Exhortations

Exhortations

Danger: if you’re looking for something, you’ll find it. People are everywhere in groups of people that believe crazy stuff that isn’t true. Make sure you are seeking the Lord, not looking for philosophy.

 

Develop balance.

 

Make sure to practice preparation—haste leads to poverty as surely as diligence to wealth (ie contentment, true prosperity)~look at the Proverbs.

 

Paul, when heading to Jerusalem, said that he ahd faithfully served the Lord with great humility & with tears, he was severely tested; yet he had not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful as he taught publicly from house to house.

 

 

 

Control money, don’t let the love of it control you.

 

Scripture warns us to flee sexual temptation; not walk into situations where we know there will be temptation and just resist.

 

All of my own energies (all my heart, all my mind, all my soul, and all my strength) are to be spent on God. Then, God gives me His Holy Spirit empowerment to love and serve others as if they were myself.

 

The core of the false teaching of seeker friendliness is putting other people and their needs ahead of a personal relationship with God. Thus, all that is built is programs and outreaches based on needs—another social gospel—not God’s Kingdom. God’s Kingdom is one that begins in the heart of a man and then works itself into His life, transforming Him into a new creation as the seed of Almighty God’s Spirit blooms and grows as it is fed with the living nutrients and water of Jesus Christ (the Word).

 

It is not for us, O Lord, to build our own name, but to Faithfully serve you whether in obscurity or honor, reproach or prominence, hardship or ease.

 

 

The Great Commission simply means go and teach, individuals and nations, all that Jesus commands and baptize  in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19-20).

 

May you be a man of character—a vessel of honor.

 

Follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

 

Continue to stir up the gift of God that is in you and keep your spiritual fervor serving the Lord.

What God has to say about Shepherding--An Exhortation

 

 

 

What God has to say about Shepherding

~an exhortation~

     God takes shepherding very seriously, please read this collection of verses with a quiet heart and examine yourself.

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. 4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. 5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord; 8 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; 9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord; 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

Ezek 34:1-11 (KJV)

And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

Ezek 34:23 (KJV)

And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezek 34:31 (KJV)

 

Taken from: https://sites.google.com/site/adviceforyoungministers/articles/shepherding