Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Second Peter, Chapter 1, verses 5 through 8.

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.

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.

Oh, these are the kind of verses in the Bible where when you read it, you just stop and pray

exactly what you just read, which is what I want to lead us to do.

I mean, there's so much we could talk about

with each one of these things, but this is God calling us in his word to supplement our faith

with these things. And he lists them out and says, if these qualities are yours and are increasing,

they'll keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of

Jesus. Like, nobody wants to be ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of Jesus. Don't you want

your knowledge of Jesus to bear fruit in your life and others' lives to be effective in your

life and others' lives? Then pray for these qualities to be increasing in you.

So that's what I want to lead us to do. We're just going to pray straight 2. Peter chapter 1

verses 5 through 8 over our lives. So God, we pray that these qualities would be increasing in each of us today.

We pray that they would increase in us on this day.

And tomorrow, in the next day, in the next day, we pray that they would ever be increasing.

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