Going Where The Action Is--Perspectives On The Jabez Territory Series

We all have opportunities that we’ve missed in our lives. Opportunities in school, at work, in love. Just like Dan Marino, we don’t always make the most of every opportunity.

So first ask yourself—What is my overlooked opportunity? Then…

What is my enduring PASSION ? Open your eyes and look around you now. Vast fields are ripening around us now. God wants to work through you now—he’s not waiting for you to become like Billy Graham or go to Africa. God has already given you strategic opportunities, passions, interests, and capabilities.

The life of 11-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell), a coal miner’s son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson.

His father is less than excited about Billy taking up a non-traditional male activity.Billy is also troubled by the diminishing mental capacity of his grandmother. He is torn between his responsibility to his family and to the gift with which he has been blessed. For his overwhelming desire to dance is more than a means of self-expression. It is his passion, and it is his destiny.

SHOW Clip Location: 1:28:45 through 1:30:15

At the close of his audition for the Royal Ballet School, one of the instructors asks him what he feels like while dancing. Billy searches for words and decides that he feels transformed, as if he completely disappears into the dance and ultimately flies—as if he’s electricity.

What is your enduring passion?

Ask the Lord to open your eyes today to see the larger life to which he is calling you—what is your life’s destiny?.

Once I begin to look for the action in my territory, I will realize God is always at work around me? So I’m I ready for it? You can begin to see God today doing his work, because you know this is where the action is. A. WHEN I GO WHERE THE ACTION IS I WILL REALIZE:

1. Everyone has a NEED.

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 9:35-36 Circle the word compassion

Jesus could see into the hearts of every person and he knew that he had what they needed most. By the power of the Holy Spirit I am Christ’s representative in my needy corner of the world. And so are you. You will encounter people who are rendered helpless and are harassed by life’s circumstances.

A young boy was sent to the corner store by his mother to buy a loaf of bread. He was gone much longer than it should have taken him. When he finally returned, his mother asked, “Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick about you.”

“Well,” he answered, “there was a little boy with a broken bike who was crying. So I stopped to help him.”

“I didn’t know you knew anything about fixing bikes,” his mother said.

“I don’t,” he replied. “I just stayed there and cried with him.”

You’ll realize everyone has a need when you are going where the action is.