Back To Basics: Simplifying Your Spiritual Life | Part 2 – First Love Recovery!
March 23, 2025Revelation 2:2-5 (NIV/1984)
(Jesus says) – “I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 (Yet there is one thing wrong) — You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen. Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.”
A Forsaken First Love Is Recovered By:
#1 – !
Revelation 2:5 (NIV)
Remember the height from which you have fallen!
1 John 4:19 (MSG)
First we were loved, now we love. God loved us first.
Luke 7:36-47
Mark 6:30-31 (NIV)
The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
A Forsaken First Love Is Recovered By:
#2 – !
Revelation 2:5 (NIV)
Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent …
The “Principle of the Path” says –
Direction not Intention determines our Destination!
A Forsaken First Love Is Recovered By:
#3 – !
Revelation 2:5 (NIV)
Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.