One thing that must register in your mind to walk in victory is the knowledge that God is with you and God is in you.
Roman's 8:31
If God is in you and God is for you, what then are His functions?
To operate in the power THATS at your disposal you must upgrade your knowledge of who you are in God.
GOD IS YOUR SHEPHERD
The word shepherd is a compound word. It entails Sheep and Herd.
Simply put a shepherd is someone who owns a sheep herd. A herd is a group of animals who live together or who are kept together. It also means a large group of people.
If God is my Shepherd it therefore means that I am not the only sheep in his herd.
Because a shepherd does not have one sheep. But a good shepherd can go to any length to get back a missing sheep.
Luke 15:4 KJV
[4] What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
One unique thing about God being your shepherd is that He's a good shepherd.
He has adequate knowledge of the sheep in His herd, and is willing to go to any length for them.
John 10:11,14 KJV
[11] I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. [14] I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep , and am known of mine.
As a good shepherd God cares and careter for your wellbeing.
Matthew 6:32 KJV
[32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
As a good shepherd God guides and guards you.
1 Samuel 17:34-36 KJV
[34] And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: [35] And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. [36] Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
THREE WAYS GOD SHEPHERD YOU.
1. Feeds You
2. Shields You and
3. Guides You.
THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack.
Psalms 23:1 | AMP
It's the same thing God uses to feed, shield and guide. And that is His Word.
"Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), 17 So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work."
2 Timothy 3:16 | AMP
Divine guidance is the help or instructions from God Either through His word, His Spirit, or His servants, or any other human vessel that tells you what to do and not to do, where to go and not go, and that tells you how to and not to do things.
Isaiah 30:21 KJV
[21] And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
The undisputed asset you have as a child of God is your spiritual sensitivity.
The greates tragedy is not that a person does not have ears, but that the person is deaf to the voice of the Holy Spirit, which is his inner voice.
Every of Gods instruction is for your profiting.
His instructions may not come as you want them, but obedience to them is a guarantee that the instructions will profit you.
Isaiah 1:19-20 KJV
[19] If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: [20] But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it .
In every spoken word of God is life and death, obedience to them guarantees life, disobedience to the same word is death.
Proverbs 18:21 KJV
[21] Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
The word of the Lord is a sword,
Hebrews 4:12 KJV
[12] For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, this is why ISAIAH 1:20 used the word SWORD
Isaiah 1:20 KJV
[20] But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the SWORD: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
"Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in thought, purpose, and action), 17 So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work."
2 Timothy 3:16 | AMP
Your victory over doubt, fear, unholy living, unrighteousness, indiscipline, disobedience, negative thoughts will not be in the grounds of works nor by power of the flesh but by yielding to the instructions, reproof and correction f Gods word.
The altimate victory God desires for you is that you are complete, perfect, fit and equipped for good works.
17 So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work."
