Advance on God-given Opportunities

Advance on God-given Opportunities
Pastor Blake Hanson | 3.12.23 

Joshua 1:9 (NLT)

9 This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” 

Standing still in misses God-given opportunities. 

ADVANCE ON GOD-GIVEN OPPORTUNITIES

1. With . 

Acts 10:1–2 (NLT)

1 In Caesarea there lived a Roman army officer named Cornelius, who was a captain of the Italian Regiment. 

2 He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was everyone in his household. He gave generously to the poor and prayed regularly to God.

Psalm 139:23–24 (NLT)

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 

24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Acts 10:9 (NLT)

9 The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon…

2. On Time. 

Acts 10:3 (NLT)

3 One afternoon about three o’clock, he had a vision in which he saw an angel of God coming toward him. “Cornelius!” the angel said.

Acts 10:9 (NLT)

9 The next day as Cornelius’s messengers were nearing the town, Peter went up on the flat roof to pray. It was about noon,

Acts 10:10–14 (NLT)

10 and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 

11 He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. 

12 In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. 

13 Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.” 

14 “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.”

3. With a new .  

Acts 10:10–16 (NLT)

10 and he was hungry. But while a meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 

11 He saw the sky open, and something like a large sheet was let down by its four corners. 

12 In the sheet were all sorts of animals, reptiles, and birds. 

13 Then a voice said to him, “Get up, Peter; kill and eat them.” 

14 “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.” 

15 But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.” 

16 The same vision was repeated three times. Then the sheet was suddenly pulled up to heaven.

Mark 7:18–19 (NLT)

18 “Don’t you understand either?” he asked. “Can’t you see that the food you put into your body cannot defile you? 

19 Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)

Acts 10:28 (NLT)

28 Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.

Acts 10:34–35 (NLT)

34 Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. 

35 In every nation he accepts those who fear him and do what is right.

4. To see lives changed.   

Acts 10:44–46 (NLT)

44 Even as Peter was saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the message. 

45 The Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles, too. 

46 For they heard them speaking in other tongues and praising God. Then Peter asked,

Acts 10:47–48 (NLT)

47 “Can anyone object to their being baptized, now that they have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?” 

48 So he gave orders for them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Afterward Cornelius asked him to stay with them for several days.

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