23 1The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

God bless you and good morning. God is good all the time…Early this morning before prayer I was woke and pre-praying when a good friend from overseas sent me such an encouraging word that I couldn’t even go back to sleep. In this venue, it would be impossible to summarize but in general, it had to do with adhering to the plan of God for Christians. As a Christian, there will be times of uncertainty, whereas everything that you want to do or even need to do works to not be done.

At these times it is so easy to become discouraged and to give in to the chaos, but there comes a time to rest in the Lord. To rest in Him requires faith, requires also experience and perseverance. The faith of the body of Christ is under attack. The first area the enemy usually attacks is provision. A farmer’s greatest challenge is never getting the crop planted, harvested, or taken to market it is in the process of growing the seeds into plants. When the seedlings become young tender plants this is when they are most subject to dying due to the pestilence of bugs.
The plants then never produce the actual crop that is to be harvested. If you have to be worried about your plants never producing harvest then your focus leaves what God has you doing and you become prey to the ploy of the enemy.

I want to look at 23rd Psalms, pretty much verse one, and compare it to the lack the enemy uses to distract us. When the Lord is your shepherd, you shall not want. Shall is a powerful word in terms of obligations upon the parties mentioned. Will is rarely used in contract language because will lacks the legal precedence of shall. Shall in a contract is enforceable. Now think of how this fits into our covenant relationship. Yes, our covenant is beyond a contract, a covenant places the burden upon God even when we do not fulfill our obligation (i.g. It rains on the just and the unjust).

When the creator of all abundance is responsible for you then abundance abounds to you. All that seems to be nothing becomes something when someone in covenant relationship has a need. God encourages us to pull on that covenant relationship, making known on the earth and in the earth who your shepherd is and as it all belongs to Him blessings are released to provide for you.

 You may contact Dr. Schaeffer at drschaefferinterceding@yahoo.com. Comments, questions, and prayer requests are welcomed. You may contribute to Interceding Christian Center on either Givelify or Cash App $intercedingcc.

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