THE RESTORING SHEPHERD – Wednesday July 12th 2017
Memorise: He restoreth my soul: he leadeth
me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:3
Read: Psalm 23:1-3 (KJV)
23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the
paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Bible in one year: 1st Samuel
29-31, Ezekiel 6:8-7:4, Hymn: Sing hymn 6
MESSAGE:
For the sheep of
the Great Shepherd, the infallible word of God in Psalm 23:3 guarantees
restoration of that which is lost. Sometimes, God allows His chosen ones to
experience a loss so that they can have the opportunity of experiencing Him as
the Great Restorer. Be assured in your heart therefore that if you experience a
loss that you did not cause by an act of carelessness of disobedience, you can
obtain restoration. However, if you fail to ask for restoration, you may not
experience it. In Joel 2:23-26, God promised to restore all
categories of losses. Every good thing that you have lost shall be restored to
you as you hold the Lord to His word, in Jesus’ Name.
Moreover, not
only does the Great Shepherd restore physical and material losses to His sheep.
He also restores them spiritually. Speaking of spiritual restoration, virtually
all believers need this in some measures. In His letter to the Church at
Ephesus, the Lord Jesus Christ told the brethren that they had left their first
love. In other words, they needed spiritual restoration so that they could embrace
the good things they did before, which they had abandoned. Revelations 2:5 says,
For many of us,
the zeal, love and fire with which we served God when we first became saved
have since ebbed. Our commitment, dedication and consecration are no longer the
same. In those days, we made some vows to God such as “No Bible, no breakfast”,
but are we still true to those pledges? We promised to win the world of Christ,
saying that no day would pass without us winning a soul into God’s Kingdom. How
true is that today? Some of us are even so shy or afraid of speaking about
Jesus at God-given opportunities. We prefer to read books, surf the internet,
or visit social media sites than to preach in buses or cabs like we used to. We
sure need spiritual restoration! To be restored, you need to recall how
committed you were in times past, repent of your lukewarmness and pick up from
where you stopped. Go back to consecration and holiness! Go back to reaching
out to the lost on a daily basis! Do you know that no day should pass without
you prospecting for sinners to be saved into God’s Kingdom? Ask God to restore
you today!
Key Point
Words like consecution, sanctification and
dedication which were common place in Christianity of old are now almost
completely out of our vocabulary today.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye,
the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of Christ the
Redeemer's Ministries.
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