I love writing these brief sermon descriptions from Revelation 4-5 and that we are now into our fifth week and we’ve not been talking about “I, ME, MINE or MYSELF.” It’s all been about The Kingdom of God (not the Kingdom of Self). Worship doesn’t revolve around my preferences, desires of thoughts. Worship isn’t about ME at all - it’s all been about Jesus’ throne, the songs sung to Him, how Jesus has come as the Lion and the Lamb who was slain and is worthy of praise. Revelation finally gets around to talking about “the saints.” In Reversed Thunder (pg. 87ff) Peterson describes how God hears our prayers, collects them into bowls of incense and hurls them back to earth with powerful impact. He says about those early Christians: “Massive engines of persecution and scorn raged against them. They had neither weapons nor votes. They had little money and no prestige. Why didn’t they have mental breakdowns? Why didn’t they cut and run? They prayed.” WOW! - Pastor Tom Harrison