ADD TO YOUR FAITH ...

ADD TO YOUR FAITH ...

Sorry I am late in getting this out this morning, but we are in New
Hampshire to visit our kids and grandkids and will be ministering with
Robert and Joyce Hayes in Springfield, Mass on Saturday and Sunday. The
fall foliage on the way up was just spectacular.

Our grandson, Tanner, just turned two and we are amazed at his
vocabulary at his age. He is using some pretty big words and knows
exactly where to put them in a sentence. He absolutely adores our son,
Zach. You should have seen his face when we pulled into the driveway and
he spied Zach! I was afraid he would jump right through the picture
window.

What was amazing to me is that in just a few hours, he was observing
Zach and picking up words that Zach was saying adding them to his
vocabulary. It brought to my mind a some verses from Peter's epistle of
the qualities that we are to add to our lives:

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness;
and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to
self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to
godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if
you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you
from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and
blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
(1 Peter 1:5-9)

My friend, and Bible teacher/speaker, Dr. Ron Blue taught us that one
way we can add these necessary qualities to our faith is to pray and ask
the Holy Spirit to do build them into our lives. He prays for a
different quality each day. There are seven of them - one for each day!
Good practice.

So what are you adding to your faith today? Enjoy your day.

Great quote: God wisely designed the human body so that we neither pat
our own backs nor kick ourselves to easily. Anonymous