 We want to share a word to us this morning in the Book of Revelation chapter 2 verse 1. The book of Revelation chapter 2 verse 1. The Bible says to the angel of the church of Ephesus write these. These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lamsters. I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tasted those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them false. You have persevered and you have endured hardship from my name and have not grown weary verse 4. Yet I hold these against you. You have forsaken the love and the love you had at the first time. Verse 5. Consider how far you have fallen, repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lamster. I was reading this word and meditating upon this scripture and this letter to the church of Ephesus where the letter was written and it was speaking about the people in the church of Ephesus. Where now God was speaking and saying, I know your deeds, I know you have been serving God, I know you have been in church, I know you have been paying your tithes and your offerings, you have been the praise and worship, I know you have been in the team, in the media team, working, doing all you can to the kingdom. But now here he comes and he says that imagine and I appreciate that I know the things you have been doing in church, I know the things you have been doing for the sake of the kingdom, I know the things you have been doing. But he comes here and he says that this is what I have against you after serving, after praising us on what you have been doing in church. He says that I have this against you, I have this one thing against you that you have neglected the first love, you have neglected the first love. God is not moved by how you can pay your tithes. God is not moved by how you can be doing things in church. God is not moved by how you can participate in the departments of the church. God is moved by the relationship you have with him. God is moved by the you time, the relationship you have with him. And this is what God is telling us this morning that all I want from you is to have a relationship with me. The Bible saying Genesis that anytime you wanted something he spoke to it and as we were sharing here we saw that when you remove a fish from the water it is the fish that dies not the water. If you remove the plant from the ground it is the plant that dies not the ground meaning that if we are disconnected from God it is us who are dead we are having many people who are serving in church and yet they are dead. Now look at this, the Bible said and God told Adam you can eat from anything you can eat anything from this place but don't eat from that tree don't touch or eat from that tree and the Bible say when they ate they when they ate the Bible say when they ate they were driven away from the Garden of Eden now people have discovered where Jesus used to eat where he fed the 5,000 people where he did the miracles but no one has discovered the Garden of Eden because the Garden of Eden it was not a place it was the presence of God so in other words when Adam ate the fruit he was disconnected from the presence of God and the first time we see God coming to the Garden of Eden and calls Adam where are you why did he call because he found that Adam was not in his presence he found that they were already disconnected from the presence of God the message is clear this morning that God is calling us to the first place God is calling us to the first love God is calling us to the place where we used to fast like never before the place where we used to fear God because we are being a generation that no longer fear God we can sleep outside partying doing all kind of man of things that we are doing outside and still come in the presence of God and still do the things of God God is not happy about that let us also as we go back to the first love honor our fathers pray for them encourage them and as we pray for them and as we encourage them our days because you say honor your father and mother and your days will be added we will have long life when we honor and respect them and this morning all I'm asking is that let us join together and pray for them we pray for them because they are looking fine and yet some of them wanna find they are looking good well in suits in ties yet kuna pains kuna bitanes wanna struggle now and your manaka say my songs of Solomon that cuts for me the little foxes that eat the vineyard there are issues inside that are eating the vineyard and I want us to pray for them and God will remember them this morning that God will strengthen them that God will encourage them and as he is strengthening them they will continue to serve us in Jesus name