88. OPEN DOORS   --page 708--

         Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it (Rev.3:8).

         1. Don't hesitate, wait, examine, debate and doubt. Instead, run, seize, grab and receive in faith that golden opportunity. You may not get a second chance.
         2. Behind every problem lies an opportunity if you just look for it.
         3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
         4. If opportunity gives you a glance,
         Better run and grab the chance.
         5. Opportunity and life are two servings that seldom come round a second time.
         6. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
         7. The secret of success is when you've got a lemon, make lemonade out of it.
         8. Most people don't recognise opportunity when it comes along because it is usually disguised as hard work.
         9. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
         10. Don't neglect those golden opportunities which the Lord presents and gives you a foot in the door to pursue!
         11. God does not open doors that He doesn't want you to enter. But not all doors are of the Lord. Some of them are tricks of the Devil, decoys, blind alleys, tests.
         12. God always closes the door when His time is up and when He knows it's time to quit.
         13. As long as God is really blessing you and making you fruitful and making you a blessing, pursue that opportunity and keep after it until it comes to its end.
         14. When God calls you to a certain ministry, you'd better stay in it until you're finished, and then go on to whatever else God wants you to do.
         15. If you miss the pattern, if you miss the plan, if you miss God's grand design, then you're bound to make a mess of things!
         16. God's time and tide wait for no man.
         17. Strike while the iron is hot.
         18. Follow up right now these hot leads and hot contacts while you still have them and while they're still fresh, when you can still follow them up right now when they need it.
         19. Four things come not back--the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
         20. The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way you use them.
         21. A block that's in the wrong place can do your toes a lot of damage. But a block that's in the right place can keep your feet out of the mud!
         22. Knock on the windows of the World! Knock on the windows of opportunity!
         23. The stops of a good man are ordered by the Lord as well as his steps.
         24. God's only time is Now, or forget it!
         25. Go through the open doors and accept the invitations and take advantage of the golden opportunities which may only knock once and be gone forever!
         26. Use your cross as a crutch to help you, not as a stumbling block to cast you down.
         27. There's nothing like trying!--Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
         28. I believe we should seize every opportunity and enter every open door, as the Lord leads.
         29. Let the Lord do it: Don't you push it too hard! If it's for you, God will give it. The best ability is availability. Just be there so He can drop it into your lap when the time is right.
         30. God will lead and show you the way and open the doors, but don't try to batter them down.
         31. Where God guides He'll provide--and where He's providing open doors, He's obviously guiding! So don't bother to knock: Just walk right in, sit right down--and fill it up fast, before somebody else fills it up for you.
         32. God has His harvest times, and if the harvest isn't reaped immediately when it's ripe, then you'll be sorry.
         33. If you wait too long or neglect or put off following golden opportunities, you're going to find that the Devil has closed the door or God has even allowed it to be closed because you failed the ideal time, God's golden harvest moment!
         34. You must follow up golden opportunities when you have them and ride the crest of that wave of popularity.
         35. Don't fail God in failing to pursue the opportunities that He gives, the doors that He opens, the fields that He frees, and the golden harvest that He makes ripe and ready for you to reap.
         36. Let God close the door--don't you close it. You may find when you get back that it's locked and never to be reopened again.
         37. Don't pass up those golden opportunities, leaving a plow in the field that may not be there when you get back.
         38. You can miss your golden opportunities of service by not having the faith you should have to act quickly in time of opportunity, to run and seize the golden opportunity of the open doors that He gives you.
         39. Do not let your chances, like sunbeams pass you by.
         For you never miss the water till the well runs dry.

         (See also No. 55, 67, 238, 829, 951, 1268, 1394.)


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