Prison Ministries

Read Luke 12:42-48, Psalm 132
Missed Opportunities

“I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26

God showered down manna from heaven daily to feed the children of Israel. They had to use it or lose it because it could not be hoarded, stored, or saved.

God sends us showers of blessings daily including the opportunities to be blessed by being a blessing to others. We have to use or lose these opportunities because many of them must be taken advantage of or lost when they are offered.

Self centeredness is probably our biggest “blessing buster.” We all too often are so preoccupied in our own agenda that we miss out on many of God’s “divine appointments for blessings.”

Jesus stands at the door and knocks offering His wonderful gift of eternal life, and people are so engrossed in themselves that they don’t even hear the knock and miss out on the real opportunity of this lifetime.

We miss out on opportunities to share our faith because we are not prepared to “give an account of the hope that is within us” when we get the opportunity and don’t even realize it until it has passed.

We often hoard the material, relational, physical, and gift abundance that God has given us so that we can be generous on all occasions and fail to meet His expectations for those to whom He gives and expects much.

There are showers of blessatunities to pass on by reflecting God’s love through random acts of kindness, mercy, forgiveness, patience, generosity, and service to others every day of our lives. We need to soak them up and wring them out to those God places in our paths or hearts each day.

Father help me to always remember that You have blessed me so that I can be a blessing to others. In Jesus’ name, Amen