The LORD is my shepherd,
I am His sheep. I know His voice, and I follow Him, as He calls, leading me.

I shall not be in want.
For with Him, I do not lack. He is all that I need. In Him, I have all good things.

He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He gives me rest in His perfect provision, ending my striving to do what I cannot:  live right without Him,

He leads me beside quiet waters,
He calms my being, as I drink in all that I want of Him in the peace of His Presence.

He restores my soul.
He corrects my thinking, heals my heart and empowers me to align my will with His.

He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
He shows me the Way to choose to follow Him:  to give up my wrong ways and live every day His Way, glorifying His Name with every right choice I make.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
For even when darkness looms overhead, threatening my life, I will not be afraid,

For you are with me;
You have given me Your Word: Never will You leave me; nor will You forsake me; 

Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Your power and authority guard my life, protecting me; alleviating worry.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
With the world looking on, You honor me by making a place for me at Your Table, where I can feast all that I want on the Bread of Life and the Blood of the Lamb, satisfying my hunger and thirst for Your righteousness, as only You can.

You anoint my head with oil;
So profusely do You pour out Your blessings upon me that they run down over me, blessing all upon whom they then flow;

My cup overflows.
Endlessly, wave after wave of Your merciful grace washes over me, in Your continual giving to me of grace upon grace upon grace upon grace . . .

Surely goodness and love follow me, all the days of my life,
Relentless are You in Your pursuit of me, forever heaping more of Your goodness and love upon me. 

And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Never again will I have to fend for myself, for I live with my Father and all of our family in a Home that is built to keep us together forever in Him.

Amen.
Amen.

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In December 2013, I had an opportunity one day to spend a couple of hours watching two of our grandsons. At the time when the event of this story occurred, the older boy was nine-years-old and the younger one was only seven.

My husband and I were staying in a large, rental home near Disneyworld, Florida that week with our two sons and their families, and we were having a great time together.

But after nearly a week of getting started early and staying late at the parks we were ready for a little rest and decided to take an afternoon off. That was the decision that proved to be a life-changer for the younger of the two brothers.

 Both boys chose to stay with me at the rental home that day while the rest of our family went off in several different directions to shop, etc. But the boys wanted to watch some of their favorite Superbook DVD episodes that they had brought with them from home. So that’s what the three of us were doing when the older of the two stopped singing the Salvation Song that is at the end of every episode, called his brother’s name to get his brother’s attention, and then asked his brother an important question. “Hey, (name), have you ever prayed and asked Jesus to save you?” When the younger boy then shook his head in the negative, his older brother added, “You need to do that. It’s important.”

So, without any further discussion, the younger one got up off the floor and walked the few feet to where I had been sitting. With his head bowed and a smile on his face, he leaned against me and affirmed that he wanted to pray. I said a few simple sentences that he repeated, one at a time, as I led him in a very simple prayer of salvation. Never in this life have I ever anticipated being honored so greatly by God, as I felt at that moment, watching one brother lead another one to say a life-giving prayer of eternal salvation.

Cathy S. Scott
10/10/2019

[My testimony above was read this morning by my husband in a discussion of “How to Share Your Faith with Your Kids” (Grandkids, nieces, nephews, etc.) at the Big Canoe Chapel Men’s Fellowship Breakfast that highlighted the effectiveness of the CBN Superbook Project in bringing Biblical Truth and eternal salvation to, literally, millions worldwide.]

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