Thursday | 21 May 2026
Christ is asking us, through His messengers, to listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The Spirit is calling us to become overcomers. We know that Christ concluded His admonition to each lampstand church with a promise to the overcomers. The prophetic burden of the book of Revelation is summed up with the statement, ‘He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.’ Rev 21:7. This promise is accompanied by the warning that the cowardly, unbelieving, and so on, will have their part in the lake of fire, which is the second death. Rev 21:8.
The victory that overcomes the world is our faith. 1Jn 5:4. We receive this faith as the Spirit brings to our remembrance what Christ has already spoken to us. Joh 14:26. We further obtain faith as the Holy Spirit guides us in all truth, and reveals, from the prophetic Scriptures, what belongs to our day and generation. Because of this, we are able to ‘bear’ the matters that belong to these times. Joh 16:12‑15.
With this word in our mouth and heart, we are to overcome the world, the flesh, and the Devil. The word of Christ our King is the word of the Lion‑Lamb of the tribe of Judah. He has already prevailed over every enemy that seeks to rob us of our dominion and sonship. We are, today, being called to turn again to first love. As we repent and do this first work – the work of abiding in the fellowship of the Father and the Son – we will be restored, through the faith that we receive, to have dominion as an overcomer in the midst of contrary circumstances. Rev 2:4‑7. 1Jn 2:24. In weakness, we will be made strong, and thus we will overcome and inherit all things.
Further Study:
1 John 2
References:
Rev 21:7-8
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
1Jn 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.
Joh 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
Joh 16:12-15
I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore, I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
Rev 2:4-7
Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.
1Jn 2:24
Therefore, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.