Double Doors

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Christianity, church, demonstration, Doors, glory, Kingdom, maturity, Revelation

Psalm 24:7-10 “Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, you gates;

lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—he is the King of glory.”

In Luke 1 we read about two women, one is older, married, barren and of the priestly line of Aaron; the other woman is young, a virgin, and engaged to someone of the kingly line of David. Two women, both childless, one older, the other younger, as I am reading about these two women, Elizabeth and Mary, the Lord speaks to me and says, “DOUBLE DOORS”. I had recently listened to a sermon where the Rabbi said, women are doors that open us to new dimensions, so the idea of women as doors was not uncommon to me. The story of Elizabeth as the future mother of John the Baptist and Mary the future mother of Jesus was not foreign to me either, but when the Lord put it all together in one phrase, double doors, I knew He was speaking something significant for this hour.

Throughout scripture we see pictures of people who could be considered double doors, such as: Deborah and Jael (Judges 4); Naomi and Ruth (Ruth 1); the 12-year-old girl and the woman with the 12-year issue of blood (Luke 8); so the idea of double doors is not rare, but rather common in scripture. Paul talks about a spirit of wisdom and revelation; Jesus spoke about the two greatest commandments and Moses came down the mountain with two tablets of stone. But, what I wanted to know is, what these double doors signify to us prophetically in this hour.

As I was in prayer about this phrase double doors, I began to think about what double doors represent. The first thought I had was they represent a wider entry way. If you have double doors on a house, the entry way to that house is double the size of a single door dwelling. The next thought I had was the types of houses that have double doors. In my mind, they are for wealthier neighborhoods, houses that are larger. I then began to think about William and Kate in England and the double doors that were opened as they stepped out on the balcony as husband and wife. This thought of the royal couple was the key to unlocking what I see as the prophetic significance for where we are with the idea of double doors.

I asked the Lord, what the double doors represent and who was going to come through those doors. Asking the right question, will unlock the right answer. The Lord began to share with me, that the double doors are revelation and demonstration. The Lord said, He is about to raise up leaders who carry the revelation of the Word of God and can demonstrate the power of God. The double doors are revelation and demonstration. This was incredible to hear, then the Lord went on to show me that when the doors of revelation and demonstration open, they will reveal the administration of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, because the King of Glory will come through the double doors of revelation and demonstration. I dropped my pen!

What we are about to see is the King of Glory, the Lord Almighty, come through the double doors of revelation and demonstration to reveal the administration of the kingdom of God. Get ready for the revealing and opening of the double doors.

Ready to Swim 5.6.15

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church, kingdom of God, Knowledge, Revelation

Summertime is fast approaching and in some places the weather feels like it is already here. With summer come activities that have to do with the water, swimming, boating, slip n’ sliding, squirt gun fights, you name it, if it has to do with water, most people are all in. Our God created the times and seasons, He is fully aware of what season it is in the spirit and in the natural, for that I am so thankful, because He is inviting us to go for a swim.

In Ezekiel 47 there is a trip in the spirit that Ezekiel takes to a temple of which water is flowing out of it. At first sight of this water, Ezekiel notes in verse 2 that it is only a trickle, but then his guide, leads him along the journey of this river about 1/3 of a mile and he invited Ezekiel to pass through the ankle deep river. The guide leads him along for another 1/3 of a mile and they come to a place where the river is now knee deep, so they pass through. As they travel another 1/3 of a mile, they come to a river that is waist deep, but they still are able to pass through. But as they continue along on their journey another 1/3 of a mile, they get to a place in the river, according to verse 5, that Ezekiel could not pass through, for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over or through. (Selah)

In the early 2000’s there was a popular teaching about the river of God that came forth and brought all kinds of worship songs about the river of God and called us to evangelism, all birthed out of this chapter of Scripture. As I was reading this today, I could not help but remember those sermons and songs, but it is a new day and so I began to intercede for understanding in regards to this portion of Scripture and this is what I learned.
The river flows down from the temple. The mouth of the river never changes, nor does the direction of the rivers flow, but the level of water does. I asked the Lord what the river represents and He told me it is revelation knowledge. He said when you first get saved, there is a bubbling up inside of you and it’s like a trickle of the word of God, for you know nothing about the Bible, other than some stories you heard in Vacation Bible School, or John 3:16 which you saw on a bumper sticker, or the sermon that you just listened to that caused you to finally yield to salvation in Jesus Christ. But as you journey along with the Lord, you will come to revelation that is ankle deep and as you pass through that revelation, you continue on your journey until you come to knee deep revelation. For those who read their Bible, who engage in a desire for a deeper relationship with God, this is sounding familiar.

Then as we journey along in our walk with God, being led by the Spirit, we come to a place where the Word is waist deep. It is hard to cross a waist deep body of water without some work, it is the same in the Word of God. Jesus said to His disciples after talking about eating His body and drinking His blood, He said, do you want to leave to? Peter said, where can we go, for you have to words of eternal life (John 6). Then we are pressing in, listening, loving, growing, still hungry for more and we come to a place in our journey, where the river of revelation has risen to a place where we cannot pass over, so what do we do? We go for a swim!

There are some people that are at the river of revelation, you see how this is a descending revelation into the deep things of God and the more we are on this journey, the deeper the waters get. If you are not experiencing the fear of the Lord, you are not at this level of revelation. But we press on in the journey, for when we step into swim, we are taken down stream and into the Dead Sea and the waters are made fresh. There is a level of revelation God is inviting us into that we cannot control anymore, either we swim or we stay on land, this revelation you cannot cross over or pass through, you must jump in and let it take you where it wants to go. Are you ready for a swim?

Submission Not Slavery

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Christianity, Hope, maturity, men, Revelation, Submission, women

2 Peter 2:19 “They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the

      the slaves of depravity and defilement – for by whatever

      anyone is made is made inferior or worse or is overcome, to

      that he is enslaved.”

Women are constantly bombarded with the scriptures that remind them they are to submit. Submission has become such a swear word to most women, because whenever they rise up to their rightful place as a woman of God, she is reminded by someone that she is supposed to submit. Submission has been misunderstood for many years and despite all the advances in knowledge, science and the internet, we still are unclear of what submission really is. Men know women are supposed to submit, other women know women are to submit, but very few understand what submission looks like.

Submission is a choice, just like every other command in the bible, it is a choice. God does not force us to submit, any more than He forces us to give, love or honor. Submission has been misunderstood because many believe submission means someone is less than the other, but that is not submission, that is slavery. Slavery is the devaluing of humanity in a hierarchal fashion. Submission does not devalue, it actually shows how much value someone really has. For someone to submit to another person, means they know who they are and are willing to submit themselves to who someone else is. Knowing full well, they are equal in their humanity, dignity and value as people, they choose to lay down their rights, in order to let another’s rights have preeminence in their life.

People who believe they are inferior to another are slaves of the one to whom they feel inferior to. In addition, anyone who seeks to make others inferior to themselves, is acting as a slave owner and is seeking those who will be their slaves. We are not commanded to obey anyone other than God. That is why submission is not slavery. Submission is a choice; it is a Philippians 2 attitude; it is a John 13 expression; it is showing that you are created in the image of God.

If you don’t know who you are, submission will become a stumbling block, for your inferiority and insecurities will tell you they want to make you their slave. But the truth is, God is not looking for slaves, He is wanting servants that have the same character qualities of His son, Jesus. Genesis 1:26-27 says, both male and female are created in the image of God, we are not inferior, nor superior to anyone, we are co-heirs with Christ. This is why we can choose to submit without fear of being a slave to anyone.