Open the Door...

I’m uncomfortable when God gives me a word like this and tells me to not pretty it up and just give it. But I’m going to be obedient and pray that whoever it’s for will receive it! Today, I’m talking to those of you that have been on the verge of breakthrough for a long time but just can’t seem to cross over. I’m talking to the folks that the enemy has figured out and uses the same methods and tricks to keep you in bondage. I’m talking to those of you that that have been given an assignment or calling but doubt has kept you from walking fully into it. Today, God told me to tell you to stop walking in circles and open the door!

Too many times, I hear people talking about what can’t be done - how the circumstance is too much to overcome or the assignment is too great. Your natural eyes take over and you find yourself trapped in an endless cycle of praying, thinking you have overcome, saying yes, enemy distracts you, you start seeing the problems and issues again and you’re back to praying for deliverance.  I have been around that mountain myself so many times, it’s ridiculous.  But recently, God really allowed me to see that cycle and how beatable it is if you just allow Him to free you. The problem is that you like to be in control, or at least think you are. It’s much easier when you can say, “I tried this or I did this and it just didn’t work” instead of putting the problem, assignment, issue in God’s hands and letting Him handle it. Well, it’s time to stop trying so hard to solve your own issue and let Him do it. Can I just tell you that it feels so much better to be free? I mean really free where your heart is light and your spirit is in tune! Where what others say or do doesn’t affect what God is saying to you.  Where you trust what He sees in you and go with it instead of coming up with excuses. Seriously, you can have that freedom. God WANTS you to have that freedom and He’s ready for you to have it. How do you get it? Open the door.

He took me to Revelations 3 and I got scared! He sent me to the last section of the chapter, where He is talking to the Church at Laodicea. This is the lukewarm church, y’all! Christ is not pleased with them and says that He will vomit them out of His mouth. Not good!! He began to show me how displeased He is when He says something and His people go the other way. He showed me how many of you have been speaking one thing but living another. You can’t proclaim victory but live out defeat. You can’t speak life but believe death. You can’t testify freedom and walk in bondage. It’s just as bad as being lukewarm. God wants you to be what He says you are. He wants you to be victorious, healthy, and prospering. So He told me to share Revelations 3: 18 – 21 in the Message translation with you and invite you to walk into your true freedom.

“Here’s what I want you to do: Buy your gold from me, gold that’s been through the refiner’s fire. Then you’ll be rich. Buy your clothes from me, clothes designed in Heaven. You’ve gone around half-naked long enough. And buy medicine for your eyes from Me so you can see, really see. “The people I love, I call to account—prod and correct and guide so that they’ll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God! “Look at Me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear Me call and open the door, I’ll come right in and sit down to supper with you. Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I, having conquered, took the place of honor at the side of my Father. That’s my gift to the conquerors!”

He’s talking to you, conqueror!  It’s time to open the door and invite God to handle it ALL. It’s time to stop living that same cycle over and over again and come out in victory! It’s time to have the freedom that He wants for you. No more getting up every morning and putting chains on like clothes. No more going back to that old thing because you’re scared of the new. No more letting the enemy trick you with the same weapons. Christ is knocking at the door and all you have to do is open it!

Amen