Are you living the life that God planned for you to live?
You are able to live the life that God intended for you to live. You are offered everything you need to become the person God intended you to be.
Everything that you, as a Christian, need for living a life that is pleasing to God is given to you by God as you grow in your knowledge of Jesus Christ.
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (2 Peter 1:3-4)
As a Christian you have been delivered from the domain of darkness and are now a member of Christ’s kingdom. You are no longer slaves to sin. Your life should reflect the fact that you are a member of Christ’s kingdom.
If you want to live the life that God planned for you to live, you will have a passion for knowing Jesus better. You will read the Bible. You need to have a strong desire to learn about His “precious and very great promises” that He has passed on to you in the scriptures. You must believe and claim these promises for yourself.
Scripture names seven qualities that need to be incorporated into your life for you to be fruitful and effective in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:8)
Your faith needs to be supplemented with the seven qualities listed below.
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. (2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV)
(Click on each of the above links to review that quality)
A prayer for you:
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:9-14 ESV)
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