"A Day of Doors"

A friend of ours...and a man who God has trusted time and time again to share His heart for our church body...gave a prophetic word to the church this past Sunday.

I can't even begin to put to words the work that God has been doing in my life. Or the unavoidable confirmation that this word was to my spirit regarding all that God has been impressing upon my heart.

All I could do was cry as the weight of the word hit my heart causing an explosion of clarity, peace, and a overwhelmed "oh Lord!" as the weight of what He has asked me to do began to become reality rather than fantasy.

...a reality that cannot be accomplished outside of the favor of God.

And yet, as personal as it was to me, I know that it impacted...and will continue to impact...others in a personal way as well. God and his word are good that way. :)

Here is the word in its entirety:

"Today is the day for doors. Today is the day to recognize the doors that are all around you. I want you to recognize the doors that I've put in front of you. I want you to see what's been closed and what is being closed and what is open and what is being opened.

I want you to stop pounding on and mourning over the doors that I have closed or am closing and I want you to start walking through and rejoicing over the doors that I have opened and am opening for you. They're not one and the same.

Have you become so enamored with one particular door that you can't see your way clear to walk through another door that is standing wide open? I'm telling you that some of you have set up camp and made your home at closed doors just because you thought it had your name and address on it. While other doors stand wide open to you.

Today is the day for you to leave the one and walk through the other. Will you stop eyeing and grumbling about the doors you see being opened for others and walk through the doors that are standing wide open for you. Will you stop giving yourself to one solitary door at the expense of what I want to give you?

This isn't the day for closed doors, it is a day for open doors, but you cannot walk through the one until you abandon the other. The closed doors are being closed so that the open doors can be opened.

There are occupational doors, and relational doors and ministry doors and geographic doors into nations and doors into worship and doors into hearts and doors into places that you have only dreamed about and whispered about behind closed doors. I'm telling you delivery room doors are being opened today, and doors to fortified places are being forced open for some, and for others doors into realms that you wouldn't dare to walk through if you didn't know I was making the way.

You can't open the doors I've closed but you can walk through the doors I open. It's up to you......."