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1 Samuel 9:12,13 "And they answered them and said, "Yes, there he is, just ahead of you. Hurry now; for today he came to this city, because there is a sacrifice of the people today on the high place. NKJV

I once heard of a man who divorced his wife because of her infidelity. It was nearly two years later, having got his head and his heart back to together again, that he had forgiven her, found her, and asked to remarry her. Though she still loved him, she was now married to another man and pregnant with his child. Timing.

I once knew a group of people looking for a church home in a particular area, who, having found the property and the land and had their verbal offer accepted, waited just a few days to make sure the whole group was on board with the decision. Twenty-four hours later, someone else had made a cash offer for the property. It was gone. The difference that property would have made to the course, direction and dedication of that small group would have been substantial, even profound! Timing.

The man left the doctor\\u2019s office, his wife in tears, the words of his physician ringing in his ears \\u201cJust six months earlier and we would have been able to do something but now, well, I am afraid\\u2026\\u2026\\u201d Timing.

The Church Pastoral Selection Committee had spent fifteen months deliberating over the initial three hundred applications they received for the widely advertised position of Pastor. They weeded out the rest, kept the best, interviewed and tested them, exhausted and examined them, eventually presenting some of them to the rest of the congregation for their perusal and their affirmation. After much prayer and deliberation, they EVENTUALLY called the man which God had most obviously chosen. He, however, had a family to take care of, and though fifteen months ago, ney, even three months previous he would have wanted to have come and served there, he took a more speedy offer, and has been settled in his new Pastorate now for two months, and you know what? He was loving it! Timing.

I spoke with a good friend even yesterday, who, it seems is being presented with a tremendous opportunity for the future. His response to that offer will have to be quick if he is to take full opportunity of what is being presented, and I tell you today, that such acceptance will bring good, mighty, and profound changes both upon him and his family\\u2019s life. If he rejects it, however, other offers may eventually come along in his life, maybe even better offers, even so, this offer will most certainly not pass his way again. Timing.

I have observed in life that many wrong choices are recoverable, but most missed opportunities almost NEVER manifest themselves again,\\xa0 EVER. Be brave enough to act, even TODAY then\\xa0 FOR\\xa0 TIMING IS EVERYTHING!

Listen: -Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. James 4:13-15 NKJV

Pray:-\\xa0 Lord, grant me great courage to make scary decisions and hard choices. Lord, give me the faith to gamble on Your goodness, and the grace and humility to confess my faults before You when I do not have the faith to embrace such God-given opportunities. Deliver me then from fear O Lord, and grant me a spirit of adventure with You, in Jesus' name I pray, amen!!