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He Restores My Soul
Psalms 23: 3 

This week’s message was brought to us by Pastor Zerubabbel Mengistu.

This is a famous chapter in the Bible, and we might have quoted these verses many times. Today, we’re going to focus on the verse that talks about the shepherd restoring our soul. The Amharic and original Aramaic translation uses the word “return” instead of the word “restore”. We might ask the question: how can the soul return? Where does it even go? 

We all know that it is possible to be present somewhere physically and have our soul be somewhere else concerned with other things. We see that the great shepherd, Jesus, returns and aligns our soul and restores us in ways no mere mortal can. 

The tree 
Jeremiah 17: 7- 8 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.”

Psalm 1:1-3 ”but who’s delight is in the law go to the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by the steams of water which yields its fruit in season…” both of the aforementioned passages talk about this “tree“ that is planted by water and how fruitful it is. They each give us an important key on the stability that characterizes this tree. 

Jeremiah mentions that it’s trust in the Lord that causes this stability and Psalm 1 shows us how to come to this place of trust. The key here is the word meditate. If we are having an issue of trust, we should check where our meditations lie. Meditating on the word of God restores trust in our hearts. It's easier to have confidence in Him when we have been meditating on his promises. This is how the shepherd restores our soul. 

Graduation 
In  Luke 4:1-11 we see the Devil tempting Jesus. Jesus keeps responding with the word of God quoting “It is written”. Then on the third temptation Satan takes it up a notch and quotes scripture too. Now this is unheard of; the Devil quoting Scripture? Satan here was trying to create a wedge between the Word of God and the trust Jesus had in the Word of God. But Jesus didn’t back off and start doubting the Word, He instead responded with another “It is written”.  This exchange shows us that quoting the scripture is not where the merit lays. It is in the trust we put on what is written. Let us graduate today from just quoting the Scripture to putting our trust in it.

Other side of trust 
In 1 Samuel 1 We read about Hanna and how she is deeply troubled because she could not conceive. She goes to the temple and prays to the Lord and after her encounter with Eli she goes home but the scripture tells us that something had changed about her. In verse 18 it says that her face was no longer downcast. It was after this restoring of her soul that the Lord remembered her. After this, Hanna did not give birth to just any child, she gave birth to Samuel. A man so mightily used by God to shift the whole ministry landscape of Israel. Now let me ask you, What’s waiting on the other side of your trust in God? What will God do with your returned soul?

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