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Gateways

• gateways are spiritual highways. 

• Gateways have gatekeepers. 

• Gates are Spiritual Access Points

A Door is how you gain access to a House, or Church, or Building. A Gate is how you gain access to a City, or Property, a specified Area. 

A key holder is a keeper. For example—doorkeeper, or gatekeeper. If you hold the key, you have authority over what comes in and what stays out and what comes out. If you hold the key, you are the keeper. We are key holders of our body (temple). Men are to be keyholders of the home (family). 

—Matthew 16:18 mentions gates. 

—Matthew 16:19 mentions a key. Binding and Loosing is introduced. 

This ministry of doorkeeping  is about acquiring and using spiritual authority. 

John Baptist was a gatekeeper, opening up the spiritual highway for the Lord to come in. Accordingly, John was boldly speaking to spiritual highways. 

Symbolic: for example, the area I live in is nicknamed the gateway to the mountains. There’s symbolism that we must understand about the gateways. The symbolic attachment  that is associated to certain gates or gateways often reveals the spiritual territory and also presents clues or insightful and helpful hints regarding regional spiritual warfare. 

Doorkeepers, as seen in the heart of the Psalmist, are about manning the spiritual doors, gates, gateways, so that there is an open Heaven above us. 

As an overview, Consider these Scriptures:

Psalm 84:10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Psalm 24:7  Lift up your heads, you gates, And be lifted up, you ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in!

Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in

Here are a few important keys and tools of the trade for spiritual doorkeepers 

• God inhabits our praises (Psa 22:3). 

• when we pray, God responds (Jer 33:3). 

• when we speak words infused by holy faith, mountains must move (Mk 11:23).  Mountains, by the way, are blockages that try to stifle gateways. Mountains are hindrances that stand in the way of us and God’s manifest presence or God’s plans for us and our places of assignment.

• Lastly, I believe that when we come together in His name, He’ll meet with us (Matt 18:20).  Therefore, intentional gatherings are meaningful. 

Here’s a podcast link if you’d like to hear me discuss this for 12 minutes.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/spiritual-gates–74751661

And here’s a YouTube link if you’d like the video of me sharing this message.

https://youtu.be/ZOUfJK4ZHYY?is=n1OfZSLqG5QHAAl5

Isaiah 49:11
“I will make all My mountains a road, And My highways will be raised up.

Highway of Holiness

* Isaiah 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness

The Wilderness Road

* Isaiah 43:18-19 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!

 Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness

* Mark 1:3 A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make his paths straight!

Donkey Street

* Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey

Here’s a link to hear a 10 minute podcast featuring a summary teaching on this:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-s-highways–73396977

And here’s a link to watch the 10 minutes of summary teaching on this:

https://youtu.be/7hOMBAbgCe0?is=2MfpGYH2gkv7Lt6R

Don’t discount the seasons of feeling like you’re in the wilderness.

Don’t discount that wilderness road.

Don’t reject the wild ones. Don’t dismiss the ones that are wilder than normal. Don’t overlook the one with a wild voice. God sometimes uses a wild prophet. John Baptist had a following. The wild ones? So did Jesus. Jesus wasn’t so tame Himself. And Jesus had a following—still does.

Mark 1:3 A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make his paths straight!

This verse speaks to us about the wilderness as a prophetic setting.

Wild is the root of the word wilderness. But we could also say wilder is the root.  Ness is a suffix that turns an adjective into a noun. It indicates the state, condition, or quality of being something (e.g., happy becomes happiness, kind becomes kindness, and dark becomes darkness). So, Mark 1:3 speaks to us of a wilder voice. A wilder way. A wilder path, and something that is free from the norms, traditions, expectations, and religious protocols. That’s the trail that John blazed, and it’s the pathway Jesus walked.

Sometimes God comes wildly. When Holy Spirit came, He came via a wild wind. Who among us will say “let the wind blow.” Or will dare to pray “Have thine own way.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – President John F. Kennedy, 1961 address to the United Nations

Allow me now to give you a Scripture of breaking free into the new, the wild, the wilder way

Isaiah 43:18-19 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness

It is those that say such things as “we’ve always done it this way” that are perpetuating traditions of man. Such traditions may have been enacted because they were God breathed ideas for a moment. But yesterday should never be granted power over our todays and tomorrows. The wild ones are those who are willing to break out of dead protocols, systems, cycles. Holy Spirit isn’t like an animal at the zoo. Holy Spirit isn’t a power that we make a circus act out of. Holy Spirit is a person. And Holy Spirit’s demeanor is more wild than tame. 

“Holy Spirit is a gentleman” is not a Bible verse. Holy Spirit is power. 

Here’s a podcast episode of me talking about this subject:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wilderness-road–73182788

Here’s a video of me teaching this topic:

https://youtu.be/HDp3CHF__s0?is=m2grDl64gC9u_t48

Podcast episode link is here…

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/highway-of-holiness–72974520

YouTube video link is here…

> Holiness is an ancient pathway that man walks with God

Isaiah 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus says the LORD: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it

“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man” -Oswald Chambers

Isaiah 49:11 my highways will be raised up.

Endurance. Become a person who perseveres. Pray to become a person with patience, steadfastness, lasting toughness. The last days will bring challenges. Don’t underestimate the battle. Make sure you have enough gas in the tank. This is the prophetic gem I believe Holy Spirit has been speaking to me as I have partnered with a group of intercessors, pursuing insights for this prophetic, final hour.

For months now I have been part of a corporate prayer group that has used…

“all things prophetic”

as our prayer focus. So far, we have used scriptural prompts related to the word prophet or prophecy. Somehow one of our texts came from Luke 21 for one of the prayer sets. Luke 21 is clearly a prophetic chapter, even including prophecy from Jesus. Afterwards, we sensed Holy Spirit wanted us to pray through this whole chapter, bit by bit. Then, when we got down to verse 19, it seemed like it was packing something extra and we were moved to stay with it and pray even more from this Scriptural thought. We committed ourselves to wait, listen, dig deeper. It has felt like God has given us a prophetic gem, a secret even.

I dare say this verse is important for the last days and I believe God has opened our prophetic eyes to see the importance of mining it, praying it.

Below I show this Scripture as it reads from a few different versions/translations. 

◄ Luke 21:19 ►

NIV “Stand firm, and you will win life.”

NLT “By standing firm, you will win your souls.”

ESV “By your endurance you will gain your lives.”

KJV “In your patience possess ye your souls.”

NASB “By your endurance you will gain your lives

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The last 3 Fridays we have intentionally prayed from scriptures that are similar to Luke 21:19. Below are those verses:

Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

James 1:3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Matthew 10:22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

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I think that praying from verses like these could be a healthy response to the warnings of the end-times regarding judgements, persecution, tribulations, and the falling away.

Keith Green wrote a song titled “I Don’t Wanna Fall Away From You.” That needs to be our heart. We can’t be so arrogant as to think deception, falling, or giving up couldn’t happen to us. I think praying for help, for patience, endurance, steadfastness is part of the answer. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-dont-wanna-fall-away-from-you/1443213126?i=144321359

Our flesh, soul, mind, heart doesn’t typically get excited about dire warnings, and prophetic clarion calls that beckon us to have or develop the necessary goods to accomplish endurance. But that’s exactly what I believe Holy Spirit is pointing out and selling to whomever will hear and respond. It’s like a prophetic secret.