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PSALM 23 PART FIFTEEN THY STAFF “Thy STAFF…comforts* me” PSALM 23:4 The Hebrew Word translated here as staff has two meanings. The first is translated generally as anything that supports and stabilizes (A feminine noun indicating a support, a supply. It is used of what firms up, keeps stable, furnishes needed supplies…{TCWS of the Old [...]

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PSALM 23 PART FOURTEEN CORRECTION AND GROWTH “Thy Rod…comforts* me” PSALM 23:4 Without correction and accountability personal growth and fruitfulness becomes stagnated and stunted. Men who refuse correction cease to grow and cease to live. Jesus said “every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit”. We see this truth so [...]

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PSALM 23 PART THIRTEEN THE NEED FOR CORRECTION “Thy Rod…comforts* me” PSALM 23:4 Freedom, Peace and Confidence are not possible without authenticity. Authenticity is the result of truth. Truth by its very nature must reveal and make manifest that which is false and superficial. Men may have knowledge and information concerning God without ever touching [...]

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PSALM 23 PART TWELVE THY ROD and THY STAFF “Thy Rod and Thy staff they comfort me” PSALM 23:4 We see here that the ministration of His Rod and His Staff are meant to have a profound effect upon our lives. We must realize in all of the scriptures that change and growth are to [...]

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“Nevertheless” “And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net” ISAIAH 51:4 True living faith will never be conditioned by experience. Faith, to be faith, must always find its dependence in God not ourselves. Though experience says [...]

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PSALM 23 PART ELEVEN HIS PRESENCE “For Thou are with me” PSALM 23:4 His Presence is the chief end and summation of all things. While some may seek recognition and the approval of men a new generation is arising; one that will know the full purpose of God in Christ is to bring forth a [...]

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PSALM 23 PART TEN FEAR “I will fear no evil…” PSALM 23:4 Fear is a common reality felt from the poorest of men to the richest. Fear, in itself, is not a sin. If fear were not a part of our everyday life words such as courage, bravery, overcoming and fearless, among others, would have [...]

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RIGHTEOUSNESS PART ONE “The Gentiles shall SEE your righteousness” ISAIAH 62:2 We live in a time of great religious activity within the landscape of a secularized Christian “church”. Within this environment “righteousness” has taken on a profession of a faith that is to be stated and debated rather than a life that is actually to [...]

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PSALM 23 PART NINE THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” PSALM 23:4 The Valley of the Shadow of Death is a place that we are to walk through. Valleys are places where our vision is reduced, our world shrinks, we are hemmed [...]

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PSALM 23 PART EIGHT THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” PSALM 23:4 Throughout this Psalm we read of Him leading us to places of quiet waters and green pastures, in paths of righteousness and yet in the midst of all this we [...]

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