A FAITH-FILLED, PROPHETIC WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT!
June 27, 2022
BY CRYSTAL G.H. LOWERY
Have you ever watched the popular game show on TV where there are three doors and the contestant has to choose one to open? Behind each door is a prize. But, there is a different prize behind behind each door. Each prize is nice, but there is ONE…ONE that is the ULTIMATE that just doesn’t compare to any other. It is the big one…the car or the exotic trip that most people can only dream of taking!
Which door the contestant picks determines the prize they receive. They may just get the washer and dryer depending on the door they choose. That is still a decent prize, but it doesn’t come close to the ULTIMATE PRIZE! It is far better if they may choose the “right” door and end up with THE ONE that they and the audience are hoping they win! If they end up choosing the door with the ultimate prize just on the other side, everyone celebrates. Not only do they win the ultimate dream car or trip, but confetti falls, balloons flood the room, the audience screams with excitement, and the contestant jumps and shouts with joy that they have just chosen the right door and won the fabulous prize just on the other side of the threshold. Even the host can hardly contain his excitement for the contestant with smiles, handshakes, and hugs! Everyone has been cheering for this contestant, inwardly on the edge of their seats, as the decision is made as to which door they will choose to open!
As I studied a passage in Acts 14, the imagery of what I have just described came to me in a very vivid mental picture. Paul and Barnabus had been traveling and preaching the wonderful news of the gospel and winning large numbers of followers to Jesus (Acts 14:21 TPT). Both Jews and non-Jews had heard the good news of Jesus and had recognized and believed that Jesus is the Messiah. He is THE ONE who had come to save them.
Paul shared with everyone about how Jesus had come and that through their belief in Him…through their faith in Jesus…they could enter in and be part of the family of God and live with Him for all eternity. They could enter in through the DOOR OF FAITH which God had opened by sending Jesus to die for the world.
What an image! Can you picture it? There are many doors, but only ONE is the DOOR OF FAITH. In John chapter 14 are Jesus’ words about Himself being this door. “…I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life. No one comes next to the Father except through union with me.” (John 14:6 TPT). Having this union comes only through faith in Jesus (John 16:4 TPT footnote g).
The beautiful thing Paul was preaching and teaching was that anyone could choose the DOOR OF FAITH because God had already opened it. It wasn’t a closed door anymore. The people didn’t need to work and sacrifice to try and end their own stench of sin, to toil and try to do something that would cleanse themselves or cover their impurities before God. Now…God had opened the door by sending Jesus as a gift to the world to do that once and for all. Jesus was the gift given out of God’s perfect Love so that we can live with Him for ever and ever. John 3:16 so perfectly tells us this love story.
Not only were the Jews able to choose this door of faith, but the amazing thing is that non-Jews were also able to choose this door of faith as well. God had opened the door through Jesus’ finished work on the cross. This is the door of faith.
Faith is a door, it is an opening to what is on the other side. The beautiful thing is that the door is no longer closed. It has been swung wide open by the beautiful, untainted love of our Jesus. We receive the promises of Jesus by walking through this door of faith. We must cross it’s threshold. Not only do we receive our sins forgiven, but we receive every other promise and blessing through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.
Isaiah 53:3-5 tells us that Jesus defeated everything the enemy would try and put on us. Jesus defeated sin, death, sickness, sorrorw, grief, rejection, anxiety, fear, and all lack. No matter what you’re facing today or at any moment in your life, look to Jesus. He is right there on the other side of that beautiful, open door. He is calling to you. He says, “Come and enter!”
If you are in need of a Saviour, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in need of healing, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in need of reconciliation in a relationship, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in need of comfort, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in need of your needs being met, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in need of peace, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in need of God’s promises to be fulfilled in your life, enter through the door of faith!
If you are in financial need, enter through the door of faith!
It is ALL by faith…faith in Jesus alone…so choose the door of faith and walk through. Just like the contestant in the game show, all of heaven is cheering you on. The great cloud of witnesses are celebrating with you as you choose Jesus…as you choose faith in Him alone. The host, God the Father, is ready with bated breath and arms outstretched to hug you and hold you and love you. As you choose THE DOOR OF FAITH, a celebration is erupting with loud cheers, dancing, singing, and you have just received THE ULTIMATE PRIZE – ONE that just doesn’t compare to any other – JESUS! Based On Faith.
Crystal G.H. Lowery, Esq is a Christian Estate Planning Attorney and is the owner and founding attorney of Law Office Of Crystal G.H. Lowery, LLC. Based on Faith is an organization whose vision is to become an international resource that increases biblical knowledge of faith within the Body of Christ through comprehensive teaching, discussion of law, and the prophetic.
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