Day 5

Scripture to Read: Psalm 95:7a

We belong to God because we are His children and we’ve been made in His image (Genesis 1:26)—it is important for us to understand what that means. God’s Word says in Psalm 95:7a, “For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.” God is the Great Shepherd and cares for us as His sheep. Since we are His sheep, if we are walking in right fellowship with our Lord, we will recognize His voice over the voices of this world. Sheep in the Middle East are led by their shepherds and not driven by them. The sheep recognize the voice of their shepherd and willingly follow him because they trust his voice. God describes us as His sheep. Therefore, we must follow His Word. But if we’re not following His Word or struggling to recognize His voice, then we must examine our lives. As we do, we will immediately see whose voices we are trusting because we will see by the choices we’ve been making who we’ve been obeying. God desires us to hear His voice above all others and to walk in obedience to Him. God even tells us in Ephesians 4:24 that since we belong to Him, we must continually “put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” Through Christ, we are a new creation, full of His righteousness, holiness, and truth and that is what our life must model as His sheep.

Challenge & Application

· What does it mean to you to be one of God’s sheep and that He is your Great Shepherd? · How do you guard against the voices of the world so that you hear and trust God’s voice in your life?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

Devotionals from this week

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Day 1

We will shout about a lot of things. We’ll shout when we get excited about our favorite team winning a game. We’ll shout when we get angry about something. We’ll find ourselves shouting when we are in a place with a lot of noise, and we try to project our voice over the noise. We’ll also sing for a lot of different reasons. We’ll sing along w...

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Day 2

God definitely deserves our voices to be lifted up in joyful shouting and singing to Him. God reminds us today in Psalm 95:3, “For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods.” We know God is great and wonderful and almost every Christian would agree that no one is greater or more wonderful than God our King. The problem for so ma...

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Day 3

God continues to open our eyes to why He alone is worthy of all of our praise, shouting, songs, words of adoration, and admiration! God reminds us in Psalm 95:4–5, “In whose hand are the depths of the earth, the peaks of the mountains are His also. 5 The sea is His, for it was He who made it, and His hands formed the dry land.” Consider that ...

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Day 4

God led David to challenge us to see Him for Who He is as our God, Creator, and King and that He is above all. But since we are only examining a verse or two a day, we get to dive into each verse a little deeper. God’s Word says in Psalm 95:6, “Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.” As we examine this vers...

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Day 6

God challenges us today to be sure and listen closely to His voice. God tells us in Psalm 95:7b–9, “Today, if you would hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, 9 ‘When your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, though they had seen My work.’” God used David to remind us all that we mu...

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Day 5

We belong to God because we are His children and we’ve been made in His image (Genesis 1:26)—it is important for us to understand what that means. God’s Word says in Psalm 95:7a, “For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.” God is the Great Shepherd and cares for us as His sheep. Since we are His sheep,...

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Day 7

There is no doubt that God is patient, kind, gracious, forbearing, forgiving, and the list goes on toward us as His creation. But there comes a point, and God alone knows, when someone hits this wall that someone’s heart has been so hardened toward Him that they are beyond repentance. It’s hard for us to even think about someone getting to th...

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