To be conformed to the Lord Jesus Christ.  To know him, to be like him, and to serve him.

To add to my faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self control steadfastness, to steadfastness godliness, to godliness brotherly love, and to brotherly love love.

To establish in my mind that I believe the Bible to be the divine inspired word of God, given by God to his people that they may be born again and reconciled to God.

Once I am clear about the word being divine, my work is to believe that Jesus is the Messiah (John 6:29),  the one sent by God  (Luke 4:18).

To have mature faith: mature faith is based on what God says about himself and his kingdom and me as his child as opposed to having some kind of either: subjective faith based on what I think God said, or an immature faith where I am not applying or appropriating all that God says is true to my own belief system.

Mature faith is a faith based on what God says about himself; a faith that, knows what God says about himself, and lives within me as if I believed what God said to be the truth.