It has been a while getting myself to post on this platform. It is debatable if it is because I have been lazy, but there is one thing I know for sure, I have been going through series of experiences (not visions) that has taken so much of me. In earlier postings I declared boldly that “ Lord, we can take the heat..”. I declared that knowing it was not going to be an exciting journey. The understanding of the necessity of being drawn further into the deep however, where the storms and the tempest are greatest, but also where the mighty works of the Lord are birthed, just would not keep me from drawing back. This reminds me of a scripture in the Psalms 107: Ps 107:23-29 (can read at your leisure). I have cried, feared, got angry, frustrated, desperate etc , but have also experienced the intense love of God, his power, protection, mercies and favors abounding alongside. Instead of getting broken and giving up, I have rather been strengthened and more confident of that which I possess within me. It is like Paul saying “what shall separate us from the love of God…?” Ok, so that is just a little explanation of why the long silence. If you want more, dial my number lol.
Why on earth should we thank God for closed doors when to most of us, it is the reason for which we storm into church, seeking for another mighty intervention? Developing a divine sight in every situation that comes our way is very necessary however if we are to get ready to see as God sees and settle for nothing less than that which has been destined for us. In any case we must make this clear ; 1. God would not do for you what he expects you to do for yourself. 2. God is not everywhere but only where Gods are(would explain more on this later). What he desires and works out is those experiences that would fire you up to come up hither, or draw nearer to the Deep where He dwells. Let me give a scenario to this effect;
From the scriptures in Psalm 107: 23 onwards as exhibited above if you read it, reveals the dimensions to the deep in God that he desires every one of his sons to experience. Of course there are the shores, where it is easiest to fish, but the most difficult places to find the biggest of fishes are those shores where everyone can just fish with little difficulty. Getting deeper would mean finding bigger vessels, which means higher capital, energy, time etc to build a Ship, which of course is the right capacity needed to launch into the deep. Let me take advantage to quickly add that there are certain dimensions in God that can only be experienced with a certain level of wealth as it helps build the desired capacity fro such levels. The mighty works of God, the day of the Lord, cannot be declared in poverty, therefore can we not stop talking and creating wealth in the midst of the congregation of the elect. Wealth is a demand if we must experience the deep! Ok, so one that constantly gets denied to operate along the shores in a canoe, instead of losing hope and giving up, should realize that perhaps his calling and design is to operate in the deep where the mighty works of God are seen, but also where the storms are fiercest. So a closed door along the shores should rather lead to a sight for the deep, where very few venture. We are therefore thanking God for closed doors not because we are walking away from them. But rather because we get encouraged to know that beyond it lies a treasure that is worth fighting for.
Every border is bounded by limitations, so does every territory. The urge to move into another territory, to expand your coast would necessarily bring to the fore the need to encounter challenges, limitations, difficulties etc not for you to sit by, but for you to cross over. Therefore instead of worrying, you enact the discipline to focus on finding the demands of crossing over. Most often than not, blessings are preceded by challenges or difficulties, therefore a sign of a breakthrough near is the presence of something to break. We can only have a break through if there has been something to break! Every challenge has in it a question to answer, and questions schedule dispensations, seasons. There cannot be a solution if there has not been a problem to solve. The Glory of a solution therefore lies in a problem or a question. The signs of the level of greatness you have been called to therefore lies in the number of challenges you encounter often. One that is in the habit of occupying new territories must have developed the habit of overcoming limitations and going beyond boundaries. In other words, the less the closed doors, the less the opportunity for a testimony, a solution, an answer, a breakthrough etc. Remember, this lifestyle is for those that God is training to take over the reins of divinity and launch into those corridors that command knees to bow down to their God, but it does work for any serious person in life irrespective of religion. The difference lies in the divine variables orchestrated by your source. As people of God, we must begin to understand that there are certain levels of maturity that necessitates a level of creativity in order to be successful in birthing the next level we are seeking for. This makes less meaning to the one that only knows to pray and ask God for those things he needs and does not sit after to search for the answers within him. This is not to cloud down on the importance of prayer, but to introduce a level of relationship with God that makes the matured begin to look within for the solution he is looking for because he begins to understand the enormous power and potential God has instituted within him. It is for the one that begins to realize that God works within us both to will and do according to his purpose, so that we will work out what he is constantly working within .And that the only time the works of God are seen is when the sons of God have successfully, with creativity, birthed whatever they carry into manifestation. Then do men see our works and Glorify our father in heaven, because they realize those works must be the works of God but birthed by men!
Let us look closely at a scripture in the book of Acts 17: 24-28:God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring
Paul was trying to reveal a very salient point here. He acknowledges that indeed God has determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitations. In other words, God intentionally set boundaries, borders, limitations but for a reason which is revealed in the 27th verse. The reason is not for men to remain within these boundaries but for them to have the urge to seek the Lord, feel after him, find him! To help us further in understanding, it means that those boundaries or limitations are there to be broken, to be crossed over, and that should be after He has been sought and found! The reason why those limitations or boundaries remain is because He is not being sought after as much as he desires, it is not for us to settle in them comfortably. In other words, every law that exists in such territories, that hold up such boundaries are to be broken after he has been found. They are not to hold their efficacy any more after transcendency into another level.
The original will of God is not for man to be limited in any way, neither by time nor by territories or boundaries that prevent his absolute liberty and freedom. Anything therefore that is a limitation is a message, a message that seeks to tell us to seek for higher heights, launch further into the deep, forsake some traditional thinking and seek a new information that encapsulates new territories. This is supposed to connote a revolution that must reverberate on every level of existence that has a form of boundary or limitation. The limitations of sickness, death, poverty, violence, ignorance, traditions and cultures etc that has held us bound, the limitations imposed on us by the elements of nature in general, the dictations of time by the sun, moon, stars etc are to give way one time in acknowledge of a spirit that has decided to mature beyond the frustration of these limitations, advancing in divine sight for those glories that lie beyond the veil set by these limitations.
One more time the heavens and the earth must be shaken out of an old order into a newness that can only be realized by a generation of people who have become Gods, accessing new information that changes their world, taking advantage of the creativity that is embedded within them to insist they are not settling in the norm of society. We are here to make a difference, so why try to fit in when you are to stand out? I have seen sons and daughters who have coiled in because they have been refused by the world system into job placements, who have been rejected by their family system because they dared to stand by the guidance of the Spirit of God, people who have rejected their calling because they could not stand the heat of change that God was calling them into in order to be refined into his Glorious liberty. From now on we shall thank God for closed doors because instead of it crippling us, they enable a level of creativity and expansion beyond the norm that bears fruit in time and beyond. If a door closes, it is because we will find the keys that open them. Even if these doors closed because of our mistakes, we will learn from these mistakes and move on. Whichever way we will progress anyway! There is nothing like failure unless we did not learn from our mistakes. The riches of Father’s Inheritance is in the saints, and we will stop at nothing outside of us, because we know that He that is within us is greater than that which is outside of us. In Him we live, move and have our being, nothing can make us than that which surges from within that drives us not to plateau but reach exponential heights. We receive enough spirit to move upwards in sight and deeds always, for he that is above is above all! We thank God for closed doors!
By: Enoch Brown
