Ministry of the Closed Door

RHEMA 5/17/12 MINISTRY OF THE CLOSED DOOR

HEARD: Right now I feel like a Teddy bear. It’s all about to change.

Bears to me represent the fear of the Lord. The scripture that the Lord gives me a lot in connection to the fear of the Lord is that He is both kind and fierce, just like the white polar bear over its cubs. We have been under an era of grace and goodness of God. The era is changing into the severity of God for those who refuse His Word and continue in unbelief.

BEARS = Kindness and severity of God

Rom 11:21-24 NKJV

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness {5544} and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

NT:5544 GENTLE KINDNESS

chrestotes (khray-stot'-ace); from NT:5543; usefulness, i.e. moral excellence (in character or demeanor):

KJV - gentleness, good (-ness), kindness.

NT:5543 USEFUL KINDNESS

chrestos (khrase-tos'); from NT:5530; employed, i.e. (by implication) useful (in manner or morals):

KJV - better, easy, good (-ness), gracious, kind.

NT:5530 TO FURNISH WHAT IS NEEDED

chraomai (khrah'-om-ahee); middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from NT:5495, to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle, "graze" [touch slightly], light upon, etc.), i.e. (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner:

KJV - entreat, use. Compare NT:5531; NT:5534.

NT:5495 THE OPEN, EXTENDED HAND

cheir (khire); perhaps from the base of NT:5494 in the sense of its congener the base of NT:5490 (through the idea of hollowness for grasping); the hand (literally or figuratively [power]; especially [by Hebraism] a means or instrument):

KJV - hand.

NT:663 SEVERITY

apotomia (ap-ot-om-ee'-ah); from the base of NT:664; (figuratively) decisiveness, i.e. rigor:

KJV - severity.

NT:664 TO CUT ABRUPTLY

apotomos (ap-ot-om'-oce); adverb from a derivative of a comparative of NT:575 and temno (to cut); abruptly, i.e. peremptorily:

KJV - sharply (-ness).

RHEMA 5/14/12: TO CUT DOWN THE ROD OF CONTROL

TRANCE VISION: I watched 2 mothers who raised their children under the rod of control, use small chain saws to cut down a tree and its branches. I was very concerned that their hands would be cut because I did not feel they were skilled to use the saws.

(Unskilled hands represents touching and meddling in things that should be under God’s control and not their own.) I felt that the tree was the tree of control and God was cutting down this soul giant.

HEARD: You cant be serious. The ministry of the closed door. Taken.

Heb 11:5-6 NKJV

By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Matt 25:6-13 NKJV

"And at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!' 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 9 But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. 11 "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' 12 But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.' 13 "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

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RHEMA 5/14/12 RAMIFICATIONS OF A CLOSED DOOR

HEARD: We’re moving you. I will hide you sweetheart.

HEARD: Spiritual mindsets do make a difference sweetheart. These things have deep ramifications. A dividing line.

[I am praying over closing a door to ministering to those who have hardened mindsets.]

HEARD: These things have deep ramifications. A dividing line.

MY COMMENTS TO ANOTHER POST 5/14/12: God has taken His people through 3 decades of knocking on the doors of our hearts to purge us of what is not His image. A chapter and book has closed in lengthy soul surgeries for His remnant. Those who did not submit to their trials in the past and use them as opportunities to repent and change, will once again go through the storm of billowing waves on a much more serious level than the storms in the past.

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RHEMA 5/15/12 CLOSE DOORS AS GRACIOUSLY AS YOU CAN

Last night I made a decision to close a door and I made actions towards doing just that. I slept on it overnight and felt that I had not closed the door in the right way, and so I updated and closed it properly in a more gracious and kind way.

1 Cor 4:5 NKJV

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God.

QUICKENED MEMORY: A lady who we had ministered to forgot to pick up a transcript of her session. I had a quickened eye glance at her 2^nd request to enter into the private room: “Sorry, I left the room too soon. Requesting re-entry!”

CONFIRMATION JOHN PAUL JACKSON 5/16/12: RECALCULATING

He was talking about missing the directions on the GPS in a car. And the GPS system doesn’t tell the person driving doesn’t call the person names and says that he needs to learn how to drive. Rather it just says, “Re-calculating…” John Paul mentions that is what God says to us when we miss the right turn. I laughed out loud when I heard that.

CONFIRMATION TAO’S Vision (5/11/12): I was on a bus and the driver made a sudden move, I felt the shaking of the bus. Immediately I spoke this out. The driver was a lady and she didn't respond to it well. Later I spoke it again. instead of speaking her wrongness, first I spoke about her good things she has done, finally I spoke out where she missed in driving in a gentle and gracious tone.

"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." (Ephesus 4:29)

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5/14/12 MY FINAL ANSWER

HEARD: No back talk.

PIX: I saw the Dog Whisperer, Caesar’s finger pointing.

HEARD: And that’s My final answer.

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5/18/12 RHEMA NO MORE KNOCKING

HEARD: Do NOT knock on this door again.

(I heard this as a command with emphasis)

PIX: I saw the Dog Whisperer, Caesar use the signal as a command for obedience.

Rom 11:22 AMP

Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's gracious kindness to you — provided you continue in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away).

WORD TO PONDER: THE MINISTRY OF THE CLOSED DOOR

For decades, I have been knocking on the doors of hardened hearts to yield, become tender and heed My Word. With urgent, loving appeals and strong knocking I have faced these hearts with bold, kind Words and yet they remain blinded by their opinions that gridlock them into unbelief. Mindsets have locked their ability to receive past their own fortified strongholds and they grow increasingly numb to My knocks. In order to save these from further grieving and quenching My Spirit through their controlling ways, I AM no longer knocking. Eventually these hardened ones will face the quiet and they will begin to turn towards Me. I AM calling this the ministry of the closed door.

Rom 11:22 AMP

1 Sam 16:1 NKJV

Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons."

COMMENTS: When I heard the Lord say, “These things have deep ramifications. A dividing line,” my sense is that this is related to many facets and levels in the world today. It relates to denominations that have controlled the Holy Spirit and not wanting His fullness to enter. God will be removing their candlesticks. It relates to Spirit filled individuals who are not desperate for His Word, locked in unbelief and apathy and refused His knock one too many times. They will go into a spirit of stupor and not heed the midnight call (Matt 25:6) to come out and meet the bridegroom and the door will be shut when they realize such.

God is separating His remnant NOW and taking them to a higher place. With His remnant moving on, this will cause a dividing line and distinction between the righteous and the unrighteousness in the days to come.

God’s final call to knocking is SILENCE. He loves His children so very much and been calling and calling them out away from the world and unto Himself. He will be pulling out the stops to a grand finale display of supernatural and He will be using His silence to one group of people and His strong display through another, to draw all unto Himself. The door will open once again to them, but in that day, it will be during the darkest hour ever known in history.

Rom 11:4-8 NKJV

Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. 7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 8 Just as it is written: "God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day."

Mal 3:17-18 NKJV

"They shall be Mine," says the Lord of hosts, "On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him." 18 Then you shall again discern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who serves God And one who does not serve Him.

Isa 60:1-3 NKJV

Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

THE HEART OF GOD, WHY DOES HE KNOCK?

KNOCKING FOR A COMMITMENT

THE FINALITY OF CLOSING DOORS TO STUBBORN MINDSETS