Introduction: Are you in any battles right now? You will be before the year is over! We all face battles. After being born again in Jesus Christ, we face battles against sin, self and Satan. Prior to being regenerated, we fall prey to the enemy. But after the power of the Holy Ghost changes us, He empowers us. Facing the last battle of death, Paul writes to his son in the Lord Timothy.

1. Your TESTIMONY in Jesus is worth fighting for!

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.” (2Tim 4:1,2)

Your testimony is what Jesus is making out of your life, and what others see and know of your life.

Do you have any spiritual sons on the Lord? Pray now. Reach out now.

3. Your Legacy in Jesus is worth fighting for!

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” (2Tim 4:7,8)

People are going to remember us when we are gone. “Gone but not forgotten”

Jesus will come again and take us to our new heavenly home. Are you preparing?

Conclusion: Paul speaks into Timothy’s life.

“3Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” (2Tim 2:3)

Battles in 2022 are ahead.
Let’s toughen up soldiers!