SCRIPTURE: Revelation (NIV) 1:9 I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
10 On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, 11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
12 I turned round to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and among the lampstands was someone “like a son of man,” dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash round his chest.
OBSERVATION: Patmos is a small rocky and barren island, to which John was banished by the emperor Domitian (A.D. 95). It is there on that barren island that John received a visit from the Lord Jesus Christ. John received a message he was to pass on to the churches.
In times when we seemed to be banished to a lonely, abandoned place, we need to be open to receiving revelation from the Lord. Sometimes the Lord has to get us away from the noises of our life so that we can hear Him.
APPLICATION: There is no place on earth that God cannot talk to us and make us aware of His presence! Paul wrote letters from prison and John writes the book of Revelation from the island of Patmos. If we are faithful to write what God gives us, He will be faithful to see that His message is delivered—delivered all the way to the 21st century.
PRAYER: Lord, forgive me for ever thinking that you have abandoned me or that you cannot speak to me, or that you cannot speak through me. You created this world and there is no place off limits to you. As you are faithful to speak to me, may you find me faithful to pass along your message to others. Amen
Pastor Leon
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