Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth. If you want to have a fiery hot heart of devotion for Christ,

you're going to have to fight for it. It doesn't come naturally. You have to fight against laziness,

against unbelief, against the influence of the world. You have to go counter to the culture.

You have to swim upstream in order to conquer. But he says, if you do,

I will grant to you to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMas Walggemon, author of Lies Women Belief and the Truth

That Sets Them Free. For Tuesday, 15th, I'm Dana Gresh.

The Book of Revelation begins with seven letters to seven churches. This month and next,

we're studying the messages Jesus gave them and how they apply to us.

Last week, Nancy began looking in depth at the letter to the church at Ephesus in a series

called Your First Love Relationship. We'll continue hearing why Jesus called this church back to its first

love. Well, as we've been back to its first love.

Well, as we've been talking about our first love and leaving our first love, I know God has been convicting many of our hearts, starting with mine as I've been in this series.

And, you know, God knows that we need this passage.

In fact, I've read a couple of fabulous sermons that Charles Spurgeon wrote on this

text, and he think a Spurgeon is someone who loved Christ so deeply and passionately. But he was

very honest with his congregation about how he was convicted of his need to have more love for Christ.

And he preached to himself and then to others. And I've had that sense myself as I've been studying and teaching on this passage.

But as God's been convicting your heart, maybe you've been thinking, well, so what do I do?

I know that I'm like this church in Ephesus, knowing right, doing right, persevering, but having neglected my intimacy with Christ, my love relationship with

him, and you want to know what to do about it.

Well, thankfully, the one who wrote the letter to the church in Ephesus gave not only the

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