{"id":8883,"date":"2011-11-06T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2011-11-06T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:27:47","slug":"devotional-from-brother-shepherd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/11\/06\/devotional-from-brother-shepherd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional from Brother Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>Written by Brother Shepherd<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/McGregor-Park-Riverwalk.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-73919\" title=\"The Cumberland River is up and over parts of McGregor Park and the Riverwalk.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/McGregor-Park-Riverwalk-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"The Cumberland River is up and over parts of McGregor Park and the Riverwalk.\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>Some time back I rode down by the Cumberland River to see how high the water was after the rain that we had. Many times in the past years, I have seen Cumberland River rise so high that it\u2019s even out of its banks and onto Riverside Drive. I have always been amazed at how much water that took, but the water always recedes.<\/p>\n<p>As the river flows, it reminded me of what Jesus told His disciples, \u201cOut of you shall flow rivers of living water.\u201d This is found in John 7:38. That\u2019s always made me wonder how strong my witness in the Lord has been in years past. Has the Living Water of Jesus Christ flowed out of me?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are all called to be witnesses for the Lord and as we witness that is the Living Water that Christ talked about. Our lives can make a positive difference in this world. When we let Christ use us and we tell what He has done for us, others will believe.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was speaking to Martha, (His friend) one day and in John 11:25&amp;26 it says, \u201cJesus said unto her, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this?\u201d The last 3 words in verse 26 are so important. BELIEVETH THOU THIS? If we really believe that Jesus is the resurrection, rivers of Living Water will flow out of us.<\/p>\n<p>This is Brother Shep asking you to think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Brother Shepherd Some time back I rode down by the Cumberland River to see how high the water was after the rain that we had. Many times in the past years, I have seen Cumberland River rise so high that it\u2019s even out of its banks and onto Riverside Drive. I have always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[3721,613,3758,1997],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2jh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}