2 Sermon Illustrations on Appointment Gods

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God’s appointments refer to the divine timing and purposes behind events in believers’ lives, encouraging trust in His sovereign plan despite disappointments (Romans 8:28). Illustrations often depict life’s setbacks as intentional divine arrangements that foster faith and patience, emphasizing that God’s timing is perfect and purposeful (Ecclesiastes 3:1).

Appointment, God’S

Disappointments are God's appointments sent in love for our needs.

Take each disappointment As thy Lord’s appointment Sent in love divine; Check all faithless fretting God is not forgetting Any need of thine.

APPRECIATION

When Sir Godfrey Kneller had painted for Alexander Pope the statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules, the poet paid the painter with these lines:

What god, what genius did the pencil move, When Kneller painted these! ’Twas friendship, warm as Phœbus, kind as love, And strong as Hercules.

Appointment, God’S

Appreciate others' help before it's too late, as future remembrance brings tears.

See COMPLIMENT; ENDEAVOR; HEROISM RECOGNIZED; KINSHIP.

APPRECIATION, DELAYED

Mrs. Marion M. Hutson points out the necessity of appreciating the help of others before it is too late.

Somewhere in the future--God knows when-- These tired hands will lie at rest--and then The friends and loved ones will recall with tears Some kindly deed they wrought in bygone years. Will ponder o’er those little acts again, And register them all on heart and brain. My precious ones, why wait? Tell me to-day If ever hands of mine have soothed your way.

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