{"id":372,"date":"2017-05-29T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2017-05-29T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:09:05","slug":"just-call-me-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Just Call Me Opportunity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was recently talking to my son after the adrenaline of football practice, well his adrenaline, lol. \u00a0I Iooked at him and his face gleamed with such confidence. He then said, mom you know I listened to chance the rapper and he is inspiring and all, but you can just call me opportunity and for some reason that word opportunity stuck with me. <\/span><\/p>\n

I just started praising God for opportunities and let me tell you, you really begin to reposition yourself when I started looking at all the ways that He\u2019s made and all of the doors that He\u2019s opened, my praise became so expressive that it overflowed into the remainder of the week. <\/span><\/p>\n

When Bartimaeus got up that morning, he had no idea that Jesus Christ was going to be passing by him that day. He thought it was just another ordinary day: same place, same cry for help, same miserable, lonely, pitiful lifestyle. He had no time to prepare for Jesus; it was just an opportunity that was dropped in his lap. He had to seize the moment.He said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to miss this one, I\u2019m going to take advantage. Jesus is coming so just call me opportunity!\u201d<\/p>\n

One must have a positive perspective despite life challenges, to seize an opportunity. The mind is complicated and has many pathways that has been deeply embedded over time. You know that inherently our brain will \u201cchoose the most energy efficient path.\u201d What I\u2019m saying is that our brain depends heavily on prior learning and in order to change it to a more positive view it will require repetition or practice. In fact, if you are over 25 years old depending on the complexity, it can take upwards of 144 days for your brain to embed into the motor cortex of the brain, which is involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements. \u00a0So just keep speaking life to your life, over your situations, and over your circumstances. Keep speaking life to yourself until your brain no longer sees the impossibilities of the moment but only the opportunity. Stop letting self hold you back! Have you prayed for, God has given, so seize the opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tomorrow isn\u2019t promised and I want you to just call me, “opportunity!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This aspect of this devotion focuses on the pathway to positivity, or righteousness while preparing you for opportunity.<\/p>\n

The challenge is to change my way of thinking!<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Lady Mel\/ Pastor Desmond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently talking to my son after the adrenaline of football practice, well his adrenaline, lol. \u00a0I Iooked at him and his face gleamed with such confidence. He then said, mom you know I listened to chance the rapper and he is inspiring and all, but you can just call me opportunity and for … Continue reading Just Call Me Opportunity!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,15],"tags":[10,49,28,45,40,21,18,8,42,52,43,27,39,53,48,56,55,36,30,58,37,54,51,35,57,5,44,50,25,26,47,33,9,41,38,19,22,20,23,46,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastordesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}