The Shepherd’s Journey

09/28/2025 - David Beverley - Being Born Again


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Bro. David focuses on God’s power to restore the soul. Using David’s life as the backdrop, it highlights how even a man “after God’s own heart” experienced seasons of failure, trauma, weariness, and spiritual collapse. Yet, David declares in Psalm 23:3 that the Lord is able to repair, rebuild, and reset the inner life — not just our circumstances. True restoration goes deeper than rewinding life to a better moment; it reaches into the operating system of the soul and makes us whole again through God’s love, mercy, and grace.

 

3 KEY TAKEAWAYS
  1. Your soul is your operating system

    When the soul is wounded, confused, tired, or living in broken identity, life malfunctions — but when God restores it, everything else comes back into alignment.

  2. Restoration is deeper than reversal

    God doesn’t simply undo bad moments — He rebuilds the inner life so the same broken patterns no longer control the future.

  3. No soul is beyond repair

    David, Israel, and the prodigal all proved the same truth: even after failure, loss, or self-inflicted damage, God restores the soul when we return to Him in humility and trust.

     

    SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
    • Psalm 23:1–6, especially Psalm 23:3 (core text)

    • 1 Samuel 17 (David & Goliath)

    • 2 Samuel 11–12 (David, Bathsheba & Uriah)

    • 1 Samuel 30:1–6 (Ziklag)

    • Acts 1:6–8 (Israel’s misunderstanding of restoration)

    • Genesis 2–3 (original trust in the Garden)

    • Luke 15:11–24 (Prodigal Son and the Father’s restoring love)

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