KEY SCRIPTURE:
EPHESIANS 5:15-16 (NLT)
So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
ESPESIANS 5:17 (NLT)
Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
FIRST OPPORTUNITY - SERVE LUNCH
1 Samuel 17:17 NLT
One day Jesse said to David, “Take this basket of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and carry them quickly to your brothers.
LUKE 19: 26 NLT
“‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.
SECOND OPPORTUNITY - TAKE DOWN A GIANT
1 Samuel 17:25 (NLT)
“Have you seen the giant?” the men asked. “He comes out each day to defy Israel. The king has offered a huge reward to anyone who kills him. He will give that man one of his daughters for a wife, and the man’s entire family will be exempted from paying taxes!”
1 Samuel 17:26 (NLT)
David asked the soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and ending his defiance of Israel? Who is this pagan Philistine anyway, that he is allowed to defy the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:30 (NLT)
He walked over to some others and asked them the same thing and received the same answer.
THIRD OPPORTUNITY - PUSH THROUGH THE CROWD
Mark 5:25 (NLT)
25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding.
Mark 5:27-29 (NLT)
27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. 28 For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
Mark 2:2-4 (NLT)
2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus.
