Heavenly Father, thank You for the life and ministry of Peter and all your apostles and prophets who penned the Scriptures for our learning. As I read and study Your Word, I pray that You would give me a teachable spirit and a desire to learn the truth of the gospel of Christ. I pray I would not read it with any unscriptural bias or learned prejudice, and I pray I would not accept any unbiblical interpretations. Guide me into all truth, and may I grow in grace and in a knowledge of my Lord and Saviour. This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that You know the end from the beginning and that You foreknew that I would trust in the Lord Jesus for my salvation. Thank You that You knew that I would become part of the elect of God from the beginning - by grace through faith. Thank You that You sought me out while I was dead in my sins and that Your Holy Spirit convicted me of sin, righteousness, judgement and my need of Jesus. Thank You that in Him I am apart as Your child. I pray that I may be obedient to my calling and bring glory to Your holy name in Jesus name I pray, AMEN.
Dear Heavenly Father, how I worship You for Your overflowing grace and abundant mercy. Thank You that through faith in the death and Resurrection of Jesus, You have brought me into Your family and set before me the living hope of heaven. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that by Your grace through faith in Christ, I have become a partaker of His divine nature. Thank You that when I first believed, I was positioned in Christ in heavenly places, having escaped the corruption of the world and being covered with His righteousness. Thank You for the Word of truth and the many precious promises it contains for me and all believers. May Your will for my life may be carried out to Your praise and glory. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, how I praise and thank You that I am kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready for that wonderful day when I will see You, face to face. Help me to live my life in a way that honours Your holy name. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that I have been given a new birth and a living hope through the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. As I am being prepared for the coming glories of my heavenly home, help me to rejoice in my future hope despite the distresses of life’s various trials. May I keep a heavenly perspective, knowing that You have promised to keep me by Your mighty power. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You for being with me in all my trials. What a blessing to realise that when I go through trials, the end result can be a stronger faith which is much more precious than gold. I know the refining process that I am going through is difficult, but I pray that when I have been tried in the fire, my faith would come forth as gold, to Your praise, and honour, and glory. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, how I love You and how I love the Lord Jesus Who died to save me, rose again to give me His life, and Who is preparing a home for me in heaven. How my heart rejoices. I am filled with inexpressible joy when I think of all You have done for me. Thank You, in Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that in Christ, I have all that I need for life and godliness. I pray that You would help me to keep the eyes of my heart looking away from the things of this world and firmly looking to Jesus. May I never become spiritually short-sighted and forget all that Christ has done for me, but become increasingly fruitful in the knowledge of my Saviour, Jesus Christ. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that You have seen fit to reveal to us all that we need for life and godliness in Christ Jesus, our Saviour. Give me wisdom and understanding in this increasingly evil world. May I be content with all that You have revealed in Your Word and not seek to find out any secret knowledge that You, in Your wisdom, have chosen to be kept hidden. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that in Your Word I have all that I need for life and godliness. Thank You that You have chosen to reveal to Your Church those things that You purposed to keep secret in times past but have revealed them to us through Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Thank You that I do not need to go looking elsewhere for spiritual illumination or extra-biblical revelation. May I be kept from the deception that is sweeping Christendom today and keep my eyes firmly fixed on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of my faith. In His name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that You have revealed all that is needful for life and godliness in You precious Word. May I treasure the truths that are contained within the sacred pages, knowing that both the prophets of old and the holy angels of heaven desired to look into these things but were kept from fully understanding them. What an indescribable blessing that You would choose to reveal to Your Church the glorious riches of this mystery: "Which is Christ is you the hope of glory." Thank You, in Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, I want to be secure in my confidence in Your Word. Help me to prepare my mind and heart for that blessed hope of being face to face with Jesus, the embodiment of truth and grace. May I put Jesus first in every compartment of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You for the words and wisdom in this epistle of Peter. Give me a greater insight into the way that You use problems and pain, trials and tribulation to develop in us a faith that is precious to You, which when tried in the furnace of affliction comes forth as pure gold. Help me to embrace the difficulties of life with a sober and stable mind that is rooted and grounded on the Word of God, in Jesus name I pray, AMEN.
Holy Father, I want to be holy as You are holy. There are times that I quench and grieve Your Spirit, when I live in the sphere of my old sin nature. Please help me to put to death the lusts of the flesh so that I may live a life that pleases You. May I love to be holy and set apart to do Your good will in my life, and may I live to Your praise and glory. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, I want to be holy and have a life that is set apart unto You. I want to have a life that is honouring to You in thought, word and deed. Help me to take every thought captive to Christ and develop a mind that is circumspect, stable and self-controlled - to Your praise and glory, in Jesus name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that in Christ I have been made Your child. Thank You for Your Word of truth.. and the godly instruction it contains on how to live to Your praise and glory. Keep me low at the cross and broken in heart before You.. in reverential fear and never-ending gratitude for the enormous price that was paid for my salvation at Calvary. Thank You in Jesus precious name. AMEN.
Loving Father, there are no words to express my gratitude and thanks for the price You paid to redeem me from the empty life I inherited as a member of the human race. Thank You that by grace through faith, I have received eternal life. How I praise Your holy name. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, I praise and thank You for the precious blood of Jesus Christ, my Kinsman-Redeemer and sacrifice for sin. Thank You that He set aside His glory to come to earth in the likeness of sinful man, in order to purchase me back from the slave-market of sin and death so that I might live with Him eternally. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that You gave Your only begotten Son to be born as a baby into this fallen race of man - so that by grace through faith in Him we might be redeemed, forgiven, saved, sanctified and made one with Him, in spirit and in truth - through time and into eternity. Thank You in Jesus name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, how I praise and glorify Your holy name that it is through faith in JESUS, that we are saved from the slave-market of sin. Thank You that You raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory and honour. Keep me ever mindful of the tremendous work that Christ did on the Cross, so that by faith in Him I am now bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh and remain secure in Him through time and into the eternal ages to come. Thank You in Jesus' name, AMEN.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that in obedience to Your Word of truth I have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin, and have had my sin-sick soul cleansed by His blood and purified, through faith in Him. I pray that I would develop a sincere love for all my brothers and sisters in Christ. Give me a Christlike love, I pray. Develop in me a sacrificial love, so that I may fervently love others from the heart. I pray that I would grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and that He would increase and I would decrease until it is not I that live, but Christ that lives in me, and His love that flows through me. This I pray in Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You for the amazing truth that I have been born again by the incorruptible Seed of the Word of God. Thank You for those people in my life that introduced me to the written Scriptures. And thank You that by grace through faith in Christ, I have been born into Your family and have an incorruptible salvation, together with an incorruptible inheritance. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
Heavenly Father, thank You that I have been called and chosen and that I have been born again into Your family. Thank You that I have an inheritance in Christ that cannot fade away. Open the eyes of those that are blinded to the truth of Your Word so that many may come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. Use me, I pray, as a witness to Your Word of truth and bring many more sons to glory in the days that lie ahead. This I pray in Jesus' name, AMEN.