Diligence brings faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness,
brotherly kindness, and love. As we pray in the Spirit we build ourselves up and we
establish these attributes
Scripture: 2 Peter 1:5-9
2 Peter 1:5-9 says, “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue,
to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance
godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things
are yours and abounding, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is short sighted, even to blindness, and has
forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.” Once again we have Scripture promising us
that as we connect to and do God’s Word and exercise His covenant promises, we grow.
Diligence brings faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly
kindness, and love. As we pray in the Spirit we build ourselves up and we establish these
attributes in our lives and the promise is that we will abound. We will be neither barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. We will not be short-sighted, and we
will not have forgotten. We will in fact be purged from our old sins. All this comes in a
greater measure by diligently absorbing and doing God\’s Word.
Make the choice today and ask for more… Look at the scriptures and open
some portals in heaven — The following passages refer to spiritual windows
(portals): Genesis 7:11 and 8:2; Ps 18:9; Isaiah 24:18; 2 Kg. 7:2,19.