To Be Useful And Fruitful

II Peter 1: 5-8

Applying all Diligence in your 
Faith, supply 
Moral Excellence, and in your Moral Excellence, 
Knowledge, and in your Knowledge, 
Self Control, and in your Self Control, 
Perseverance, and in your Perseverance, 
Godliness, and in your Godliness, 
Brotherly Kindness, and in your Brotherly Kindness, 
Love. 

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

O my Father, please let me be neither useless nor unfruitful in my service to You! Prepare me; prepare my heart, my mind, my attitude, my mouth and words, for the work You have prepared for me to accomplish toward Your Kingdom. 

Grant that I would apply all diligence in my trusting You to supply moral excellence in me, leading me into greater knowledge of Your ways, having self control over my perverse ways, persevering in the godliness You are building in me, producing the brotherly kindness to be gracious to others, loving them as You have loved me. 

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!