Hello Everyone,

Today let’s look at II Timothy Chapter 1:1-7.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

² To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³ I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. ⁴ Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. ⁵ I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. ⁶ For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Paul is writing in the latter days of his life to his beloved son in the faith Timothy.

Timothy is ministering in Ephesus and dealing with many hardships.

Paul always the spiritual mentor writes from prison in Rome - encouraging Timothy with the foundational principles of life - and calling on him to come to Rome to be with him in his final days.

In this letter Paul shares our next two ingredients for abundant living.

Start with the Spiritual - Paul says to Timothy - “fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you …”

If you want to live an abundant life it starts with the Spiritual. It’s amazing to me that we pay such little attention to the Spiritual aspect of our lives.

We spend great amounts of time on work, health (exercise), sports, and recreation - but so little time on the Spiritual side of life.

Cultivating our spirits becomes a job for the time that is left over or at best a job for Sunday mornings.

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Oh nobody would admit that’s the way we live life, but it is.

Everything else in life is more important than the Spiritual things.

God gets what’s left over after everything else is finished.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!

Pastor Phil