Hello!
Merry Christmas and Thank you for stopping by the A Shepherd's Heart Website!
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Hello!
Merry Christmas and Thank you for stopping by the A Shepherd's Heart Website!
Are you looking for a Christmas Devotional and use the YouVersion Bible App?
My friend,
It's December 1st! Merry Christmas!
As we begin to celebrate the Christmas season, may we prepare Him room in our hearts, minds, and in every area of our lives.
Preparing Him room begins with our hearts and we need to pause regularly to ask The Lord "Am I making room for You Lord?"
Prepare Him room my friend and don't allow anything in your life, including people, to block His work in and through you.
I pray that each of us continue to prepare Him room every day.
Take a moment to read and be encouraged by Luke 2:1-7 and John 1:1-5.
Your brother and servant in Christ, Randolph Koch
P.S. Please prayerfully help with our first ever fundraiser. Saving for a camera, mic, recording device, etc to serve you with. 🙏🏼 Any amount "small" or any size is greatly appreciated!
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My Friend,
My friend,
Which kind of person are you? Are you dead in sin or dead to sin?
Jesus came so that you can receive His forgiveness and salvation in Him and then you will be dead to sin and alive in Him!
It's of utmost importance that you know Jesus personally through receiving His free gift of salvation!
If you walk down this road you will arrive at an understanding of how you can be saved.
Let me encourage you to grab a Bible and dig into the following verses! You need to understand that:
1. No One is Good – Romans 3:10-12
2. We all Fall Short – Romans 3:23
3. Everyone is Guilty – Romans 5:12
4. We're All Guilty of Sin and Sin Earns Us Death – Romans 6:23
5. God Loves Us – Romans 5:8
6. Confess and Believe – Romans 10:8-10, 13
If you’d like to take a step of faith and receive Jesus as your Savior then here is a suggested prayer you can pray right now to enter into a new life with Jesus Christ fully forgiven and secure!
This prayer does not save you (Jesus does) but it’s a way to help you confess and receive in faith God’s Free gift of Salvation!
“Dear Father in Heaven, I believe in Your Son, Jesus. I believe that He died on the cross for my sins and that He rose up from the grave. I know that I am a sinner and I repent of my sins. I ask for Your forgiveness and I know that I'm forgiven. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. Help me to walk with You.Thank you for saving me. In The Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.”
The Romans Road....this is a pathway you can walk, right now!
The Question is – will you walk it?
If you’ve already walked The Romans Road and have received Salvation, praise God!
I'm praying for you! May you listen to God's voice as He draws you to Himself either in salvation or day-to-day as a follower of Christ as He guides and directs your path.
You're brother and servant in Christ,
Randolph Koch
Hello My Friend,
What's that? Your past is too messy and you've done too many things that God could never forgive you for and love you?...
Or, maybe you think you're "not good enough" to be loved and forgiven?
Or, What's that? You're a follower of Christ and you messed up again and now you think God won't forgive and love you anymore?
First off, let me encourage you to stop listening to the lies of the enemy or the lies you keep telling yourself and instead get into The Word and listen to God's truth!
He died once for all of your sins and His forgiveness isn't based on what you do or have done...it has nothing to do with your good works. You can't work your way to heaven!
P.S. Please share this encouragement with others and please also pray and give if possible to our first ever fundraiser. https://www.gofundme.com/f/Please-Help-AShepherdsHeart
Read and Study: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
My Friend,
Read and Study Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV; Romans 10:9-10 ESV; Psalm 103:12 ESV; and Psalm 139:14 ESV
To the people who care about you, you are not a nuisance or a waste of time.
Don't let doubts discourage you from living a full life. Time is short and you can't change or take back regrets, but you can control where you focus your energy now clear into the future.
Realizing this empowers you to feel in control of your journey. Anxiety and fear numbs, but forgiveness brings a visceral freshness unparalleled by anything that could be conjured in an impaired mind.
Dig deep, push back, fight the lies, forgive yourself, and be strengthened. YOU are worth the time and energy even if it's a challenge to believe it.
When you confess and become saved (Roman's 10:9-10) you are forgiven in the deepest way possible. As far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12)! Now we have to decide if we want to accept that God's free gift of grace and forgiveness is enough.
He is the only one who constantly says you're worth the time when you believe a lie. He is the only one who will continually wash you white as snow all the while not leaving or forsaking you even when the accuser roams. You are a child of God and therefore loved, cared for, forgiven, and wonderfully + fearfully made (Psalm 139:14).
Hold on to hope my friends!!
God Bless
- Noah
Picture of a view of The Pacific Ocean From Otter Crest By Noah Koch
Please prayerfully consider helping this ministry through a gift of any size via our first ever fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/Please-Help-AShepherdsHeart
Hello Friend,
It was during a storm that Peter saw someone walking from the shore over the crashing waves to the boat he was in.
Once He recognized that it was Jesus, he said, "Lord, if it’s you,” “tell me to come to you on the water.” Then Jesus said. "come." and then Peter stepped out of the boat.
Note, he was the only one who had faith enough to step out of the boat.
Once he started walking toward Jesus, Peter made one error though, he took his eyes off of Jesus and looked instead on his circumstances. Then he started to sink into the water and of course Jesus saved him.
We're kind of like Peter sometimes because even though we know what we should do, instead of fixing our eyes on Jesus, we fix our eyes on our circumstances and then our troubles get worse in the process.
My friend, We need to fix our eyes on Jesus as much as possible and not the storms of life.
Read, Study, and pray about Matthew 14:22-33.
Then ask yourself, am I willing to step out in faith, keeping my eyes on Jesus no matter my circumstances?
Let's pray for one another that we will keep our eyes on Jesus.
Your Brother and Servant in Christ,
Randolph Koch
P.S. Please prayerfully help me with my first ever fundraiser for my little ministry which I've extended for 1 additional month as I'm trying to raise just enough for some basic resources to serve you with.
Please share this small fundraiser with your church family and friends. Please help A Shepherd's Heart meet the goal of it's first ever fundraiser.
Here's the link to the main fundraiser site: www.fundly.com/a-shepherd-s-heart-2020-fundraiser
Or here are 3 other options to help in this friends helping a friend fundraiser:
You can use Cash App and send your gift to user name $ashepherdsheart or if you haven't used Cash App before, if you use this link https://cash.app/app/GHCJWXG we'll both receive $5! :-)
Use PayPal sending to giving@ashepherdsheart.org.
Use PayPal's Venmo app by sending to @ashepherdsheart
You're continued prayers and sharing this fundraiser with friends and family would be greatly appreciated!
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Hello!
From time to time I'll receive questions from those God has blessed me with the opportunity to serve.
Recently I received another thoughtful question from someone regarding how we as followers of Christ should respond to current events going on in our world.
My response isn't "profound" by any means and others may have a different perspective on this, but, I thought it might be an encouragement to you in some way and a starting point as you seek The Lord for similar things. So, with the permission of the person who asked the question, and with their name omitted, here is the question and prayerful answer.
Your Brother and Servant in Christ,
Randolph Koch
Question:
"Hello brother in Christ. I have an honest question. No underlying motive in asking, just looking for an honest answer on your perspective. As a man who appears to be grounded in Biblical truth as far as I can tell through what you post, what is your stance on America's current state and the church's, the body of Christ, needed response in light of all that is going on? Are we being too "quiet", too fearful, are we speaking up as we should into the myriad of issues? It seems there is much, "mixed", for lack of a better word, response from the church. Do we need to be a bit more fierce, is there too much fear of man in the church as a whole? Ok more than one question and they are some loaded questions lol."
Answer:
Here's the link to the main fundraiser site: www.fundly.com/a-shepherd-s-heart-2020-fundraiser
Or here are 3 other options to help in this friends helping a friend fundraiser:
You can use Cash App and send your gift to user name $ashepherdsheart or if you haven't used Cash App before, if you use this link https://cash.app/app/GHCJWXG we'll both receive $5! :-)
Use PayPal sending to giving@ashepherdsheart.org.
Use PayPal's Venmo app by sending to @ashepherdsheart
You're continued prayers and sharing this fundraiser with friends and family would be greatly appreciated!