TIMELINESS


“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Ecclesiastes 3:1

DO NOT be in too great a hurry. There is time for everything that has to be done. He who gave you your lifework has given you just enough time to do it in. The length of life’s candle is measured out according to the length of your required task. You must take necessary time for meditation, for sleep, for food, for the enjoyment of human love and friendship; and even then, there will be time enough left for your necessary duties. More haste, less speed! The feverish hand often gives itself additional toil. “He that believeth shall not make haste.”

Do not be impatient. He who made you has prepared the successive steps along which you must travel to realize your full human development. God knows what you need and will bring you to its fulfilment, only you must wait His leisure with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. He can mature events with marvellous rapidity, and you will find that He will perfect that which concerneth you, so that no good thing will fail. He who feeds the wild things of the prairie and woodland, giving to each its appropriate portion, will not fail any one of us. He will supply us with food convenient for us. The Creator is faithful to the creature.

Do not be cast down. Sorrow and trial are only for a time. They have their seasons, and pass. It is not always winter, and God puts bright and beautiful things into our lives which we need not be afraid of enjoying, it being understood that we do not snatch at them or use them for our personal pleasure alone. Everything is beautiful after its sort and in its season, and every day has some element of goodwill in it, but we sometimes so strain our eyes towards a distant spot on the horizon that we miss the flowers on which we are treading.

God is in all; find Him there! “Every good gift is from the Father of lights.” They were created that they might be received with thanksgiving, and the altar sanctifies the gift. It is only when the gifts of God are severed from the Giver that they do us harm (Ecc 3:13).

God has set Eternity in our heart, and man’s infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense. – F. B. Meyer


The Lord's Day Services


Sunday, July 26, 2020

11:00 a.m. Morning Service – Dr. Larry Saunders (Church open for all who wish to attend in person.)

5:50 p.m. Preservice Prayer Meeting – via Zoom

6:30 p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Larry Saunders – via SermonAudio ONLY, click here


Weekly Announcements


Wednesday, July 29th

7:30 p.m. Bible Study & Prayer Meeting – Dr. Saunders – via Zoom


Advanced Announcements


Sunday, August 2nd

11:00 a.m. Morning Service – Dr. Saunders – (Church open for all who wish to attend in person.)

5:50 p.m. Preservice Prayer Meeting – via Zoom

6:30 p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Saunders – via SermonAudio ONLY


Wednesday, August 5th

7:30 p.m. Bible Study & Prayer Meeting – via Zoom


The Children's Catechism


Q12. How is the state of sin brought on us?
A. We are the children of Adam, and have fallen with him.


The Shorter Catechism


Q12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?

A. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience1; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death2.

1. And the law is not of faith: but, the man that doeth them shall live in them. (Galatians 3:12).

2. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17).


FPCNA PRAYER REQUESTS


CHURCH EXTENSION COMMITTEE

Please pray for:

  • For students under care and for new students to come under care.
  • For the radio ministry in the United States through VCY Radio and for the radio ministry in Canada through Harvesters FM in the Maritimes.
  • For wisdom to foster interest in the witness of the FPCNA in areas of opportu­nity through inquiries from local groups or pastors.

Please Pray for