June 4 Devotion - Closed and Open Doors

“These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, He who has the key [to the house] of David, He who opens and no one will [be able to] shut, and He who shuts and no one opens

هَكَذا يَقُولُ القُدُّوسُ الحَقُّ الَّذِي مَعَهُ مِفتاحُ داوُدَ، الَّذِي إنْ فَتَحَ باباً لا أحَدَ يَستَطِيعُ أنْ يُغلِقَهُ، وَإنْ أغلَقَ باباً لا أحَدَ يَستَطِيعُ أنْ يَفتَحَهُ:

Revelation 3:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)

What should we do when a door that we were sure God opened, God now closes? We sometimes console ourselves by the Christian cliché ‘When God closes a door He opens a window’. Google revealed to my dismay that this cliché is not found in the Bible. We then find ourselves back into a season of waiting……waiting for God to reopen that door or for another door to open.

I believe that for me (and maybe for you too) I would benefit during this waiting period to seek answers to the following questions:

1. What do I need to learn more about God during this season of waiting?

2. What do I need to learn about myself in general and specifically in front of this newly closed door?

3. What does God need to root out in my heart and in my spirit to prepare me for the event if/when God reopens that door or another door?

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, You know my dreams and desires because You put them in me. LORD, I pray that out of Your glorious riches You strengthen me with power through Your Spirit in my inner being, so that I can sit and wait and obediently trust in Your ways. Reveal to me Lord Your greater purpose in my life and Your greater Kingdom purpose.  Help me Jesus to abide in You and to sit with You Jesus in prayer. God please use my season of waiting to take me to a new level of faith, trust, love, grace, mercy, joy and root out all pride and desire to be in control and whatever it is that You see needs to be done in me. Abba Father, thank You that Your deep steadfast love for me endures forever. Thank You Father for Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace upon my life. Lord I praise You, revere You, worship You, I stand in awe of You, I lift You up on high, and glorify Your Holy Name. God I pray to You in the name of Your precious Son; my Redeemer and Saviour; the Lord of my life, Jesus Christ. To Jesus be the power, the glory, the majesty, the blessings, and the dominion before all time and now and forevermore. Amen.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein