Lord, Shepherd Your People

A prayer to the Lord God Almighty. Oh Lord, you are the ruler and creator of all things in the heavens and on earth. Oh, Lord, hear our cry. Look down from your throne of majesty, spender, and power and see Your chosen people. Be compassionate, and show favor and loving-kindness for our faithful service, obedience, and endurance for Your sake.

Shepherd, Your people, tend to Your sheep, and bring us into Your green pastures, that we may be filled and prepared for the work You have prepared for us. Take our hands and guide us along peaceful waters. Refresh our souls with Your loving and compassionate touch. Plant us along Your living waters and cause our roots to drive deep down so we may know You better, dear Lord.

The nations rage, and the people who do not know You are determined to destroy us. They shout violence and hate toward Your servants, seeking to stomp us into the dust. But You will have Your way with them, and You have their number. You have their lives in Your hands, and their time will come. They will bow low before You and rise no more because Your purpose is confirmed, Your plan is perfect, and Your will is flawless.

You are like no other. None like You sees the beginning to the end. Who holds everything in perfect balance and complete control. Who delights in steadfast love. I praise You because You will remember our sins no more because of our repentant hearts. Our crimes and iniquities You will forget; they will be submerged in the depths of the ocean, thrown behind Your back, never to be mentioned or thought of again. 

We praise, worship, honor, and glorify Your name, Lord Jesus Christ, our King of kings and Lord of lords! The Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end. Who rules and reigns forever and ever, Amen. Our complete trust, total dependence, full confidence, and hope depend on You and You alone.

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things. 

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf; they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever because He delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. Micah 7:14-20

  1 comment for “Lord, Shepherd Your People

  1. Cornerstoneministries's avatar
    December 16, 2019 at 11:42 pm

    This was a great Word Joel. I always know when it’s Holy Spirit speaking through you, and when not.

    The see the Lord’s fluency.

    Amen

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