Ephesians 4; Romans 8; Ephesians 4

Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your ministry gifts to those who minister to your body, the church, so that all who are in your body would be edified, that we would come to a unity of the faith and knowledge of the “true” Jesus.

Through your ministry gifts, I am perfected toward the measure of your character, Lord Jesus. By your spirit and your word, I am conformed to the image of you, my Lord Jesus Christ.

Now I am no longer a child tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine and by the trickery of man. No, now I speak the truth in love, and I grow up daily in all the fullness of your lordship, Lord Jesus.

I am joined together, by the Holy Spirit, with other believers, and we are knit together in a body that serves you, and grows and strengthens itself in love.

I know you, Lord Jesus, and your grace has taught me to put off, constantly, my old man, who is corrupt and lustful, and to be renewed, moment by moment, in the spirit of my mind, and then to put on my new man, born from above; a man who is created, according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.