Lord, today I am active and ruthless to apply the knowledge of You and your word to my thoughts, pretensions, high places, and stronghold beliefs that hold themselves up against the knowledge of You, Father, and your word and provision.

Grace and peace are multiplied to me in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, my Lord. I am transformed by the renewing of my mind. Then I continue to apply the knowledge of God to my thoughts and beliefs on a daily basis.  I recognize that if I drift or relapse I need to be quick to repent and confess my sins and hurry right back to God. I need to study and pray about these things day by day, moment by moment, and thought by thought, for the rest of my life until God calls me home.

My Lord Jesus has gone to prepare a place for me and he will come again and will take me to himself that where he is there I will be also. I love the Lord and keep my eyes on his word; the father loves me and he and the Lord Jesus come to me and make their abode with me.

There is a simplicity in Christ, a singleness offering to me and requiring of me a sincere and pure devotion to Jesus as the Christ. Jesus is the one; the Messiah; the anointed one sent by the father to save his people from their sins. Jesus is all and is in all. He is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through faith in Jesus as the Messiah. My work, then, is to believe that Jesus is the Messiah and to live and move in that belief.

I study to know my Lord Jesus and God my heavenly father; to know who he says he is and what all that means in my understanding of the father. I have everything pertaining to life and godliness through the knowledge of God as heavenly father and Almighty sovereign. Then I am active and ruthless to apply that knowledge of God and his word to my thoughts, pretensions, high places, and strongholds of beliefs that hold themselves up against the knowledge of God’s word and provision.

Ps 16 &18

Preserve me, oh God, for in you I take refuge. You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you. You are my chosen portion and my cup. Indeed I have a beautiful inheritance.  The Lord gives me counsel and in the night my new heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.  My heart is glad and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

You made known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forever more.  I love you, oh Lord, my strength. You are my rock, my fortress and my deliver. You are my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.  I call upon you, Lord, for you are worthy to be praised.

Father, thank you for revealing yourself to me. I receive and believe that the same divine love you have for Jesus dwells now in me. I believe that Jesus, my Lord, dwells in me. I believe that by your presence I am conformed to the image of Jesus, the Christ. My faith is augmented by virtue, knowledge, temperance, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection and divine love.

It is all settled in the heavenlies. Today I walk in the Spirit of God and I do not fulfill the lust of the flesh, rather I offer my members as instruments of righteousness for my lord’s use.  I am with my Lord and I see his glory, the glory you have given him. You loved Jesus from the beginning and chose me to be in Christ before the foundation of the world that I would be holy and blameless before you.

Thank you, oh God, for your mercy to me. Thank you for your steadfast love, your abundant mercy to blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly and cleanse me from my sin.  I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Against you and you only have I sinned.

Purge me, wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence. Restore to me the joy of your salvation – uphold me.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Deliver me, oh God, my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness; my mouth will declare your praise. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, and broken and contrite heart.

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.

The works that Jesus does in God the father’s name bear witness about him. Some do not believe because they are not his sheep. His sheep hear his voice and he knows them and they follow him.  He gives those that are his eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of his hand. God the father has given those that are his to Jesus. The father is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the father’s hand.  Jesus and the father are one.

Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in him, though he (appear to) die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in Jesus shall never die. Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, who is coming to the world. If you believe, you will see the glory of God.

I don’t know everything about Jesus the Christ. One thing I do know: once I was blind, now I see. Many do not know him, yet he opened my eyes. The sheep of Jesus hear his voice. He calls them by name and leads them out; then he goes before them  and his sheep follow him for they know his voice.

There is a thief (a false shepherd)who comes only to steal and kill and destroy. Jesus has come that I may have life and have that life in abundance.  Jesus is the good shepherd and the good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He is the good shepherd and he knows his own and his own know him. There will be one flock and one shepherd.  Lord Jesus, my shepherd, lays down his life for me because he loves me. No one takes his life from him but he lays it down of his own accord.

Jesus is the light of the world. Whoever follows him will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life. If we know Jesus we know the father also. We will die in our sins unless we believe that Jesus is the Messiah and our Messiah.

Because Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead we can know that he is God’s Christ. Jesus tells us that he does nothing on his own authority, but he speaks just as the father has taught him. Our Lord tells us that the father is with him; that he does not leave him alone and that Jesus is always doing the things that are pleasing to the father.

If we abide in Jesus’s word then we are truly his disciples and we will know the truth and the truth will set us free. Everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. If the son sets you free, you will be free in deed.

This is the judgment, “The light has come into the world and is here! Men loved rather the darkness than the light, because their works were pernicious. Everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come and face up to the light lest his works be reproved and rebuked.

But he who desires, by god’s grace, to live in the truth comes and faces up to the light in order that his works might be clearly shown to have been produced by God. God, the father, loves His son, and has given all things into his hands. The one who places his trust in the son has eternal life.  But he who refuses to place his trust in the son, being of such a nature that he refuses to be persuaded, shall not see life, but the wrath of God is abiding on him.  Everyone who drinks of the water Jesus the Christ gives them will never thirst again. The water he gives will become in us a spring of water welling up to eternal life.