Stepping Out in Faith // Don't Miss God's Opportunities, Part 3

<p>There are times in life when opportunities seem to have passed us by. You’ve done the right things while travelling the hard road, and yet still … things don’t seem to go your way. What is going on?</p> <p> </p> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;">A Missed Opportunity?</span></h4> <p>We all have hopes and dreams – and you know how it goes. They bubble away in our hearts, we do a lot of day–dreaming about our dreams, we paint the picture, imagine what it will be like when our dream is realised. And little by little things seem to be heading in the right direction, and then things take a turn for the worse. It’s in that moment, that I’d like to spend some time with you today, because those moments are as difficult as they come.</p> <p>I was in one of those places recently, it was a ministry thing, a relationship we were working on with another ministry organisation. It’s something we’d put quite a lot of effort into and we’d hoped that it would go really well, and then on the mourning, I was preparing today’s message in fact, things took a turn for the worse.</p> <p>The details aren’t important, but you should know that we all go through this from time to time. I certainly do and I know you’ve been there too, right? And we’re going to find ourselves in that moment again one day.</p> <p>Over the last week on the program/ over the last few weeks on the program we’ve been taking a look at how to make sure that we don’t miss God’s opportunities. And we’ve been doing that by travelling a way along the path with young Joseph, the son of Jacob or Israel as he became known, in the Old Testament. Because Joseph had more than enough reasons to give up on God’s opportunities.</p> <p>Love by his father, his brothers turned against him and plotted to kill him because he was dad’s favourite. Eventually they sold him into slavery, whence he was shipped to Egypt, sold to one of Pharaoh’s officials Potiphar and made a slave. He did well at that and Potiphar put Joseph in charge of his whole household, until Potiphar’s wife, who fa