When I think about a door or gate, the first thing I conclude is that both are points of entrances and exits into or out of a place. Usually if you're entering into a new place the door has a handle on the outside in which you have to pull open and if you're exiting you usually have to push on a bar across the middle of the door in which to push the door open. Either way it requires action on the part of the one moving through the point of entrance or exit. There is most of the time some kind of lock on the door which requires its own specific key to unlock it. Gates have latches in which you lift a handle and it opens the gate. They too can have locks on them. Usually padlocks or if the gateway has a door, then it will also require a key to unlock the door. Doors have thresholds. Thresholds are simply a board that runs across the entranceway at the bottom. It helps seal the door from air coming in or escaping from inside. It also establishes a place of entrance from outside to inside or vice versa. You have to cross over the threshold in other words to get to the other side.
I believe that there are spiritual doors and gates in the Spirit in which we can go in and out of. Jesus said in John 10:9 KJV, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." This is the most important door in which all of us must enter first of all. In order to be saved and part of the Kingdom, God has established His Son as the Door or Gateway in which we must enter in order to be saved.
As we grow in our relationship with the Lord, He will certainly bring us to other spiritual doors and gateways in which to enter and sometimes exit. The Lord has told me many times in my walk with Him that there is a new door in front of me. It is time to transition in the spirit or move to a higher place in Him. As we go through these doors and gateways, you will notice how things in the natural change also. A few months ago, I knew that I transitioned or moved through a spiritual doorway into a much larger place in Him. This has been a long time coming. After I stepped over that thresh hold, then things in the natural started to change for me. First of all, I got to minister again. Then I got registered as a non-profit ministry and this blog set up for the ministry. The Lord had me trade in my small car for a SUV in which the insurance for it was less than the car. Amazing!
A few years ago the Lord sent me to a church in southern Alabama. As I was talking with the pastor and his wife, I saw in the spirit outside in front of the church a very large gate. It was closed. I knew that it was there because at some time in the future the whole church is going to pass through the gateway to a place of elevation and abundance in Him. This is about His manifested presence or Glory along with the provisions needed in the natural.
I want to challenge you. If the Lord has told you that He has placed a door or gateway in front of you, then wait for Him to tell you when to move through it. Because when you do, then you will begin to see Him manifest provisions and answers for this new place that you will transition into.
There isn't any stopping in the Kingdom of God as far as growth, only progression. Let's continue to keep our ears to His heart and move with Him and cross over those thresholds as He brings us to them.
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