🪢🩸A call from God to His beloved church🩸🪢

👑📖To paraphrase Christ's advice to the Ephesian church in Revelation 2, He says, "Renew your devotion to Me. Go back to the first works. You have left your first love. Renew your earlier devotion to Me." This is a very stern warning: "I will remove your candlestick." He advises them, "Repent. Go back."

👉We must never forget that we are involved in a relationship with a real live Being, and He is not just any being but the One that we are to marry. Would we want to marry someone who could take us or leave us?

That is what happened to these people: 💥They had lost their devotion to the relationship. They still had the doctrines, but their devotion was gone. 💥They did not cherish Him anymore. They did not cherish the relationship, even though they had not walked away from the doctrines. So He says, "Turn. Go back."Revelation 2:4-5.

👉If we love a person, we are glad to be able to consult with them, to consider their desires and opinions. Why? So we can please them. We act on their advice; we do the things that they approve of. In fact, we will even deny ourselves to meet their wishes and abstain from the things that we know that they dislike.

👉It is easy to see why this love is so important, for love is the mainspring of the right kind of works. The people who do not love Christ are working, active, expending their energies on things that they love. Therefore, they do the wrong works.

🩸🪢🩸It's imperative we devote daily time to God in order to form an intimate relationship with Him. We MUST Be intentional about humbly entering into His presence and going alone before His Throne of Grace in complete humility and thanksgiving in intimate worship, prayer, praise, pouring our heart out to Him, and seeking His Will, Way in His Written Word, setting Him as the Crown upon our heads, and Ruler upon the Throne of our temple.🩸🪢🩸

👀🗣🧊As Matthew 24:12 says prophetically, "And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold."

👑Revelation 2:4-5🕊 ~ "Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent."

👑Isaiah 55:6-9🕊 ~ “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."

👑Mathhew 6:33🕊 ~ "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."

👑Colossians 3:1-3🕊 ~ "If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."

👑John 14:15🕊~ "If you love Me, keep My commandments."

👑Luke 21:36🕊 ~ "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."

👑1 Corinthians 6:19-20🕊~ "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."

👑1 John 2:3-6🕊 ~ "Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked."

👑Ephesians 5:20🕊 ~ "giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,"

👑Psalm 63:1🕊 ~ "O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water."