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         You must shepherd in the Spirit and not in the flesh. You must shepherd their souls. You must show them the areas in which they are falling away. You must show them through love, through My Word, and through example.
         I wish My flock to be shepherded by loving shepherds, wise shepherds, shepherds who shepherd in the Spirit. If your shepherding is shepherding in the flesh, without love and without care, if you only push and shove, if you only demand, your sheep will not follow. But if you will lovingly shepherd, if you will shepherd in the Spirit, if you will shepherd by love so that all that you do is in love, they will follow.
         But the sheep must remember that love takes on many forms. Love can be gentle, love can be caressing. Love can also be correcting and disciplining, but even so, it will be loving; even so must it be done with love, with patience, with longsuffering, with meekness, and with gentleness.
         Sheep who will not receive the love and the gentleness must receive the discipline and the correction. For the wayward sheep, who after much cajoling continues to lead others astray in waywardness, must be disciplined, must be corrected, and must be brought back into the fold. If it will not, this is the sheep that the shepherd will sell and will be rid of, so that it will not lead others astray. (ML #3067)



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