Leave the Gate

You are still in the time of being etched and shaped. My identity and your identity are being discovered, seen, and experienced by the guiding of My hands. You will now be walking into a fresh purpose for the time to come. I am guiding you to the full potential of who we are together.

You will have to let go of some things that I gave you and what you picked up on your journey. It is time to walk into the Entrances I am putting before you. You will walk through the entrance with ease when you let go of what I am asking you to let go of. I have given you a map to help you let go. You enter My Gates with thanksgiving and my Courts with praise. You are my Keys, and I am wielding you and strategically placing you.

This is a year to leave what was and enter what is and what will be.

Last week we talked about Jesus Identity Journey.

Part of that journey was that Holy Spirit led Jesus into a wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 4:1 NASB95

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The point of all this tempting was for Jesus to get fed by what His Father had said to Him.

“This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”

What is the wilderness that Holy Spirit is trying to lead you into?

The wilderness is a place that will test you.

A place that challenges you.

Is the wilderness for you a place where you have to share what you believe.

A place where you are facing a healing that has to happen for you to live.

A place where you have to confront or stand up.

A place where you have to have hope.

Another story God spoke to us for this year was the leprous men at the gate.

2 Kings 7:3–4 NASB95

3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? 4 “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.”

They thought it was going to be up to the Arameans to let them live or not.

However there was a forth option non of them thought to consider.

God would take care of the enemy for them and leave provisions for them.

If you stay where you are, you are going to slowly die.

If you go back to the familiar places that took life from you, you are going to slowly die.

Another observation, they were still had leprosy after this.

2 Kings 7:6 NASB95

6 For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”

God is going to take care of your enemies.

God is going to shake those who do not trust in Him.

It is time to let go of the gates of comfort in you life.

Leave the gates of past safety.

Leave the gates of familiarity.

Leave the gates that feel like they may protect you from more suffering.

Leave the gates where you know you are not coming alive.

Leave the gates and enter the wilderness.

What is the gate of safety you are trying to stay with?

Wilderness:

Can you feel Holy Spirit leading you into something new or maybe even scary.

Maybe it is not a new place but a familiar enemy. Maybe Holy Spirit is leading into something that appears like it did before and that hurt too bad.

Holy Spirit is leading you into the place where a new story is going to take place.

You can not have a testimony with out a test.

Often the real test is one that you have lost to before.

The wilderness appears to have more pain.

No food

Enemies

Maybe enemies that have beaten you before.

Remember what Father has told you, and now take a step toward the wilderness.

Time to encourage.

Matthew 4:11 NASB95

11 Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to minister to Him.

After Jesus was tempted angels came to minister and encourage Him.

Who has God sent to you in the past year to minister to you?

Has God sent you to minister to anyone?

Closing:

What is the wilderness that Holy Spirit is trying to lead you into?

What is the gate of safety you are trying to stay with?

Who has been sent to you to minister to you?

It is time to let go of the gates in your life.

Leave the gates of past safety, comfort, security, familiarity, and enter the wilderness before you.

This week’s Challenge:

What three people do you want me to encourage this week?

Other Resources:

2 Kings 7 NASB95

1 Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the Lord; thus says the Lord, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ” 2 The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.” 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? 4 “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.” 5 They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there. 6 For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.” 7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life. 8 When these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also, and went and hid them. 9 Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king’s household.” 10 So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.” 11 The gatekeepers called and told it within the king’s household. 12 Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’ ” 13 One of his servants said, “Please, let some men take five of the horses which remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send and see.” 14 They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the army of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.” 15 They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king. 16 So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord. 17 Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. 18 It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.” 19 Then the royal officer answered the man of God and said, “Now behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.” 20 And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.

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