from you like that. Alright? The devil robs through the voice of the Pharisees, the voice of religious teachers and leaders, even in Christian pulpits. Are you listening people? Amen. In fact, in this same chapter he talks about the sheep hear my voice and they follow me. The voice of a stranger they will not follow. Jesus said The only qualification to hear Jesus' voice is that you are a sheep. Are you a sheep? You qualify to hear his voice. Amen. Praise the Lord and look at the verse after that, I'm the door. If anyone enters by

me, he'll be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. You see the whole context is about sheep and the shepherd. Then the verse of the verse 10 is, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the ship. So until you understand about this shepherd's nature of the Lord, you'll not enjoy life more abundant. Amen Church, praise the Lord. And then he says, let's go back to Psalms 23. He restores my soul. He leads me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. So you have, he leads me

twice. He leads me beside the steel waters. He leads me. When God leads you, you just follow him. Amen. And he'll bring you to the top. But then in verse four, there is a change. Y do I walk and all of a sudden it's no Y do He leads me to the valley of the shadow of death. Notice that it is y. Do I walk to the valley? Just walk on your own. This one happens when you, the Lord is no more leading you. Amen. And you are walking on your own. Some sheep are so

smart they said, I think I'm going to try out this new shortcut and find themselves in the valley. That's why it says yeah, do some people make it sound like every Christian will, Hey comes a time in alive. All of us must go to the valley of the She. But you know what it says Y you know what's that means? You don't have to. And it's because I walk, not the Lord lead me. But you know one thing good about the Lord, even though you go as straight, he will leave the 99 and find the

one missing. He will leave the 99 to find the one missing. Even though the one missing is not his fault, the one missing is that person's fault. The Lord never says too bad I still got 99 left. Never. And when he finds you, that's why it says, when I walk to the valley, all of a sudden I find you are with me. He'll always find you. If he didn't find us, we'll never be found. Well Pastor Prince, in the year 1934, I found the Lord. No. No, the Lord found you. He wasn't lost. You were,

how dare you tell me, is this you whipper snapper? He wet behind the ears you No, I'm just telling you that none of us can come to the Lord on our own. The shepherd found us and look at the shepherd, look at the style of his love for us. The Bible says my cup runs over. He does not just do things with miserly with a meager portion. He does it with a lavish heart, with a heart of bounty. A man, when the shepherd goes and find the one that's lost, the Bible says, after he finds

the lost one, he does something that most shepherds don't do. Not in Australia, not in New Zealand, not in Israel, alright. He puts it on his shoulders. He call his friend and say, Hey, I'm throwing a party, A party for one wayward sheep that was found. No one throws a party for a wayward sheep because party means money and every single parent understand that. So we choose our parties carefully and why we throw the parties for amen, but the Lord doesn't do that. He will lavish the startup so that the sheep will not feel guilty.

Then in the same story, it talks about the father of the prodigal son waiting for his son to come home and the son spent all his inheritance on hollers And bad company until all the money ran out and all those people ran out as well. And I was eating in the pig pan and finally it says, even my servants in my father's house, they eat better than me. I'll go back and just become one of my highest servants. He never even dreamed to become this father's son again. As he came across the horizon, the father

saw him and the father ran. My cup runs over. Does God give you forgive? How does God give you forgiveness? How do we forgive one another? You know how we forgive one another? Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I forgive you, but don't do that again. Can sense that kind of like that's how humans forgive. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. I have to forgive what I'm a Christian or we say, yeah, I forgive you don't forget, I'm the first one to say this time I'm the first one to say sometimes even those with mates, they hear

a Christian lady of the house saying, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, don't do it again. I forgive you. But the way the tone is a tone that the mate knows her days are numbered. It's the spirit. The Bible says, the way the Lord forgives for he will abundantly pardon? Amen. We have forgiveness of sins. Ephesians chapter one, according to the richest of his grace, the day you can measure God's grace, put it down from here and measure it all the way. That's the day you'll know how much you're forgiven. That means you're forgiven of your

entire life according to the richest, not out of according to the richest of his grace. A amen church, the Father, the portigal sun ran to the sun when he saw the sun across the horizon. Not only that kiss him, but now his smell of pigs kissed him. Not only that turn, I shout to the servants, bring forth the best rope, the sandals for his feet, the ring on his finger. That's the visa card during those days and kill the fatted calf and fat Cal say, my son was lost. Now he's pound and the son tried

to go to his rehearsed speech. Father has sin against heaven on earth. Make me one of your hired servants. He rehearsed that speech in the pig pen. He never got through saying, make me one of your hired servants because the father lavish on him before he could earn it as a hired servant, The way he forgives leaves no room for guilt. Only man makes you feel guilty. He lavish on him. You know why the father ran to meet the son? You know why? Because the father wanted to be the first one to meet the returning

prodigal and not the older brother. Because if the older brother met him first. Oh oh. You know what's going to happen? And unfortunately there are many returning ship trying to come back to the house of God. But unfortunately they met the older brother in the pulpit first. I'm serious. They never come back. And it's not because they're weakened, it's not because they're bad. And I want to tell you something about perspective for people. This SMS going around, we should be praying for that girl. We should be praying for this younger generation instead of saying all

kinds of words that further curse them the way we see people that are lost, we got to see them the way Jesus sees them. Well, pastor Prince, how does Jesus see them? He doesn't see them as rotten sinners. How does Jesus see people? Well, we have an idea. Mark six. Jesus, when he came out, he saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them. Why? Because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. Why does Jesus have great compassion on all the people that came? He saw many of them in the mountain site

coming towards him. Some of them were blind, some were carry on stretches. They were all coming towards him. But how did Jesus look at them? They were like sheep Not having a shepherd and he had great compassion. He had compassion for them, so he began to teach them many things. What does sheep need? What do sheep need? Food. When a lamb is sick, what do you do? Beat them on the hit so they can become better. That's the way some of us preach is like that. We hit them on the hit some more. No, you

feed them. Jesus saw lost people as sheep without a shepherd, a man. If there was a butcher there, the butcher would say, wow, Martin and lamb chops. Usually in terms of money, if there was a tailor there. Wow, so much wool. To make. Clothes. Jesus saw them as sheep lost without the shepherd. A amen church, something happens when you see people, you look at those people who are dancing the night away. I did my best and all that. What do I see? I see sheep without a ship and the next day worshiping the red white

throne lost. You don't have to worry about trying to work up a compassion. The moment you see people as lost sheep, compassion is there a amen church, something about this dynamism of shepherd and ship even for leaders. The Lord tells us to look at people and he always says this, feed the flock of God, feed the flock of God, not feed the army of God never. Even though we are the host and he's the captain of the host, it says, feed the flock always. Have you noticed great leaders are great sheep. They know how to

be a sheep. The reason why David became a great king shepherding the people of Israel was because David was a shepherd and he was also a sheep. He wrote Psalms 23, the Lord is my shepherd that makes him a sheep and because he was a good sheep, he could be a good shepherd to shepherd the people of Israel. And God said in the Psalms, I've taken David from following the sheep foe to shepherd my people Israel. Hallelujah. Have you noticed that the great leaders in the Bible, Moses, Abraham, they were all shepherds. Have you noticed?

In fact, one time I thought of spending one whole year as a shepherd in Israel. That'll be my Bible study. I really believe that if pastors or those potential pastors don't worry about Bible school, go for one year in New Zealand or Australia and learn to be a shepherd Bible way, I think you'll come back and learn a lot. You'll learn about why snakes are dangerous to sheep and how to protect the sheep. I mean you can learn a lot in the shepherd sheep environment. A man Raise the Lord. Joseph was a shepherd, David was

a shepherd, and we are all here under shepherd, but he's the chief shepherd. We are here to feed you. I hope our food is good. Amen. We are not here to beat you. The world has beaten you enough. We are here to feed you. Amen. But Pastor Prince, I've been coming for the last few weeks, but the pain is still there. You are recovering, keep on feeding, just keep on feeding and one day you'll just have a scar down there that says Jesus made you well. Amen. And I'm telling you, church, you cannot force or

give loss to people, make them whole. You can love them into wholeness. That's what we can do. Even our relationships, we are to love to feed. When Jesus saw them lost what he do, he began to teach them. You say, well Pastor Prince, I love the Lord. If you love him, feed his ship. That's what Jesus told Peter, Peter, do you love me Lord? You know all things you know I love you. Feed my sheep. He said, said that on resurrection morning 2000 years ago by the Sea of Galilee and those who have been to

Israel, you know that that's that place. We know that location. It's still there. And that was a place he says, do you love me? Peter says, yes, feed my ship. Amen. That's how he receives your language of love. That's how he interprets your language of love. Alright? He sees your feeding his flock as loving him. Amen. Let's go to Psalms 23. Because of time we go down to verse for our fear. No evil. If you notice that is the valley of the shadow of death, not the valley of death. The shadow of a sword never

cut anybody. The shadow of a dog never beat anybody. It is just a shadow. Yesterday I was with Jessica and we were doing our evening walk and then she looked at the sun was setting so the shadow was really long, so we were playing with each other's shadow and she felt so good when I was shorter than her. You step aside, you know what? Shadows can. Shadows only harm fools and children. Shadows don't harm adults. Yeah. Do I walk to the valley of the shadow of death? Our fear, no evil. David is amazing. He saw

a thousand years ahead of him his time and saw Jesus death conquering death. Jesus rose from the dead removing the sting from death. Amen. Our fear, no evil for you are with me. Your WR and your staff, they comfort me. Have you noticed a change? Have you noticed that from verse one? He says, the Lord is my shepherd in the second person, the Lord is my shepherd. He makes me, he leads me. He restores me. All of a sudden when he goes to the valley of trial, he says, you are with me. He talks to

the Lord direct, look up here. It is good to tell your friends the Lord is this to me. The Lord is this to me, the Lord is this to me when we're going into trouble, it's time for you to talk to the Lord and not about the Lord. Man, all of a sudden he's no more. He makes me lie down as a testimonial. He does this, he leads me. Now you are with me. I fear no evil Lord, you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. His rod is to whack the

living daylights out of any wolf that try to devour. His staff has a crook at the end of it because every staff has a crook. I'm just teasing. Okay? No, no, my staff is mine. Okay? But the crook at the end of the staff is so that when a lamp falls between the crevice or whatever, alright, the shepherd is able to just hook him out under his armpits, just out like that. Amen. So your rot against the enemy and your stuff, they comfort me is a term use of the Holy Spirit. He's called the comforter.

The Holy Spirit has come to lead us to Jesus. Amen. Church, praise the Lord. It is beautiful, isn't it? You are right in your staff. They comfort me when the Lord is there. It's like my mother. When I was in the kindergarten, you asked me about my memories of kindergarten. I have a few. One is that my first girlfriend was in kindergarten. She doesn't know that she's my girlfriend, but I told her she's my girlfriend and I always try to make her cry or I just want some response. But she's always in studies that young

and she's reading studies, so a few memories, but one memory I have is how my mom came for me one day and she was late, very late. I was the last one I still remember and I sat down there waiting for her to come and all my friends have left and it was very quiet and I started crying and then I saw her from afar. She came. I didn't want her to see me cry. Then she come. She was smiling as if nothing happened and just her presence, all fears, worries, casts, all departed. She even

say anything in her presence alone. A amen. You know the Lord is with you in the value of the shadow of death. You are rot in yourself. They comfort me. I'll fear no evil for you are with me If you only can see Jesus, if you look at Jesus the way the Bible portrays him, one of his favorite expression is don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. He walks on the water. During the storm the disciples scream because they thought they saw a ghost and his first response is Don't be afraid. Amen. A little girl has

died. JIRA's daughter has died, died, died. Hot dup pinto cap, and the moment he hurt, the child is dead. He turns to J and says, don't be afraid. Believe only and she shall be made whole. Amen. If there's any exaltation that he is always telling us, he's always Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Even in the midst of the storm, don't be afraid. It is I don't be afraid. His favorite expression, amen. You see in Jesus' presence, if you look at Jesus in the Bible, there's nothing about him about his demeanor that is fearful. He's

just not afraid. He's not afraid of Pharisees. He's not afraid of the devil. He's not afraid of Satan. He's not afraid of sickness, not afraid of disease, not afraid of leprosy. He just touched them all. A man, this is your shepherd. I said, this is your shepherd. And the world is. Trying. To destroy the true revelation of Jesus. The devil is trying to destroy it. Last two years I mentioned in the maybe Bible study, I said this also, and I've been saying this down through years. I said in the last days, in the next few

years, in fact, I said, Markk, this how many you remember, just wave your hand. I say that in the next few years people will start questioning the devil. Start this heresy. And I saw they will go around the world. People start a heresy about Jesus not being God. How many remember that wave? You remember that in Bible study I talk about how we stop supporting one group who they claim to be Christian, but the guy, the leaders started believing that Christ is not God. And this heresy is an old heresy even from the early church

and they're bringing back again because we are in the end times. And the Bible says in the end, times is a spirit of antichrist, not antigo. Are you listening? Church, it's to attack the person of Jesus because the devil does not want you to see Jesus, to see him as your shepherd, to see him in all his glory. Fully God, fully man will destroy all his devices against you Because he must destroy the person of Jesus. You know Jesus. If it's not God, think about the number of times that people fell before him and worship

him after they were healed. He never said one time, don't do it. Never. Because the first commandment says, thou shall worship no other gods. Amen. One time, even the Jews of Jesus, they understood what he meant when he says, I am my father. One, they took up stones to stone him. He didn't say, you don't understand. It's just an expression. He didn't say that They understood what he meant. They understood what he meant. Who is Jesus? Jesus asked his disciples one time, who do men say I am? And one of them said, some say you

are John the Baptist. Another one say some say you are Elijah the prophet. Some say this, some say Jeremiah. Then Jesus says, who do you say I am? Then Peter answered. And Peter says, you are the Christ, the definite article. You are the Christ because the gnostic teach. There are many Christ Jesus, only one of them. But Peter says, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. Jesus is blessed. I use Simon Braa for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven and upon this confession,

that's why the devil is attacking this. Why listen upon this confession that I'm the Christ, the son of the living God, I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against what? Against the church that believe he's the Christ. That's why the devil has to attack this because he cannot prevail against a. Church. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. That kind of church by the way, don't have this picture. The gates of hell is attacking us. We are holding. And the devil is attacking the gates. Gates of hell.

Since when do armies attack with gates? That means we are on the offensive and the gates of the devil cannot hold back. Amen. Cannot prevail against the church. Amen. The church is growing healthier, richer, stronger, more and more blessed. In these last days, we are no more the church. There's a baby in the ex of the apostles. We are growing. We have movers and shakers. The church is a blessing. Everywhere it goes, every nation that has a church strong becomes a wealthy nation. Amen? And the days are coming, that doctors wonderful as their profession is,

will not have the answers to some physical dilemmas, some problems, and all that people will find help and healing in the church. And the anointing that's released in the last day will be the greatest anointing ever. Amen Church. Amen. Praise the Lord. Psalms 23 verse five. You prepare table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, my cup runs over. Some people think that all of a sudden he changed the picture from the pastoral sin to a palace sin. No, no, it's not a palace in those days. What they

do is that they bring the sheep to an elevated, again, a small mound and they call that a table where the shepherd will put goodies like berries and all that special goodies on the table. They call it actually it's a grassy table and the sheep will come around it and feed. But notice it says, you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Now all of us wants this. We all want to eat in the absence of our enemies. We all want to enjoy God's word in the absence of our symptoms. It's

human. Come on, come on. But what this scripture says is that the Lord wants you to eat while the symptoms are still going on. God wants you to feed while your enemies are staring at you. God wants you to enjoy Jesus. Amen. While your stress is still surrounding you. Amen. And the picture here is amazing taken of the battle, a scenario of that day and age during the time of the Bible in ancient times in the Old Testament, and David lived during that time. What they do is that when they conquer the opposing king, what

they do is that they tie them in shackles of chain. They tie them in chains and all that with their generals. And they do this spite them. They prepare a table and it's been days that they have not eaten the vanquished king and all his people have not eaten. And they'll tie them to a chain and the king and all his captains and generals and all that will eat in front of the enemies. Miss Amen. And all the enemies can only do is to Nash, but they come near because of the shackle that is behind

them. And this proves the fact that these enemies, they're staring at you and can't do nothing about your eating. They're all defeated enemies. They only nash at you while you're eating. But sometimes they yell too loud. Enough people die a heart attack. You see, I Christian so fearful the devil. Yeah, Don soft people kill themselves with fear. The devil goes about as a roaring lion. He can only roar. But listen carefully, there's a his to his roar because no motif Jesus defend the devil. So now he can just roar. Think carefully all I am not

stupid. I watch discovery channel and sometimes you watch also and you see these lions going real slow. You ever see that? I've never seen a lion going for a prey from fire. Never one time. Never one time. Not the lions that really want to devour. They are the ones that really want to, they'll go slow, but only the devil does. That goes by its roaring line, rah. He wants you to kill yourself with fear. You'll kill yourself with your own fear. He's got no more thief to bite. You understand? But sometimes Christians are so full

of fear, the devil can gum them to death. Where is it? Where is it? I told you to bring my father, Steve to church today. Amen. He anoint your heat with oil and that oil there is olive oil. They always use olive oil in the land of Israel and anoint my head. It's beautiful because when the Lord anoints your head with oil or even the sun cannot smack you, and there's something about oil sheep. Sheep does not like, there's a lot of flies around sheep. So what the shepherd does, because these flies, you know what

they do is that they irritate the sheep. They go into their ears and they go into their nose and some of them even lay their maggots in this cavities and the maggots would grow and cause tremendous irritation and even disease to the ship. So you must avoid the flies from coming near to the ship. Now flies are a picture of evil spirits. It's there in the Bible. In fact, Jesus called the devil one time, BL zebu and bl is Lord. Zebu is actually flies Lord of the flies. What a name for the devil. A lot

of the flies, he is Lord of the flies. And Jesus who says he doesn't have a sense of humor. So you know these evil spirits that go around your, what the shepherd does, he anoints the sheep with oil and the oil now irritates the flies. Flies don't like oil. Amen. And how does he give it to you? My cup runs over my cup run. I told you he doesn't give him miserly hand. Alright? He gives you with a bountiful heart, with extra vegan love. The way the portico son return home, he found extra vegan love

the way God gives healing or blessings with 12 basket food left over. Hallelujah. One time parents brought their children and the mother would just say, oh Lord, I just want you to touch. And that's then the Bible. I just want you to touch my boy. Someone would say, just one touch from you, Jesus, my boy will be a success in life. Just one touch. I don't ask much. I know you're busy. Just a touch. What did Jesus do? He embraced those children. He always exceeds us. That's what the Bible says. God does not answer our

prayer. He over answers our prayer. The Bible says God answers us exceeding abundantly. Above all we ask or think. Amen. Above all we ask of think so us speak. Think big. And God still has to exceed that. Think bigger than that. God has to exceed that. Hallelujah. I speak thing big. We have a big. God. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Woo. I'm going to turn all of you into Babas before the night is over. Amen. Baba, baba sheep. Okay, raise Lord. Let's close in John 10 when Jesus says I am the sheep. Then later on

he says, I am the door. Isn't it interesting? He's the sorry. He said, I'm the shepherd, not shepherd. I'm the shepherd and I'm the door. The door is the entrance for the shepherd. Amen. And Jesus is the door and he's the shepherd. He said all that comes back into the full other ways. All that's not come to the door. Let me just say in his words, most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the ship fold by the door, but climbs up some other way. The same is a thief and a robber.

He's about to tell you later on, the thief, the nature of the thief who comes to steal. He enters by the door, is the shepherd of the ship. But we read in verse eight just now of verse nine, I am the door of the ship. So he's the shepherd, he's the door, he's the shepherd, he's the door. Look up here. He's the feeder and he's the food. He's the price and he's the journey. He's the way. Hallelujah. He's everything to us. Amen. I'm the bread of life. He's even our food. He's our feeder and our

food. Hallelujah. That's why the devil want to undermine Jesus because he's everything to. Us. A man to him. The door keeper opens. Who is the doorkeeper? The door keeper is the Holy Spirit who does not call attention to himself. Notice he opens the door to the shepherd. But who is the door? The door is also Jesus. So the Holy Spirit opens up Jesus from the Bible to all of you. How do you know? A sermon you are listening to is anointed by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit always opens up Jesus. He always opens up

Jesus to you. And the moment Jesus is open up to you, he's what happens. And the sheep hear his voice. The shepherd's voice, the sheep will hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name. Isn't it nice Daniel Chong? In fact, in the Bible, he likes to call your name like this. Daniel. Daniel. Have you noticed that? Samuel, Samuel, Saul. Saul on the road to Saul, Saul, Martha. Martha, you are careful in trouble about many things. Whenever I do a mistake or whatever Jessica will do, sometimes daddy, daddy. So her hand be like this

daddy, daddy praised a lot and he calls his own sheep by name and lets them out. It's beautiful. In fact, if you reach chapter nine before this chapter, what happened was that he healed a blind man. Jesus healed a blind man with clay and then told the blind man to wash his eyes. And he came back seeing And then later on the Pharisees questioned him, how was your eyes open? He says, Jesus made clay and made me see. And the Pharisees says this, Jesus is a sinner. The blind man says whether he's a sinner or

not. I don't know. One thing I know once I was blind, now I see then what did Pharisees says, how dare you teach us. You are all in your sins. And he cussed him out. He didn't realize he cussed him out of the she fold the she fold. The Lord lets us out by calling our names is the she full of Judaism? And when they cus him out, they were doing him a favor because the Bible says Jesus found him outside. And Jesus ask him, does thou believe in the son of God? He says, who

is he that I might believe I who speak unto you? I am. And he says, I believe Lord. Then comes John chapter 10, verse one. Amen. He talks about himself as the sheep, as a shepherd. Sorry, keep on saying sheep. He is also the lamb. You know why he's called the lamb who died for our sins? Because even though he's a shepherd, the Bible doesn't say the shepherd who died worthy is the shepherd who died. Worthy is the lamb. Why is in that picture of sacrifice? He's the lamb. Because God wants you to see he

died in your place. You are the lamb Forevermore. You remember that He died in your place. He's the shepherd, not the lamb, but he died in the place of the lamb. I'm the good shepherd. He says, the good shepherd gives his life for the ship. Let's bring this to a close last verse off Psalms 23 verse six. Surely not, perhaps not maybe surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Now we think we understand this. And I thought I understood

this verse because I know this psal since I was a young boy and my mom would quote this psalm to me sometimes. Alright, but it's only last year when I made a Hebrew study. I studied the Hebrew version of this psalm and I read this and it says, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. And the Hebrew for follow. It's not just follow, it is the word pursue. And hun, you down. Surely goodness and mercy will hun you down. How long all the days of your life, what a perspective to face life with many of

us wake up and we say, oh boy, good morning, God. We say, oh, good God. Morning. Last few days I was under attack. I wonder what the devil is devising against me. I know he has sent his spirits, his evil spirits sign against me and they're hunting me down. I know they're hunting me down. They're devising ways to catch me. I must be alert. I must wash my back. Must be, that's not the way God wants you to leave. God wants to wake up and think about this perspective. You wake up and say, we've got

to be careful. Now. I know they're devising. Goodness and mercy is devising ways to catch me today. Amen. I know they're very sly. They will hunt me down. Can escape one, but I'll try to escape. Ah yeah. In the morning can. Alright. Oh that was real, man. Lemme try to avoid this goodness here. Boy, I didn't see that. It was good. It was good. The way. Goodness did. It was really good. What a way to face life. Amen. Stop and think. I'm not joking. I'm telling the truth. Stop and think. What a way to face

life. Surely goodness and mercy will hunt me down all the days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. All the days around the clock he will hunt you down. They will hunt you down. Goodness. God's goodness and mercy. Mercy, there's has said in Hebrew, loving kindness or grace will hunt you down. You cannot escape. They'll pursue you. The same way that Saul pursue David in the mountains is the same word used in Hebrew. Goodness. Surely goodness and mercy will hun you down. Going to slap by goodness again. Oh man, God's goodness. Then left. Oh,

that was really good. What a way to face life with. But this is not the revelation church that I want to close with. The revelation I'm going to close with is this. Yes. Last week as I was resting before the Lord having time in my family, sorry, you Allall. Watch it. Every time I go for a break, all when I come back. God. Have mercy on you. Amen. And as I was waiting on the Lord, the Lord gave me this. The Lord says, notice surely goodness and mercy shall follow you, pursue you. They're from the

back. They're not in front. Always keep them behind you, hitting you from behind. Never run, turn around and follow God's goodness and try to get God's goodness or try to get God's mercy. This is not the way to get them. You know how to get them notice. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you. That means you're following something. And then he gave me this verse, John 10. And John 10 is Jesus' description of himself as the good shepherd. And look at verse four. Jesus says, when the shepherd brings out his own ship, he goes before

them as long you keep Jesus in front of you. Goodness and mercy will hunt you. As long as you always come to church or you go to the word wanting to hear Jesus, see Jesus, see something fresh about Jesus, as long he's in front of you, goodness and mercy will hunt you down. As long as you pursue Jesus, they will pursue you. But don't stop and turn around and try to get goodness and mercy. They seem to flee away, but turn and go after Jesus and they will go after you. Amen. Hallelujah. In Psalms 27,

the Bible tells us how to overcome our troubles. Just now the Lord says He prepares a table in the presence of our enemies, not absence. A few days ago I was with a brother who was diagnosed by a doctor having something in his body and the doctor says he's going to get worse and all that. As I was talking to him, the Holy Spirit rose up inside me and gave me a verse. Just one word actually formed, formed, formed. And it's actually from Isaiah. God's promise to the believer, no weapon formed against you shall prosper.

So when I look at him, I never saw in this perspective before, even after the devil formed the weapon already, it still cannot prosper. Even though the devil has formed that disease already, it cannot prosper. He makes a table in the presence of your enemies. In Psalms 27, we close with this. It tells you what to do when you are faced, you're going through a valley of trouble. If there's trouble in your life, the Lord is my light and my salvation home. Shall I fear the Lord is a string of my life of home. Shall

I be afraid when the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, now isn't that disease? Eat up my flesh. Come on. Alright, my enemies and force, they stumble and fell. Do an army man came against me. How many of fear, sometimes an army of the devil has camped themselves against you? Do you feel sometimes like that particular week, a lot of bad things happen, this bad thing happened, that bad thing, you feel as if you are in the midst of a war. A war has been declared against you by the devil. Have you

felt that way sometimes? Have you? I mean, there are days that you feel like the whole army of the devil is against you coming against you. And David felt that way. Though an army may come against me, my heart shall not fear though war may rise against me. Something profound in this, I will be confident. What? In what will he be confident? While war is raging against you, while enemies are coming against you to eat up your flesh, what are you confident in? David? David says, next verse, one thing I have desired of the Lord

that will I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire any His temple. He says, I don't care if the devil is declared war against me. I don't care if things are going wrong all around me. I will still behold the beauty of the Lord. I'll always get him in front of me, pursue him, seek for fresh revelation about Jesus. The devil is trying to distract you. But you know what David says, one thing I will do,

and this one thing, I'm confident I will behold the beauty of the Lord in the midst of my trouble. And you know what happens right after that? For in the time of trouble. If you see Jesus in front of you, if you behold him in a fresh revelation from the Holy Spirit in the time of trouble, he shall hide me His pavilion in the secret place of a tabernacle. He shall hide me. He shall set me upon a rock. And now my head, white tower shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me. Therefore,

I'll offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle. I'll sing. Yes, I'll sing praises to the Lord. What to do when you are in the midst of your trouble. What to do when all the enemies of the devil seem to be rallied against you in battle lore? What do you do? Seek the beauty of the Lord. Amen. Seek to know him even more. Amen and goodness and mercy will hunt you down. Amen. And goodness and mercy will flank you to protect you as well. Praise the Lord. So gentle flock is your father's good pleasure to give

you the kingdom he has given you. Jesus the best heaven has. How will he not also with Jesus give you all the rest freely. Amen. Every hit down every eye close. Somebody shout, I'm a sheep. I'm a sheep. Amen. Hallelujah. He's your shepherd. Amen. With every hate bow in this place right now, watch it This coming week, goodness and mercy will hand you down. I don't think you can escape. M cry, mama cry. Daddy, you will not escape. Goodness and mercy will hand you down all the days of this coming week. Praise the Lord. Yes,

father, amen. Again, the Lord just spoke to me. Somebody is having a financial breakthrough even right now. Something is happening behind the scene. The Lord is causing breakthroughs in your area of finances. Praise the Lord, whatever the devil has stolen from you, all right? The blessings that is coming forth in the days ahead of you will cause you to forget and make what you have lost. Little hallelujah in your sight. Thank you Father, in Jesus' name. Praise the Lord. Are you blessed in the house of God today? The Lord loves you. And remember, you are

not someone who is just in a crowd, a face in a crowd. He knows you by name and he calls you by name. Amen. He knows his own and you hear his voice. Amen. Surely goodness and mercy will hun you down throughout this coming week. Lift your hands all across this place and everyone in the overflow as well. Lord Jesus, thank you. Thank you for your work today. Lord, you are the chief shepherd of New Creation church. And as you under shepherd, I've been authorized to pronounce your blessings on your people. The Lord blessed you.

The Lord bless you with the blessings of Abraham. The Lord bless you with the blessings of Deuteronomy 28. But the Lord bless you, most of all with a intimate revelation of Jesus himself. The Lord keep you, preserve you and your loved ones this coming week from harm, from danger, from sickness, from all the powers of darkness and from the evil one Lord, keep you and preserve you from all evil. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May you find yourself walking in the supernatural favor of God throughout this week

as goodness and his favor hunts you down the Lord. Lift up his countenance upon every one of you and grunt you. Shalom, peace. In Jesus' name and all the people said amen. God blessed you. Alright, keep this image of the shepherd before you and enjoy his goodness and mercy. Introducing the new Joseph Prince app. We've designed the new app with one thought in mind to make connecting with the Lord daily, simple and easy for you. Through. The guided daily experience. Spend time in his presence and build a habit of starting your day right with the

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