In Luke chapter 11:1-13 Jesus disciples have seen Jesus praying and they then asked him to teach them about how to effectively like he does.

So Jesus tells then how to pray more effectively which is to pray by approaching the Father with shameless persistence and because of knowing the Father with Holy Spirit revelation knowledge of the Father's heart of love!

In 1 Peter chapter 2:11-25 we learn that we must live to a higher standard call to be in God likeness in behavior and in respecting authority and loving those around us. In order achieve this we must learn to resist carnal desires by renewing our minds according to God word.

God has a time clock a Day of Judgement that is to come where all will be judged. In Order to prepare us for that day God is shacking and exposing the things that can prevent us from being with him eternally. Heb 12:14 tells us that without holiness no man can see meaning interact or live eternally in God presence, we must cleans ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and Spirit (2 Cor 7:1).

Those who truly know Christ will seek to become one with him to walk as he walks. In order to do this we must embark on the road to perfection by purify ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. God seek intimacy, to become one with him and this requires total surrender to him.

In 1 Peter chapter 2:6-10 we learn that Jesus is our cornerstone also referred in Isa 28:16 as a sound foundation on which we can build our life. Those who not only believe in him but truly live for him will receive from God a new identity as being God chosen people, a royal priesthood, God's own possession.

1 Peter chapter 2 starts with Peter encouraging us to change our behavior in order to become a true reflection of God to the world around us and in order to mature spiritually. Spiritual growth only happen when we apply the word of God to our life when we become doers of the word.

Jesus ask Peter to feed his sheep speaking of all believers who would come to accept Jesus as savior. In 1 Peter 1:13-25 we are called to be holy in all manner of conversation or behavior as our Father in heaven is holy, this is a call for us to return to what we were created to be in God image and likeness.

Jesus ask Peter to feed his sheep speaking of all believers who would come to accept Jesus as savior. In 1 Peter 1:4-12 we are introduce to the fast that as Christians we have and inheritance that comes to us in this life as love, grace and mercy from God and in the life to come in living in his presence with Jesus in the New Jerusalem to come.

Jesus ask Peter to feed his sheep speaking of all believers who would come to accept Jesus as savior. In the first three verses of 1 Peter we are introduce to God foreknowledge, grace, peace and to sanctification thru the blood of Jesus.

In John 16:23 Jesus told his disciples that he was leaving and that when this would happen they were to no longer ask him nothing but that they should ask the Father in his name. Jesus gave us the authority of his name so that we could come to the father directly and so we could continue the work he had started.