{"id":21069,"date":"2014-08-04T00:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=21069"},"modified":"2014-08-03T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:06:03","slug":"shepherd-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/04\/shepherd-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shepherd and His Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Know that the Lord is God.
\nIt is He who made us, and we are His;
\nwe are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
\nPsalm 100:3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Have you ever noticed that you are put in other people\u2019s lives for a reason? \u00a0My mother always believed that God put her with my father because she has vision problems and he can see (and now I that I am married can see her point). \u00a0My father was put with her because he has hearing loss, and she can hear. \u00a0In September they will have been married for 36 years. \u00a0Now that is a long time by today\u2019s standards! \u00a0 As for me and my husband, he lays something down, and I can usually tell him right where it is. \u00a0The same goes when I lay something down. My husband knows my moods, and I know his. \u00a0We have only been married for a few years, but we are still learning about each other.<\/p>\n

I am the good Shepherd. I know My own and My own know Me,
\njust as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
\nJohn 10:14-15<\/p>\n

The Lord is our Shepherd. \u00a0He created us. \u00a0God knew who we were and where we were going before we were even born. \u00a0He knows us better than we do ourselves. That is why our prayers are answered the way that they are when we pray. \u00a0We may pray for something, but God may not think that an affirmative answer would be beneficial to us. \u00a0God then tells us \u2018No.\u2019 for our own good because He knows us.<\/p>\n

When we accept Christ into our hearts, we begin to know our heavenly Father. \u00a0He knew us before we even turned from our sin and returned to Him. \u00a0When Christ went to the Cross, He already knew who He was dying for that day. \u00a0He knew us before we were even twinkles in our parents\u2019 eyes. God knows who His sheep are even before they walk this Earth. \u00a0God had plans for all of eternity even before He created Adam and Eve. \u00a0He already knew who we would be. \u00a0It is part of our responsibility to know Him better.<\/p>\n

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Dear Heavenly Father, You knew us before You wove us together in our mothers\u2019 wombs. \u00a0We are Your children, and You know us like parents know their children. Thank You for giving us the gift of eternal life through the gift of Your Holy Son. \u00a0In Jesus’ name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Psalm 100:3 Have you ever noticed that you are put in other people\u2019s lives for a reason? \u00a0My mother always believed that God put her with my father because she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3367,1287,425,6973,6972,3211,2002,3176,3174,4141],"class_list":["post-21069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-knew-us","tag-john-1014-15","tag-laura-pattillo","tag-psalm-100","tag-psalm-1003","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-shepherd","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5tP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21071,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21069\/revisions\/21071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}