John gives us a glimpse of Jesus returning in unmistakable authority. It’s not a private title tucked away for the curious; it’s displayed like a banner—so every rival power, every fearful heart, and every watching saint knows who truly reigns.

The King You Can Finally Trust

Revelation 19:16 says, “And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” That name isn’t spiritual poetry; it’s a declaration that no government, no trend, no enemy, and no inner struggle gets the last word. The world is loud with competing “kings”—opinions that demand your loyalty and fears that demand your surrender—but Jesus doesn’t campaign for the throne. He owns it.

And because He is King, His rule isn’t fragile. Paul says, “Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names” (Philippians 2:9). If His name is above all names, then your life is safest when it’s arranged beneath His—your schedule, your money, your relationships, your private choices. You don’t have to wonder who’s in charge when Jesus has already been crowned.

Allegiance That Reaches Monday Morning

It’s one thing to admire Jesus; it’s another to submit to Him. Scripture doesn’t invite you to add Him as a helpful option—it calls you to bow. “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow… and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord” (Philippians 2:10–11). That future certainty is meant to shape today’s obedience: not forced, not fake, but glad-hearted, because the One commanding you is good.

So ask yourself plainly: where do you negotiate with Jesus instead of obeying Him? He doesn’t rule like a tyrant, but He does rule. And His reign is personal—He wants the “yes” you give when nobody sees. Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15). Real devotion isn’t mainly a feeling; it’s loyalty that shows up in decisions.

Hope That Holds When the World Shakes

This name on His robe and thigh means history is not drifting; it’s being brought home. When headlines tempt you to panic or cynicism, remember how Revelation frames the conflict: “They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings” (Revelation 17:14). Your hope isn’t rooted in winning every argument or controlling every outcome—it’s rooted in a reigning Savior who cannot be unseated.

That also means you can endure with steady courage. The day is coming when “every tear” is dealt with by the rightful King (Revelation 21:4). Until then, you’re not called to hide—you’re called to be faithful. “Be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:58). The King’s name guarantees the King’s reward.

Father, thank You for Jesus, the true King of kings and Lord of lords. Help me bow my will to Him today—give me courage to obey, faith to endure, and joy to serve You openly. Amen.

The glory of God has not been revealed to this generation of men. The God of contemporary Christianity is only slightly superior to the gods of Greece and Rome, if indeed He is not actually inferior to them, in that He is weak and helpless while they at least had power.

If what we conceive God to be He is not, how then shall we think of Him? If He is indeed incomprehensible. . . how can we Christians satisfy our longing after Him? The hopeful words, Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace, still stand after the passing of the centuries; but how shall we acquaint ourselves with One who eludes all the straining efforts of mind and heart? And how shall we beheld accountable to know what cannot be known? . . .

The answer of the Bible is simply through Jesus Christ our Lord. In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure, although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

Verily God is of infinite greatness. . . more than we can think; . . . unknowable by created things; and can never be comprehended by us as He is in Himself. But even here and now, whenever the heart begins to burn with a desire for God, she is made able to receive the uncreated light and, inspired and fulfilled by the gifts of the Holy Ghost, she tastes the joys of heaven (A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, p. 16-17).

Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. . . Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them (John 17:5,24-26).

Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you. - Acts 1:8

Power is given to us all through the gift of the Divine Spirit. The very name of that Spirit is the "Spirit of Might". Christ spoke to us about being "endued with power from on high"; the last of His promises that dropped from His lips upon earth was the promise that His followers should receive the power of the Spirit coming upon them. Wheresoever in the early histories we read of a man that was full of the Holy Ghost, we read that he was "full of power." God hath given us the "spirit of power," which is also the spirit ’’of love and of a sound mind." So the strength that we must have, if we have strength at all, is the strength of a Divine Spirit, not our own, that dwells in us, and works through us.

And there is nothing in that which need startle or surprise any man who believes in a living God at all, and in the possibility, therefore, of a connection between the Great Spirit and all the human spirits which are His children. I would maintain, in opposition to many modern conceptions, the actual supernatural character of the gift that is bestowed upon every Christian soul. My reading of the New Testament is, that as distinctly above the order of material nature as is any miracle is the gift that flows into a believing heart. There is a direct passage between God and my spirit: it lies open to His touch; all the paths of its deep things can be trodden by Him. You and I act upon one another from without; He acts upon us within. We wish one another blessings; He gives the blessings. We try to train, to educate, to incline, and dispose by the presentation of motives and the urging of reasons; He can plant in a heart by His own Divine husbandry the seed that shall blossom into immortal life. And so the Christian Church is a great, continual, supernatural community in the midst of the material world; and every believing soul, because it possesses something of the life of Jesus Christ, has been the seat of a miracle as real and true as when He said, " Lazarus, come forth!" Precisely this teaching does our Lord Himself present for our acceptance when He sets side by side, as mutually illustrative, as belonging to the same order of supernatural phenomena, the hour cometh when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live, which is the supernatural resurrection of souls dead in sin, "and the hour cometh when all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth," which is the future resurrection of the body in obedience to His will.

So, Christian friend, do you set clearly before you this: that God’s purpose with you is only begun when He has forgiven you, that He forgives you for a design, that it is a means to an end, and that you have not reached the conception of the large things He intends for you unless you have risen to this great thought - He means and wishes that you should be strong with the strength of His own Divine Spirit.