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

Revelation chapter 1 verse 9,

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient

endurance that are in Jesus was on the island called Patmos on account of the Word of God

and testimony of Jesus. Revelation is one of my favorite books in the Bible,

just fixing our eyes from the first last chapter on Jesus. That's what this book is about.

It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's the way verse 1 starts in the very beginning of the

chapter. It's revealing to us who Jesus is and specifically focusing our hearts on him and

anticipation of the coming of his kingdom and the consummation of God's kingdom on the earth.

The new heaven and a new earth ultimately. And so we come to this verse in first chapter

revelation, verse 9 when John is telling us that he's writing from an island called Patmos

and he is there exiled why on account of the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus because he

has testified to the gospel because he has proclaimed God's Word. He has been exiled. He's been

persecuted. He says, I am your brother. This picture of the family relationship we share as

followers of Jesus. We are brothers and sisters and your partner in the tribulation. So this is

another picture of followers of Jesus. We are partners together in trial and tribulation and

hardship in this world. And we are partners in the kingdom. What a picture. We're fellow citizens

of an eternal kingdom or followers of an everlasting king. And then he says, I am your partner

in the patient endurance that is in Jesus. And this is one of my favorite phrases in the book of

Revelation, patient endurance. And I want to highlight that phrase in particular and pray it over

us today because I know there are people listening to this right now walking through a variety of

kinds of trials and tribulations in different ways in our lives and we're praying this month for

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