Prayer: Examining the heart

Lord, restore my first love, examine my heart, and show me what, little by little, may be taking the place that belongs only to You without me realizing it.

Series: Churches of Revelation - Ephesus

Among the seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation, Ephesus receives the first letter from Jesus. This community possessed important qualities, but it had abandoned its first love. What can we learn from this message today?

Prayer: return to your First Love

There is a term widely used to define those people who have just started to walk their path in faith: “First Love”. The use of this term is due to the fact that these people are extremely excited and euphoric about all this, in a gigantic level of passion for Jesus. We talk so much about these people and say things like, “wow, it’s so beautiful when we’re in first love”. But we forget that our life with God shouldn’t change after a while. It turns out that the more “time as Christians” we have, the more we limit our passion for Jesus. We have lost the enthusiasm of “wanting to preach even to a pole” and we are limiting ourselves to living only in that small space that we find to love Jesus, but not do absolutely everything for Him. We have to return to our first love and cry out to the Father to help us to be extremely in love with Him again. Remembering that you don’t need to repeat the prayer exactly as I’m going to leave it here, because each of us has a specific way of communicating with the Lord. But if you want […]