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Living Opportunity Minded
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Ephesians 5:15-20 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.17 Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. 18 Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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A) Opportunities in Evil Days
1 Corinthians 16:9 For a wide door of opportunity for effectual service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil by anxious thoughts and forebodings, but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast regardless of circumstances.
Psalms 49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil...
Ephesians 6:10 Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the day of evil.
Jeremiah 17:17 You are my refuge and hope in the day of evil.
Psalm 37:18-19 The Lord knows the days of the upright, And their inheritance shall be forever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
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B) God is Opportunity Minded
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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C) Be Continually Filled With the Holy Spirit
Ephesians 5:18-20 Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself...
Jude 20-21 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
1 Corinthians 2:9-12 No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." 10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. 11 No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit.12 And we have received God's Spirit so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.