Jesus came to give us life and life to the fullest. The problem can be if we are not constantly investing our relationship with the Father and opening our heart to growth and desire we can slowly drift into spiritual deadness.

Compromise simply put is lowering the standard. Our relationship with Jesus should be the most important thing in life and if we compromise in this relationship it can lead us down bad paths with lasting effects.

Deception can be a damaging thing in our lives. If we don't have a solid wall of God's truth in our lives the enemy will attack us with lies.

Thlipsis is the greek word for crushing pressure. If we do not give our pressure a point it will feel like we are being crushed.

Have you ever grown stale or gone through the motions in your relationship with Jesus. Ephesus was doing all the right things but what they were lacking was their love. Jesus calls this church and us today to go back to our first love.

When you enter into a relationship with Jesus, you are made new. This means that you have a new desire a purpose to pursue Jesus and become more like him.

We often associate jealousy as a bad thing but Deuteronomy 4:24 shows us that we have a God that loves us so much he gets jealous when we pursue things other than him.

When we are not people of self-control it can create problems. David has the opportunity to kill his enemy yet sets the example of self-control.

There are "giants" we are going to face in this life. One of the biggest ones we will face is ourselves.

Friends have the ability to either push you toward God or pull you away from him.