Make The Most Of Your Opportunities!

MAKE THE MOST OF THE OPPORTUNITIES…

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (Two part lesson.)

LET US ASK AN EASY QUESTION…

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A SEED? Profit potential --- bushel potential? Truck potential? Let us calculate 15,000 seeds per acre… the return is huge… A SEED CARRIES NEW LIFE… but you must bury it. IT MUST DIE TO LIVE.

John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

2 Corinthians 9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

WE LEARN TO PROCRASTINATE AND WASTE TIME LIKE WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME! ONE OF THE GREATEST AND BOLDEST LIES OUR ENEMY WHISPERS IN OUR EARS MIGHT BE: YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME… YOU ARE A FAILURE? MY FRIEND, YOU FAILED THE TEST! BUT WE MUST NOT QUIT TRYING! DO WE UNDERSTAND OUR ETERNAL ENEMY HAS MANY TOOLS?

Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ephesians 5:16 (MSG) Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!

Ephesians 5:16 (ESV) making the best use of the time, because the days are evil

Is life disappointing when we wake up every day realizing I will never own a Cadillac? No mansions for me? No great TV ministry? No millions of dollars? I will never walk the streets of London or Paris? I will never be a pilot and own my own airplane? I will never achieve my doctorate? I will never be rich or famous? I will never pastor a large church with a big budget? I will have many read my lessons of hard work and time, but I will never be invited?

MINISTRY IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE REAPING AND HARVESTING TODAY… LIFE IS MORE ABOUT SEEDS? LIFE IS ALL ABOUT SEEDS? MINISTRY IS ABOUT SEEDS. THE QUESTION IS REALLY NOT ABOUT WHAT DID YOU HARVEST TODAY? THE REAL QUESTION IS WHAT KIND AND HOW MANY SEEDS DID YOU PLANT TODAY? FRUSTRATION AND DEPRESSION HINDERS GROWTH IN OUR GARDEN.

We recently studied how depression and frustration hinders our life style. Come let us consider how our enemy sneaks into daily life and destroys so many. FRUSTRATION and DEPRESSION can be very hazardous to life. HEAVY? What do we do when life gets so heavy and dark? Seems we face dark seasons that blind eternity’s real purpose. These two problems threaten our emotional, mental and spiritual health. COME WITH ME, LET US REASON THE BATTLE OF DEPRESSION AND FRUSTRATION. COMMON? COMMON TO ALL?

Galatians 6: 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

SELDOM DO WE CONSIDER THE POWER OF SEEDS. What a person plants, he will harvest. Will we harvest a crop of weeds? All some have to show for life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God. Will let God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life. So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued in doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up or quit.

NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A SEED… THE VALUE OF A SEED? EDWARD KIMBALL…

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 (MSG) Be generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns.

In 1858 in Boston there was a young Sunday School teacher named EDWARD KIMBALL. Besides teaching EDWARD had a habit to give his students the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. EDWARD would visit his students. This boy worked at a shoe store. Edward Kimball invested time and teaching into this young boy… TODAY THE WORLD KNOWS HIS STUDENT… DWIGHT L. MOODY, the world renowned evangelist and writerd. The seed was planted by a no body?

MOODY TOUCHED a man named WILBUR CHAPMAN. CHAPMAN TOUCHED A MAN NAMED BILLY SUNDAY… BILLY SUNDAY INFLUENCED MORDECAI HAM TO COME TO CHARLOTTE, N.C.

WE NEVER KNOW WHAT USING OUR PICKUP TRUCK MIGHT DO? THE SEEDS OF A TEACHER CAN BE FAR REACHING…

A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER HAD A CLASS WITH NO KIDS. The teacher would pray in the classroom. Several young boys started attending… WILLIAM STARTED ATTENDING SUNDAY SCHOOL.