First Things First Part 2

Posted by Paula White - Thu, December 10, 2009 at 09:20 PM

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Revelation 3:7-8 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

I. God’s Declaration to You
a. “I have set before you an open door”
i. Set (Hebrew) = to give
1. when God gives you something, man cannot stop it
ii. An open (Hebrew) = to open up
iii. Door (Hebrew) = a portal or entrance

b. God is giving you entry into places that have been shut down or not accessible

Joshua 6:1 NIV Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

c. The Israelites (God’s people)
i. No one came out
ii. No one went in
1. There are some places and some people that have denied you access because of who you are (a child of God)
2. Some of the fight you have faced, doesn’t even make sense for where you are
3. The enemy is fighting you where God is taking you, not for where you have been
4. It’s the potential in you and the promise of God that has the enemy terrified
a. God said, He has set before you an open door and no man can shut it

Hebrews 6:15-16 (MESG) 13-18When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, “I promise that I’ll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!” Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they’ll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.

II. If God said it, That Settles It!
a. Promise = a divine assurance of good
i. God is the God of promise
ii. He keeps His word even when it seems impossible, even when all odds are against it
iii. Even when circumstances contradict it

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

b. God makes a promise
c. Faith believes and receives
d. Hope anticipates it
e. Patience quietly awaits it
i. You have to build your prophetic future on the promises of God

III. What is a Prophetic Future?
a. Prophetic = God’s exegesis… the name given to predictive spheres of supernatural communications, acts and influences from the spiritual world
i. The practice of revelatory ministry

b. Future = where I am going but have not been… a time yet to come, an expectation of advancement, progress and development
c. Prophetic Future = A time to come that is filled with expectation because of the communication that is given concerning it from God’s word and His anointed servants
d. When you build a prophetic future by what God has promised the answer to the problem you face is = “to prophesy”

Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest…

1. Can what was dead, come back to life?
2. Can the impossible become possible?
Vs 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
e. To prophesy = speak or sing by inspiration in prediction or simple discourse
i. inspiration = divine influence (in-spirit)
f. Prophecy is not given just to foretell events as much as it is to prepare you and invoke a response that will affect those events
i. Prophecy (NT) = not only to foretell but to “tell forth”
1. When you hear the word of the Lord, it is not hard to say the word of the Lord
2. God has given you an opening, an entry, a portal

“I have set before you an open door…” So how do you walk through it? Put first things first…

First Things First Part 2

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