Seizing God Ordained Opportunities

On January 22nd, around 9 pm, the Lord had placed a God-ordained opportunity in front of me. He dared me to pray a dangerous prayer to him. Several days prior to this opportunity, the lesson of praying boldly to the Lord kept coming up. The Lord kept on convicting me that praying to him is so much more than a small prayer over my food or approaching him with a “wishful heart.” There is power to our prayer when we approach the Lord fervently, and for the longest, I’ve neglected that. I’ve realized that I’ve been living a life of safe prayers, and on January 22nd, the Lord pushed me to go beyond the common comforts of my prayers and approach him in a way like never before.

During the night of January 22nd, the Lord whispered in my heart to pray boldly over my fundraising. In response, I instinctively prayed that the money would come in by June. I prayed a prayer that seemed logical. A prayer that was in the confines of my comforts, but in an instant, the Lord pushed me to pray more ambitiously. Sitting in doubt and confusion, the Lord laid on my heart to pray for the money in a month. At that moment, my heart dropped, and the doubts and concerns of praying this bold prayer to the Lord made me waiver, but the Lord then reminded me that he is “The Great I AM.” Even though I didn’t have my parents’ support and lacked resources and connections, I serve a God who makes the impossible possible. In that instant, I chose to abandon my fears and let go of my circumstance and seize the God-ordained opportunities that the Lord has set before me.

During this month, I will not say that it was easy, as I was hit with spiritual warfare daily. Most nights, I cried and dropped to my knees in my brokenness before the Lord. But he used my pain and helped me form a dependency on him like never before. He took my hardships and used them as an opportunity to grow a steadfast faith. And he took my brokenness and covered me in his love and faithfulness. When we choose to include God in our suffering, he cultivates a harvest far greater than the momentary afflictions that we endure now. Through trusting in the Lord and coming to him boldly, the Holy Spirit aligned opportunities that only God could have ever opened. I’ve met people who willingly offered to help me fundraise; I talked to people who abundantly donated and met strangers who wanted to contribute to my fundraising. When we allow God to move in full capacity of our lives, we can identify and seize the God-ordained opportunities that he has set before us. And as a result of the Lord’s provision, he helped me raise over $10,000 in a month and become fully funded in 2 months. 

I want this message to be an encouragement to the reader reading my blog right now. What I did wasn’t luck. It wasn’t a coincidence. And it isn’t something only I was capable of doing. Anyone can seize God ordain opportunities in their lives. God has set before us a good work in advance, and our job is to take hold of those divine appointments. He wants his children to come to him boldly and not waiver in their circumstances. He wants to perform miracles beyond wonders and create a flood of testimonies in our lives. He wants to break generational curses and bring restoration to families. And he wants to bring provision and revival to the nations. But will your fear be the reason why you forfeit from experiencing God ordain opportunities in your life? 

I challenge the reader reading this to pray the prayer that you’ve been afraid to pray, chase the call the Lord has put on your heart to do, and seize the God ordain opportunities that the Lord has set before you. We will only regret the divine appointments that we didn’t chase when our life is over. Anyone has the opportunity to seize God ordain opportunities in their lives, but only a few truly do it. My question is will you be one of them?