If you earnestly desire to grow in grace according to God's commands, covenant to do the following things daily; pray, study your Bible, confess Christ, try to lead souls to Christ, and seek the society of Christian people, and you will do so. Let us see what God says concerning these things, and their importance.
1st. Daily prayer.
PRAY without ceasing.
I Thessalonians 5:17.
WATCH ye therefore and pray always.
Luke 21:36.
MEN ought always to pray.
Luke 18:1.
I WILL therefore that men pray every where.
I Timothy 2:8.
CALL unto me and I will answer thee; and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 33:3.
2nd. Daily STUDY of God’s Word.
AND now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up.
Acts 20:32.
THESE were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Acts 17:11.
STUDY to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
II Timothy 2:15.
AS newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
I Peter 2:2.
THY words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.
Jeremiah 15:16
Make this last verse your prayer.
OPEN thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalms 119:18
3rd. Daily CONFESS Christ.
LET your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 5:16.
YE are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 43:10.
SING unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Psalms 96:2.
WHOSOEVER therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 10:32—33.
4th. Daily SEEK OTHERS for Christ.
I HAVE chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.
John 15:16.
HE that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do.
John 14:12.
AND daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Acts 5:42.
WE then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
II Corinthians 6:1.
5th. Daily seek CHRISTIAN SOCIETY.
BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 1:1.
HE that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 13:20.