The document is a poetic summary of who God is according to various Bible passages. It describes God as the Lord, shepherd, healer, comforter, provider, protector, and father who gives peace, righteousness, mercy, and eternal life through Jesus Christ. God promises to meet all needs, lead beside still waters, restore souls, and never leave or forsake believers.

1. ‘ I AM THE LORD YOUR SHEPHERD’ Psalm 23

2. ‘ I give my life for the sheep for I know my sheep and they know me’ (John 10:11-14)…

3. … I will ‘provide all your needs according to my riches in glory through Christ’ (Philippians 4:19) you shall lack for nothing.

4. ‘ I am he that makes you to lie down in green pastures’ (Psalm 23:2)…

5. … ‘ There is a rest for you, hasten to enter into my rest and cease from your own works even as I did from mine’ (Hebrews 4:9-10)

6. I will lead you beside still waters…

7. … ‘ I am your Peace: (Judges 6:24). I am your Shalom, (your wholeness, completeness, health and peace)

8. … I will ‘keep you in perfect peace as you keep your mind centred on me’ (Isaiah 26:3)

9. … my desire and purpose is to restore peace and wholeness to all my creation for I am the ‘God of Peace’ (Hebrews 13:20),

10. ‘ I am ‘the author and Perfecter of your faith’ (Hebrews 12:2) so ‘fear not only believe’ (Mark 5:36)

11. ‘ I am he who restores your soul’

12. … ‘ I am ‘the Lord who Heals you’ (Exodus 15:26)…

13. …‘ I am the the Great Physician and the ultimate source of all healing- spiritual, physical, emotional and mental…

14. … ‘ I am the ‘God of Compassion’ (Deuteronomy 4:31) the Father of Mercies: (2 Corinthians 1:3) my very nature is kindness and ‘Love’ (1 John 4:16)

15. ‘ I am he that leads you in paths of righteousness for my own names sake’

16. … ‘ I am ‘the Lord your righteousness.’ (Isaiah 64:6)…

17. … ‘ I was made to be sin with your sin so that you might become the righteousness of God in me. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

18. … ‘ your own righteousness is as filthy rags in my sight; (Jeremiah 23:6)

19. … ‘ I will uphold you by the right hand of mine own righteousness’ (Isaiah 41:10)

20. ‘ Yes even should you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil for I am with you’…

21. … I will ‘never leave you nor forsake you? (Hebrews 13:5) for I am ‘Immanuel: God with you’ (Matthew 1:23) the ‘God of all Comfort’ (2 Corinthians 1:3)

22. ‘ I am the Lord your Shepherd’ ‘ my rod and my staff they shall comfort you’…

23. … I am your ‘shield, your fortress and your deliverer, so trust me… (Psalm 144:2) ‘none shall stand against you all the days of your life.’ (Joshua 1:5)…

24. ‘ I have prepared a table before you in the presence of your enemies’…

25. … ‘ I am an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversary’ (Exodus 23:22) ...

26. … ‘ I am your defence, the rock of your refuge and will bring upon your enemies their own iniquities and cut them off in their own wickedness’ (Psalm 94:22-23)

27. ‘ I am the Lord your Shepherd’ ‘ I have anointed your head with oil’

28. … I have consecrated and separated you unto myself, ‘you who once were afar off are made near by the blood of Christ’ Ephesians 2:13

29. ‘ I fill your cup until it runs over’

30. … ‘ I am your provision, I came that you might have life more abundant’ (John 10:10)…

31. …‘ I am your ‘daily bread’ (Matthew 6:11) and ‘the water of life’ to you (Revelation 21:6)

32. ‘ I have declared that my ‘goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life’…

33. … It was my ‘goodness that led you to repentance’ (Romans 2:4)….

34. …‘ My compassion fails not and my mercies are new every morning’ for, ‘I am faithful’ (Lamentations 3:22-23)

35. ‘ You shall dwell forever in my house.’

36. … so ‘Let not your heart be troubled’ in my house there are many mansions, (rooms) if it were not so, I would have told you’ …

37. ‘ I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am you may be also’ John 14:1-3

38. Signed; ‘The Lord your Shepherd’ Your Abba. Your Father and your God

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