I ) There are 3 choices in our life :
1.) A great purpose to live for
2.)Great people to team up with
3.)Use great opportunity what God gives you
We are solely Focusing On Opportunities
1.You must give yourself to great purpose greater than yourself
Matthew 24:14 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
2. Join great people committed same purpose
1 Corinthians 3:9 9 For we are partners working together for God, and you are God’s field.
3. Great opportunity
Ephesians 5:16 16 Make good use of every opportunity you have, because these are evil days.
II) SIX THINGS we Must Do :
1. You must say no to good opportunity do I can say yes to great ones
1 Corinthians 7:35 35 I am saying this because I want to help you. I am not trying to put restrictions on you. Instead, I want you to do what is right and proper, and to give yourselves completely to the Lord’s service without any reservation.
2.Every opportunity must be Evaluated
Questions For Evaluations:
1.)Do I need to know and who knows it ?
Proverbs 18:13 13 Listen before you answer. If you don’t, you are being stupid and insulting.
Proverbs 15:22 22 Get all the advice you can, and you will succeed; without it you will fail.
2.) What might be the unintended consequences ?
Proverbs 14:16 16 Sensible people are careful to stay out of trouble, but stupid people are careless and act too quickly.
3.) What’s your motivation ?
Philippians 2:3 3 Don’t do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.
Matthew 16:24 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you want to come with me, you must forget yourself, carry your cross, and follow me.
4.) Does this fit my purpose and calling ?
Luke 9:62 62 Jesus said to him, “Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God.”
Ephesians 4:1 I urge you, then—I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord: live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.
5.) Is this the best use of my time and energy ?
1 Corinthians 10:23 23 “We are allowed to do anything,” so they say. That is true, but not everything is good. “We are allowed to do anything”but not everything is helpful.
III) Opportunities comes when I least expect them
Matthew 24:44 44 So then, you also must always be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.
IV) I must stay flexible to be ready
Galatians 5:25 25 The Spirit has given us life; he must also control our lives.
3 Causes which detest us from being Flexible:
Inflexibility
Busyness
Luke 9:59 59 He said to another man, “Follow me.”But that man said, “Sir, first let me go back and bury my father.”
Lack of faith
V)Every opportunity will have opposition
1 Corinthians 6:9 9 Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God’s Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts
VI) Great opportunities bring great responsibilities
Luke 12:48 48 But the servant who does not know what his master wants, and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping, will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given.
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