INTRO• What is “THE word” as you stepped into

2014?

OPEN DOORS – the phrase / words that we want it to lodge

into your heart / spirit

Classical

Modern

Chinese

Japanese

Automatic

Cowboy door

Door with pet door

Rev 3:7-8These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he

opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have

placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet

you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

What do you SEE in 2014

What do you SEE in 2014• Fear

What do you SEE in 2014• Fear • Problem

What do you SEE in 2014• Fear • Problem• Challenges

What do you SEE in 2014• Fear • Problem• Challenges • Uncertainties….etc

The ingredient of God’s Open Door

The ingredient of God’s Open Door• Little Strength

The ingredient of God’s Open Door• Little Strength • Kept God’s Word

The ingredient of God’s Open Door• Little Strength • Kept God’s Word • Faithful to His Name

Prayer that OPENS DOOR

Prayer that OPENS DOORRev 4:1

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

Luke 119 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and

the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks,

the door will be opened.

Luke 18The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He

said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And

there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my

adversary.’

Luke 18The Parable of the Persistent Widow

4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what

people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that

she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

Luke 18The Parable of the Persistent Widow

6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his

chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son

of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

“Lord, this day I will come to certain doors that are locked but I shall use these keys

to open those doors. And may I remember this day that there is a key to every

situation, a solution to every problem. May I never surrender to one of life’s

locked doors. Instead, may I use the keys on the key ring of prayer until I find the

right key and the door be opened.”

He who lives without prayer, he who lives with little prayer, he who seldom reads the Word, and he who seldom looks up to heaven for a fresh influence from on high—he will be the man whose heart will become dry and barren. However, he who falls in secret on his God, who spends much time in holy

retirement, who delights to meditate on the words of the Most High, and whose soul is given up to Christ—

such a man must have an overflowing heart. As his heart is, such will his life be.

 Spurgeon

Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and barometer, of vital and experimental religion. Burn

here the fat of your sacrifices. Let your closet seasons be, if possible, regular, frequent, and undisturbed.

Effectual prayer availeth much.

Have you nothing to pray for? Let us suggest the Church, the ministry, your own soul, your children,

your relations, your neighbours, your country, and the cause of God and truth throughout the world. Let us

examine ourselves on this important matter.

Do we engage with lukewarmness in private devotion? Is the fire of devotion burning dimly in our hearts? Do the chariot wheels drag heavily? If so, let us be alarmed at this sign of decay. Let us go with

weeping, and ask for the Spirit of grace and of supplications. Let us set apart special seasons

for extraordinary prayer.

For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the

Church and in the world. Spurgeon