We hear the word amen so much, it can start to lose its meaning, but Nancy

Damascus says, when Jesus uses the word to describe himself, we'd better

listen. When Jesus says I am the amen, he is saying I am God's final word. I am

truth, I am certainty. This is the revival of our hearts podcast with Nancy

Damascus, author of The Wonder of His Name. Proctober 4, 2023, I'm Dana Grasch.

Amen. What does that word mean? Most people assume it means I'm done praying, but

there's a far deeper richer meaning. Nancy explains as she begins the series, the

cure for a lukewarm faith. Well, we come today to the seventh and the final

letter to the churches in the book of Revelation, Revelation chapters two and

three, and some of you wondered if we would ever get to the seventh and the final

church. It seems like months, I guess it has been months, that we've been in this

series, and when I started into this series, I never envisioned we would spend as

long as we have, but the more I got into this passage and began to explore the

words of Jesus to His church, the more I realized how much we need those words

today, and how much our churches need to hear what the Spirit has to say, not

only to the churches in the first century and Asia Minor, but to churches in the

21st century, to us as believers today. And so I've taken more time than we

normally would with a series, just to try to go into some of the depths of

what God is saying, and there's even more than what we've explored, but I hope

that you have been listening with ears to hear what God would say to us. Now the

sixth church, the one we studied last, was Philadelphia, as you remember, and that

was the faithful church. And in that letter, Jesus had nothing to criticize

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