Our men’s group has gone back to a book many of us have read before. Mark Batterson’s In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Dayhas been a great encouragement to me over the last 12 years. This week’s reading with our men was especially good. Here are some quotes from chapter 7:
God will keep opening doors of opportunity as long as we live.
Seizing God-ordained opportunities…
Success is doing the best you can with what you have where you are.
Spot an opportunity a mile away. And they seize the opportunity with both hands. They grab life by the mane. And that is what opportunity stewardship is all about.
Make the most of every opportunity.
Benaiah learned how to live in prayer mode from the prayer warrior himself, King David.
One of our greatest spiritual shortcomings is low expectations. We don’t expect much from God because we aren’t asking for much.
Low expectations are the byproduct of prayerlessness, but prayer has a way of God-sizing our expectations.
The more you pray, the higher your expectations.
When we pray for someone or something, it creates a category in our reticular activating system. Prayer is important for the same reason goals are important.
If you want to see and seize god-ordained opportunities, you’ve got to live in prayer mode.
People who live in prayer mode are watchman. They see further than others see. They see things before others see them. And they see things other people don’t see.
People who in prayer mode see opportunities that other people don’t even notice.
Prayer helps us catch the opportunities that God thrown our way.
When I am not in prayer mode, I have good ideas. When I’m in prayer mode I have God ideas. And I’d rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.
At the end of our live, we won’t regret the mistakes we made nearly as much as the opportunities we missed.
A dream becomes a reality one opportunity at a time.
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