May 17, 2017

A daily devotional through the recorded words Jesus spoke while He walked alongside us. Our website http://alittlewalkwithgod.com.

1. Thanks for joining me today for "A Little Walk with God." I'm your host Richard Agee.
2. We’ve heard it, opportunity knocks but once. But is it true? I’m glad God doesn’t feel that way.
3. Scripture
   1. Revelation 3:7-13
   2. The One: Write down My words, and send them to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia. “These are the words of the holy One, the true One, and the One who possesses the key of David, which opens the possibilities so that no one can shut them. The One who closes all options so that no one can open:

“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I have done this because you have limited strength, yet you have obeyed My word and have not denied My name. Watch, and I will make those of the congregation of Satan—those who call themselves ‘Jews’ but are not because they lie—come before you penitent, falling at your feet. Then they will know how much I have loved you. Because you have obeyed My instructions to endure and be patient, I will protect you from the time of trial which will come upon the whole earth and put everyone in it to the test. I will soon return. Hold tight to what you have so that no one can take away your victor’s wreath.

“As for the one who conquers through faithfulness even unto death, I will plant that person as a pillar in the temple of My God, and that person will never have to leave the presence of God. Moreover, I will inscribe this person with the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, New Jerusalem—which descends out of heaven from My God—and My own new name.

“Let the person who is able to hear, listen to and follow what the Spirit proclaims to all the churches.”

4. Devotional
   1. We’ve heard the idiom
      1. Opportunity knocks but once
      2. You only get once chance to achieve what you really want to do
      3. Don’t pass up the opportunity when it comes, you might not get another
   2. Sometimes it is true
      1. Perhaps in financial opportunities
      2. Stocks go up and down and if you get in at the right time you make money if you don’t you lose money
      3. Businesses come and go and timing is often critical to their success or failure
   3. But God comes to us again and again
      1. Never gives up on us
      2. Keeps calling us to repentance
      3. Wants us to join Him in eternity
      4. God gives us ample opportunity to say yes to His calling
   4. We can still refuse, but God keeps asking us to accept His gift of salvation
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