Good morning my friends. Welcome back. It is time for you and for me to get our minds

align with the truth of God and I finally have some details about that Dallas Fort meet-up that we're going to be doing

with other morning mindset listeners. Please hang around to the end of this episode and

we will give you all the details for that. We are in 2 Peter chapter 1.

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And Peter has been giving us a long list of qualities that we are to, in his words,

make every effort to add to our faith.

Now let's clarify once again, adding to our faith does not mean there's something insufficient in our faith. You see our

faith is the belief that we have in Jesus Christ. It's our firm reliance on him.

That he is indeed our Savior. He will indeed take us to heaven when we die he has

indeed forgiven our sin it's all of those things and a thousand things more that

our faith is in but he's telling us your faith should produce some changes in your life and

primarily as he's focusing in on here in your character. You see we become a new creation in Christ

through our faith in Jesus and in this list of things that Peter has been

pointing out we should be working at with our faith fully intact

and fully engaged. He just mentioned self-control. That was yesterday's episode.

And today he says, and add to self-control, steadfastness.

Steadfastness, I believe some versions say endurance.

And this is the work, isn't it?

Steadfastness and endurance are the things that take that self-control. It's that we need self-control in order to do because during a

hard season of life or during the time you're trying to overcome a particularly

difficult bad habit or sin pattern in your life. It's that keep

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