- ♫As I walk the road of life toward Heaven,
- Hills and valleys seem so hard to climb.
- And if victory is a little slow in coming.
- Remember the hands that held the nails
- are still the same.
- So, I’ll keep holding on to Jesus…
My awesome, Grandchildren, and Annika, Kaleigh, Kate, Gavin; whom I love and pray for every day: Jesus gave these words to John to write to the church in Pergamum, “I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and YOU HOLD FAST MY NAME, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.” (Rev. 2:13)
By his personal example, firm faith and constant preaching about Christ, Saint Antipas began to turn the people of Pergamum from offering sacrifice to idols. The pagan priests demanded that he stop preaching about Christ and offer sacrifice to the idols instead. Antipas calmly answered that he was not about to serve the demons that fled from him, a mere mortal. He said he worshiped the Lord Almighty, and he would continue to worship the Creator of all, with His Only-Begotten Son, and the Holy Spirit. The enraged pagan priests dragged Antipas to the temple of Artemis and threw him into a red–hot furnace…In the red-hot furnace Antipas prayed loudly to God, pleading for Him to receive his soul and to strengthen the faith of the Christians. HE WENT TO THE LORD PEACEFULLY, as if he were going to sleep… So, when the devil troubles you remember, just keep holding on to Jesus!
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? NO, in all these things WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS through him who loved us.” (Rom. 8:35-37)
HOLD ON, DON’T LET GO…
Notice: […We must understand that the bible says:] “…in all these things WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS through him who loved us.” !!!] That’s for you: Stephanie, Ethan, Camden, Olivia, Aidan, Landon, Kinsley, Annika, Kaleigh, Kate, Gavin…