Pray then like this: Matthew 6:9a How staggeringly wonderful that Jesus would present us with such a succinct and powerful model of prayer! Of course, the Lord’s Prayer is that model. Christ effectively delivered it to us as a guideline, a standard and parameter for how praying ought to look for His followers. This importance is …
Seven Letters Week 7 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have kept my word and have not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8) Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, …
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Seven Letters Week 6 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works. You have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead. (Revelation 3:1) Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. (Revelation 3:2) Remember, …
As we steadily approach the finish line of our present sermon series through the seven letters of Revelation, the third to the last message has hit me full force. Jesus gives to the Apostle John a letter for the church of Sardis, and His words for it are terrifying. We’ve already heard Jesus rebuke the …
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished one of his disciples said to him, “Lord teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 Prayer does not come naturally. We are not born knowing how to come to God in prayer. It is a practice of nurture, not …
Seven Letters Week 5 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. (Revelation 2:19) Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. (Revelation 2:16) …
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Seven Letters Week 4 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. (Revelation 2:13) Therefore repent. If not, …
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I recently began Power Through Prayer by E. M. Bounds. So great was its challenge for me to pray that it will likely become the first book I give to anyone who feels called to preaching the Word. I quickly purchased a complete collection of Bounds' books on prayer and finished The Necessity of Prayer just this …
Seven Letters Week 3 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. (Revelation 2:9) Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil …
Continue reading To Smyrna: Be Faithful Unto Death | Revelation 2:8-11
Seven Letters Week 2 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. (Revelation 2:3) But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. (Revelation 2:4) Remember therefore from where you have …
Continue reading To Ephesus: Remember Your First Love | Revelation 2:1-7
B. C. Newton 