Weekly Devotion
January 11, 2026

The Seven Churches-Written by Maurice Dyson

To Ephesus thus shall you write:
Though you have kept My name aright,
Yet you have left the love you treasured solely. Repent and do the former deeds,
Whereof the Holy Spirit leads;
Or else I’ll take the witness from you wholly. `

To Smyrna write this message clear,
Though you shall suffer, have no fear,
You shall be cast in prison for a season.
If you will keep abiding true,
A crown of life I’ll give to you,
Be faithful unto death this very reason.

To Pergamos, now this I see;
I have somewhat concerning thee,
Of those who spread alarm with Balaam’s teaching. Who by his guile and trickery
Brought sin and immorality,
On Israel by standards he was breaching.

To Thyatira says the Son:
I am aware what you have done:
Your persevering toil that you have rated.
Yet you allow that Jezebel,
Who claims she has prophetic skill,
To teach a way of life that I have hated.

And now to Sardis shall you say:
You think you are alive today,
But you are really dead in what you cherish. Remember therefore how you heard T
he universal gospel word,
And strengthen what remains lest it should perish.

To Philadelphia make it known: I
am aware what you have sown;
I've set an open door for you to enter.
I'll keep you from the testing hour,
For you have got a little power;
Hold fast the things you have with Christ the centre.

To Laodicea this I say:
Your works are feeble night and day,
And neither hot nor cold as well they might be.
I counsel you to buy of Me
White garments showing purity,
And consecrate your eyes so that they might see.