Title: You shall not lack
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Title: You shall not lack
Bible: Psalm 23:1-6
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A man named Doug McKnight, at the age of 32, suffered from a central nervous system disease called multiple sclerosis.
It is an incurable disease that causes blindness, paralysis, and sensory impairment.
The disease took away his job, his ability to move and even his life for over 16 years.
He couldn't even eat on his own, and he had to keep fighting the occasional depressing thoughts and fears.
Everything was lacking.
One day, I was able to share prayer requests with the members of the church.
He asked for 24 prayer topics.
But what was surprising was that he only asked for eight prayer topics from God.
The remaining sixteen are titles of thanks.
Doug McKnight was a man of faith who confessed that there was no lack even in the midst of lack.
Today's text is a poem that David wrote in his last years.
Since he wrote a poem based on his experiences as a shepherd before becoming a king, it has a more lively and realistic feel.
The recorded background is when he was fleeing from the rebellion of his son Absalom.
It was a situation where we could complain and complain about why God gave us such pain.
But David confesses, 'I shall not want.'
His present reality is not a state of abundance.
Rather, they sang that there was no lack in circumstances where there were many shortcomings.
'There is no shortage' does not mean that there is no lack of material, no lack of health, and no lack of everything because it is abundant.
It means that there is nothing lacking for Jehovah to be my shepherd.
More importantly, the Lord is not my shepherd because I lack nothing. The Lord is my shepherd, so I have nothing to lack.
Today, we would like to examine David's faith, who confessed, 'I lack nothing' through these words.
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God who confesses Dawishing through the words of the text
First, He is the God who guides.
Looking at verses 2-3 of the text,