WHEN YOU FACE A CLOSED DOOR 6/01/06

EXPERIENCE 6/01/06: Today I watched a scene on TV where they had adopted a baby wild horse who had lost his mother in a storm. They lived on a deserted island which was a place to study the wildlife, and the pony would push the door open to their dwelling place, and just walk in and eat off the table! The boy was very attached to this pony, but he knew they had to help the pony be adopted into the herd of wild horses.

One scene made me cry. They tried everything they could think of to entice the pony to be with the other horses. Nothing worked. The little horse had bonded to the people. Finally, they barricaded the door to their dwelling place and the pony was trying to kick at the door. I felt the pain of the boy's heart, knowing this was the best thing he could do, to give his pony away to the other horses. And the pain of silence surfaced in my heart. I remembered a past intercession and Word He gave me about the pain of silence. I felt that He had something additional to say about this.

CONFIRMATION QUICKENED SONG: As I was pondering this, a song came on to my IPOD from Mary's Lindlow's CD:

“There is a time for everything. A time for silence. There is a time to weep upon My throne. A time for you. There is a time to cry. A time to die. There is a time to hold out your joy to Me. There is a time to stay on bended knee. There is a time for all things in Me. A time to rejoice, a time to weep. There is a time for season of rain, so harvest can come again and again...”

REVELATION: As I saw the look on the boy's face, I saw how painful it was on him to remain silent and not answer the door to the wild horse. I suddenly saw how much pain the Lord feels over us, when He has blocked the doors to us, of gaining comfort in places that are not where He wants us to dwell. When He tells us “No” and blocks our way, it is because He wants to move us somewhere else. It hurts Him so much to know what we are bonded to for comfort and survival, but there comes a time when He places barriers and we are no longer allowed and must move to the right place.

WORD TO PONDER: WHEN YOU FACE A CLOSED DOOR 6/01/06

How hard it is to close a door before you, My child, when I know how much you are dependant upon what it offers. I AM not the meanie that you suppose, but I feel even the deeper pains that you aren't aware of inside of you. I know every detail of who you are, and why you cling to what you cling to, in order to survive. Precious, I understand what you are bonded to. I allowed this in your youth, but it's time for you to move into a new place.

If you are suffering the pain of silence and closed doors, it is blocked so that you will let the old comforts go and move into your new place. I want you to flourish and old comforts of the flesh are not where you may dwell; you have outgrown them. I want you to bond in a healthy manner, to a new way of living, thinking. Partake of what is good, beneficial, edifying, fruitful, lovely and dwell among these. Turn away and separate yourself from old patterns of surviving stress. Turn away and ask Me to renew your mind.

Rom 12:1-2 NKJV

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.