How To Make Your New Year Counts
Speaker: Rev. Sam Chan
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
—Ecclesiastes 3:11
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I. God’s Timing Is Sovereign
There is a time for everything…
—Ecclesiastes 3:1a
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
—Hebrews 4:16
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II. God’s Timing Is Sufficient
…and a season for every activity under the heavens.
—Ecclesiastes 3:1b
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III. Man’s Timing Is Seasonal
“Time” - 28 Times
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
—Psalm 90:12
1. I must study the movement of God’s timing
4 kinds of right attitude
1. With a noble and good heart (Luke 8:15)
2. With faith combined with what you heard (Hebrews 4:2)
3. With humility and patience (James 1:21)
4. With desire to stay in God’s Word (Psalm 119:11
2. I must seize the movements of God’s timing
What is the next step of your journey in 2024?
1) Faith life
2) Dating / Marriage life
3) Family life
4) Working / Studying life
5) Computer life
6) Ministry life
7) Financial life
8) Social life
9) Attitudinal life
10) Creative life
11) Travel life
12) Physical life
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
—Sir Francis Drake, 1577
