Everlasting Doors

Psalm 24 begins “The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Later this Psalm talks about the pureness of heart and cleanness of hands of the person desiring to stand in his Holy presence. The word of God says that this is the generation that seeks God’s face [and not his hand.] God owns and has all things and therefore he does not need anything from you or I but he is looking for some pure worship. He is looking for those that are seeking his face without any motive. The question is can you praise God when your bills are behind or when your needs are not met. Verse 7 says lift up your heads oh ye gates, and be ye lifted up you everlasting doors. Who or what are these gates and doors referenced here. A door is a living portal, the point at which something enters into your body. Whenever, God decides to step into the earth realm, he is looking for a door, an available vessel. How liberating it would be that when needs an available vessel that we make ourselves available. You are a living portal and God is looking for someone with clean hands and a pure heart.

Jeremiah 24:7 states “And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and that they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.” Deuteronomy 30:6 also talks about the Lord purging our hearts (by circumcision) so that we can love him. God desires to manifest himself through us. God wants to have all of you. But too many Christians want to give God a certain hour and day of their lives. It is amazing how people have needs but don’t want to stir up the presence of God. Most of the time, we are vain and struggling with reoccurring issues. As Christians, did you know that you can entertain issues to the point that you don’t want to let them go.

God needs your heart. If you are tired of wrestling with your issue, then know that God is trying to get your attention so that you can grow in your relationship with him. Jeremiah 19: 11-13 lets us know that God knew the thoughts that he thinks towards you, thoughts of peace and an expected end. God has situated everything that HE owns so that the plans he has already made come to pass. God wants our hearts. The reason is that nothing else matters if your heart is not turned towards God. In fact, in Isaiah 29: 13 the Lord explains his anger towards his children who serve him with their mouths but their hearts were far removed from him. God is saying, that you have some really good lip service but when it comes down to it, He can’t use you.
Many have accepted a substitute of God’s presence for so long that when the taste his real presence, it is too strong. They have lost their taste for God. They have allowed the system of the world to give them a perception of God and have lost the flavor of God. For so long, they have assumed that going to church and clapping their hands is enough. If God tries to come in, they shut the door. They have been raised on a spiritual substitute. But now God is calling this new generation to experience the full and true presence of God.

God is providing his body the church with the spiritual nutrients that it will need to endure during this season. However, if you continue to eat the substituted things of this world, then it will cause you to experience a form of growth, but it will not be real or healthy growth. There are places that are blown up in the body of Christ, full of substitute, but they don’t have any power and they are not spiritually healthy. They have no desire to stir up the power of God. God is looking to come into and abide in us more than we are looking to get into him. We need more of His presence in our lives. Our desire should be to worship God in Spirit and Truth. When we open our mouth, the power of God has to increase. We are living in a time where it is required that we have the presence of God. However, God’s presence cannot come out of you when you are walking around with substitutes. We need to increase our capacity to live holy for God. God desires to manifest Himself at our jobs, in the earth realm and in every arena concerning us. The Devil wants to set you up so that people don’t the God in you. You have to line ourselves up so that can God can use you in twinkling of an eye. You are those everlasting doors that God will use in this earth.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor’s Corner

Without Interuption

This is a New Year! 2009 is the past and it is time to embrace what God has in store for his children in 2010. You might have suffered some defeat in the last year but you are in a new season. Last year you might have experienced roller coasters of ups and downs. However, in 2010 in order for you to experience the freedom in God without interruption, you will need to do a new thing. In fact, what is needful of you is not hard. It is simple. Jude 1:9 "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee."

The battles you fought in 2009 were not your battles to fight. They are the Lord's battle. Michael the archangel was a warring angel, yet he had enough resolve to not go head-to-toe with the devil. Michael said the "Lord rebuke thee." In 2010, don't engage in needless causalities with the Devil, let him know that the "Lord rebuke thee." The reason Michael the archangel was able to say "the Lord rebuke thee" is found in Deuteronomy 34:5-6. When Moses died, it was the duty of the archangel Michael to hide the body of the Lord's servant, Moses. Therefore Michael's authority was in the obedience of hiding Moses body. With this authority he was able to say “The Lord rebuke thee.” The battle is not ours, but is the Lord’s. Be obedient to what God has told you. The Devil was trying to make the archangel fight him rather than be obedient to God. But God is sovereign and he created the Devil and has already defeated him.

Haggai 2:3-9 references that we should be ye strong, and work for I [the Lord] will be with you. Zachariah 3: 1 tells of when Joshua the high priest was standing before the angel of the Lord, that Satan was standing at his right hand to resist him. Verse 2, of this same chapter lets us know that the Lord will rebuke Satan on our behalf when we are about his work. And the Lord said unto Satan, rebuke thee. Is this not my people that I have chosen to bring my work to fruition. Michael the archangel was working when the enemy came to him. When you are called to do something for God, the enemy will try to stop you. You have to reposition God in your life. The enemy is providing bait. The bait of Satan is to occupy your time. The enemy is trying to tie up your mind so that you can’t pursue the things of God. Every time you reposition God back into your life, you can rest in the pursuit of your purpose. Does God mean for it to be so hard for you to fulfill your purpose and destiny? No. When you rest in God, you will realize that it is God’s fight. Your authority is only in Christ. Your authority is not to fight Satan but to be obedient to what God has called you to do. Get behind Jesus and you wouldn’t get so beat down. When you come against Satan head on, your kids get sick, you suffer in your marriage and the list of causalities continue. You suffer defeat. Don’t fight with the same stuff, just focus on Jesus. Stay focus so that God can rebuke the Devil on your own behavior. We are entangled in warfare and think that we are winning. We are caught up in something that has us distracted.

You cannot let the same old thing keep throwing you for loops. It has your mind consume so that you cannot go any further in Jesus. When you are called by God, know how to warfare with the Devil. Never warfare head on. If you are not being obedient to God, then you cannot rebuke. When you are trying to do something for the Lord and the enemy lifts his head, say “the Lord rebuke you.” Until you learn how to position God in your life, you will not need a deliverance session all of the time. Stop falling for the bait of Satan. What is stopping you from repositioning God. You ought to get tired of falling short. Ask the Lord to go before you as oppose to you positioning the Lord behind you to catch you if you fall. Humble yourself before the mighty hands of God and he will order your steps.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner