NOTHING IN YOU IS SPARED UNDER CLOSED DOORS

Post date: Nov 6, 2019 2:36:18 PM

All types of closed doors operating against you have the inherent power of greatly affecting you in ways that are beyond your imaginations; it has the power to affect everything in your life in a very negative way. Closed doors is not a choice we make but it is what Satan brings in our ways to hinder us. Closed doors will affect your relationship with your spouse and with your children; it will affect your marriage and your family, it will affect your business and your associates, it will also affect your expectations despite putting in your very best every day to work hard, to pray at all times, to keep and maintain the right thoughts, and to act right.

“There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim named Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other named Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. This man went up from his city each year to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli were priests to the Lord there. When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions of the sacrificial meat to Peninnah his wife and all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah, he would give a double portion because he loved Hannah but the Lord had given her no children. Hannah’s rival provoked her bitterly, to irritate and embarrass her because the Lord had left her childless. So it happened year after year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, Peninnah provoked her, so she wept and would not eat. Then Elkanah her husband said to her Hannah, why do you cry and why do you not eat? Why are you so sad and discontent? Am I not better to you than ten sons?” 1 Samuel 1:1-8.

Closed doors in our lives are not hard to see by others, it might take longer for your eyes to see and for you to begin noticing or experiencing them but they are there; their effects are always not pleasant, they are always devastating to lives, to family members, and to all relationships; they are destructive to good thoughts, they are destructive to good dreams, to good desires, to good expectations, and they adversely affect the way we feel about things and people around despite our struggles and our efforts to keep straight face. Closed doors hinder all good expectations, hinder breakthroughs despite our qualifications, experience, and hard labor, it brings physical and spiritual stagnation and suffering, it does not respect one's nationality, age, education, gender, religion, experience or language; it breeds anger against self and against others irrespective of the situations of things around. Have you seen a jealous angry person in action? there is a closed-door in that person's life, there are unmet expectations in his or her life.

The inability of Hannah to conceive as early as expected in her marriage was troubling to her and it gradually started taking her joy in marriage away. Closed doors in marriage and child bearing is destructive except the Lord intervenes quickly; breakdown in marriages are often associated with closed doors in expectations; closed doors in maintaining good and healthy relationships are very destructive to proper thinking and actions thereafter; closed doors in business and in breakthroughs is destructive and breeds self-condemnation, pains, and suspicion. Because Satan does not want you to meet your expectations in life despite your struggles and prayers, he creates closed doors to hinder your ways and struggles. Satan wants you to be angry at yourself always for the failures in you, in your home, and in your business; he wants you to remain angry against your spouse and children for their inability to meet your expectations despite your investments in them; he wants you to angry with everybody because of the closed doors in your life, and Satan wants you to always act in anger because of those closed doors he had deliberately created against you and the things you are doing in your life. Because of closed doors, Hannah suffered the unexpected and Elkanah her husband experienced the unexpected. For prayers, Click here