Daily Prayer for January 1st, 2019
HaPpy New Year, God—thank You—good riddance 2018! :o)
Your divine power has granted to me all things that pertain to life and godliness. Let me be a partaker of that divine nature, and escape the corruption of the world. Help me make every effort to supplement my faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, showing affection to all of my brothers and sisters, no exceptions. Make me fruitful in the knowledge of my Lord and Savior, and diligent to practice these qualities so that I never fall. In Jesus name. Amen.
2 Peter 1:3-10 English Standard Version (ESV)
Confirm Your Calling and Election
3 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, 4 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. 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 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. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.