The Door
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Revelation 3:8, ESV
I have a Hebrew calendar that I follow and this year is 5784 which began September 2023 and ends October 2024. The number 5784 stands for open doors and so much more. I have been speaking these words over our lives and repeating that this is the year of open doors for the believers. I have watched as God has supernaturally opened doors for us this year!
But I have learned that open doors do not always come in the way you expect. Yes, it is wonderful when God open doors for you, or shall I say, moves you to the open door and you have to take a step to walk through it. But it is the walking through to get in and on the other side that I did not expect the things God would do to get us to move!
Sometime you are just comfortable where you are and you want God to open the door, but you kind of want things to stay the same along with the additional blessings. Listen, it is not going to happen that way! Every open door requires change and movement. He will open the door, but you have to move through it. I have a cookie business and my husband has a Jazz band and we have seen doors of opportunity fly open for us. But the work involved to get through the door and the sacrifice required is a big responsibility. God is not going to do that part for you.
Remember the Hebrew boys? Their open door came under siege. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. He then commanded Ashpenaz, his chief Eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, competent to stand in the king's palace and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. Daniel 1
Ashpenaz chose Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. They were eventually chosen to stand and serve before the king because God blessed them with more knowledge and wisdom than all the nobles. Throughout their service to the king, God used them as a testimony to teach the king who the true God is. Because of their faithfulness to God, King Nebuchadnezzar eventually became a believer.
We do not know where, when or how God will open the door for us, but we have to be willing to do take the leap of faith and move hand in hand with God.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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