POSSESSING THE GATES

Proverbs 8:3 says, “She cries out by the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors:” A gate speaks of something that we penetrate something that we walk through. Matthew 7:13-14 says, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the way and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” What about the mega churches and thousands who come to Jesus Christ around the world in evangelism? I realize that a gate is the entry and that many of us are saved, but it does not mean that we come into the gate of life. We sit outside the gate and that is where we listen to the preacher and where the prophets come and the proclamations are made. It does not mean that you enter in the gate of holiness, righteousness and revelation.

The Lord made a great promise to Abraham after he brought Isaac for a sacrifice in Genesis 22. After God called him to sacrifice his only son on the Mount of Moriah, God gave Abraham a ram because he saw his obedience and his willingness. He told Abraham that his descendants would possess the gate of the enemy. The enemy is more than Satan. The enemies are those things that oppose us. Some of us love God, but trials, tribulation, self worth, religion, systems and ideas do not let us enter the gate of life. We can sit at the gate of salvation, and we can sit at the gate of glory and revelation, but if we never enter in, we do not possess the gate of the enemy to move freely in and out.

For most us a sermon opens us up, sometimes when I preach, people will oppose me because it is not what tradition teaches or what man has said for centuries. What does the Lord give me as a promise? He promises that I will possess the gate of those that oppose the will and liberty of God; those who will oppose what God wants to do in this day, generation, and in the family. The gate is not a man or a woman. We do not fight against flesh or blood. Some of us are sitting at the gate and we have not possessed it because we do not know how to open what God wants to do in our life.

When the gates are closed, we do not possess the gates. As Cain left and he went into the land of Nod, he started entertainment because he could not possess the gate of intimacy and the gate of forgiveness, and the gate of glory. He looked for a land, and His sons produced music to entertain. When we do not possess the gate of worship, and we cannot enter into worship, praise and revelation, we will use things to entertain our lack.

Many of us are good people, and we will not listen to rock music, but we listen to Christian rock and it has the same effect. I am not saying that Christian rock is bad, but if it just takes the place of good entertainment, we have not possessed the gate and have not possessed those who hate us.

We have to possess the gate to enter into God’s mercy, grace, and love. We have to possess the gate of the enemy for those who have been touched by our life, so that they might be able to enter into their destiny and into their calling. I can only impart, but God has to raise up young men and young women, who will possess the gate for their generation, so that we do not talk about something that we have not lived.

Wisdom will give us the ability to possess the gate. It is intellect and creativity flowing out of our life so that people can enter. I am not interested that I sit at the gate and hear another message. We have to come into the presence of God. You might come to a gate of sorrow, and I might come to a gate of joy, but we all have to enter into the same place to experience the same power, love, blood of Jesus, and life. Tribulation means pressure on flesh, and if we do not operate in the wisdom of God, our prayers and requests will be overpowered by the enemies of our souls. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” (James 1:5)

In His Love,
      Sigi

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