Day 5 Teach Me To Walk Like Yahusha Walked

Study Focus

The Foundation of the Walk

A 10-day foundation for discovering how the Father's life became visible in Yahusha—and how that same foundation becomes the beginning of our own walk.

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Daily Pattern

Hearing The Father's Voice in the One Who is Sent

Primary Scripture: Yahuhanan 10:1- 30

Daily Posture: Learn to recognize the Father's Voice revealed through Yahusha, so that every step of your walk is governed by the Shepherd rather than the voices of strangers.

Formation

Day 5 — Hearing the Shepherd's Voice

Yahusha did not walk by guessing what the Father desired. He knew the Father because He came from Him, remained in Him, and perfectly revealed Him. Every word He spoke, every step He took, and every decision He made flowed from that unbroken relationship.

When Yahusha called Himself the Good Shepherd, He was not simply describing His care for His people. He was revealing that the same One who formed His walk is the One who now leads ours. He is the Gate through whom we enter, the Shepherd who gathers His flock, and the Voice His sheep recognize.

Scripture teaches that those who belong to Him know His voice—not because they have mastered religious practice, but because they know the One speaking. As we come to know the Father through Yahusha, the voices of strangers lose their authority, and our lives begin to follow the Shepherd who leads us in truth.

01

Identity

When Yahusha speaks of thieves, robbers, the Gate, and the Good Shepherd, He is speaking within earshot of the Parashiym, who believed their authority came through inherited religious position and tradition. What was Yahusha exposing about their claim to represent the Father?

02

Recognition

If Yahusha says, "My sheep hear My voice," what allows His sheep to recognize Him? Is it outward religion, inherited identity, or something deeper that the text reveals?

03

Source

Throughout this passage Yahusha repeatedly points back to the Father—His command, His authority, His sheep, and His oneness with the Father. What does this teach us about how Yahusha Himself walked, and what foundation must exist before anyone can truly walk as He walked?

Read

Listen and Hear What the Word Says

Read the passage slowly. Let the Word establish the foundation before you move into reflection.

Truth Scriptures

Yahuhanan 10:1–30

1. I tell you for certain that whoever does not enter into the sheep pen through the gate, but climbs over a wall, is a thief and a criminal.

2. Whoever enters through the gate guard is a shepherd of the sheep.

3. The gaurd of the gate opens it for the shepherd, and the sheep listen to the shepherd's voice. The shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them through the gate.

4. Whenever the shepherd has gathered all of his sheep, he goes ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

5. The sheep will not follow a stranger but will run away because they do not know the stranger's voice.

6. Those who heard Yahusha speak this parable did not understand what it meant.

7. So, Yahusha spoke to them again and said, I assure you that I am the Gate for the sheep.

8. All those who came before Me were thieves and robbers, and the sheep did not listen to them.

9. I am the Gate. Whoever enters through Me shall be saved. They will come in and go out; they will find pasture.

10. The theif only comes to steal, kill and destroy. I came so that you could have life and have it in abundance.

11. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for His sheep.

12. When a hired hand sees a wolf coming , they run and leave because they are not a shepherd and the sheep do not belong to them. Therefore, the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

13. A hired hand does not care deeply about the sheep.

14. I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those who are Mine, and those who are Mine know Me.

15. This is just like the Father and Me. The Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I give up My life for the sheep.

16. I have other sheep who do not belong to this sheep's pen. I must also lead them. They will listen to My Voice, and there shall be one flock, with One Shepherd.

17. This is why the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life. Therefore I can take it up again.

18. No one takes My life away from Me. I lay it down of My own will. I have the power to take it up again. I received this command from My Father.

19. Because of Yahusha's words, there was another division among the Yahudiym who were following Yahusha.

20. Many of them said, " He has a demon, and has gone mad. Why listen to Him?

21. Others said, " These are not the words of someone possessed with a demon. Can a demon heal the eyes of the blind?

22. In Yirushalam, the time came for the Festival of Hanakah, also called the Dedication Festival. This took place in Winter.

23. One day Yahusha was walking in the Ahiykal, in the part they call Shalamah's Aulam, also known as Shalamah's Porch.

24. The Yahudiym who were against Yahusha came and circled Him. They said, " How long will You test our patience? If You are the Mashiyha, then plainly tell us.

25. Yahusha replied, I told you, but you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's Name testify about Me and who I am.

26. However, you do not believe because you are not My sheep.

27. My sheep hear My Voice. I know them, and they follow Me.

28. I give to them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one will snatch them out of My hand.

29. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than everything and anyone. And no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand!

30. The Father and I are One.

Reflection

Hebrew Thought Restores Understanding

Yahusha begins this passage by exposing a false assumption. Those standing before Him believed they were already shepherds of Yisharal because of their religious position, inherited tradition, and authority among the people. Yet Yahusha describes those who came apart from Him as thieves and robbers.

That statement should stop us.

He is not denying that Yahuah spoke through the prophets. Rather, He is exposing every claim to spiritual authority that does not enter through the One whom the Father has established. The Gate is not simply an entrance into salvation. The Gate reveals the Father's appointed way. Every true shepherd enters through Him because every work of Yahuah finds its fulfillment in Him.

Yahusha then reveals Himself as both the Gate and the Good Shepherd. He is the One through whom the sheep enter, and He is the One who leads them once they have entered. He does not drive His sheep with fear or manipulation. He calls them, goes before them, and they follow because they know His voice.

Notice what the passage never says.

His sheep do not follow because they inherited religion.

They do not follow because they possess information.

They do not follow because someone else told them who He is.

They follow because they know Him.

This becomes even clearer as Yahusha explains His own walk. He lays down His life because He received this command from the Father. Everything He does flows from the One who sent Him. His authority, His leadership, His sacrifice, and His life are never independent of the Father.

Then Yahusha brings the entire passage together.

"My sheep hear My voice... My Father has given them to Me... no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand... I and the Father are One."

The sheep recognize Yahusha because His voice is the perfect expression of the Father. To know the Son is to hear the Father speaking through Him. His walk was never separate from the One who sent Him.

This is the foundation of learning to walk as Yahusha walked.

We are not merely learning to recognize a voice.

We are learning to recognize the Source from which that voice comes.

Hebrew Thought Restores Understanding

The Gate reveals Yahuah's appointed way, not merely an entrance.
A shepherd has authority because he enters through the Gate established by the Father.
The sheep recognize the Shepherd because they know His character.
Yahusha's authority is never independent of the Father who sent Him.
"My sheep hear My voice" reveals covenant recognition, not merely audible hearing.
The Father and the Son are never presented as competing sources but as one in purpose, authority, and revelation.
Every true walk begins by recognizing the Source before taking a single step.

Yahusha never walked independently of the Father. Every word, every work, and every step revealed the One who sent Him. His sheep recognize His voice because His voice perfectly reveals the Father. Discernment grows by remaining near the Shepherd until His voice becomes unmistakable above every other voice.

Palal

Open Your heart before the Father

Ahba Yahuah,

Thank You for not leaving Your people without a Shepherd. Thank You for revealing Yourself through Yahusha, the Gate through whom we enter and the Shepherd who faithfully leads us.

Teach me to know You so deeply that I recognize Your voice above every competing voice. Remove from me every dependence upon fear, tradition, pride, urgency, or the opinions of others. Let nothing lead me except the One You have established.

Train my heart to shema—not only to hear, but to hear with the desire to obey. As Yahusha walked only according to Your command, teach me to order my life according to Your voice and not my own understanding.

Cause me to remain near enough to the Shepherd that His character becomes familiar, His direction becomes clear, and His peace governs every step I take.

Let my life reveal that I belong to You, because I know the Shepherd, I follow His voice, and through Him I have come to know the Father.

Ahlaluyah.

Practice

Living Under the Father's Order

Walk as One Who Knows the Shepherd

Today, do not seek a new experience. Instead, examine the voices that are already shaping your decisions.

Yahusha said His sheep know His voice because they know Him. Discernment is formed by remaining near the Shepherd until His character becomes the measure by which every other voice is judged.

Spend time with Yahuah in quietness, not to search for something new, but to allow His Word to expose what has been leading you.

What has been governing my decisions more than Yahuah's Word?

Which voices have I trusted because they were familiar, popular, or comfortable rather than because they revealed the Father's character?

Where is Yahuah calling me to follow the Shepherd instead of following my own understanding?

"I will know the Shepherd by remaining near Him, and I will walk where He leads because His voice reveals the Father."

Today's Response

Choose one decision you are currently facing.

Before you make it, stop and ask:

Does this reflect the Father's character revealed through Yahusha?
Is this leading me toward faithful obedience or toward fear, pride, convenience, or self-reliance?
Am I following the Shepherd, or am I following another voice?

Then commit that decision to Yahuah before taking your next step.

Carry this revelation into the day

Day 5 - Hearing

The Shepherd does not simply give direction—He reveals the Father. Every step Yahusha took flowed from the One who sent Him, and every sheep who truly knows Him learns to walk the same way. The closer you remain to the Shepherd, the more your life reflects the Father whose voice He perfectly reveals.

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