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Be a Doorkeeper

22 September 2007

' For a day in your courts is better than a thousand (anywhere else); I would rather be a doorkeeper and stand at the threshold in the house of my God than to dwell ( at ease) in the tents of wickedness' Ps 84:10

Doorkeeper ( or sometimes referred as gatekeeper) whose duty is to guard the door of the Tabernacle, so as to prevent anyone from coming carelessly to the 'Ark'

In David's day, the Levites surrounded the 'ark of the covenant' with continuous praise and worship. Those who were in the Tabernacle enjoyed the benefits of a continuously open heaven because there was someone who stood at the door and 'held' it open. Open heaven refers to the free access of God's presence to man and the free flow of God's glory to man. David's desire is to see God's manifested presence and experience open heaven. He chose to be a doorkeeper than to be elsewhere because of his passion to be in the presence of God. David understood the importance of this office to be a doorkeeper. Being a doorkeeper stationed at the right door is the place of real influence. If you can be a doorkeeper and open the door of the manifested presence of God to your church and your community, you need to understand that you have been placed in the most influential position in the entire world. We are called to be doorkeepers and we can be ' a walking doorway' to God's presence. People around us can sense the glory light shining under the door.

Obededom (a doorkeeper : 1Chron 15:18,24) knew what it was like to be a
doorkeeper and knew what it was like to have God dwelling in his house instead of merely visiting there. He discovered that there were side benefits that came to his job of safeguarding the 'ark of the covenant'
'And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house for 3 months.And the Lord blessed the house of Obededom and all that he had' IChron 13:14.

Lot, on the other hand 'was the gatekeeper in Sodom and Gomorrah' Gen 19:1 the bible tells us that Lot 'sat in the gate of Sodom' Despite his bad choice of city, he recognised that presence of angelic visitors. He welcomed the angelic visitors to his home. Lot also knew what wickedness and unrighteousness was like in that city but he failed to close the gate to the sin that was consuming the city. Sodom was destroyed by fire because the gatekeeper failed to do his job.

Let us remind ourselves that we are doorkeepers for His manifested presence and we are His doorway where people around us can experience God's presence and open heaven and be blessed in His presence. Let us guard God's presence in our lives and be an impact in the community. We have the responsibility to watch at the gates.

Amen

Passion for the King of Glory

21 September 2007

" Behold I stand at the door and knock;and if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him" Rev 3:20

It was to the lukewarm church of Laodicea that Jesus spoke these words. The Holy Spirit is waiting for you and I like David who has prepared a place for His Glory to be manifested in a great way. God is looking for a person, a church and a city that will hear the gentle knock and open the door for Him to enter and for Him to do a good work in their lives.

Jesus told Peter ' I am giving you the key. Whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven" Mat 16:19
The Lord has also given us the key and we have the ability to open the windows of heaven and close the gates of hell.... 'The latch is on our side!'
many times we respond like Solomon's bride ' I have taken off my robe- must I put it on again? I washed my feet-must I soil them again' Song of Solomon 5:3. Despite the persistent knock by Jesus at our door, we failed to hear Him and respond...we are too busy to hear..we are too preoccupied with ourselves....

The cost of intimacy with God is very high. it will cost your convenience, your comfort, and when we finally open the door, the bridegroom has left...." I opened for my lover, but my lover had left:he was gone. My heart sank. I called Him but He did not answer. Song of Solomon 5:6

This is a sad state of the overly contented church today. We find ourselves barren as David's wife, Michal who locked herself from intimacy with God in worship. She has locked the door to joy and fruitfulness. The root cause for the barrenness of the church today is the reluctance to pay the high cost of intimate relationship and worship.

The bride of Jesus Christ is used to living in the King's house without the King. If the church would return to the passion for the King and hunger for her first love, the church will never be so content unless the King was present with her in the house.

Let us open the door for Him to occupy our lives!

Amen

When God Calls

20 September 2007

' Now the Lord had said to Abram, "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you " Gen 12:1

The most dramatic change in your life is when God takes the initiative and calls you for a specific task. The people God used mightily in Scripture were all ordinary people to whom God gave divine assignments that they never initiated. They were often taken by surprise, for they did not seek significant mandates from God.

The Lord spoke to Abram when He was beginning to build a nation dedicated to His purpose. Through this nation would come the Saviour. God appeared to Moses when He wanted to deliver His people out of Egypt. God chose David, the youngest son of Jesse to lead His people. God surprised Mary when she was told she would give birth to a son who will be the Messiah. Jesus, God's only son chose the twelve disciples from a group of ordinary people.

Through the ages, God has taken the initiative to intervene in the lives of people to accomplish things through them that they never could have imagine. Today God may be initiating new things in your life. Do not let your busyness of your present activity block Him from accomplishing His purpose in your life. Let Him intervene your life and you will never imagine how much you can accomplish through Him.

Amen

If you want career success - Stop Running from your purpose

The main principle to career success is one that many of us will have to learn the hard way. In fact, initially upon reading the title you may have wondered why you would want to run from your purpose. That is a good question. The truth is that we all have dreams and goals. I like to think that God places dreams in our hearts as a path to serve Him and others. However, some of us will never realize those dreams until we realize a very important truth: God’s ways of fulfilling those dreams may be very different from how we would fulfill our dreams if everything were left solely up to us.
Many times, as our dreams grow dimmer over the years, we, too, may begin to wonder how our current circumstances - our present job, our current boss, our career, our employer - are remotely connected with what we might have thought we were supposed to be doing in life. We look around us and say, “This can’t be right, my purpose isn’t this, I’m supposed to be doing ________.”
However we may fill in the blank, the result is the same. We come to a crossroad that is a test of faith when the dream we believe God placed in our hearts doesn’t line up with our current situation. For many of us, that is when we begin to run from our purpose and sabotage our career success.
The subtle truth is that we are often unaware that we are actually running from our purpose. We may even talk ourselves into believing that we are actually running toward it. This is how it works: We have an idea of what our dream job or dream career is supposed to be, and we then proceed to do everything that is humanly possible to achieve it. Of course, some glitch always gets in the way, and we work hard to either remove the glitch or to get around it.
But then, some other barrier pops up, and we do our best to beat it down or push it aside, all the while using up years of energy, emotion, knowledge and power to get this dream to work out our way. But when it doesn’t, we become frustrated, and we wonder what else we need to do to move our career along. We toil and toil and may have a few successes, but even those aren’t what we thought they would be. How does this fit in with career success? When we begin to see our present circumstances as divinely planned by God, we approach those circumstances differently.
You may be in a position today that isn’t the exact job that you want to spend your life doing. That’s OK. However, don¹t make everyone around you suffer by being bitter or having a negative attitude simply because you believe that you are supposed to be doing something else. Instead, accept the fact that there are aspects to your job that may prove in the years ahead to have been very valuable to you. Are you learning to be more detailed? Is it a chance to become better at building relationships? Or maybe you have a need to learn patience to wait on God¹s timing. No matter what the situation may be, it’s all for your good. Stop running from what can be used by God to prepare you for His purpose for your life.
Jesus did not enter into full-time ministry until He was 30 years old. However, from the very beginning, He knew what God’s purpose was for His life. While on a trip with his parents when He was only 12 years old, He was unknowingly left behind because he had been busy teaching and discussing deep spiritual matters with the leaders of His time. I’m sure that part of Him was anxious to get started with the purpose for His life. However, when His mother questioned Him about why He had remained behind to talk when it was time to return home, He dutifully returned with His family and began learning the skills of a carpenter. It would have been easy for Him to ask, “What on earth am I going to need to know how to do this for?” But instead, He became an expert carpenter and worked diligently serving His customers until it was time for His ministry to begin.
What about you? Are you viewing your current position as a part of God¹s plan for your life at this time? Or are you still debating whether it could possibly be something that escaped God’s attention? One of the best truths every written is found in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
This tells us that when we are in a relationship with God, He calls us to something specific that is meeting a specific purpose. It also tells us that everything will work together for good. This doesn’t mean that each single event will look good to us. Each job that we have may not in and of itself seem good to us. But what we are assured of is the fact that at the end of the day, when it¹s all said and done, everything will work out for good. Not only will it work out for our good but also for the good of anyone else whom God chooses to involve who are also called according to His purpose.
What this also points out is that it’s not all about us. Instead, it’s all about God. How He wants to use our lives and our jobs or careers will be a blessing to us, but it will also be a blessing to others, as well. Think as if you were viewing a really great classic film and in the middle of it the main character began to go through some difficulties; you wouldn’t jump up, leave the movie, and say, “I have seen enough, this movie isn’t going the way I think it should.” No, it’s more likely that you would stay glued to your seat, wondering how on earth the character was going to get through that plot twist, and remain until you saw how it all worked out.
Well the truth of the matter is that we don’t have a choice when it comes to the purpose God has planned for us. We may try to run from it, and we may think we have even succeeded for a while, but all we will have really done is taken the scenic route to the place God wants us to be. And it will be the place we will want to be once we get a grip and realize that it’s all good

Realising Your Dreams

No matter where you are in your life... The life of a dream is no different than the life of a Christian. A dream is born, it grows, it matures, but ultimately it must die, be buried, and return to its creator before it can truly realize its full glory and potential. There is always a time in my life when my dream was in the stages of death, burial, and submission to God. I took great comfort in knowing that when I submit my dream to God, when I truly let it go and return it to my creator, it will bloom forth like a flower in the desert. If you have a dream, but it seems that your dream cannot be fully realized -- if you are frustrated or discouraged and feel that your dream is withering -- You will discover what Jesus said, “unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone -- but if it dies and is buried, it will bring forth much fruit.” Give your dream to God. Return your dream to its source. Let it die and be buried in the rich soil of God's fertile field. You will find that by giving your dream to God, it will exceed your wildest dreams. Whatever preconceptions you have about your dream, give them to God. Whatever hopes and ambitions you have for your dream, give them to God. Whatever selfish attachments and aspirations you have for your dream, give them to God. You will discover that your dream cannot flourish by your will or by your efforts. But in the hands of Almighty God, your dream will grow into a mighty and powerful force, greater than you could have ever thought or imagined.

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