How The Holy Spirit Helps Us Teach People The Practical Benefits Of The Truth That "The Lord Is My Shepherd I Shall Not Be In Want"

1. The Holy Spirit teaches us how to help people personally experience the Lord’s shepherding care by realizing that:

A. The Lord is MY personal comforter, guide, and supplier of everything that I really need. (Psa. 23:1)

B. The Lord is MY personal stress reliever who makes me lie down in green pastures. (Psa. 23:1)

C. The Lord is MY personal blesser with every good, provision, blessing and thing. (Psa. 23:2)

D. The Lord is MY personal director who leads me beside quiet waters. (Psa. 23:2)

E. The Lord is MY personal navigator who guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake even when there are troubled seas ahead. (Psa. 23:3)

F. The Lord is MY personal supplier of whatever I am lacking in wisdom, nourishment or knowledge. (Psa. 23:3)

G. The Lord is MY personal advocate who lifts my self-image by helping me identify with His purposes, power and perspectives. (Psa. 23:3)

H. The Lord is MY personal restorer of whatever strength, energy, or emotional courage I have exhausted. (Psa. 23:3)

I. The Lord is MY personal preventive and curative medicine against all kinds of temptations and evil. (Psa. 23:4)

J. The Lord is MY personal companion who helps alleviate the pain of loneliness, fear and uncertainty. (Psa. 23:4)

K. The Lord is MY personal anointer who fills me with power, dignity and purpose. (Psa. 23:5)

L. The Lord is MY personal assurer who fulfills every Biblical promise to me in Christ. (2 Cor. 1:20)

M. The Lord is MY personal sovereign king, master and boss who reigns supreme over all people, problems and processes. (Psa. 23:1)

N. The Lord is MY personal sufficiency whenever I realize my inadequacies. (Psa. 23:1& 2 Cor. 12:9)

O. The Lord is MY personal sanctifier as He cleanses me from all sin, guilt and shame. (I John 1:9)

P. The Lord is MY personal bestower of the fruits of the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control. (Gal. 5:22,23)

Q. The Lord is MY personal protector from all that is evil. (Psa. 23:4)

R. The Lord is MY personal eternal salvation promising me His eternal goodness and mercy. (Psa. 23:6)

S. The Lord is MY personal goal setter who leads me by His truth, love and patience. (Psa. 23:3)

T. The Lord is MY personal corrector whenever I stray from His paths, processes or perspectives. (23:4)

U. The Lord is MY personal role model for all of my shepherding roles, relationships and responsibilities. (I Pet. 5:1-5)

V. The Lord is MY personal feeder, leader and edifier who is able to supply me with whatever is needed.

W. The Lord is MY personal nurturer who is able to supply the fostering care and needed nourishment.

X. The Lord is MY personal friend who is able to share my burdens and encourage me when I am down.

Z. The Lord is MY personal counselor who is able to recommend the best solutions for my problems.

AA. The Lord is MY personal empowerment whenever I am feeling weak, afraid or unable to move ahead

BB. The Lord is MY personal trainer who shows me how to multiply maturing disciples in all nations.

CC. The Lord is MY personal inspirer who instructs me in how to be involved with all types of evangelism

DD. The Lord is MY personal persuasion expert who show me how to bring people around to God’s truth

EE. The Lord is MY personal compassionate authority who helps me submit to His truth, power and will.

FF. The Lord is MY personal discipliner who chastens me whenever I need to be brought back in line.

GG. The Lord is MY personal setter of my individual, relational and ministry limits for my best interests.

HH. The Lord is MY personal minister who meets me at the point of my felt, real, perceived & spiritual need.

II. The Lord is MY personal ruler who alone deserves my undying allegiance, commitment and loyalty.

JJ. The Lord is MY personal way, truth and life as He alone knows the way to maximize His will for me.

KK. The Lord is MY personal enabler who gives me the confidence I can do all things thru Christ.

LL. The Lord is MY personal helper in whatever problem my family, my community or my friends face.

MM. The Lord is MY sustainer whenever I feel that there is not enough strength, peace or self-control left.

NN. The Lord is MY teacher who shows me what, why and how to teach others to be more like Jesus.