{"id":1899,"date":"2012-09-21T08:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2012-09-21T08:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:05:26","slug":"the-great-door-of-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/the-great-door-of-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Door of Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my reading this morning I was ambling through I Corinthians in a less than perfectly attentive manner when I stumbled across a seemingly innocuous comment of St. Paul&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve read hundreds of times and never paid any attention. He wrote in chapter 16 verse 9\u00a0&#8220;But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost, because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a great door for effective work has opened<\/span> to me, AND t<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here are many who oppose me<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That phrase pierced my heart! The &#8220;great doors&#8221; I want to pass through are surrounded by &#8220;many who oppose.&#8221; Opportunity brings opposition.<\/p>\n<p>On those days when the difficulty seems insurmountable and you want to throw in the towel, just remember&#8230;&#8230;it could be because you are standing at a great door of opportunity. Don&#8217;t stop. Keep on walking. There&#8217;s something big on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my reading this morning I was ambling through I Corinthians in a less than perfectly attentive manner when I stumbled across a seemingly innocuous comment of St. Paul&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve read hundreds of times and never paid any attention. He wrote in chapter 16 verse 9\u00a0&#8220;But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}