And that’s what we look forward to when we talk about the blessing of his presence, to spend eternity with God and with the Lamb. Yes, it means no more tears. Yes, it means no more suffering. Yes, it will mean being reunited with loved ones who dies in Christ. But most of all it means that the waiting is over, and the wife (the church) and the groom (Christ) are together again and truly there is a happy ever after ending, and everything sad will come untrue.
Let’s ask one more time for the Lord’s help. Heavenly Father, help us now to love you with all our heart, all our soul, all our strength, and all our mind. Help us to think clearly. Give us good heads to understand your words, discern what is true, and then to live according to that…
If You, O Lord, should mark iniquities, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness that You may be feared. Give us the fear that comes from Your forgiveness, that we may be set free from the fear that comes from Your wrath. Give us humble hearts and good ears that we might hear…
Father in heaven, we ask that we would have ears to hear this word. It’s from Your Word, so it’s true and it’s good and it’s helpful, but it’s also hard and sobering. So help us to listen and help us to obey whatever you call us to do in this life and even in…
Gracious God, as we come to Your Word, we pray not merely because we think this is how messages start, but because we need You to answer this prayer, that You would give us ears to hear, that these words in these next minutes may not be lost on us. We’re not interested in wasting…
Father in heaven, our prayer is simple – help us in our lives to make much of Jesus and so help us now to see Jesus. As the song says, in the morning when I rise, give me Jesus. When I come to die, give me Jesus. That is our prayer, gracious God. They can…
They need to know the trinity, they need to know their identity, and they need to see their life from the perspective of eternity. Those are the three things, whatever you’re facing, because these seven churches are representative, paradigmatic of the sort of things that every church at all times will face, some more than others.
Revelation is a book about Jesus and because it is a book to showy you Jesus, His work on the cross for sinners, His glory in the heavenly places, it is a book therefore of blessing.
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