The Lord sets before us wonderful doors of opportunities, blessings, and provisions. What’s more, they are not closed doors, but they are wide open doors of divine blessing.
As we walk through the Lord’s open doors, we receive divine riches that He has prepared for us because of our inheritance in Christ.
During the Apostle John’s exile on the Isle of Patmos, the Lord first gave him the revelation of Jesus as the One who opens doors. In fact, the entire Book of Revelation is the vision and revelation of Jesus Christ and was written when Jesus appeared to John while he was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.
During this time, the Lord also gave John messages for the seven churches that existed in Asia Minor at that time. In Revelation 3:8, Jesus told John that He was setting an open door before the Philadelphia Church, a door that no man could open or shut.
However, the message Jesus gave John for the churches also teach us a lesson. They contain messages from God to us. For example, in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, notice something that Jesus repeated over and over again: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches” (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 29, 3:6, 13, 22).
According to the Amplified Bible, Jesus was actually saying, “He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the Holy Spirit says to the assemblies (churches)”.
I believe that includes those of us living today. We too need to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. We are the Church— the Body of Christ.
shalom!
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