And the Son of God, Jesus the Lord said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me. Therefore go into all the world teaching

and preaching the gospel to every single person that the the mostest parts of the earth.

In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on in touch, the Believers Valley experiences.

Our text with this message is probably the most familiar passage in all the Bible.

In fact, I can remember when I was a school kid that everybody had to memorize

this passage. And usually you will hear this passage of scripture read at almost every single

funeral. Oftentimes it is read with the bedside of someone who is very, very

ill, and I'm sure that many of us have read the stories of men in war who in times of great fear,

pulled out their little pocket New Testament,

in the back of which was the Psalms,

and they began to read out of fear, desiring courage, and the presence of God to read,

the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

So when you turn to the 23rd Psalm,

and I want us to read this Psalm there's one particular phrase and faceted in here

that I want us to deal with and the title of this message is the Believers Valley

experiences. The Believers Valley experiences and if we all read out of the same version we just all stand up and read it together

But since we have many different ones it probably wouldn't make a lot of sense so beginning in verse one

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of

righteousness for his namesake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for thou

art with me, thy rod in thy staff, they comfort me.

Thou prepares the table before me in the presence of my enemies, thou hast anointed my head with

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