Sunday Worship 10am with Fellowship Afterwards

At Faith on 48th, our goal is to bring the Hope of the Gospel to the community, and to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

We believe that your best days are ahead! This is why we offer a full experience including weekly services at our church location, in-depth Bible studies via Zoom, and unique camp and picnic experiences at our very own Faith Oaks Ranch.

Faith Tabernacle Church, located at the corner of 48th Street and University Avenue, has been serving the San Diego City Heights community since 1949. 

NOVEMBER 2025

In His Time!

Family of the Highest, I greet you this day in the most wonderful name in Heaven and Earth, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  It is my prayer that you are continually rejoicing in the hope of your calling and the strength given to you by our Lord, through grace and the shedding of His Blood on Calvary. 

I am impressed to speak with you this morning from the depth of my Heart to encourage the people of God to not be shaken!  I do not think that I need to go in-depth of what we see shaping in our world, some of which has directly affected me.  Nevertheless, I am not unmindful in who holds tomorrow, and in His time, He shall make all things beautiful! 

Therefore, the storms and billows shall roll, and my trust shall always be anchored in our Lord.  The events of life is not unusual, in fact, God’s word suggest that there is nothing new under the Sun, Ecclesiastes 1:9-10!  Thus, let me be very clear with respect to this; this is only a dress rehearsal of what is to come!  

That being said, what remains to be answered today is, what is God desiring to convey to teach us in this moment?  There is an old song that came to my heart this week and I’ve been humming its’ words, “In His time, in His time, He makes all things beautiful in His time”.

Is this then a period of time for God to punish His people? Is it to fear and panic, I think not!  Is it to severe our relationship with Him, god forbid!  We can see with our own eyes of how the moral compass of America is rapidly declining, and as mentioned before, it has crept its’ way into the Sanctuary of God.  What then is God trying to show and direct us in this dark period?

As mentioned earlier I have, just as others, have been directly affected by what is happening, and yet, when I rise up from bended knees, the Holy Spirit challenges me not to look upon how this present time is affecting me, but more so, how it is affecting the least among us.  

In essence brothers and sisters, in Christ, are we able to look beyond the corridors of our own pain and suffering and tend to the needs of those suffering more than us, Knowing that, in Gods time, He will make all things beautiful? 

In light of Isaiah 61:1-3, I feel that this remains true to every believer. Who we are does not change, what we’ve been commissioned to do remains until the Lord returns.  I am reminded of the parable of a Sparrow.  I am reminded of the widow feeding Elijah with her last portion of oil and flour, and how God multiplied it endlessly during a drought!

Therefore, walking in obedience shall always bring forth blessings in the harshest of time!  The challenge, walking in Christ steps! I Peter 2:21, clearly reminds us that we should walk in Christ’s footsteps, and if that isn’t sound enough for you, Christ Himself asks, us to follow Him.  

Therefore, our song is a song of deliverance, and it never changes, regardless of the period or circumstance! Whether you have much or a little, what you have is the Lords’ and He will multiply it for His glory.

This is not conventional thinking, and our God is not a conventional thinker.  In-fact, much of what I can see with my eyes through scripture and life is this, Christ being very much unorthodox.  On several occasions we read that He would ask those having worldly possession to rid them and give to the poor. 

His life and example on earth influenced those after Pentecost to give and provide for those having need.  For they knew that the things possessed on earth did not compare to the gift of eternal salvation with Christ. 

In Philippians Chapter two, Paul spoke of Epaphroditus and his sickness, and how because of the work of Christ he was near to death, and did not regard his own life, to supply (Paul/others) where other did not!

I refer you back to the scripture written in October’s Newsletter, encouraging the people of God to remain steadfast in the Lord.  Let us do as unto the Lord and in His time, He will roll the dark clouds of today into a bright and glorious day of rejoicing. Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice!

   II Thessalonians 2:2-3 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. 

As the world hide and runs away, let us run towards the battle, fully equipped with the Armor of God, to fight for God’s children, and pull their scared battered souls from the grips of warfare, and bring them to that place, that their souls may rest. 

In His time, God will make all things beautiful.  Family of God, remain encouraged, reap the blessings of standing in the gap for the weak and broken.  Uphold our nation in prayer that she humbles herself and turn back to God.

His Servant, 

Pastor: Jimmy Smith