My prayer for you is that God bless you with a great day close to Jesus. I hope Jesus is the single most important person in your life. I hope the goal of your life is to live for Jesus and seek to please God in all respects (Colossians 1:10). I hope you seek to be holy as God is holy (I Peter 1:16). I hope you repent of your sins and ask God to forgive you of your sins, and especially that you approach the throne of grace with confidence (Hebrews 4:14-16). I hope you respond to troubles in your life with faithful perseverance. I hope you make every effort to love and value everyone with whom you come in contact. I pray you make your life about serving others as Jesus served you on the cross. That means serving and blessing husband, wife, children, parents, grandparents J, coworkers, neighbors, friends, strangers – every life counts as worthy of your Christ-like servitude. I hope you pray for God to open doors for you to share Jesus with others in wisdom and grace and love (Colossians 4:2-6). I hope heaven is your goal and by the grace of God you reach that goal as you walk by faith through this life right into eternity. I hope you “spiritually dance”.

Read II Timothy 2:1-13. Paul knows his faithful life to Jesus is about to end in execution. He writes younger Timothy to encourage him to live, serve, love and remain faithful allllll the way to the end. Then listen to I Hope You Dance by Mandisa.

2 Timothy 2:1-13

You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful people who will be able to teach others also. Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him. And if someone likewise competes as an athlete, he is not crowned as victor unless he competes according to the rules. The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops. Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned. For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. The statement is trustworthy: