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Reflection and Application

  • Q.1.    What are some dangers of thinking you are spiritually mature but aren’t?

  • Q.2.    Give an example of someone being spiritually nearsighted or blind?

  • Q.3.    What attitudes can contribute to spiritual amnesia?

CONFIDENCE

  • Q.1.    What things do you do to test the level of your confidence in Christ?

  • Q.2.    How do you learn to use your abilities and rely on God at the same time?

  • Q.3.    What would you tell someone to do that lacked confidence in life and spiritual matters?

COMPETENCE

  • Q.1.    What evidence is there that you are becoming more competent in living each day productively?

  • Q.2.    What things do you do to develop competence spiritually?

  • Q.3.    What does God-given competence do for your overall well-being?

ASSURANCE

  • Q.1.    Why is it important to learn to be sure of your salvation at the beginning of your new life in Christ?

  • Q.2.    How do you stay eager about maintaining your spiritual progress?

  • Q.3.    What does having rock-solid assurance of your relationship with Christ do for your life in general?

SECURITY

  • Q.1.    Give an example of someone you know acting out of insecurity. How does that affect their lives generally? What would change for them ‘in Christ’?

  • Q.2.    Why would a Christian feel insecure if God has promised total security? What would you tell them is available to them?

  • Q.3.    What things do you do to maintain your sense of security in Christ for the present and the future? How do you involve the Holy Spirit in your daily disciplines?

INHERITANCE

  • Q.1.    What do you do to stay focused on preparing for your eternal destiny instead of pursuing what the world offers?

  • Q.2.    Why are you instructed to be eager to build up your faith continually? How are you doing that?

  • Q.3.    What does it mean to you that you are a co-heir with Christ as God’s child? How does believing this change your perspective about the present and the future?

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Reflection and Application

  • Q.1.    Describe your understanding of how the Holy Spirit fills you with himself.

  • Q.2.    What are some supernatural abilities the Holy Spirit provides you with in these scriptures?

  • Q.3.    Why do you think so many Christians try so hard on their own to develop their spiritual qualities? What often results from this approach

  • Q.4.    What changes for a Christian when they realize and accept the fact that the Holy Spirit is prepared to help them with everything they need and do?

  • Q.5.    How would you describe to someone who the Holy Spirit is and how he works in your life each day? Hint - Consider the eight spiritual qualities to develop and activate from the previous chapter.

  • Q.6.    What measures have you put in place to stay filled with the Holy Spirit?

  • BONUS: Read through the book of Acts

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  2. Be Realistic

  3. Be Positive

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Reflection and Application

FAITH

  • Q.1 What does your level of effort in spiritual growth say about your commitment to Christ

  • Q.2 How is it beneficial that the Bible presents qualities that are essential for spiritual maturity?

  • Q.3 What have you established as the basis and foundation of your faith?

  • Q.4 What does growing your faith in God look like in your everyday life?

  • Q.5 What things do you do to exercise your faith so that it gets stronger?

  • Q.6 Memorize Hebrews 11:1.

GOODNESS 

  • Q.1 Why is trying to be a good person without God’s help often disappointing?

  • Q.2 Focusing on God is a great way to think. Do you have another example that fits?

  • Q.3 Why is it beneficial for you to think more about good and less about bad?

  • Q.4 What are some ways Jesus modelled moral excellence for us to emulate?

  • Q.5 How important is it to plan to be and do good every day? What does that require?

  • Q.6 What resources has God given you to grow your goodness?

KNOWLEDGE

  • Q.1 How does knowing more about the other person deepen your relationship with them?

  • Q.2 How can the Holy Spirit, the Bible and prayer increase your capacity to know God deeply?

  • Q.3 What does knowing God more look like in your everyday life? What evidence is there?

  • Q.4 What things do you include God in during your regular routine? How do you do it?

  • Q.5 What does an increasing knowledge of God do for your faith and goodness?

SELF-CONTROL

  • Q.1 Why is it encouraging to realize that spiritual self-control is a work of the Holy Spirit in you?

  • Q.2 Give an example of being able to do the best thing when tempted not to.

  • Q.3 What does adding self-control look like in your everyday life? How do you engage with the Holy Spirit?

  • Q.4 What areas of your life are you lacking self-control? How are you addressing that?

  • Q.5 Why is it advantageous to have the ability to say ‘No’ to sinful and non-beneficial activities?

  • Q.6 How does self-control help you to be obedient to God’s will for your life?

PERSEVERANCE

  • Q.1 Why do many people not stick to what they know they should?

  • Q.2 How does the Holy Spirit’s offer of supernatural perseverance encourage you

  • Q.3 What do you do each day to increase your spiritual perseverance?

  • Q.4 Why is it helpful to picture yourself in a spiritual race with a finish line to cross

  • Q.5 How do you learn to value your eternal crown more than anything this world has to offer?

  • Q.6 In what ways might you have to endure people as well as circumstances in order to persevere?

GODLINESS

  • Q.1 Why is training a good word to describe the process of maturing spiritually

  • Q.2 What things are affected when you choose to glorify God in whatever you do?

  • Q.3 What does becoming more godly look like for you on a daily basis? What changes occur?

  • Q.4 What spiritual training exercises have you embedded into your schedule to condition you to think and act more like Jesus?

  • Q.5 How does it encourage you to know that God has already made available to you everything you need to be godly ‘in Christ’?

BROTHERLY KINDNESS

  • Q.1 What are some things that would improve drastically if everyone was kind

  • Q.2 Why would you agree that showing kindness is actually evidence of inner strength?

  • Q.3 Why should Christ followers be known for their kindness?

  • Q.4 How do you prepare yourself to show kindness to others naturally?

  • Q.5 Why would you agree that practicing brotherly kindness begins at home?

  • Q.6 How do you show kindness and stay true to your convictions at the same time?

LOVE

  • Q.1 How does it encourage you that God shows you how to love others?

  • Q.2 Why should Spirit-filled believers be the most loving people in the world?

  • Q.3 Why is self-sacrificing love such a major theme in the Bible?

  • Q.4 How significant is it for you to learn to see others more like Jesus does?

  • Q.5 What things do you do to help mature your love towards others?

  • Q.6 Why would this list of eight spiritual qualities to develop be incomplete without love?

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Reflection and Application

  • Q.1.    What are some consequences of focusing on needs without involving God?

  • Q.2.    What are some practical things you do to stay Kingdom-focused at all times?

  • Q.3.    How does believing God has met your needs simplify your life and reduce stress?

  • Q.4.    What are some benefits of becoming more godly in every aspect of your life?

  • Q.5.    How is it both thrilling and overwhelming to understand and accept that you are a child of God?

  • Q.6.    What things do you do to remind yourself that God takes good care of his children?

  • Q.7.    What would you have said were your greatest needs before reading this lesson?

  • Q.8.    How is it beneficial for you to relate everything in your life to these three major needs: daily living, being godly and obeying your calling

  • Q.9.    What do you do to acknowledge your need of God’s daily provision?

  • Q.10. What things do you have in place to learn what it means to be godly and act like it?

  • Q.11. What are some benefits and responsibilities of belonging to God’s family?

  • Q.12. Ask the Holy Spirit to reinforce in you the reality that God has already provided everything you need so that you live each day with confident expectation.

  • Q.13. Quote 2 Peter 1:3 from memory.

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Benefits of Being “In Christ”: see diagram below ⬇️

 

Spiritually Alive (Romans 6:1-11)
Secure in God’s Love (Romans 8:39)
Freedom (Romans 8:1)
Wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:30)
God’s Promises (2 Corinthians 1:19-20)
Victory (2 Corinthians 2:14)
Spiritual Family (Ephesians 1:5-6)
Blessing Upon Blessing (Ephesians 1:3)
Productive (Ephesians 2:10)
Confidence (Ephesians 3:12)


Peace (Philippians 4:7)
Maturity (Colossians 1:28)
Accepted By God (Ephesians 1:11)
Purpose (Philippians 3:12)
Physically Alive (Romans 8:10-11)
Know Truth (John 8:32)
Grace (Colossians 1:4)
Able To Love (1 Corinthians 16:24)
Anointing (2 Corinthians 1:21-22)
Insight (2 Corinthians 3:14)

Understanding (Ephesians 1:9-10)
Equality With Others (Galatians 3:28)
Sanctified (1 Corinthians 1:2)
Forgiveness (Ephesians 4:32)
Joy (Philippians 1:26)
Needs Met (Philippians 4:19)
Stability (Colossians 2:5)
Future Inheritance (Philippians 3:14)

Reflection and Application

  • Q.1    What changes for you by believing God “has given” vs. “will give”?

  • Q.2    Why is it essential that you want a relationship with God?

  • Q.3 How would you explain to someone that believing in Jesus is the only way to know God?

  • Q.4    What does it mean that God’s plan is for you ‘to be conformed to the likeness of’ Jesus?

  • Q.5    What is the significance of you now being considered by God to be a brother or sister of Jesus?

  • Q.6    How would you now describe your relationship with God?

  • Q.7    Why is it important for you to have both head knowledge and heart knowledge of God?

  • Q.8    What are some benefits that you are aware of having by being ‘in Christ’?

  • Q.9    What things do you do to increase your desire to know God more?

  • Q.10 Quote 2 Peter 1:3 from memory. How is this scripture changing the way you look at issues?

  • Q.11 For further study of your unique relationship with God as his child, search and study Biblical references to being ‘in Christ’ and similar phrases. Take note of the benefits and blessings available to you in this position.

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Promises of God:

 

Reflection and Application

  • Q.1 What are the things God is going to do regardless of our response?

  • Q.2 What are other examples of conditional promises of God?

  • Q.3 Describe how believing God’s promises are ‘yes’ in Christ gives you confidence in any situation.

  • Q.4 Describe how the Holy Spirit enables you to become more godly.

  • Q.5 What is the potential of the Holy Spirit replacing a sinful desire with a godly one in you?

  • Q.6 How do you recognize when you have experienced a promise of God? What do you do next?

  • Q.7 What are some things you know that God has promised you ‘in Christ’?

  • Q.8 Why is it beneficial to remind yourself regularly of God’s promises to you?

  • Q.9 What has recognizing that you ‘participate in the divine nature’ by believing and experiencing God’s promises encouraged you to do?

  • Q.10 Give an example of you being able to ‘escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires’ as God promised you would.

  • Q.11 Make a list of your benefits of being ‘in Christ’. Ask the Holy Spirit to keep you aware of your favoured position in Christ.

  • Q.12. Memorize 2 Peter 1:4.

  • Q.13. Quote 2 Peter 1:3 from memory.

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Studying God’s Names & Attributes:

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The Names of God (by Dr. Tony Evans)

 

Reflection and Application

  • Q.1    How important is it that righteousness, faith, grace and peace are gifts from God?

  • Q.2    Why is it important that God has unlimited power?

  • Q.3    Why is it important that God is breathtakingly awesome?

  • Q.4    Why is it important that God is perfectly good?

  • Q.5    What motivated you to embrace God as your Creator and Benefactor?

  • Q.6    What are some benefits for you to accept that God is the one who willingly gives you righteousness, faith and the ability to know him deeply?

  • Q.7    How has your understanding of God expanded by this focus on his attributes of power, glory and goodness?

  • Q.8 What are you asking the Holy Spirit to do in your pursuit of a close relationship with God?

  • Q.9 Memorize 2 Peter 1:3. Quote it every day as often as you can.

  • Q.10 For further study of God, search the Biblical names, titles and attributes of God and learn what they teach us about God. (see website suggestions above)

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Diagram: God & You (According to 2 Peter 1:3-11) ⬇️

Reflection and Application

  • Q.1 What are your first impressions of putting yourself in this diagram?

  • Q.2 Give an example and consequences of preoccupation with a secondary issue.

  • Q.3 How would a God-first approach change the dynamics of your example in Q.2?

  • Q.4 What are some spiritual truth you feel capable of teaching others at this point?

  • Q.5 How would you rate how well you know God, from 0 (not knowing) to 10 (deeply knowing)?

  • Q.6 If you don’t know God, ask someone who knows Him well how you can establish a relationship with Him.

  • Q.7 If you do know God, what are you prepared to do to develop a deep relationship with Him?

  • Q.8 Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you every day to learn and apply the principles of 2 Peter 1:3-11.

  • Q.9 Memorize 2 Peter 1:3

  • Q.9 Read through the book of 2 Peter (all three chapters) to gain context.