It’s Open Door Season!

Those four words typically bring about an expectation of excitement! They are the four words that often make us feel that better is about to take place because the door is now open. They are the four words that bring about this instant relief that our “No Season” has come to an end and that the “New Season” is now on the horizon. Those four words can carry a new beat in our hearts and jolt us into activating a new resolve and zeal for life that can have us blindly go in before truly assessing the Open Door.

“Open Door Season” is an interesting phenomenon in the life of the Believer. Maturing in God has brought about a discerning factor that provides a safety measure before impact; like the seatbelt so efficiently does for us. Open Doors do not automatically mean that we should enter in. They are not always the answered prayer. Sometimes, they are the test before the real blessing. Think about examination in the Spirit, before God’s Promise. There were things revealed to you, at the appointed time. They aligned with His Will and did not make you feel like you were ignorant of having the knowledge about what would be seen behind that Open Door.

This week, as I prepared for something, I was reminded how much a Good Father desires to give His children good things. He wants to bless us more than we want the blessing, but He does not move in haste. There is no fear in God to cause Him to ever feel pressured to give His children what they are not spiritually prepared for. God will seal a door for years without any trepidation of what our response will be, and rightfully so. After all, upright living will allow us to see Open Doors, but not assume that everyone has the address of Heaven stamped on it.

We often look at the Level of “No’s” connected with the Christian Walk, but how often do we Thank God that the “No” prevented us from making a decision that would have separated us from Him. The “No” caused us to understand what it means to follow Him with our whole heart. The “No” led us to remembering that He will always have our best interest at heart.

Do we really trust God and His Timing enough to put an Assessment Test on the Open Door or would we be blinded by selfish ambition? Keep in mind, He will withhold no good thing from those whom walk upright, but it still demands that we be trusted even with the access of an Open Door.

We are in a sensitive time and it warrants that we walk circumspectly. Discernment is truly a Gift from God and it allows us to avoid so many pitfalls that haste and moving before time creates. Beloved, it may be “Open Door Season”, but the only door that we should run to without any hesitation is to occupy the place where He dwells!

Divine Work & Pray:

Work: Jot down what you feel God would want you to assess before going through an Open Door. In the past, have you automatically assumed that an Open Door was from God?

Pray: Father God, an Open Door from You will bring me closer to You! It will mature and strengthen me. It will both humble and level me to a place of gratefulness. An Open Door from you may even come with growing pains and stretch marks, but the aftermath would have birthed the essence of You in me. God, I desire an excitement concerning an Open Door that you have predestined for me. Great tables may be set behind those doors, but if you are not there, just as Moses, I do not desire to go! The greatest access granted begins and end with You, Lord. In Your Name, Amen.