Prayer Points To Recognize Opportunity

Last Updated on July 5, 2021 by Pastor Ikechukwu Chinedum

Today we will be dealing with prayer points to recognize opportunity. What is opportunity? Opportunity is defined as the possibility due to favourable combination of circumstances. The popular parlance of man states that any missed opportunity can’t be regained. However, this is quite different from the philosophy of God. God is the maker of heaven and earth, the beginning and the end. He is the Almighty, there is an abundance of opportunities from God.

When man miss opportunity, the grace of God is sufficient to restore another load of opportunity. However, this may take time, that’s why it is important to recognise opportunity when the door opens. Esther was a woman strong woman in the scripture who saw opportunity and took it. Queen Esther as she was popular called was chosen by King Ahasuerus to be his queen. Esther was a diligent woman before God and a loyal Hebrew. Meanwhile, the children of Isreal has been thrown into captivity Persia for years. One of the king’s top advisers Haman detest Mordecai because he would not bow to him. Haman plot against Mordecai for him to be killed.

Esther used her influence as the queen to save the children of Isreal and Mordecai. She saw her position as the queen as an opportunity to save Mordecai and the rest of the Isrealites who were wallowing in the heat of captivity. Meanwhile, no one dare enter into the king’s court unless they are invited, else they will be killed. Esther prayed fervently to God and interceded for the Mordecai and the children of Isreal and the rest was a farmiliar history. The story of Esther as explained in the book of Esther 2:16-20 depict a woman who was diligent in the things of the lord and a queen who love her people dearly. Esther recongnised opportunity and utilized it.

However, such is not the story of Jacob. Genesis 28:16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” Jacob’s life was in jeopardy, he was not getting the direction for his life, he needed nothing else but encounter from God and when the opportunity open for him to have an encounter with God, Jacob was defeated by the spirit of sleep. When he woke from his slumber, he regretted saying God was here and I did not know. As stated earlier that God is never short of opportunities. Jacob got another opportunity to meet God, but this time it cost him his thigh. Genesis 32:25-28 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Jacob had another opportunity to meet the angel of the Lord and he didn’t miss his chance.

In our lives too, there are so many opportunities that have eluded us simply because we didn’t recognize them as one. I pray by the mercy of the Most High every opportunity that has eluded you, I pray that the mercy of God will bring it back in the name of Jesus. You must utilize your moment.

Prayer Points:

• Lord Jesus, I thank you for your great plans for my life. I thank you for your agenda for my life. Your word said, I know the thoughts I have towards you, they are the thoughts of good and not evil, to give you an expected end. Lord, I thank you for the process you are making me go through presently and I trust you for the end of it all. I magnify your name, may your name be exalted in the name of Jesus.
• Father Lord, I pray for the grace to recognize opportunity. I pray that you will grant me the grace to know when you want me to act, I ask for the grace to know when to react in the name of Jesus. I ask that by your mercy, you will open every closed doors for me in the name of Jesus.
• Lord God, in any way that I have missed an opportunity, I pray that your mercy will restore it in the name of Jesus. The scripture make me understand that every good gift come from the Lord. I pray for a spiritual insight to understand and to know when a door of opportunity is opened for me in the name of Jesus.
• Lord, I pray for the grace to be able to fully utilize those opportunities when they arrive in the name of Jesus. Lord, I come against any form of distraction that is sent my way from the kingdom of darkness that will make me miss every God given opportunity in the name of Jesus. I pray for the grace to remain focused, lord grant me this in the name of Jesus.
• Lord Jesus, every door that has been closed against me, I pray that the mercy of God will open them in the name of Jesus. Lord, the door of blessing that is closed by sin, it is mercy that can open it. And you emphasized in your word that you will have mercy on whom you will have mercy upon and compassion on whom you will have compassion. Lord I pray for your mercy that will open every closed doors in the name of Jesus.
• Lord Jesus, I come against every prince of Persia that is stopping opportunity from coming, I pray that the fire of God will come upon them in the name of Jesus. Lord, every closed door of opportunity, I decree that the power of God will open them for me today in the name of Jesus.
• Lord, I pray that you will equip me with the needed power and grace to fully utilize every given opportunity when you open the door in the name of Jesus. I don’t just want to recognize opportunity, I want to fully utilize them. I ask that you will endow me with the grace to utilize every opportunity that come my way in the name of Jesus.