Missed opportunities. We've all had our share at some point. Maybe it was a job opportunity, a ministry transition, a call to be generous to a building project or cause or a chance to pursue a romantic relationship.

Sometimes when we look back on these opportunities that we let slip through our fingers, we can feel a certain level of regret. The feeling can be benign or sometimes so heavy that it weighs on our current decision-making.

God has never been a fan of living in the past, even if it means looking to past successes. That's not to say that we completely belittle or abandon gratefulness and honor for past glories, but that we always strain forward to what lies ahead.

Whatever opportunity you have missed, no matter how convinced you are that that was God's will for you, there is no point in being defined by it especially if it's something you can no longer return to.

Here are eight scriptures that God's will is still alive in you even if you missed an opportunity or two:

Exodus 9:16. But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 8:7. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.

Job 10:13. Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

Psalms 10:5. His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

Psalms 33:11. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

Psalms 138:8. The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Romans 8:28. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Philippians 3:13-14. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.