CLOSE THE DOOR

In Joshua 2, there is a woman mentioned Rahab. She was a prostitute, yet, was a women in an hour of pressure that had wisdom. She had to have wisdom and not national pride. If she had national pride, she would have fought for her people and despised the Israelites. Sometimes our national pride of who we are and what we have achieved keeps us from having wisdom. Rahab had an open door. She was a prostitute who sold her love for favor. Many men came in and out of that house, and because she had an open house, the two Hebrew spies went into her home. In an hour when her nation would be wiped out, it was a prostitute who received intelligence. She received a divine intervention to do things that other women would be scared to do. She hid the spies and closed the door and helped them. They said that she would be delivered if she shut her door, but anyone on the outside would be killed. She humbled herself to a nation who would kill her own people and culture. She came in and shut the door with the scarlet rope hanging outside of the window. Rahab broke out of her fear, prostitution, heathen worship, and violence because she knew how to close the door.

Many of us have open doors. We are living in ‘no mans land’ where the enemy and a friend can come in and out at any time. It just depends on how we feel. When we are depressed, an enemy comes in, and when we have faith, God comes in. We are vacillating in purpose and opinions, not knowing how to shut the door because it is a conscious act.

It was behind closed doors that Samuel heard God’s voice to discern from Eli’s voice. Only in the morning as the day dawned and he knew God’s voice, could he open the temple doors to declare judgment upon a disobedient generation. Some of us are very judgmental. Our judgment comes from education, indoctrination and fear.

Many of us cannot do anything in the open because we cannot do anything in secret. We sin in secret, but we tell everyone what we do for God in the open. There are things that we do know that we cannot tell others, decisions we have made behind closed doors. If I do not want my life or my ministry to fizzle out; if I do not want to become a professional preacher; if I do not want to become an echo of declaration and independence, then I have to come to a place that I break out of captivity, condemnation, and criticism. For years I have run my head against thick walls, trying to justify who I am, but God said along time ago, do not justify, just seek Me.

I close my door in the hour of decision when my life is at a T-junction and I have to make choices. I close my door when I come to a place when I need a new impartation and revelation. I have to close the door to break out of Sigi, to break out of who I am and what I believe, so that He can reveal it in the open and He can show who He is in my life.

When we shut our door, it does not mean that we shut our bedroom door. There is a door in our conscience that we shut so that we hang on to the revelation that God gives to us to build upon in our lives. When we shut the door and we are with the Father in secret that means He is concealed by a covering, and that He is private. When we lose our will power, we are no longer able to make decisions. In order for God to work deep in our subconscious, we have to make conscious decisions. That is why I give altar calls and lay hands upon people that they might make conscious decisions to close doors in their lives from things that have caused them to break down and fall.

Some people are waiting for an outpouring of God’s Spirit, but they do not make any decisions because they are afraid. Decisions bring responsibility, accusation and rejection, and because of it, The Church does want to decisions. We do not want to upset what people have preached for years.

When we make decisions and the intent of our heart is pure, it does not matter if we make mistakes. It is better we make a mistake with a pure heart than we save ourselves the criticism and the rejection. We cannot find out who God is unless we close the door, and God reveals it in the open. He reveals our heart, our life, our testimony, our simplicity, our desires and our longings.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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