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The Gate

     This week I have been studying in Lysa Terkeurst study Finding I Am. We have been learning in the study about the seven I Am statements of Christ. This week it has been I Am the Gate (John 10:9) and I am the Good Shepherd (John 10:11). Here's what I have learned: Like a shepherd tends his sheep...loving, tender, protector, nurturing...that's the way The Lord tends to us.  Sheep recognize their Shepherds voice and obey it.  The gate is there to allow coming in and going out of the sheep. Keeping them protected inside the fence from their enemies. Nothing can get thru that gate without the shepherd knowing about it...for he sleeps at he gate at night to guard it.  Christ is the Gate. He is always there..protecting us.. on guard for us. He knows our coming in and going out. Psalm 121:8 (NASB) "T he Lord will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever." You must go thru Him. He is the only Sheep Gate. The only way