I John 5

Thank you, father, for your grace to me and for the gift of faith! In faith I love you, father, with my whole heart and mind and soul and strength, and I love my neighbors as I love myself. I keep my eyes on your commands, and in them find out how much and how completely I am loved.  I see your determination to bring me back to you. I see Jesus’ love for you and his love for me. I believe Jesus is the Christ and he bought me back from slavery to sin.

In him I am dead to sin and now raised up to eternal life.  In Christ I have overcome this world and I am hidden with Christ, free from bondage to sin and fear of judgment. Instead, I know that I am loved perfectly by you, Almighty God. You are the one and only true God. By that faith I have overcome the world.