RHEMA 3/06/12  BEING A DOOR KEEPER

[Lord why am I being so deeply stretched all of a sudden with my emotions?  I have been a lot of emotional warfare and for no understandable reason the last few days.]

VISION:  I had the children’s clothes in the washing machine, and I saw splats and spots on them.  The clothes were carefully wrapped in my white furry blanket like a ravioli pocket or a package.  It was a covering those who were being washed. 

HEARD:  Anxious for the Lord. Other people’s stains can stain us too. 

Yesterday I made the comment about clicking on www links that open the wrong doors.  I have heard the Lord say I am covering you and protecting you.  Now with this rhema I understand there are many layers and kinds of protections. 

Lord does this mean that when I am rebuking thoughts and emotions, it is part of being an intercessor and deliverer and washing others through this?  And I also dont need to feel guilty or condemned for not approving people’s fellowships to the QWRT when they are not walking according to scripture? 

HEARD:  That is exactly what I am saying. 

HEARD:  Fellowship - what is the right approach.  Thank you for asking. Be polite. Discernment.  You are a door for the fellowship.  You’re welcome, I just gave you understanding. 

BEING A DOOR KEEPER

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah O God, behold our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed. For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

I highlighted the following in my Bible that I placed in all caps below. It was very revealing to me to notice that they had gatekeepers established on all 4 sides, and that was exactly what I had seen in the vision of the property with the stake missing, - that the property had 4 sides.

1 Chron 9:17-27 NLT

The gatekeepers who returned were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was the chief gatekeeper . Prior to this time, they were responsible for the King's Gate on the east side. These men served as gatekeepers for the camps of the Levites. Shallum was the son of Kore, a descendant of Abiasaph, from the clan of Korah. He and his relatives, the Korahites, were responsible for guarding the entrance to the sanctuary, just as their ancestors had guarded the Tabernacle in the camp of the LORD. Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge of the gatekeepers in earlier times, and the LORD had been with him. And later Zechariah son of Meshelemiah had been responsible for guarding the entrance to the Tabernacle.

In all, there were 212 gatekeepers in those days, and they were listed by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed their ancestors because they were reliable men. These gatekeepers and their descendants, by their divisions, were responsible for guarding the entrance to the house of the LORD, the house that was formerly a tent. The gatekeepers were stationed on all four sides — east, west, north, and south. From time to time, their relatives in the villages came to share their duties for seven-day periods.

The four chief gatekeepers, all Levites, were in an office of great trust, for they were responsible for the rooms and treasuries at the house of God. They would spend the night around the house of God, since it was their duty to guard it. It was also their job to open the gates every morning.

Isa 22:22-23 NKJV

The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open. 23 I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father's house.

Rev 3:7-12 NKJV

"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. 9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie — indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.

DISCERNMENT OF WHO & WHAT YOU HEAR OPENS AND CLOSES DOORS

John 10:1-6 NKJV

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers." 6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

WORD TO PONDER: RESTORING THE AUTHORITY OF THE DOORKEEPER 9/23/06

I AM restoring the authority of the doorkeeper. Within every family, church, school, job, community, region, there are prescribed boundaries of authority that govern in the natural and in the spiritual. The doorkeepers have the authority and power to cast votes in areas where they have planted their time, prayers, callings, gifts and assigned positions.

These doorkeepers are given the authority to say yes or no. Such a position has the power to break spiritual stalemates; the swing vote where the one vote will turn the tide of destiny. In stalemates, this is operating as a judge in the spiritual realm, with the power of the gavel to establish the boundaries of finality.

Walk with clean hands, a pure heart with a soul cleansed from idolatry. Do not abide with the wicked. Do not make your decisions in presumption or haste. Judge nothing before its time, but instead wait upon Me to bring the revelations needed to cast a righteous vote. Be responsible and reliable to guard the doors of those you care for, and close the door against the wolf that seeks to tear and rip asunder.

Ps 84:12 NKJV

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

Isa 22:22-23 NKJV

The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open. 23 I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father's house.

OTHER TEACHINGS ON DOORKEEPERS