Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Revelation chapter 13 verse 10, here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

I want to simple verse actually the end of a verse in Revelation chapter 13 verse 10 that

reminds us of part of the purpose of the book of Revelation. So if we're not careful, we can get caught

reading through Revelation and all the different imagery and symbolism about the future and start

to wonder and even debate what does this mean or that that mean or when is this or that going

to happen. And those are good questions to ask but we need to remember that the people who

were reading the book of Revelation are hearing it read in the first century were walking through

major challenges as followers of Jesus. They were facing persecution all around them. They were

facing temptations to give in and compromise their faith in order to save their jobs in order to

save their lives, their families. And this letter was written not just to help them come up with

charts about what the future is going to look like. This letter was written to them to encourage

them to endure to hold fast. This is Revelation 1310 here is a call for the endurance and faith

of the saints. And so I want to based on this first pray for each one of us today for exactly

that I know that there are people listening to this right now who are struggling in faith,

who are walking through challenges of all kinds in your lives, in your families, in your work,

in your church, in the world as you work to spread the gospel. And there are challenges,

temptations to sin. There are trials you're walking through. And Revelation 1310 is a call

for the endurance and faith of the saints for endurance and faith in your life. I just want to

pray that over each one of us. Oh God, we pray for endurance. Even as we were praying through

Revelation chapter one and two, we've seen the phrase over and over again, Revelation for patient

endurance. God, I don't presume to know what every single person listening to this right now is

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