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15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. The Jesus-followers in the city of Laodicea fell into a spot spiritually that is easy forContinue reading “26Nov2008 Rev 3:15-16”

12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and IContinue reading “25Nov2008 Rev 3:12”

10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. God has the ability to protect us from trials, and sometimes He does. Sometimes the trials work aContinue reading “24Nov2008 Rev 3:10”

8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. The believers in the ancient city of Philadelphia learned an important lesson: even when your strength isContinue reading “23Nov2008 Rev 3:8”

5 He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. There is a place where our names get recorded when we enter into life. This is more important than our birthContinue reading “22Nov2008 Rev 3:5”

26 To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— Overcoming is a difficult process. Too many of us give up before things get really tough. We learn early in life that life is not supposed to be too difficult. When we get frustrated as aContinue reading “21Nov2008 Rev 2:26”

25 Only hold on to what you have until I come. Sometimes the best you can do is to just hold on! That is the spiritual advice the Lord gave to the Jesus-followers at Thyatira through the Apostle John. They were in a community of believers that were very far from the truth. They hadContinue reading “20Nov2008 Rev 2:25”

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. Marriages so often go the way of the church at Ephesus. Unfortunately, couples follow this pattern: they leave behind their first love. Somewhere alongContinue reading “19Nov2008 Rev 2:4-5a”

18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. Jesus has the keys! Do you remember when you were a teenager and you wanted to drive the car? That car represented freedom, adulthood, independence and many otherContinue reading “18Nov2008 Rev 1:18”

10 On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, Imagine John, sent to a remote island as punishment for being a Jesus-follower, still takes time to commune with the Lord. He didn’t let his negative circumstances stop his spiritual growth. He didn’t letContinue reading “17Nov2008 Rev 1:10”