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 Greetings
to you in the Name of Christ Jesus!
In Matthew 7:7 Jesus said “Ask and it
will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be
opened to you.” This tells me that every time that we ask or knock that
God will give us an opportunity even if it is an opportunity that we may
not be aware of God is at work.
Yet have you noticed that there are many times that God gives
us an opportunity that we tend to look the other way? How many times in
our lives are we placed in prime opportunities to share Christ with
other people by a door that God has opened for us and we hurry up and
close the door because we feel a draft and it makes us uncomfortable.
Then there we stand on the other side of the closed door and we ask
“when is God ever going to give the opportunity for us to grow?”
Way too many times we miss the opportunity that God gives to us
due to the fact that it calls for us to step out of our comfort zone and
step out on faith. We miss out on opportunities many times because we
wait for someone else to step in and do it for us. There are even times
that when God gives us an opportunity we let it pass away because it
calls for us to change our schedule. Jesus used every opportunity that
He was given to share the Gospel with others and every time that He did
people were drawn to Him and multitudes followed Him.
Opportunities come in all sorts of ways from a prayer concern
that is lifted up in a worship service to the group of kids that need a
safe place to meet. If we become blind to the opportunities that God
gives us we will be missing out on many more opportunities that God will
try to give to us.
So the lesson to learn from all of this is that if we want to
see our church grow then we need to be looking for every open door of
opportunity that God opens for us and ask Him to open many, many more.
We need to be looking for the opportunities and not close the doors that
God has opened for us all because it makes us uncomfortable.
In ministry with
you,
Pastor Mark |
