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A 1 Corinthians 16:9 Moment

1 Corinthians 16:9 – “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”

            You have been give powerful keys to unlock previously inaccessible doors. A door in Scriptures represent three things:

Entrance – Exodus 12:7
Access – John 10:7, 9
Opportunity -  2 Corinthians 2:12

You are about to enter a 1 Corinthians 16:9 moment.  The Apostle Paul defines this moment in 1 Corinthians 16:9, “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” 

            God is opening great and effective doors of opportunity for you individually and His church corporately.  He is releasing keys to unlock provision, opportunity, and breakthrough.  Keys give access.  Its significance lies in that which it opens.  Keys open doors. These doors are strategic.  When strategic doors open everything changes.

            When God blesses you, He opens a window.  Malachi 3:10 says, “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.” 

When God desires to promote you, He opens a door.  2 Corinthians 2:12 reads, “Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord.” In Psalms 78:23 there is a reference to the One who opens the doors of heaven. Verse 23 reads, “Yet He had commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.” 

      Windows represent blessings, doors represent opportunity and promotion, then gates represent territory.  Isaiah 28:6 speaks of turning back the battle at the gates.  Your territory is your place of assignment.  For some it is their home, for others it is a community, a city, or a nation.  The Lord gave Joshua the following promise about his territory in Joshua 1:3-4, “Every place the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.” From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.”


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There are new gates you are called to possess.  The enemy has held these gates far too long.  Psalms 118:19-20 says, “Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, and I will praise the Lord.   This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter.”

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