Purpose of GOD's Promises for Us

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." 2Peter 1:4

GOD has given us His promises so that we can claim hold of His power to live a chnged life. We can be partaker's of His divine nature. We can, with his power, look back at His work in us and know that we have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.


"And 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." Romans 12:2

To often, those who have become Christians are willing to settle for being forgiven without gratitude. The relationship between us and our Lord Jesus Christ, should be a love relationship. He loved us first, so much that He gave His life up to be crucified on the cross, that you and I may have the gift of salvation, eternal life. We therfore should let this love transform us, we should not be conformed to the world. Let the LORD renew your mind. Claim hold of His words and ask HIM to change you to be like Him.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2Corinthians 3:18

Here lies a powerful principle. By beholding we become changed. So, the more we look to Jesus, the more we will be changed into His image, the more we will be like HIM. The opposite is true as well. It is a law of nature that we tend to go where we are looking. If we are viewing ungodly things, our characters will begin to go in that direction.

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

Our daily work should be to come to our LORD confessing our sins. Let us forget the sins we have already confessed, because HE promises that HE forgives them and that HE remembers them no more. Our prayer should be regarding the sins we know we commited since we last talked to GOD about our sins.

This promise says GOD will do two things.

1) HE will forgive our sins

2) HE will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He wants to change us so that we will sin less and less. In that way we are able to be a more powerful witness of the power of GOD working in us. Not our own doing, but rather, GOD working in us, we merely invite HIm to make that changes.

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:34

Hbr 10:16
This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Hbr 10:17
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.