Join us as we journey through Psalm 23, exploring the profound ways it speaks to us about God’s provision, restoration, and guidance. In this episode, we delve into the personal relationship with God that David had and how we too can experience God as our Shepherd. Our faith is deepened as we understand that the Lord is the source of all we could ever need.
Watch how David relates to God through the 23rd Psalm, because the same way that David knew God, you can know God. God bless you and shalom, beloved ones. We’re going to be looking at a Psalm that we’re all familiar with. It’s Psalm 23. But I want to address Psalm 23 today by looking at it as understanding that God is the source of everything in life that you and I will ever need. So, Father God, even as you placed your hands through King Jesus on the loaves and the fish and multiplied them to supernaturally feed the thousands, I pray, Father, that as I minister to your people, Psalm 23 today, that you’d place your hands on me and on this message. Bless your people by your Holy Spirit, Father God. Build our confidence and our understanding that truly, Father God, you’ll all will ever have need of. We thank you, Father, in Jesus’ name. We’re going to begin then, verse number one. I want to caution you, though, before I begin, because we’ve heard it so many times, we run the danger of just kind of tuning it out. You know, I’m familiar with that. So I just want to challenge you right now. Let’s just not look at Psalm number 23 and anticipate that we’re going to receive something now that we already know. because God is going to do something fresh. God is going to do something new. I want you to shut off any perception of Psalm 23 that you may have had before to receive the new word today that the Lord wants to communicate to your heart through this God-inspired psalm written by David, a man that knew God. Discover what David understood his God to be to him. Watch how David relates to God through the 23rd Psalm, because the same way that David knew God, you can know God. So let’s begin. David begins, he says, verse number one, the Lord is my shepherd. This speaks of relationship. He didn’t just say the Lord is a shepherd. He didn’t even say the Lord is the shepherd, but he said the Lord is God. My shepherd. David knew God personally. And God wants us to take a hold of him personally. The Lord is your shepherd. You know, the Bible says, Blessed be the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who chose us in him before the foundation of the world and then predestined us to adoption as his sons. In other words, God’s got a special call on your life. Jesus is your shepherd. In John 10, Jesus said to those that were not believing in him, he said, you believe not because you’re not my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. My father has given them to me. He’s greater than all and no man will ever pluck them out of my hand for I give eternal life to them. Jesus identified himself as the shepherd and he said he knew his sheep And he said, the sheep that were his were given to him by the Father. If you know Jesus today, if you love Jesus today, it’s because you’re one of God’s sheep. Jesus died for you. He’s your shepherd. And he wants us to take a hold of that. It’s not just that he just died for the entire world. He died for you. Jesus said, if you were of the world, the world would love you. But I chose you out of the world. Jesus said, you did not choose me, but I chose you. David said, the Lord is my shepherd. And I want to encourage you right now to take a hold of Jesus as your own in a way that’s deeper than you ever have before. David continues here, he says, I shall not want. In other words, David was confident that God would meet his needs. He was confident that the Lord would supply to him everything that David would need throughout his life. David said again, I shall not want. He knew God as one that would supply everything that he would need throughout his life. Think of all the supernatural supplies that we saw God supply the Israelites, the manna from heaven, protection, everything that you can think of, God was there to be it. The water came out of the rock. The Bible says that God will supply all our riches in glory through Christ Jesus. Father God, I pray right now that you would increase our faith to believe in you as the God that will meet our needs, as the God that will supply. Father, your word says, even when we’re old and our hairs are gray, YOU WILL NOT FORSAKE US. FATHER, WHATEVER IT IS RIGHT NOW, WE CONFESS, LORD, THAT YOU ARE THE GOD OF SUPERNATURAL SUPPLY, THAT YOU ARE THE GOD OF ABUNDANCE, AND THAT YOU MEET ALL OUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO YOUR RICHES AND GLORY. FATHER, WE DECLARE IT, WE STAND ON YOUR WORD, AND WE PRAISE YOU FOR IT. YOU ARE THE GOD OF SUPPLY, AND WE SAY LIKE DAVID SAID, FATHER GOD, I shall not want. Father, we praise you for who you are in Jesus’ name. And then it continues. He says, he makes me lie down in green pastures. This is rest. You know, Jesus said, learn of me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light and you shall find rest in for your souls. David said here, he maketh me lie down in green pastures. Think of yourself now, just imagine, beloved one, for a second, you lying down in a green pasture. That’s a posture of rest. Father, we thank you today for rest. You are a God of rest. Thank you, Jesus, that you promised us if we would learn of you and walk in your way, that we would find rest Father, thank you that you are rest. And Father, right now in Jesus’ name, by the Holy Spirit, I release rest to your people. Jesus, you breathed on your disciples and you said, shalom to them. You spoke rest to them. and wholeness and peace to them. Jesus, we thank you that you are rest. And as we abide in you and trust in you, Jesus, that we also enter in to rest. We confess, Father, that these are eternal realities to be experienced. Father, I praise you today that you’re a God of rest. And Father, I release rest right now in Jesus’ name to your people. And I speak rest right now over your life, beloved one. David continues here. He says, he leads me beside God. the quiet waters. So once again, verse two, he makes me lie down in green pastures, rest. And then David continues, he leads me beside the quiet waters. This is restoration. This is restoration, renewal, and refreshment. You know, it’s interesting that sheep will not drink from waters that are moving quickly. They’re not able to. They can only drink from still waters. And this speaks to us of the fact that the Lord feeds us with what we can receive. He knows exactly what you need. He knows exactly how to bring restoration and refreshment to you. What one person can receive, somebody else perhaps is not at that same place. They need something different. Regardless of where we’re at as God’s sheep, he leads us beside the quiet waters. In other words, he leads us to places that we can receive from him at. And right now, Father God, I decree over your people, Father God, that you are everything that they need, and that, Father, you told us to open our mouth wide and that you would fill it, that you lead us, Father God, to places and to people that we can receive you in and from. Father, thank you that you’re all these things, that you are sufficient, that, Father God, we need no one but you. You can meet every need in our life, and we praise you for it in Jesus’ name.
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Psalm 23, verse number three, David continues. He restores my soul. Restoration, it speaks also of healing. He restores my soul. If you think of a soul that needs to be restored, this is a soul that needs to be healing. The Bible says if the spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, that he would give life, healing, restoration to our mortal body. In other words, God’s spirit is a spirit of life. It’s a spirit that is himself healing. The Bible says he arises with healing in his wings. All we have to do is believe it to receive it. It’s like the woman we read about, beloved one, in the gospel. The Bible said she had a hemorrhage, was bleeding for 10 years, and none of the doctors could cure her. But she had faith. She said, if I can just take a hold of Jesus’ garment, I’ll be able to receive my healing. And by faith, she pressed through the crowd. This speaks of faith that presses through doubt. It presses through hindrance. It knows if I just touch him, I’m going to be healed. She said, if I can just touch him, I’ll be restored. I’ll be healed. My bleeding will stop. And even though for 10 years the doctors couldn’t cure, when she pressed through by faith, by a holy resolve, if I could just touch him, I’ll be healed. When she touched him, beloved, through her faith, she received her healing. God is a healing God. The Bible says concerning Jesus, in Matthew 8, 16, and 17, that when Jesus healed the people, he did it in fulfillment of Isaiah 53. And in Isaiah 53, four and five, we read that not only did Jesus die for our sin, not only was he pierced through for our iniquity, but he was also, beloved, wounded by his stripes, were healed. In other words, when Jesus physically healed people, Matthew tells us he did it in fulfillment of Isaiah 53, 4 and 5. And in Isaiah 53, 4 and 5, we read of the crucifixion, that He was pierced through for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. And by His scourging, we are healed. And so what this tells us is that physical healing is in the atonement. In the same way that Jesus hung on the cross and was crushed for our iniquities and our sin, and took our sin and sickness away, in the same way that that was happening on the cross, Matthew tells us and Isaiah tells us that by his wounding, by his scourging, we are healed. In Matthew 8, 16 and 17, Jesus is physically healing people. And Matthew tells us of this event, that he was physically healing them of their sickness and diseases. And then Matthew says there, this is in fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah. And when we go to the portion in Isaiah, Isaiah 53, that Matthew was quoting from, it speaks of, get it now, the crucifixion. He was crushed for our iniquities and the chastisement of our well-being fell upon him. And by his stripes, You are healed. Healing is in the atonement, your physical healing, your emotional healing, the healing of your soul of sin, and even the healing of your physical body is in the atonement. And this is what Jesus was demonstrating when he healed all those that were being tormented by physical illnesses and by sicknesses. So, Father God, right now, in Jesus’ name, according to your word. I speak and I breathe and I release healing, Jesus, on and into your people. And I declare your word, Jesus, that by your stripes, we are healed. And right now I say in Jesus’ name, be healed. In Jesus’ name, be healed. By his stripes, you were healed. And Father, like the woman of old that said, if I just touch him, I’ll be healed. We say, yes, Jesus, we have been healed. By faith, we’ve received it. It’s done. It’s accomplished. We thank you, Father God, that the same experience that David had with you, we all have with you now, that you are the God of restoration and the God of healing. You are the God of sufficiency. Father, you are all we need. Everything we have is in you. All the riches and treasures, Father God, of our lives and needs are found in you. Hallelujah. And amen. David continues there in the third verse. He says, he guides me in the paths of righteousness. He guides me. Again, we’re looking at the fact that all we need is in God, that he leads us beside the still waters, that he’s our shepherd, that he brings healing. Now, David says, he leads me in paths of righteousness. I want you to consider this word righteousness from a very simple yet profound perspective. Sometimes when we consider the word righteousness, we think of it strictly in terms of morality. In other words, we think of righteousness as a strictly sometimes moral quality. We say he’s a righteous man. In other words, he does good and he refrains from evil. And this certainly is part of the definition of righteousness. But I want to share with you another definition of righteousness that is also equally true. When someone is righteous, they’re simply walking in the path that’s right. If someone is righteous, they’re simply choosing what’s right. Now this applies to a moral quality as we’ve described, but it also describes little decisions that we make. In other words, you have to determine if you’re a student right now, what college to go to. You know, there’s a best answer for you. Jesus can lead you in the right decision. He can lead you in his path of righteousness. If you’re considering taking another job, or if you’re looking for a job, there’s many, many options out there sometimes. How do you know which one’s right? He leads me in paths of righteousness. He can lead you to make the right decision. I have all the time. Even many of the people that work with me, God supernaturally confirmed to them that coming to work with discovering the Jewish Jesus was God’s right path for their life. And so when we think of the fact that Jesus is our shepherd and he leads us in paths of righteousness, this is such a source of encouragement to know that the little decisions that we have to make every day and sometimes we just don’t know what the right way is, Jesus, thank you, King Jesus, leads us in paths of righteousness. He leads us, hallelujah, to make the right decision. Isn’t that awesome? And of course, we all know that the scripture tells us we have become the righteousness of God in Christ. We’re the righteousness of God in Christ. Righteousness, beloved, is something that’s legal, that Jesus, because of his death on the cross, I’m speaking of righteousness from its moral perspective now, I’m speaking of it not in terms of leading us in the right decisions as I just did a moment ago, but I’m looking at righteousness now from a different perspective, You and I are the righteousness of God in Christ. The scripture says that he’s been made to us righteousness, that we are the righteousness of God in Christ. That Jesus that knew no sin took our sin into his own body on the tree and then he paid the penalty for that being separated from God and dying in our place. When he took our sin, that means the sin is no longer in us and we now stand before God holy and righteous. It’s a done fact. We are the righteousness of God in Christ. And God wants us to develop this confidence in him that Jesus took our sin because if we feel ashamed and if we’re covered with the spirit of shame and condemnation and guilt, you know what’s gonna happen? We’re not gonna be able to come before the Lord knowing that he loves us and we won’t be able to receive from him. So Father, right now in Jesus’ name, I just declare according to your word that your people have become the righteousness of God before you because Christ Jesus took their sin in his own body on the tree. Father, your word says that we are holy and righteous before you, that we’re holy and accepted in you, in the beloved, in Christ Jesus. So, Father, we declare and just say, thank you, Jesus, that you have made me righteous Thank you, Jesus, that there’s no sin in me anymore because you took my sin in your own body on the tree. And Jesus, because of that, I am now righteous. And I want to thank you, Jesus, that because of your stripes, I’m healed. I am well, spirit, soul, mind and body. We say, yes, God. We say all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ Jesus. We want to thank you, Jesus, that you are all we will ever need in life, that everything that we will ever have need of is ours in you. Father, thank you for that freedom. Thank you for that confidence. Father, thank you for your love. Shalom, beloved, and I hope this brings you joy. When you send in your tithe to Discovering the Jewish Jesus, your church or wherever you’re sending it to, you’re not just sending your tithe to that ministry. What you’re actually doing, beloved, is sending your tithe unto the Lord. The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews, chapter seven, verse eight, that when we present our tithe to the Lord, we’re presenting it to the one beloved Jesus Christ, the righteous who lives. I want you to know, beloved, take joy when you send in your tithes and offerings, because what you’re actually doing is sending your offering, lifting up your tithe and giving it to Jesus himself. I want you to know I love you today. I want to ask you to be faithful with your finances to the Lord. And if this ministry is blessing you, I want to ask you to do it through this ministry. God bless you and shalom.
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In the book of Numbers chapter 6, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over his people. And the Lord said, When you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. Receive the impartations of the Lord’s blessings.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m your host, Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. If you’ve been weighed down by fear, doubt, or deep hurt, next time, Rabbi’s going to show us the way to healing. That’s Wednesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
