DAILY DEVOTIONAL – APRIL 30, 2021 In the Face of Closed Doors By David Wilkerson (1931-2011) I am writing to you today about God opening shut doors. Someone reading this message will relate immediately to this, because you face one or more closed doors.  There it is, right in your face, a door that seems to be continually locked.  It could be a serious financial situation, and you’ve prayed for the door of some opportunity to open.  Yet everything you try seems to fail; the doors simply don’t open. I don’t know what your closed door may be, but for many it seems both the windows and doors of heaven are locked shut. The heavens seem as brass, and you can’t seem to get through.  I’m speaking about some issue, some situation, some need you’ve been praying much about.  It may be a crisis that requires nothing less than a miracle, and you haven’t yet received an answer to your fervent prayers and petitions to the Lord. Christ refers to himself as “He who opens and no one shuts” (Revelation 3:7, NKJV).  This was in a letter sent to the believers in ancient Philadelphia, a church the Lord complimented for having kept the word of his patience and never denying his name.  Simply put, in their most trying times, these people stood faithfully on God’s Word.  They did not accuse the Lord of neglecting them or turning a deaf ear to their cries. Here is what the Lord promised them, and it is our promise as well:  “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” (Revelation 3:10). This hour of temptation is even now upon us.  It holds incredible tests of faith so great and so fiery that many will fall into deadly unbelief.  Indeed, a great falling away from enduring faith is now upon the whole world. But because you still trust his promises and are willing to die in faith even if you do not see the promises fulfilled, you will be kept from this worldwide temptation to fall into unbelief. God has heard your cry, and he knows the timing, the very hour, to open all doors.  So, never give up. Never doubt.  Stand on his promises. He will not fail you. Read OnlineDownload PDFForward to a Friend

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