Jeremiah 29:11 (NASB)
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Position Yourself For God’s Blessing
Strengthen your Mind-set
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Straighten Out Your Life-Style
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Romans 12:2
Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Be Holy
1 Peter 1:15-16
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16for it is written: Because it is written, “Be ye holy; for I am holy.”
Live in Awe
1 Peter 1:17
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
Receive His Blessing With Confidence
You were redeemed by Christ
1 Peter 1:18-19
For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
God’s Purpose is Eternal
1 Peter 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
Your Faith and Hope are in God
1 Peter 1:21
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Share His Blessing In Love
Love is to be shared
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Love is from God’s word
1 Peter 1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Love is Eternal
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Jeremiah 29:11
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.