In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of timing in God's work. He shares the principle that God's work done in God's way will not lack God's supply, both in terms of time and money. The speaker reflects on a personal experience where he realized he had been spreading himself too thin and not able to do things as well as he could. He encourages the audience to consider God's timing in their own lives and reminds them of the story of Samuel, where God waited 16 years before fulfilling his promise. The sermon concludes with a prayer for those who do not believe in Jesus and a reminder to listen to God's message.

Solomon said, to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to rend and a time to sow. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace. Heavenly Father, we ask that thou today would minister to us on the law of faith. We pray for any that do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, that you would shake them and show them that their unbelief will send them to hell. We pray that you would lovingly draw us into your will. The Holy Spirit would open up to us the Word of God and that we would receive the message that God has for us today. For it's time to listen to you in Jesus name. Amen. Well, I think it's probably time that we slowed down a bit and had a little talk. The last few weeks we've been doing a lot of moving around actually last few months a lot of moving around and God used something to show me that I've been doing too much and we Actually, we were off at a retreat one weekend the family retreat a lovely retreat God ministered to us as well as letting us be able to minister a little bit and at the after the new mill we took off from some of us for Louisiana and we got down there about 12 hours later and Found out that one of my mom and dad's good friends Mr. Goff had had a heart attack The next morning I got up it was time to read in the Bible and this was the passage Ecclesiastes 3 for that morning a Time to be born and a time to die and actually he didn't die that day He stayed alive for about another week and a half But God has used several things to show me that we need to be careful about time and one of the things that he's convicted me of is that I've been trying to do too many things and Not able to do the things that I'm doing as well as I could because I've spread myself too thin So I've been praying about different things what is there that I can let go and Something needs to be slacked off and as you can maybe Recognize some of the programs on this station that have been on have stopped and I've been praying well Lord Do you want us to continue? We're like the others or many of the others and so I've been seeking the Lord Do we continue or is it time to stop? And so I'm seeking God listening to him and I listen to what you say to or what you don't say It takes a lot of time to put together a broadcast not to speak of money and we try not to speak of that we lay out everything to the Lord and try to Using principles that God has taught us one of them Hudson Taylor shared that God's work done in God's way will not lack God's supply and that has to do also With time as well as money in the subject of time Timing is important. Have you ever noticed how important timing is? You know God told Daniel it is yet for a time appointed Daniel 1135 that was quite a delay and We're still waiting for all of it to be fulfilled and some of us may be getting a little bit Anxious or a little bit fearsome with the way things are stacking up. But let me assure you that Things are stacking up. It appears to be very serious for our nation and for the world But delays if you think about it are not refusals many a prayer is registered God gets the message in and If you can imagine underneath the request God might send back to you or to me. My time is not yet come as The Lord Jesus spoke God has a set time and he has a way about doing things. He has a set purpose with his will And somebody said that the loftiest level of answered prayer is where there is absolutely no sign That God hears or cares with all the repeated Calls that we give to him there seems to be none that regards the cry They were given out and we may feel like the bell worshipers on Carmel but the hearer of prayer is Hearing even though he's silent Unbelief would say that the throne of his glory is disgraced Because the years may pass by and still no answer in life's morning as someone said Has reached noon and noon has sunk tonight and there has been no sensible relief When faith survives such a trial and still triumphs in God it rises to the highest level of this sublime Resting calmly on the changeless word and character of God It asked no sign. No voice. No vision willing to wait for Explanation till the eternal morning dawns and all the shadows flee away A.t. Pearson asked mr. Mueller one time Just a little bit before his death whether he had ever prayed for a long time for a blessing with no answer and mr. Mueller replied That for more than 65 years in four months. He had besought God for the conversion of two men Yet in their sins, but he added I shall meet them both in heaven My heavenly father would not lay on me the burden of two souls for so many years Had he no purposes of mercy concerning them And he died without the sight but without the doubt And this we know the rest of the story that these two men were saved Shortly after his death and I've shared this with you before timing Have I told you the story about Samuel Pollard? How he spent he was in China He just spent one year in his new role as a missionary in China in something very unusual was promised to him he was only 24 years old and He was just fixing to engage in a 10-day special mission and so he spent a week of prayer and On Tuesday the ninth day He writes to a friend quote I shall never forget it a room was filled with glory and I had a manifestation such as I had never realized before The glory came down and so filled me that I felt the Holy Ghost from my head to the soles of my feet I had a promise at that meeting that we're going to have a thousand That have thousands of souls Mind, I believe that from the bottom of my heart Some folks may say he's a fool. Let them we'll have our thousands. He's gone mad. So be it, but we'll have our thousands He's young and enthusiastic. Yes, glory be to God. I am and we'll have our thousands end of quote by Samuel Pollard Timing how's God's timing in your life? Did God keep his promise with Samuel? Yes, he did But there was more to be accomplished in his youthful life Because he might worship fruit someone said rather than follow on to know the Lord and the testing of faith that trying out of his soul were all necessary before the promised gift and So God waited 16 long years before he gave the answer and His biographer tells how for Milo Scouts came and told the missionaries of a whole tribe waiting for the new teaching They swarmed around the missionary for tuition for advice and counsel his wife fearing for his health Advised him to go up and lock the bedroom door But what was her surprise to find later that 12 tribesmen were seated around his bed with their books So happy to be privileged to have their teacher all to themselves God had kept his promise But it was for a time appointed God will keep his promise With you you can count on his word Now, let me share some thoughts with you on the law of faith You see James said into her Jesus said into her in John 1140 said I not into thee that if thou wouldest believe Thou shouldest see the glory of God there was timing two days delay delay with Lazarus died dying The Bible says cast not away your confidence which hath great recompense of reward for you have need of patience That after you've done the will of God you might receive the promise North coat deck said Though all God's dealings with men. There is one unwavering law by faith by faith by faith Said I not into thee that if thou wouldest believe thou shouldest see is the Savior's gentle reproach to those who would work and walk by sight in God's order an Ordination in this life of faith must ever be believe that you may see believe that you may have Let us kneel our way through life. He said For our knees are heaven's knockers is But another way of putting the same fact that asking of God is so much more potent than doing by man's because Its results in doing by God Francis Ridley Havergill and we've heard of her said believing you shall receive the faith heroes of all Through faith obtain promises and there's no new way of obtaining them Is it any wonder that when we stagger at any promise of God through unbelief? We do not receive it not that fate merits the answer or in any way earns it or works it out but God has made believing listen a condition of receiving and The giver has a sovereign right to choose his own terms of gift I was talking with a friend just the other night who has cancer Encouraging him to follow the scriptural guidelines to call for the elders And he knew that and he said he'd just been putting it off the church was having some trouble troubles And he didn't want to go in there. But I said that's what the scripture says That's what the scripture says Catherine Booth Said Now learn to hold on by faith For just what you need and the deeper the need the faster hold on oh if I'd only done so more Persistently through life instead of letting the sense of my own weakness Disheartened my faith what a difference experience mine would have been. Ah, there is no teaching like experience You try and learn wisdom by mine Be a bold believer and the more you feel your your own need the closer cling to him as you're all and in all able To magnify his grace where sin hath abounded in his strength Where there is no might Remember it is the blood that cleanses the soul Works meet for repentance is one thing the faith that heals is another Both are indispensable the little child or the vilest sinner who dares trust for a full salvation gets it while the most careful Principled and determined disciple who doubts misses it. God cannot help it He is bound to give or withhold according to our faith It is not arbitrary on his part in the very nature of the case It is the only line on which he can meet us I believe if he could have saved us in an easier way he would but there is no other way And so my friend we are saved by faith believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Entering a new year David Livingston had wrote in his diary this prayer and He said that it might be quote a year of great Believing this ought to be the over mastering desire of every one of us as we cross the threshold Into each year. How about crossing the threshold into each day though? Anna E Hamilton said faith is the grasping of almighty power The hand of man laid on the arm of God the grand and blessed hour in which the things impossible to me become the possible O Lord through thee And so the great things which the Bible says of faith It says of it only because it is the channel the medium the condition by and on which the real power Which is Jesus Christ himself acts upon us Alexander McLaren, it is not the window But the sunshine that floods this building with light it is not the opened hand But the gift laid in it that enriches the pauper It is not the poor leaden pipe, but the water that flows through it that fills the cistern it is not your faith, but the Christ whom your faith brings into your heart and Conscience that purges the one and makes the other void of offense toward God and man You see you can have faith, but faith must have an object faith without focused Belief in the Lord Jesus Christ is empty faith as James said faith without works is dead You know I talked to you. I think it was last week or the week before about the character of God GD Watson it said our limitless trust in God seems to satisfy him as nothing else can do Because it corresponds with his eternal faithfulness it honors his veracity And it is a constant silent worship of all his perfections, so this thing of timing is really How long can you wait on God in faith? When he promises something and you wait a day you say I've waited patiently Lord now. It's time, but if he goes two days Does your faith waiver? God forever honors those who believe him he has organized us as a On a pattern of trust and not to trust ourselves and God is to derange the very plan of our creation Faith in God is at once the sweetest necessity the sublimest duty and the greatest privilege of a creature Toward his creator the first requirement of prayer is to believe Believe that God is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him Believe that God is alive and therefore has power Not only for Peter's deliverance, but for ours Believe that God is love and that he cares for his own believe that God is power and therefore no power can stand against him Believe that God is truth and therefore cannot lie believe that God is King and that he will never Abdicate his throne or fail in his promises Leonard Ravenhill So would you believe God? With me pray that God would have his way in our world Let's pray and believe God to be working in our land let's pray and be believe God to be working in our in our churches in your church and in mine in Our families and let's believe would you believe God to work through this radio broadcast? I have nothing to hang on to my hands are open. We'll just believe God and see what he wants to do For the asking you have not because you ask not James 4 to Asking it shall be given you let's ask in faith Someone said power belongeth unto God The scripture says that power has been given unto us you shall receive power X18 but all that belongs to God Here's the thing we can have for the asking God holds out his full hands and says asking it shall be given unto you If ye then be an evil know how to give good gifts unto your children How much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him listen to this verse If I can get back over to it This is a very simple verse But it's very powerful Therefore I say unto you what things whoever you desire when you pray Believe that you receive them and ye shall have them and of course we can't ask a miss to consume them upon our own lust the poverty and Powerlessness of the average Christian finds its explanation in the words of the Apostle James you have not because you ask not Why is it many a Christian is asking that I make such poor progress in my Christian life neglect of prayer Would probably be God's answer wouldn't it be you have not because you ask not why is it? There is so little fruit in my ministry Maybe a discouraged pastor may say and here comes God's answer you have not because you ask not why is it? Both in the pew and in the pulpit there seems to be so little power And by the way that would bother me To be in a church where God doesn't answer prayer I'm thankful that I'm in a church where God is working and God is answering prayer in the lives of people we've seen God answer prayer for one of the Men in our church young men that attends his brother Just recently got saved and we're praying for other members in that family God works in power when we believe him God has provided us for a life of power and a work of power on the part of every child of his he wants us To work and walk with him in power He's put his own infinite power at our disposal and has proclaimed over and over again in a great variety of ways in his Word asking you shall receive this is the law of faith if we'll ask in faith believing we will receive How much time probably the average Christian would spend in prayer would really show how much we really Believe God is working so busy. We can't spend time with God We're too busy to pray and so we're too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little Many services but few conversions much machinery, but few results the power God is lacking in our lives and in our work Toria speaking these words He said we have not because we asked not many professed Christians confessedly do not believe in the power of prayer It is quite the fashion with some to contemptuously Contrast the prayers with the doers forgetting that in the history of the church The real doers have been prayers that the men Who have made the glorious part of the church's history have been without exception men of prayer J. Wilbur Chapman in closing down Related these thoughts. He said that he'd been in the old church in New England where Jonathan Edwards had preached his great sermon sinners in the hands of an angry God He had a little manuscript which he held up so close to his face that they could not see his countenance But as he went on and on the people in the crowded church were tremendously moved one man sprang to his feet rushed down the aisles And cried mr. Edwards have mercy other men caught hold of the backs of the pews lest they should slip into perdition I've seen the old pillars Around them they threw their arms and when they thought the day of judgment had dawned upon them the power of that sermon is still felt in the United States today But there is a bit of history behind it for three days Edwards had not eaten a mouthful of food for three nights. He had not closed his eyes in sleep over and over again He had been saying to God give me New England Give me New England and when he rose from his knees and made his way into the pulpit They say that he looked as if he'd been gazing straight into the face of God They say that before he opened his lips to speak conviction fell upon his audience to aim a right at the liberty of the children of God requires a continual acting of faith of A naked faith and a naked promise of decoration by a naked faith in a naked promise I do not mean a bear a scent that God is faithful But that's such a promise in the book of God may be fulfilled in me But rather a bold hearty steady venturing of my soul body and spirit upon the truth of the promise With an un with an appropriating act John Fletcher said Heavenly Father We pray that you would minister in power in our lives today and that we would move ahead in faith by faith in Jesus name Amen