Everything We Need

EVERYTHING We NEED

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.  Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.  

For this reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.  For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:3-8

Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your LORD and Savior?  

Yes!!

Do you know the Holy Spirit is living inside you at this very moment and every moment since you accepted Jesus as LORD and Savior?

Do you know that His divine power has given you EVERYTHING you NEED for LIFE and GODLINESS through your knowledge of Him?  

EVERYTHING!!!!!

I so often get caught up in the daily stresses of life or the circumstance in which I reside forgetting that the God, who raised Jesus from the dead, has used that same power to give me EVERYTHING I NEED for life.  Not only for life, but for a godly life.

A GODLY life filled with His great and precious promises, which you can only know by reading and studying His Word.  The Bible is filled with promises God has made to His people and those promises give me hope that the world can only corrupt those who allow it to corrupt them.

The passage goes on to say that because God has given us EVERYTHING we NEED for life and godliness, because He has given us promises that help us escape the world's corruption we should make EVERY EFFORT to add to our faith in Him:

• goodness
• knowledge
• self-control
• perseverance
• godliness
• brotherly kindness
• love

We have a part to play.  We have a responsibility as believers to daily strive to live a life of faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love.  This may sound impossible, and it is on our own, but that is why the passage says, "make every effort."  It is our GOAL!!!

 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


I long to live the life described above, because I don't want my life to be ineffective and unproductive in my knowledge of Jesus.  Therefore, I will daily read, study, pray, mess up, give/accept forgiveness, try again, succeed, rest, read, study pray, mess up, give/accept forgiveness, try again, succeed.................

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