HE
LEADS - I FOLLOW
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in
want. 2 He
makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides
me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Psalms 23:1-3 (NIV)
9 He
guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. Psalms 25:9 (NIV)
24 You
guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you. Psalms 73:24-25 (NIV)
16 I will
lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide
them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places
smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. Isaiah 42:16 (NIV)
5 Blessed
are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. 6 As they pass through the
Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it
with pools. 7 They
go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion. 8 Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty; listen to me, O God
of Jacob. Psalms 84:5-8 (NIV)
16 This
is what the Lord says: “Stand at
the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is,
and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV)
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will
give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my
yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew
11:28-30 (NIV)
19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
Matthew 4:19 (NIV)
3 The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to
his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When
he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow
him because they know his voice. John 10:2-4 (NIV)
1 Therefore,
I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing
and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)
BUTTER
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely
trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.”
Blaise Pascal
“So,
take a deep breath and recall this deeper secret of the Christian life: when you are in a difficult place, realize
that the Lord either placed you there or allowed you to be there, for reasons
perhaps known for now only to Himself.
The same God who led you in will lead you out.” Robert J. Morgan
“To
the child of God, there is no such thing as an accident. He travels an appointed way…..Accidents may
indeed appear to befall him and misfortune stalk his way; but these evils will
be so in appearance only and will seem evils only because we cannot read the
secret script of God’s hidden providence.”
A.W. Tozer
“Give
me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no
disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to
be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.” Amy Carmichael
“To be rebuffed by a loved one causes pain not
to be compared with the cruelties inflicted by an enemy. So your
indifference and unresponsiveness to My call brings anguish to My soul, indeed,
deeper grief than the crimes of the reprobate sinner. I have laid My rod
upon the sinner, but I have laid My hand upon you. And I have put My arm
around you to draw you closer, but you have been impatient and irritable as
though I sought to interfere with your liberty. I am able to give
you greater liberty than you will ever find by seeking to be independent of Me.
I seek not to interfere with your
happiness, but I do require that you relinquish your will; for I cannot bless
you as I desire until your will is yielded up and you accept Mine in
exchange. As you love Me, you accept My will as your own, and the
caliber and extent of your love for Me may be accurately measured to the degree
that you accept My will with a peaceful heart. You can best sing ‘My Jesus, I Love You’ when you can truly sing ‘Where
He Leads Me, I Will Follow.’ For
whoever does not take up his cross daily to follow Me cannot be My
disciple.” Frances J. Roberts
“We as
Christians know that faith is taking God at His Word. And we realize that faith does not get us
around our problems, but it gets us through them. Such a promise is found in Psalm 48:14, ‘For
this is God, our God forever and ever.
He will be our guide even to death.’
His promise then is no matter how difficult we may find life to be, He
will guide us all the way home. Isaiah
42:16 ‘And I will bring the blind by a way they know not. I will lead them in paths that they have not
known.’ This is the way God leads His
own. You and I are blind to the future,
but He is not, and He has promised to lead all who will put their trust in
Him. Sometimes, because our
circumstances are totally out of our control, we not only have to believe these
promises, but we must put them to the test.” Wales
Goebel
“Thy way, not
mine, O Lord, however dark it be! Lead
me by Thine own hand, choose out the path for me.” Horatius
Bonar
“The Holy Spirit has promised to lead us step by step into the
fullness of truth.” Leon Suenens
“In
our walk with God we are told explicitly by Christ Himself that it would be His
Spirit who would be sent to guide us and to lead us into all truth (John
16:13). This same gracious Spirit takes
the truth of God, the Word of God, and makes it plain to our hearts and minds
and spiritual understanding. It is He
who gently, tenderly, but persistently says to us, ‘This is the way – walk in
it.’ And as we comply and cooperate with
His gentle promptings a sense of safety, comfort and well-being envelops
us.” Phillip Keller
“We
should follow Christ in simplicity and faith, because the paths in which He
leads us all end in glory and immortality.
It is true they may not be smooth paths – they may be covered with sharp
flinty trials, but they lead to the ‘city with foundations, whose architect and
builder is God.’ ‘All the ways of the
Lord are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of His
covenant.’ Let’s put full trust in our
Leader, since we know that, come prosperity or adversity, sickness or health,
popularity or contempt, His purpose shall be worked out, and that purpose shall
be pure, unmingled good to every heir of mercy…..His dear love will make us far
more blessed than those who sit at home and warm their hands at the world’s
fire.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART
SAVOR
- · The Lord desires to lead and I desire to faithfully follow.
- · The safest place for me to be is in the center of God’s perfect and pleasing will.
- · When circumstances confuse I fix my gaze upward and wait patiently on the Lord. 7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Psalms 37:7 (NIV)
