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According to Webster's Dictionary, the word seize means "to take possession of suddenly and by force or attack or a strike."

Why is it so important to take possession of something suddenly? Because opportunities do not wait for the faint-hearted, the slow-to-move or cowards.

God presents everyone with many opportunities. But before some people will even attempt to seize those opportunities, they want to analyze everything first. They want to reason it all out. They want to make sure all the conditions are perfect before they will act.

If you had waited for all the conditions to be perfect before you went to your last gospel meeting, you probably would never have gone. Most of us wouldn't even get to church on Sunday if we waited for conditions at home to be perfect before we went.

You have to seize the opportunity - take possession of it suddenly, by force, by an attack or strike - because opportunities don't wait around for conditions to become perfect.

You have to take possession of your opportunities suddenly before they pass you by.

Air Strikes
Taking possession of something by force or a strike reminds me of the television footage of the war in the Persian Gulf. Those bomber and fighter pilots had to strike their targets before the opportunity passed.

They had to seize the opportunity to attack before the defenders could put up their defenses.

In the same way, we have to take possession of our opportunities suddenly and forcefully.
God gives everyone opportunities.

God doesn't love me any more than He loves you. God doesn't love you any more than He loves someone else. We have to take hold of opportunities quickly before they pass us by.

Source: Seizing God-Given Opportunities by Jerry Savelle.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers

Author Biography

Jerry Savelle
Web site: Jerry Savelle Ministries International
 
Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, blue-collar man who was struggling and needed God's help. While he considered himself a "nobody," when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God's faithfulness and Dr. Savelle's "no quit" attitude, his life is totally different than it was thirty-eight years ago.
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