Revelation 18 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Revelation 18.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/rev/18/1/s_1185001

Meditate on verse 14.

 

The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all

 things that were luxurious and splendid have passed

away from you and men will no longer find them.

 

Can you imagine a day when there will no longer be stuff to buy?  Jesus gave John a vision of all the merchants on earth mourning and crying because they are no longer making any money off of people buying their stuff (v. 11).  Can you imagine a day when “cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble, and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives” will no longer exist (vs. 12-13)?  When that day comes will you rejoice, or will you cry because there will no longer be a reason to go shopping?

 

Examine your life.  Are you investing in stuff that will be destroyed in the wrath of God, or are you investing in things with eternal value—people and God’s Word? 

 

Pray Revelation 18:4-5 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, let ____________ and me heed the command

 to ‘Come out of Babylon the great.’

Do not let us participate in her sins.  Keep us from

sins that pile up as high as heaven.

Thank You that You remember our

 sin no more (Jeremiah 31:34).

Because of Your blood, Lamb of God, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell