PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR THE SERMON BY LOOKING THROUGH THESE SUGGESTIONS THAT WILL ASSIST YOU IN MAKING THE MOST OF OUR TIME TOGETHER HEARING GOD'S WORD.

You will find suggestions for thinking more critically through the passage, meditating more intently on the text, and prayerfully seeking wisdom to deepen your understanding of the passage to be preached this Sunday.

Carefully Think

• Read Revelation 3:7-13. Who are the recipients and how are they described?
• What command(s) are given?
• Who is accused of lying? What will that result in?
• List everything the Lord has the ability to do.
• What is the reward for perseverance described in this passage?
• Why are these believers to hold fast to what they have?
• What is it that they have?

Prayerfully Meditate

• How is the relationship between the Lord and the recipients described?
• What will the recipients be kept from and why?
• Describe what is promised to the one who "overcomes".
• How would you describe this church?
• Consider ways that perseverance is attacked in this passage and in the world today. List several examples.
• How does this passage offer encouragement, hope, steadiness in the midst of seasons when it is hard to persevere?