Open The Door, Lord!

July 10, 2011 while in prayer with our church prayer team prior to our Sunday morning service I saw in a vision a room being swept out by someone with a wide base broom. The broom was like the old homemade hand brooms of pioneer days.  Dust was being blown into the air.  Later in that same meeting I had a sudden awareness that the Lord was strategically moving people for the last days.

For months, it seems, I've been yearning for an awakening in me and the whole body of Christ. My heart desires the Glory of God to move in such a way that nothing can remain that is not Him. Along with that I have been keenly aware of my thoughts, attitudes, and ways that fall so short of who I should be as a servant of the living God. It is not a comfortable place but I cry out with David "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."

Many in the body of Christ are yearning and praying for the final Glory that is promised in the Word which will be greater than the former. We all carry this expectancy of a mighty move of God.  But our righteous Holy God does not dwell among the vile and the dirt.  He tells us in Leviticus 20:7 to "consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God".  Ezekiel 22:26 "Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them."

Two days later at our Church women's meeting I had a vision of a very old door that was white and worn and it was closed.  I felt led to pray and declare it opened and that the arm of the Lord was pushing it open.  Then two days later my friend Carol sent me this from a publishing group called 5 fold Media: "Recent Dream: Many new doors and opportunities are coming to the Lord's people. Watch how God puts you into connection with others that will become the key to your destiny. When new opportunities are on the horizon, new people will come into your life."  That connected in my mind the understanding I had that God was going to move people strategically and the vision of the door.

That same week while watching a live stream of a conference in Alabama, I became aware of a conference scheduled in Corinth, TX at Glory of Zion church called "The Open Door, A new door for a new season". I contacted my friend, Mary Lynn, who goes to that Church for information. In the article about the conference Chuck Pierce wrote:

"What does it mean to enter a new door to a new season? As all of us know, a door is an opening for entering or leaving a house, tent, or room. At least five Hebrew words and one Greek term are translated "door" in the English Bible. The two most common Hebrew words have distinct usages, though they may be interchanged. Petha refers to the doorway, to the actual opening itself. Deleth alludes to the door proper, usually made of wood sheeted with metal, though a slab of stone could be used. The Greek term thura is used for both of these Hebrew words.

"Door" is often used in a figurative sense in the Bible. In the Old Testament, "sin lieth at the door" (Gen. 4:7) means that sin is very near. The valley of Achor, a place of trouble (Josh. 7:26), is later promised as "a door of hope" (Hos. 2:15). It will become a reason for God's people to trust Him again.

In the New Testament Jesus calls Himself "the door" (John 10:7, 9). Faith in Him is the only way to enter the kingdom of God. God gave to the Gentiles "the door of faith," or an opportunity to know Him as Lord (Acts 14:27). Paul constantly sought a "door of service," an occasion for ministry in the name of Christ (1 Cor. 16:9). Jesus stands at the door and knocks (Rev. 3:20). He calls all people to Himself, but will not enter without permission."

I believe we are standing at the door to what will be an awakening that remains, the Glory of His presence that mankind has not known since the fall.  King Solomon built a temple to the Lord that was exquisite. The day he sacrificed to the Lord and brought the ark of the covenant into the temple, a cloud of His glory entered into His house and the priest could not stand. We are now the temple of God and He is preparing us for that door to open. Matthew 3:12 "His winnowing fan (shovel, fork) is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out and clean His threshing floor and gather and store His wheat in His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with fire that cannot be put out."