{"id":52101,"date":"2023-04-24T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/?p=52101"},"modified":"2024-10-05T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T04:33:09","slug":"identifying-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/devotionals\/identifying-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Opportunities","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL BY PATRICE TSAGU<\/em>E<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have opportunities before you? What does identifying opportunities mean to you? 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Also, they may find themselves lured into the wrong kind of opportunities - something that was never intended for them, but for someone else, that becomes a costly disaster for themselves."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":"","dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p><strong>For a <a href=\"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/biblical-entrepreneurship-3\/\">Biblical Entrepreneur<\/a>, identifying opportunities means recognizing when the timing of God meets our preparation.<\/strong> This principle helps you recognize God\u2019s timing for getting into business, starting a particular business, or expanding an existing business. It will require you to first recognize the abilities that you have, and then to cooperate with God to develop them.<br><br>After that, you need to recognize the beneficial gain arising from opportunities that may present themselves in the midst of circumstances that seem less than advantageous. 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When his opportunity came, it was disguised as a problem (in this case, a famine).<br><br>However, because Joseph was prepared, he could seamlessly provide a solution and manage the project that was given to him by Pharaoh. <strong>Whenever the timing of God meets our preparation, an opportunity will surely present itself.<\/strong>"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":"","dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p>As you believe God to reveal the opportunities that are right for you, focus on preparing yourself, on recognizing God\u2019s timing, and on learning how to discern God\u2019s will, so that you can identify the opportunities when they come. When you are in the will of God, you won\u2019t have to chase after opportunities \u2013 they will find you.<\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"As you believe God to reveal the opportunities that are right for you, focus on preparing yourself, on recognizing God\u2019s timing, and on learning how to discern God\u2019s will, so that you can identify the opportunities when they come. When you are in the will of God, you won\u2019t have to chase after opportunities \u2013 they will find you."}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":"","dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}},{"type":"core\/paragraph","render":"<p><strong>My prayer for you today is that God will give you the wisdom to identify the opportunities that come from Him, and the wisdom and grace to take full advantage of them.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>","content":[{"type":"text","data":"<strong>My prayer for you today is that God will give you the wisdom to identify the opportunities that come from Him, and the wisdom and grace to take full advantage of them.&nbsp;<\/strong>"}],"data":[],"style":{"textAlign":"left","color":"","dropCap":false,"parent_style":{}}}],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"bb_access":{"can_access":true,"restrict_message":null},"app_access":{"can_access":true,"restrict_message":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehemiahecommunity.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}