Fourth, change your mindset.<\/i> Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? You won\u2019t be able to move forward until you discover what is holding you back. \u2018Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.\u2019<\/i> A snare is a trap. And when you begin to see your fears as a trap, you will want to be free from them. <\/p>\n
Fifth, don\u2019t wait for opportunity to knock.<\/i> Opportunity seldom comes knocking; you have to go look for it. Assess your assets, talents, and resources. Doing so will give you a picture of your potential. \u2018But I don\u2019t have any special talents,\u2019 you say. Yes, you do. \u2018God has also given each of us different gifts to use.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a012:6\u00a0CEV) <\/p>\n
Sixth, take the next step.<\/i> It\u2019s one thing to notice an opportunity; it\u2019s another to act on it. Somebody once quipped, \u2018Everyone has a great idea in the shower. But only a few people step out, dry off, and do something about it.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Choose the best opportunity you see, pray about it, do the best with it that you can, and keep going until you have done everything possible to make it happen. And when you have done your best\u2014trust God to do the rest. Winston Churchill said, \u2018Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because… it is the quality which guarantees all others.\u2019 And where does courage come from? God! <\/p>\n
The psalmist said, \u2018Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a026:4\u00a0ESV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fourth, change your mindset. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? You won\u2019t be able to move forward until you discover what is holding you back. \u2018Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}