There is a Time and Season for Every Aspect of Your Life - April 24, 2022

By Pastor Chuck Ryan

There is a “Time and Season” for Every Aspect of Your Life
Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1-14
Thesis: Good News… God is with us in every activity and season of our lives!
1. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” (Vs. 1)
A. The Word of God recognizes there are events and circumstances that are
beyond our control.
*“A time to be born and a time to die.” (Vs. 2)
*“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding
fault, and it will be given to him.”
James 1:5
B. There is peace in trusting in God’s will.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
2. Choose the steps of your life according to God’s will.
*“The length of our days is seventy years-- or eighty, if we have the strength. Yet their span is but trouble and
sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart
of wisdom.” Psalms 90:10-12
A. The three greatest choices we make in life!
1. Choose to make God first in your life.
*“If God is second in your life, he might as well be last.”
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*“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will
serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
Joshua 24:15
2. Choose your family.
*“If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his
immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an
unbeliever.”
1 Timothy 5:8
3. Choose to be a builder of the Kingdom of God.
*Jesus said, “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”
Matthew 16:18
3. The Word of God reveals there are events and circumstances that are a result of the
choices we make, in the “Seasons” of our lives, as we are led by God.
*“A time to plant and a time to uproot.” (Vs 3)
A. Exactly 34 years ago to this very day, I preached my first sermon here at Homedale / Mountain
View Church of the Nazarene.
1. You have heard me say many times: “God always has our best
interest in mind.”
2. We came here to Pastor a Church (grow) and raise our family.
3. God always has another “Season” for our lives!