WHEN GOD FEELS FAR AWAY

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In summary, there are three areas of our spiritual lives we are to watch, so that we stay healthy, and thus fruitful, and thus pleasing to God:

• God is vitally concerned about your diet. Get in the Word daily.

• God is also so very concerned about your exercise. Obey what God says.

• God also is critically concerned about your weight. Strip off anything that hinders.

By the way, if you want to tune up those skills, we are going to be doing a Word Clinic during the month of May on Wednesday nights. I will be coverin the keys to unlocking life-long devotional truths from the Word by explaining the 12×12 methods each Wednesday night in May.

If you are serious about going to the next level, or jump starting your time with God plan to join us. All you need is your Bible, a pen, a notebook, and a willing heart.

Now to see how Jesus Himself applies these truths to churches just like ours, turn back with me to Revelation 2-3.

In Revelation 2-3, Jesus lists the areas that were keeping those believers and their local churches from being fruitful for Him in their daily lives. Remember that by the time Jesus was writing to these churches they had already heard the messages of the Apostles, they had Paul’s Epistles, the had the Gospels, and of course Christ’s Bible, the Old Testament.

The clear message Christ gives is that: each believer is responsible to obey God’s Word

In other words, they had just about as much exposure to God’s Word as we do, plus the fact that many of them had met and known the Apostles. So Jesus writes these seven letters in Revelation 2-3 holding the churches responsible to live what He had sent them in His Word.

We can say that these two chapters contain Christ’s expectations for them, and for us.