There will be open doors for those who prepare!
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 7:
7 “Ask, and the gift is yours. Seek, and you’ll discover. Knock, and the door will be opened for you.
8 For every persistent one will get what he asks for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for. And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door.
9 “Do you know of any parent who would give his hungry child, who asked for food, a plate of rocks instead?
10 Or when asked for a piece of fish, what parent would offer his child a snake instead?
11 If you, imperfect as you are, know how to lovingly take care of your children and give them what’s best, how much more ready is Your Heavenly Father to give wonderful gifts to those who ask Him?” TPT
Jesus spoke of a persistent believer who first asks, then seeks, and finally finds the door to be opened. We have the responsibility to pursue our gifts and callings.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit 1st Corinthians chapter 16:
8 But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
Paul knew about timing of when doors would be opened for him to preach the Gospel. He also knew that there would be resistance to him as he went through the door. The adversary will always attempt to resist you when you walk in your calling. We must not cower down to the resistance… we are to respond as overcomers.
Jesus speaks in Revelation chapter 3:
7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He Who is Holy, He Who is True, “He who has the key of David, He Who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”:
8 “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My Word, and have not denied My Name.
When The King of The Universe opens a door, expect it to stay open and go through it!
Jesus gave us the expected process of empowerment when Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 4:
1 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.
3 And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God.'”
In the wilderness, there is only GOD, you, and the adversary who is attempting to keep you from fulfilling your destiny… as it was with Jesus. When you are filled with The Holy Spirit, you are willing to confront any and all resistance to your destiny.
Testing you, empowers you. You have to leave the familiar to enter into the new.
14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.
Clear endings are required for you to go into new beginnings. They are divided by a wilderness.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 12:
24 Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.”
25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
Once we have been tested and empowered by The Holy Spirit, we are able to bind the strong man and take over what used to be his assets for The Kingdom of GOD. Door will be opening to those who actively ask, seek, and knock in 2024.
Each of us has a Divine appointment to fulfill.