LIFT UP YOUR HEADS ‘O’ YE GATES PART 2.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah Psalm 24:7-10 (KJV)
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Today we shall be looking at patterns of Gates.
PATTERNS OF GATES. (SCRIPTURAL INSTANCES)
Pattern of gates is same as types of gates, in scriptural times, gates were the strongholds of a city, most towers were build over gates; if a city’s gate is seized then the entire city is captured. It is a place where legislation is made.
Types of Gates.
Gates of our Enemies (Gen. 22:12)
Gates of those that hate you (Gen. 24:60)
Gates of Heaven (Gen. 28:17)
Gates of righteousness (Ps. 118:19)
Gates of Hell (Mt. 16:18)
Gates to the soul (Lk. 22:3) Satan, entering Judas; suggest the presence of an entrance, that is a door or a gate.
Gates to our heart (Rev. 3:20), Jesus is knocking at the gate of your heart. Will you open for him to come in?
(CONTEMPORARY INSTANCES
The Longman dictionary of English language defines a gate as; “an opening in a wall or fence, or a city or castle entrance, often with defensive structures e.g, towers”.
A gate is any port of access, used for the purpose of both entry and exists. These ports of access could be in the spiritual realm, the realm of the soul, or the realm of the physical, they could be visible or invisible. It is important to note that there are several gates in our time and life which we ought to know how to deal with.
Our hearts, our eyes, our mouths, our ears, our feet, and our hands are all gates. Gates are immigration posts; gates are also security check points, gates are embassies.
Gates are places for transactions of business, legal, marital matters, and gates are places where altars, thrones are set.
- OUR SPOUSE AS A GATE.
For those who are married, if observed carefully, whenever we are not at peace with our partner, it seems we are laboring against invisible resistance.
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered”. (1Pet. 3:7)
For the husbands, our wives are gates to shut out or let in our blessings, the bible says, we should dwell with them according to knowledge i.e, among other things, that as gates they could be for or against us and thereby slow or hasten our progress.
“And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other, thus she reproved”. (Gen. 20:16)
Abimelech told Sarah that her husband was her covering; this is clear in several other scriptures, for the wives, if we treat our husband’s badly, we run the risk of being exposed to terrible attacks and losses.
The encouragement here is to treat one another in love and respect, as God has brought us together to influence each other’s destiny. I tell young people that there are blessings they cannot contact until they get married.
“For he that findeth a wife or husband, findeth a good thing, not a bad thing and obtaineth favor of the Lord”. (Pro. 18:24).
- LANGUAGE AS A GATE.
For those who travel extensively, you know that immediately you inform a person that you are from his country, he suddenly becomes friendly and better still if you speak his language. I have seen apparently unknown persons to me, standing to vouch for me and taking me into their apartment because I speak their language. Internationally if you can speak two out of the six United Nations languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese), it becomes easy for you to be easily accepted. Language too has been a barrier to witnessing and assessing opportunities. From the tower of Babel until today, our different languages have become a wall of partition; keeping us from reaching our full potentials.
- RACISM AS A GATE.
It is a known fact that there are places you cannot get to because of your color or race. It has become a gate that needs to be dealt with in order for the gospel of the kingdom to have free course in the affairs of mankind.
Lift up your head ‘O’ Ye gates from the different human races that the king of glory may come in the name of Jesus! Amen.
- SEVERAL OTHER GATES.
There are gates into the nations and if they are not dwelt with, you can not get in. All embassies and consulates are gates that need to be dwelt with in order to reach your place of destiny. When I traveled out of Africa for the first time, I had to deal with the gates into those particular nations; you need to do that before applying for a visa. There are spiritual gates into cities, businesses, market places, examination and professional bodies, big corporations and organizations.
There are gates into governments, institutions, relationship, family inheritance and destiny. There is also the gate of time. We can exercise dominion in the earth when we pray through the gates of time.
GATES OF HELL.
“And Jesus answered and said unto him, blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
“And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. (Matt, 16:17-18)
When Jesus said this, he probably was referring to the government, jurisdiction, authority, power of hell which shall not prevail against his church.
Today, what are the means by which hell tries to overthrow the church?
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. “But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God”. (Gal. 5:19-21).
From the passage above, you will discover that the works of the flesh are a list of the enemy’s weapons to overthrow the church today.
Adultery or fornication is the gate of immorality. The number of ministers and member that have fallen prey to this gate can only be fully known when we appear before the throne of judgment in heaven.
Other gates are: uncleanness, lasciviousness (excessiveness), idolatry, hatred, variance (racism), emulations, wrath (bitterness), strife, sedition (rebellion), heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, unbelief/ atheism (Heb. 3:12, 13).
There was a professor, who did not believe there is God. As he was teaching in his lecture room, he tried stepping down the podium using the stairs, he missed one step and almost fell, and he screamed “O my God”. The whole class of students, burst out in laughter, beloved, even the atheist knows there is God.
Every gate trying to lock up my blessings, lift up your head now in Jesus name! Thanks for sharing this with you piece
Thank you for this great teaching @praise-eu!
Thank you sister@hope777 Blessings.
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