Psalms 119:18 “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”

DAILY READING; • – John 18:19-38; 2 Chronicles 27-28; Psalm 84

John D. Rockefeller was one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. He changed the oil industry forever with his Standard Oil Company.
In the mid-1890s, he retired from day-to-day business operations and became a philanthropist, giving away the bulk of his money. Rockefeller donated more than half a billion dollars to various educational, religious and scientific causes through the Rockefeller Foundation.
While many people, towns and organizations benefitted from his philanthropy, there is a story of a town that missed the opportunity to benefit from him simply because they had failed to recognize who he was.
According to this story, John D. Rockefeller was visiting the east coast of America and his yacht stopped to harbour in a small resort area along the coast. At that particular time, this small town was having an open town meeting concerning some financial problems they were facing.
John D. Rockefeller stopped by and dropped in on their meeting. Among the two dozen people in the room, no one seemed to know who he was. As various projects were discussed, he tried to make comments, but he was often interrupted until he eventually kept quiet and left.
But just as he went out, someone arriving late to the meeting came in and said breathlessly, “What was he doing here? Is he going to help us out?”
The rest of the men said, “Who are you talking about?”
The man said, “You mean you don’t know who that was? That was John D. Rockefeller. His yacht is in our harbour. Didn’t you get his help?’
In despair someone said, “No, we didn’t get his help; we didn’t know who he was!”
These men, it seemed had missed a golden opportunity for financial assistance in their town’s projects simply because they had failed to recognize John D. Rockefeller as he stood before them.

As believers, there are destiny moments where amazing opportunities unexpectedly open up before us.
These are seasons of life when God opens to us windows of grace.
However to make the most of these seasons we need to recognize them.

In the Scriptures, the Greek word “Kairos’ is used to define an opportune moment. It has to do with an appointed season of favor.

In our life’s journey,, God has strategically ordained these Kairos moments for us. In those times, God will bring destiny helpers, and divine opportunities meant to help us to our next levels.
While God provides these opportunities, we must move with faith to see the fruits.

Oftentimes these opportunities are not easily recognizanle and it takes grace to discern them.. What may initially seem like a small opening often turns out to be our access to more opportunities.
After we go through the first door, we will then discover that it leads to another door, which leads to another door, and so on.
However, we must be able to recognize the first door and have the faith to walk through it to get to the other opportunities God has packaged for us.

God’s power is dispensed to us daily via His graces.
However, we need to be more sensitive and discerning to utilize these times of grace as they come. This is why is it important to live a life of spiritual fervency through diligent study of God’s Word, prayers and fellowship with the Spirit.

The truth is that we can no longer afford to keep missing the divine opportunities that God brings our way. We don’t have time to keep going around the mountain again and again. When the Israelites missed their opportunity, they turned an eleven-day journey to the Promised Land into a 40 years journey.

In this season, by God’s grace, our eyes will be opened to not only see but also to begin to seize the divine opportunities that come our way.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for Your marvelous help in my life. Please help me not to miss Your divine opportunities for me. I thank You Lord for the great and mighty things You have in store for me in this year of wonders in Jesus’ Name.

QUOTE:
The treasures of God are never on the shallow end but are always buried in the depths of God’s Word. It takes a personal discovery to get there. – WORDBITE 222.