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If you want to see and seize God-ordained opportunities, you’ve got t...
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when the lion crossed his path, he didn’t see it as bad luck. He saw it for what it was: a divine appointment.
He literally seized the opportunity.
The lion didn’t take Benaiah by surprise. He had been waiting for it his ent...
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If
you want to make the most of every opportunity you’ve got to “devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful.”
People who live in prayer mode see opportunities that other people don’t even notice. People who don’t live in prayer mode are opportunity blind.
Survival mode is simply reacting to the circumstances around you.
it’s predictable, monotonous, and boring.
Prayer mode is the exact opposite. Your spiritual antenna is up a...
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the Aramaic word for prayer, slotha, means “to set a trap.”
Prayer helps us catch the opportunities God throws our way.
Living in prayer mode is the difference between seeing coincidences and providences.
Prayer has a way of helping us recognize that what we might
dismiss as human accidents are really divin...
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You will have plenty of God-ordained opportunities. Your job is to see and seize those opportunities by tuning in to the still, small
voice of the Holy Spirit.
God’s timing is impeccable!
When I’m not in prayer mode, I have good ideas. But when I’m in prayer mode I have God ideas.
Jeremiah
46:17 is one of the saddest verses in Scripture:
“Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise; he has misse...
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There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea we are now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Seizing an opportunity usually feels like swallowing a whale or chasing a lion.
at the end of our lives, we won’t regret the mistakes we made nearly as much as the opportunities we missed.
In the long run, opportunity costs are always more damaging than actual costs.
We mistakenly think of righteousness as doing nothing wrong when, in fact, righteousness is doing something right.
Righteousness is chasing lions.
If you wait for perfect conditions before you seize an opportunity, you’ll be waiting till the day you die.
Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
Jesus wasn’t even ready! Right before His first miracle
there is a hint of hesitation: “My time has not yet come.”
“The best you can hope for is to be about half certain.”
the willingness to fail is a prerequisite of success.
if you work like it depends on you and pray like it depends on God, there is no telling what God can do in you and through you.
a “willingness to fail is a prerequisite of success.”
faith is the willingness to look foolish.
But 1 Corinthians 1:27 (NLT) reveals God’s modus operandi: “God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise.” Nothing has changed.
divergent thinking.
Divergent thinking is intellectual originality.
Normality is overrated.
Diversity is a celebration of originality.
Maturity doesn’t equal conformity.
He came to get us out of the psychological straightjacket we’ve gotten ourselves into.
We have to return to the time when 98 percent of us were geniuses and we all raised our hands and said we were artists. We’ve got to take Jesus’s advice and “become like little children.”
One of my favorite words is neoteny. It derives from the Greek word neos, which means “new, fresh, or youthful.” Neoteny is “the retention of youthful qualities by adults.”
Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas identify neoteny as an indispensable quality of leadership in their book Geeks and Geezers.
Neoteny is the retention of those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy.
“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
