Don't ever think of yourself as useless or of no value to God. Submit to Him and get ready to be used!

No man can serve 2 masters no matter how much you think you can. Jesus said and if He said it then you can take that to the bank that it is true. So who are you going to serve, God or wealth. You can put any label on it. Maybe it's time that God becomes your master.

There are 3 stones at least that can keep us from feeling God in our lives. The stone of pride, the stone of unbelief and the stone of apathy. Jesus won't remove the stone, we need to choose to give them to Him. Don't let a stone take the place of God.

Judas betrayed Jesus. The devil used Judas to betray Jesus. we need to learn from Judas and not listen to satan.

We can learn a lot from the seven churches. Church of Laodicea is covered here.

The disciples that were mentioned today were part of the outer circle. They were not as close to Jesus like some of the other disciples were. That does not make them less important then the others. Jesus still used them and counted them as the 12. That doesn't make us less important in God's kingdom. God can still use you no matter how insignificant you feel.

The church of Philadelphia was a faithful church. They teach us how to be faithful in this day in age. We need to be faithful to God with prayer and fasting and reading and studying his word. We also need to be faithful to the church in our attendance and tithes and offering.

God will communicate several ways to get our attention. We have a duty to here him and respond.

Every voice has a distinction about it, whether it's high or low, loud or quiet. If you listen to a voice long enough you can recognize that voice without even seeing who walked into a room. God doesn't us a booming voice, but a still small voice. He wants to invite us in, not scare us. We need to start recognizing the distinction of God's voice.

The church or Sardis was a dead church because the didn't live for the Lord like they should have lived. They are a prime example of how we should not be. We need to be a live and living church, not a dead one.