Thanks for tuning in, it's an honor to be with you.

As we study God's Word together, may our time uplift and encourage you.

If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today.

All the best to you today, my friend, may God bless you.

The last few years have revealed a lot about us.

Perhaps more than anything, we've learned how isolated so many people are and how lonely they feel.

If this describes you, if you ever find yourself convinced that no one cares, that no one can help you

hear you or heed your call, then Psalm 23 has some encouraging words for you.

We studied the 23rd Psalm not too long ago with our church in San Antonio.

At a time when we all needed words of comfort and hope, but this well-known, well-loved

Psalm is timeless. No matter what you're facing today, let this promise from David's point

wash over you. You are with me. Do you know the feeling?

Are you acquainted with the downward spiral of isolation?

Do you feel that you're all by yourself? If you know the feeling, you're not alone.

I don't mean you're not alone in knowing the feeling. I mean simply, you're not alone.

You may feel like you are, but you're not. That raw, dark sense of isolation and powerlessness

is not here to stay. And your gracious Heavenly Father has some words to talk to you to help you

step out of that lonely spot of loneliness. It's a Psalm, the 23rd Psalm. Perhaps the best known

of all of the book in the book of Psalms. King David wrote this, a former shepherd himself.

He said, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures,

and he leads me beside the still waters, and he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness

for his name's sake. And ye, though I walk to the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

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