Go through the Door to the More!
Restore & More in 2024!
This is such a key moment in history and in the earth! God is opening up doors for us to advance in this season like never before. I know the challenges are great but the opportunities are even greater! God wants to bring you through the door into the more in 2024! This includes more of Him, more strength, more love and more advancement than before. I believe God wants to move us from the land of ‘not enough’ and ‘just enough’ and step us through the door into the land of ‘more than enough’. We serve a God of increase and fruitfulness. I know there are always times of sacrifice and sowing and these are essential and continual but on the other side, God promises us that He will cause the willing and obedient to eat the good of the land!
The year 5784 on the Hebraic Calendar speaks of doors and gates. The 4 in Hebrew is Dalet and this picture here speaks to a door that God wants to open this year. If we live in expectation and not initimdation and limitation this year, I believe is going to position us for increase!
In 2 Kings 4, I love the story of the Shunnamite. It is so powerful and miraculous and I believe is speaking to us right now, this year. If you remember, this woman was devout and very zealous for the prophetic. In fact, she so wanted the prophetic in her life that she not only welcomed the prophet, Elisha, whenever he came through town, but she took an even greater step. She literally prepared a room for him to dwell in her house.
So she built a prophet’s chamber in her own house. This is so significant because she was not satisfied to just receive a blessing from the prophet as he passed through but she did the diligent work to make room for the prophetic in her own life. You see, some people are satisfied just to get a word or blessing from prophetic ministry when it is near but others are determined to incorporate it into their life, home and church culture.
She built that place and positioned herself to receive the prophet’s reward. Remember the story, the prophet was so moved by her faith and receptivity that he asked, ‘what can I do for you?’ Amazingly, she says in essense ‘Don’t worry, I’m fine’ but actually she wasn’t fine. The servant recognized her true condition and relayed to Elisha that she actually did have a deep need. He told Elisha she had no son, she did not have a legacy, she was missing something near and dear to her heart. She was barren. Why wouldn’t this Shunnamite woman have voiced this obvious pain and need in her life? I think it was because she had given up in despair and decided that that part of her life would never be fruitful or fulfilled for her. She had experienced unrelenting grief month after month, season after season and year after year until she had given up in disappointment. She decided to settle and live with it and not raise her hopes anymore. However, the prophet powerfully pronounced that by this time next year her barrenness would be broken and her heart’s desire fulfilled. She had a hard time believing or receiving it and even chided the prophet, ‘Don’t tease me or get my hopes up!’ But sure enough according to ther word of the Lord the promise was made manifest. She believed, conceived and her son was born! Some of you are hearing that same word in this season and you need to proclaim ‘by this time next year’ things are going to change! Don’t be afraid to let your expectation soar at the word of the Lord!
Later in 2 Kings chapter 4 it says she enjoyed this blessing in her life for a season of years until a desperate day came that looked like her dream was going to turn into a nightmare right in front of her face. Catastrophically, her son died while working in the field with his dad. What a demonic and dramatic turn of evens. This must have been devastating, however, eventhough this was tragic news, this time there was something different about this woman. She was not going to settle, be silent or still. She didn’t blame the prophetic but immediately went back to the prophetic and cried out for a divine reversal and life. She took her dead son up to the prophet’s chamber she had built in a previous season. She put a demand on the prophetic and returned to the place in her life that she had prepared in a season of faith. She took her dying dream to that upper room in faith believing to receive the prophet’s reward again. She laid him on the prophet’s bed which speaks of covenant. She shut the door behind her. You know some doors need to be open but others need to be shut! I believe she was shutting it to grief, doubt and dissappointment. She knew the power of the prophetic and she was determined to see her vision renewed and resurrection life released. If you have prepared a place in your life for the word of the Lord, then in desperate times, you’ll know how and where to take your dying promise to see it restored. It was in the upper room of prophetic promise that God raised her dead son back to life.
Amazingly, this is not the end of this woman’s miraculous story. In 2 Kings 8:1-8, we find that she is still following the word of the Lord. She is prophetically instructed to leave her house and land and go to a foreign country for 7 years while a famine plays out in Israel. This was a prophetic strategy given to know how to navigate through some lean times. She obeys the word faithfully and dutifully returns to her house. However she returned to find something awful. She found that both her house and her land had been taken from her during these intervening years. She had followed the word of the Lord and seeminly lost everything and others had stolen what was hers. She was distraut and her future looked dark yet she was determined not to give in to despair but to fight for what had been lost and what was right. It says that she goes to the king to make an appeal for house and her land. She knew this was not right! She knew this was not the end of the story! She knew she had a rightful claim! She knew that she needed to make an appeal to see a reversal of her fortunes. I believe this is a season that we have to know how to make a rightful appeal for our homes, lives and families and also make an appeal for our land, our nations and our futures!
Now I want you to receive the dramatic dynamic of the timing and turnaround of this moment. At the very time that she came to make her appeal to the king, the king’s servant was recounting the story of the Shunnamite and Elisha and her miraculous son. The servant notices her and tells the king that the very woman is here right now. What a coincidence!? No, this is a ‘kairos’ moment or appointed time. At this moment the king’s heart is turned toward the Shunnamite and he decrees powerfully in her favor! It says he appoints a certain officer to cause her to recover all!
He decrees to the officer to Restore all that she has lost. But wait there’s More. He also decrees she should receive all the proceeds she should’ve gotten from the land while she was gone! Wow, that’s a Double Portion! Restore and More! God is appointing angels of recovery on assignment (officers) to help you get it all back plus interest! You get what you lost and what should’ve been accruing in your account all along! This is the prophet’s reward in action! It’s time for the door to the more to swing wide for us this year in key ‘kairos’ alignments and opportune moments of favor. Let’s make strategic appeals for our House and our Land in this hour! Let’s have an expectation to go through the door of the more that God opens this year! Don’t let any lie of limitation, grief of the past or intimidation stop you! Let’s stay aligned with the word of the Lord and see the opening of the door to the more in kairos moments this year as we seek to advance his kingdom more than ever before!