Devotions on F.I.R.E. Year OneSample

But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost. For a great and effective door has opened to me (1 Corinthians 16:8-9).

Do you take advantage when God opens a door?

Paul’s ambition is to “preach the gospel, not where Christ was named” (Romans 15:20). He asks others to pray “that God would open to us a door for the word” (Colossians 4:3). Moreover, Luke reports, “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’ Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia” (Acts 16:9-10). Paul loves gathering the saints to tell them what God is doing. He shares with his sending church “that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles” (Acts 14:27). Paul then “stayed there a long time with the disciples” (Acts 14:28).

Employment Point: Tarry in God’s open door and serve Him well.