I AM Knocking on the Door!
I AM Knocking on the Door, Won’t You Open?
This morning The LORD woke me up, and as I went to get up, I heard this loud ‘knocking.’ It is the only way I can explain it.
I actually went to see if my husband had gotten up and was knocking on the door for some reason. When I realized it wasn’t in the natural, it dawned on me that The LORD was speaking this scripture to me.
“Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me,” Revelation 3;20 (AMP).
I felt compelled to look up this word “knock” in the Greek and sure enough it meant “to knock.”
But when you read the meaning it says “to rap hard with the knuckle.”
I saw this picture of The LORD knocking really hard and loudly and almost frantically as if to say “Please hurry and let me in!”
As I woke up to this knocking, I heard The LORD say to the church, “Please open the door to Me! Let Me in and I will come in and We will give you hidden manna!”
I know this is a simple message, but I sense The LORD’s urgency in this.
There are some churches or groups of people who meet weekly or even daily but still have never allowed The LORD to come in with all of his power and presence!
They are still NOT opening the door to allow Him to take over!
I hear Him begging you to give him free reign!
He wants to come in and give you this hidden manna and dine with you and you with Him!
I hear Him this morning so clearly saying, “Open this door!”
Then The LORD gave me another Word from Scripture.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you,” Matthew 7:7 (NKJV)
I heard Him say, “It is time for you to knock!”
Again, the same word in the Greek for knock gives the meaning that you should be beating his door down!
He is saying, “If you will come after Me and beat on My Door with desperation, I will open it for you!”
The LORD wants to see your desperation for Him but you must knock!
He is saying today, “There are things I want to reveal to you Church but you must KNOCK!”
He is waiting for you to come after Him this morning!
Stop being Milk toast about your desire for Him! He wants to hear you knocking!
It is time to let him in have his free reign and it is time for you to knock and enter into what he has in store for you in this season!
~ by Jo Ellen Stevens
Arise Shine!
Jo Ellen Stevens of TCIC Ministries is a Prophetic speaker, author, worshiper and intercessor. She has ministered with her husband for 23 years and was a worship leader at the Assembly of God for many years. She is an ordained minister (Restoration Ministries) and works with Restoration Ministries in their Ministry Rooms doing prophetic worship with her husband. She has taught many bible studies and have led many intercessory prayer groups.
Beautiful. Thank you.
Love this word; it is all Christ has ever wanted; hearts filled with love for Him and an eagerness to submit to Him and follow Him in obedience
! Thanks!!
If we don’t open to Him now, we may find the tables reversed:
Matthew 25:1-13 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.