Revelation

Father in heaven, we are keen not to waste our time.  There’s no special merit badges for enduring another sermon.  Help us to learn, help us to grow, help us to be changed, help us to be convicted and encouraged.  Give grace as I preach and give grace to Your people as they listen.  We…

Father in heaven, we have just sung what a friend, a Savior, Your Son is to us, so we pray now in His name that You would help us. I need Your help to speak clearly and boldly and helpfully and we need Your assistance that we might listen and understand in this difficult and…

Gracious God, I ask now that You would give me a humble heart that I might decrease and Christ would increase and give to these Your people ears to hear just what the Spirit means to say through this inspired Word. In Christ we pray. Amen. Our text this morning comes from the last book…

O for grace to trust Him more. We’ve just been singing those words, perhaps we had the words flow through our mouths rather lightly, so we offer them again, gracious God, that they might be our prayer. That we through the reading and hearing of Your Word would learn to trust You more, we would…

Father in heaven, we ask now for Your help that we might hear Your Word and be ready to receive it. Give me Your grace to speak it truly, humbly, powerfully, and may You accomplish all of Your purposes. We ask in Christ’s name. Amen. Among other things, the Bible is a hymnal. There are…

Would you turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 14, Revelation 14, verses 14 through 20, the last section of the chapter. Let’s ask for the Lord’s help. Father in heaven, we come to You now, not out of mere habit or custom but because we need Your help, I need Your help if I…

Father, we always need Your help as we come to Your Word, in particular this morning for such a hard text that speaks to us a hard word about a certain judgment to come, but though it is a hard word, it is a necessary word and if we would heed its warning, it would…

What a joyous and hopeful song we have just sung. When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat, yet not I but through Christ in me. So, Father, we look to Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, that He might speak to us, that we might hear His voice as the sound of…

O Lord, as we have been singing, we ask that You would help us, our rock and our redeemer, to listen, to think, to be discerning, to be wise, for there are many counterfeits in this world and we are too easily deceived and distracted. Train our eyes, train our ears, that we may see…

Father in heaven, our prayer is simple and from the heart that You would give us ears to hear, that these moments together would not be wasted time but you would speak to us a word of rebuke, of comfort, just what each one here needs from Your voice. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen….