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Why We Should Let The Door Close

“Behold, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and not denied my name.”

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Why We Should Let The Door Close

We walk through life and we always want more. We want the doors to open that we want to open instead of the ones that God has prepared for us. We say we are at peace with the doors he has closed for us but we still try to sneak back and reopen them because we think we can do something different with them.

The door that opens may not be the one you wanted, but God puts you exactly where you need to be and you are to bloom right where you are planted. Some doors are not God’s will for you to go through so he closes them for your protection. It may not be peaches and cream to go through something you don’t want to but in the end you will see exactly why the Lord placed you there. And usually when all you have left to do is rely on God it is an open door. Our job as Christians is to have faith in the Lord and trust in his plan. Proverbs 3:5 tells us to “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

When it’s really an open door you know that it is God really at work. Remember that the Holy Spirit will put a troubled feeling in you if He wants you to keep a door closed. It may break your heart and hurt your soul but let it close and move forward because the Lord has a reason for letting that door close behind you. He may want us to leave behind people who are pulling us down or he may pull you away from somewhere that will cause you from growing closer to him. Sometimes the door is cracked open and God wants us to persevere in prayer so we can push the door all the way open. When the time is right he will completely open the door.

So pray without ceasing, and have faith as small as a mustard seed because with those two things you can go anywhere that God wants to take you.

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