Working through Gates

The picture below comes from Ian Clayton's book, Realms of the Kingdom. It is available on ibooks. His teaching and insight into this subject has greatly blessed me. The concentric circles represent the layers of our being; the outer one being the body, the next the soul, the third our spirit man, then a fourth being the inner most place where the glory of God resides.  

The flow of these parts is from the glory of God to the outer man  Something Marina taught me was that the body is the last "part" to be worked on. This is indicated here too that the body is the last part to reflect the glory of God within. As the Glory of God works it's way out, it passes through these gateways. When the Lord is our first love our spirit man grows in prayer, reverence, faith, hope, worship, revelation, intuition and the fear of God. These are the areas of our spirit man that need to grow so the flow of the Glory of God can be increased and released more fully. When there is a blockage of this I have been taking each of these to the Holy Spirit and asking which one/or more do I need to work on with Him to release the flow again. 

If these pipes are clear then I look into my soul with the help of the Holy Spirit!! I check my conscious, my reason, imagination, mind, emotions, choices, and will. This checking comes through waiting and resting on Him to reveal what is causing a blockage of the flow of the Glory of God. When I can't get clarity I get on the phone and ask for help!! Thank you dear friends for your willingness to journey and support me in this.

Finally as these blockages clear, the evidence will flow into my body; the eye-gate, the nose-gate; the ear-gate, the mouth-gate and the feel/touch-gate. If my mouth is not speaking in a way that reflects the glory of God then I need to go against the flow and backtrack to identify which gateway is causing a blockage for the flow of the Glory of God. 

An example of a recent personal experience is that I was able to ignore the calling of the Heavenly Father in the night to get up and meet with Him. This happened for some nights in a row. I wondered why I could ignore HIM and not feel wrong about that. I recognized that if it had been my mother calling me as a child I wouldn't have dared ignored her. Processing this matter through the gates resulted in me identifying that I had an issue with the fear of God. I didn't fear him like I feared my mother!! I was able to pray into this and get understanding of this blockage. Then my will was changed and my body responded willingly to the call. As a result I met with angels from the first night I obeyed and was blown away with the presence and love of my God and the glory flowed freely as a result.

Let's face the truth and be honest; we get blocked up sometimes!! The enemy is constantly looking for ways and gates that are not completely closed to him and we must stay watchful and alert to his strategies. 

I hope you will find this useful to get clarity on areas that will need attention from time to time. I have found this to be a practical guide to identifying and targeting issues that otherwise might not be recognized as blockages to the flow of the glory of God.

Psalm 118:19  Open to me the gates of righteousness;
                        I will go through them,
                        And I will praise the Lord.

Psalm 24:9      Lift up your heads, O you gates!
                        Lift up, you everlasting doors!
                        And the King of glory shall come in.

Isaiah 62:10   Go through, Go through the gates!
                       Prepare the way for the people;
                       Build up, Build up the highway!
                       Take out the stones,
                       Lift up a banner for the peoples!

It is time to bring forth the Glory of God to be a banner that reflects HIM. Let's not waste any time in doing what is necessary for His glory to shine and come in us, through us and from deep within us. 

Gates 

This is a drawing made from the scriptures listed above in Ezekiel and Revelation. The background to this was a scripture that my eyes glanced on that said, "This is what will happen in the last days." I was reading in Jeremiah. The cross reference took me to Genesis 49, then Revelation 21 and 22. When I went back to find the Jeremiah scripture it couldn't be found and seems doesn't exist. This is still a mystery to me as the scripture I thought I'd read led me onto this journey of gates and it has been very exciting to get some insight into this concept.

Revelation describes the gates and how they are positioned, each with an angel over it and each one named after one of the sons of Israel. 

In prayer with Katie a week or so before this revelation came, she saw a series of doors representing different parts of my life. The doors were in a straight line but she sensed they should be in a circle or at least in a way that they could be interconnected and not fragmented or separated from each other. also that the doors were to allow freedom of movement in and out and round about without restricting flow and movement. All I could so was ponder this at he time.

Until this word came. I researched the names of the son's of Israel to see whether there was some relevance in the meanings.

1st -  Reuben - meaning behold a son

2nd - Simeon - He who hears 

3rd - Levi - joined

4th - Judah - let God be praised (Granted the blessing of the firstborn and ruled over the nations and Israel)

5th - Dan - judge

6th - Naphtali - wrestlings (means to twist, be crafty, cunning)

7th - Gad - favour, good fortune. (He was an invader)

8th - Asher - happiness (the happy one)

9th - Issachar - man of hire 

10th - Zebulun glorious dwelling place

11th - Joseph - increase (repeater, doubler)

12th - Benjamin - son of the right hand, son of strngth, son of the south

To this point I have been accessing the gates of favour (Gad) and sending the angel on assignment as needed in my circumstances. It's been working. I don't understand it but I like it!!

Then I accessed the gate of Dan (judge) and saw a quick result. It's all a bit new to me but I've learned that sometimes I obey first and understanding comes later.

Trinette has been given scriptures and doing a similar thing unbeknowns to me and we have shared in the last couple of days to find out that we are on to something very exciting. There is something that the Holy Spirit wants to reveal to us concerning the gates. 

It is very exciting that "The Lord is There." He is in the centre of this. His glory is going to be manifested and we are going to be given free access to come and go and get the victory. 

Stay tuned because this is just the beginning!! Please post any comments and further revelation  given. Blessings.