Genesis 28:10-17
Now Jacob went out of Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the sun had set.
And he took one of the stones of that place and put it on his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.
Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham, your father, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give to you and your descendants.
14 Also, your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place? This is none other than “the house of God,” and this is “the gate of heaven!”
One place you don’t want trouble is the gate of heaven. One thing about church is that you can’t predict what’s going to happen.
Now if you’re in a church where the Spirit of God has no liberty, where the Spirit does not move, and where the chains of bondage are heard over the shout of victory, get up out of that seat, look for the exit, and don’t walk, but rather run from that place.
This church is a gate to heaven; it’s a gate into his presence. The angels are ascending and descending.
A gate church is a place where glory sweeps through. You can have victory; it’s at the gate of heaven. This is the house of miracles.
In ancient times, cities had gates because walls surrounded cities.
Often, there would be multiple gates; if the enemy broke through one gate, he had to deal with another. When you don’t have gates, you may as well not even have a wall.
The gate of prayer is a powerful gate. In a church without prayer, we have no gate; our homes would look odd with no door, so it is when a home has no prayer.
When you lose the ability to pray through, the heavens shut up, and you lose the rain of heaven.
So how important is praying through? It’s the difference between stepping through the gates or not.
You see, the depth of your prayer determines the depth of your victory.
In the gate, repeated behavior attracts the spirit of God; when the spirit of God picks up your prayers, the heavens open.
When the gate of heaven opens and the angels descend the ladder, your prayers get answers. At the gate, heaven invades the earth.
The term Jew is a term used at the gate.
J is for justice. If you get justice at the gate, you will be given access, or you will be denied entrance at the gate.
Economy: At the gate of heaven flows the economy of God; he will supply your needs.
W is for worshippers, the psalmist said in Psalms 100:4. Good News Translation
Enter the temple gates with thanksgiving; go into its courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise him.
S is for safety and security.
Psalm 91 New King James Version Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God
Psalms 91:1-2
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”
I feel with all my heart that my wife and I are gatekeepers, and I tell you by the Spirit of the Lord that as long as I’m alive, the gate of this church will be open to heaven and closed to the devil.
If you don’t let it in, you won’t have to remove it. Ishtar has no place in this house.
I’m not interested in seeing your body; the gate to my soul is closed to visual sin. I see heaven; the heavens are open to me.
Devil, the gates to this church are shut to you; there is no access, no place, and no idols in this house. I don’t care how good it looks when the doors are shut.
Devil, you’re going to have trouble at this gate; this church gives no place to you.
I think it’s time to give the glory to God and give the devil a fight he’s never seen before.
I pray this church closes the gates to the devil, and I pray our families close the doors to the devil, hell, and the demonic. Let’s live where the open heaven is.
When Jesus steps out of the gate of heaven to get his children, we will be caught up, taken up, and swept up. Given new bodies, eternal bodies that will never die.
A gate in heaven is opening, and Jesus is going to step through it. He is coming back to church; I can feel it. It’s about to happen.