The Heart Of God’s Shepherds

Summary:

Today God has brought forth shepherd's after His own heart. As we grow and mature we find that we all are shepherd's and we are all sheep. We are to build one another up in love and put a foundation under each one so they can stand. The heart of a shepherd will cry and intercede to see God's people come into all that He has for them.

Show Notes:

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  As God brings forth shepherd's after His own heart, they must know their relationship with Him.

  
  


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  We find that we are all shepherds and we are all sheep. We shepherd one another.

  
  


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  We refuse to criticize one another, but instead we build a foundation under one another in which we can stand.

  
  


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  There is something about laying down our lives, it is what Jesus said. We lay down our lives for each other.

  
  


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  We are to build one another up in love so that everyone feels they are important in His family.

  
  


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  A shepherd cries and intercedes for the people.

  
  


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  A true shepherd feels the responsibility for the people.

  
  


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  The great shepherd is creating shepherd's after His own heart.

  
  

Quotes:

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  God brings forth shepherds after His own heart, they have to know who they are. They have to know their relationship with God, and how He's relating to them.

  
  


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  And see, the truth is, we're all shepherds. And we're all sheep.

  
  


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  We're those who absolutely care for each other in the family.

  
  


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  I think the worst thing you can do is criticize somebody. The minute you criticize, that puts up a wall, in that person's thinking about himself.

  
  


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  We're here to build each other up in love. And that, to me, is the greatest tool we have.

  
  


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  ...if you have a shepherd's heart, you react with your heart. Now, where did you get it? God gave it to you.

  
  


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  Lord, is it time to do what it takes to bring them back? Is it time to enter into intercession on their behalf?

  
  


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  When you start feeling the responsibility, that's the beginning of a shepherd's heart right, there.

  
  


• I think we're in the most creative, wonderful time of our lives now where we have this ability to create those brethren, that are going to be a part of the thing that makes up the family, the body of Christ.


• Doesn't the scriptures say that we are co-creators with Him?


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  We should be worshiping, and thanking Him forever, for doing what He's done in our lives, because He is the Great Shepherd, who's creating shepherds after His own heart.

  
  


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  You know whom makes the most effective Shepherd, the sheep. What did What did Christ say? My sheep know my voice. Those sheep follow the shepherd.

  
  


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  When the time comes that God puts you in a place of being a shepherd. You've been taught very well, because you've been taught by His Son.

  
  

References:

Jeremiah 3:15

“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.”

Matthew 23:11

But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

I Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.

Revelations 18:4

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

John 21:15

Now when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My lambs.”

Romans 8:25-27

26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Take Away:

God has brought forth a family of shepherd's after His own heart. As they love and care for one another, they are fulfilling the heart of the Great Shepherd as He echoed in the scriptures. “Do you love me? Feed My sheep.”