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The term “buying time” as I use it today refers to taking advantage of opportunities.
Today, we will see that we must take advantage of our God given opportunities.
Discern opportunity!
Discernment is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 "But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil."
Seize opportunity!
Opportunity an appropriate or favorable time or occasion.
(Dictionary.com)
I. Buy Time For These Reasons.
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Our time is short.
Our lives last seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow; indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
(Psa 90:10 HCSB)
2. Opportunity must not be overlooked.
3. Opportunities will likely never be repeated.
4. Opposing forces work against us.
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Buy Time In This Manner.
1. Be Thoughtful.
2. Be Watchful.
3. Take Action.
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