Wednesday | 20 May 2026
Having returned to the fellowship of first love, you are now living in fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. You have returned to the fellowship of heavenly places, which is the New Jerusalem. You have come to Mount Zion and are eating from the tree of life! Heb 12:22‑24.
In this fellowship, you are holding fast to the word that the Holy Spirit has delivered to you. He came to be your Helper, and your Deliverer from slavehood to sin and Satan. The Holy Spirit gave you power to join the word of Christ, and to become obedient from the heart to the commands of Christ as the expression of your faith. The Holy Spirit accomplished this work within you by pouring the love of God, and the love for God, back into your heart. Rom 5:5. The love of God activated the faith of God within you, for faith in freedom, through choice, works by love.
This was the gospel that was delivered to us fifty years ago, when the Lord brought to us the word on the Ephesian Pattern. In this season, we are being visited a second time with the word calling us to return to first love as part of a lampstand church. However, in this season of visitation, we are being addressed by the Spirit in relation to our marriages, families, and households.
When it was first proclaimed, many people did not believe the word concerning lampstand churches, because they did not join the repentance and faith that was being offered. Now, in the light of the word revealing the steps of salvation, the Spirit is speaking to us again and calling us to remember what we first heard. We are being invited to return to partake of the tree of life in the midst of the Paradise of God.
Further Study:
Revelation 2
References:
Heb 12:22-24
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Rom 5:5
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.