We Need a Shepherd

We Need a Shepherd

“The Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep he tends.” Psalm 100:3

Sheep aren’t the only ones who need a healing touch. We also get irritated with each other, but heads, and then get wounded. Many of our disappointments in life begin as irritations. The large portion of our problems is not lion-sized attacks, but rather the day-to-day swarm of frustrations and mishaps and heartaches.

Meaning to Lifting up of Hands

A sign of Divine Power

Exodus 9:29 

Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.

Things God will do

Reward each man

2 Corinthians 5:10 

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

Unusual Places to Pray

At altars of animal sacrifices

Genesis 12:7-8

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.