Remember if you are looking for help and hope in your life you have a Shepherd that responds to your cry. God is never far off and He patiently waits for you, as His child, to bring the tangled mess of your life to Him so He can unravel your knots and straighten out your path. God hears your feeble voice when you reach out to Him in prayer no matter how great or how small your burden may be. Lay your burdens at the altar of prayer and you will find rest for your soul. You will exchange God's peace for your anxiety and God's grace for your frustrations... let Jesus teach you to walk in the freedom of His presence... He is your Shepherd...
Psalm 146:2-3 (KJV) While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psalm 31:24 (NAS Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the Lord.
Acts 17:26-28 (ESV) And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Proverbs 15:29 (AMP) The Lord is far from the wicked [and distances Himself from them], But He hears the prayer of the [consistently] righteous [that is, those with spiritual integrity and moral courage].
Psalm 116:6-8 (NKJV) The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
Psalm 23:1 (EX The Lord is my shepherd; I ·have everything I need [L will lack nothing].
John 10:14 (AMP) I am the Good Shepherd, and I know [without any doubt those who are] My own and My own know Me [and have a deep, personal relationship with Me]—
