Last night I graduated from the Chaplains Training Academy at Only Hope Prison Ministries.  It has been eighteen months of intensive study and application.

Rich Hines, the main instructor, concluded the evening  with

 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: ² preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with ^[a]great patience and instruction. ³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, ⁴ and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. ⁵ But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. – 2 Timothy 4:1-5 NASB

Father God,

Thank you for calling me to this work.  May I always speak Your truth to those who you put in my path.

Amen