All the Doors are Open Wide

0:00 Hello and welcome. This is Diane Lake, your host, and I'm going to be sharing how you can understand and apply the prophetic through practical ways, practical terms, and practical means that make it relevant to everyday life so that you can prepare the way for the Lord's purposes to manifest in the earth. This is the podcast show, Preparing the Way, the Practical Prophetic. Well, hello guys and welcome to episode number 53, which I've titled, All the Doors Are Open Wide. So much has been said about open doors in this season of 2024 and the Hebraic year 5784, and yet the Lord continues to speak to me about open doors in this season.

0:48 So the most recent things that I heard, there were two of them. The first thing I heard was the Lord said, My or the door is open wide. And the second thing is, All the doors are open wide. So of course, as I'm pondering these statements, because I want to know what they mean, I was first led to John chapter 10, verses seven and nine, because in that section, Jesus himself says, I am the door. So I think that's what that's talking about that first statement. As far as the second statement, I felt like the Holy Spirit prompted me to recall all the doors that I've written and podcasted about.

1:30 And also the other prophetic voices that have written and spoken about open doors, what are they? What were those open doors? So as I recall what I had written about the open doors that I specifically had mentioned, or strategy, fulfillment, revelation, abundant, even supernatural provision, hope, honor, and even the wealth of the nations. And I'm sure you can recall more than that. It's important that we walk through these doors that are open in 2024, not that just we move on to the next prophetic word, or that we assume that automatically whatever is behind these doors is just going to come to us naturally and easily.

2:19 So I hope this doesn't sound repetitive, but at least in the beginning we need to review what these doors are, because the simple fact is, if the Lord is still talking about open doors, even as we are well into 2024, it's the end of June as I'm recording this episode right now, we can't move on either. And as you all know, the content that I put out on this podcast show, these episodes, I have to know that the Lord is having me speak about it, I can't just make up the content. So all this to say, God's not done talking about it, so we're not done either. Now, again, it's going to not be repetitive from here on out. I don't believe because we're going to start talking about how do we walk through these doors, not what the doors are.

3:02 So the Lord's been showing me a few key elements about these doors, how do we walk through them. And the first that he has shown me is that we need to be bold and to say yes. So the Lord's given me a couple of dreams he often talks to me in dreams about this. So the first one was that I was talking to a group of people. It was about something to do with ministry, but then I moved into this section. And I began to tell them that my husband and I at some point are going to fund an orphanage in India. And I described how we've had a number of prophetic words and dreams in which the Lord has told us that this is what he wants us to do.

3:45 Now, this is actually true. It's not just in the dream, but in real life, true. I have had no less than a dozen words, dreams, prophetic encounters, in which the Lord has shown us he wants us to do this. So then in the dream, I continued by saying, we have no idea what we're doing, or how we're going to accomplish this, this building of an orphanage, but we have said yes. And in a second subsequent dream, as I still talk about this orphanage before I moved to the next dream about being bold and saying yes, the Lord showed me that he was going to give me the father's love for these kids, these children.

4:26 It would be a different kind of love than my own love. It would be much greater and beyond anything that I've ever known. So I hope what you're gathering as we go through this is, as you walk through these doors, you're going to have what you need on the other side. All right, it's going to be something new and different. All right, the second dream that I had related to this topic of being bold and saying yes, is that in the dream I had hosted a gathering. And people were coming and coming and coming way more people than I'd ever anticipated. And it turns out that some kids were coming to kids were involved and I had not planned for that. And yet people with skills appeared in the stream, who seemed to know what to do with the kids they just began taking on responsibilities themselves, and doing things so that I didn't have to worry about the details.

5:17 Now, I was involved. As far as this gathering goes, I was overseeing or you know in some kind of a supervisory capacity, more or less. But again, I didn't have to worry about the details other people just appeared and we're doing it. And a woman approached me in the stream, and she said, How is it that you put together this gathering? How did you pull it off? In other words, and I just laughed almost a little bit and said, Oh, I'm just the person who said yes to hosting this. Friends, I feel that the door that the Lord intends you to walk through, the door he intends me to walk through, most likely is going to involve some boldness and some risk. And I felt like the Lord gave me a prophetic word for you, for me as well.

6:05 Let me say here what it is. I know the Lord speaking that sometimes it feels like nothing is happening. But it is. I am working behind the scenes. The Lord says, I'm orchestrating. There will be a manifestation of a large scale promotion soon. What you will be doing for me. Isn't that cool? What you will be doing for the Lord will be revealed. And the Lord finished and continued, as he said, Be bold, say yes. Well, okay, so that's what we're going to do. We're going to be bold and say yes. Now, another key that the Lord showed me about walking through the doors is that we need to maintain our faith and integrity and to secure the victory.

6:52 Because if you have already noticed, I'm betting, I know I have already noticed that Satan, our enemy, raises up to meet us as we cross that threshold of opportunity. You know, Paul even talks about that in 1 Corinthians 16 verse nine. I'll let you look that up on your own. Recently, my husband and I experienced a setback and that we were in a vehicle accident that wasn't our fault. And literally, this happened in April, I will say the last couple months have felt like a battle, both with insurance companies, and in regards to our health, regaining our health in some certain ways.

7:34 But one recent morning, I just sensed in my spirit, you know, sometimes you just know things in your knower, I guess, and I sense that we had turned a corner. So, you know, it didn't feel like it didn't seem like it, but I just began to prophesy and decree that we've turned a corner, we've turned a corner. And later that day, we received an email with the good news that we were finally going to be able to move forward with repairs to our vehicle, which had been, you know, tabled for months. And I have yet to see, we have yet to see breakthrough in the other areas that we're looking for, but I'm confident it's coming. So, as I pondered this, the Lord brought to mind the passage of 2 Samuel 5, 17 to 20. Now, this is where David defeats the Philistines, but the context is, we need to back up, the context is that David had just been anointed king over Israel.

8:30 He already had been king of Judah, but now all Israel. And when the Philistines heard this, guess what, they came looking for a fight. So, surprise, right? Not really. Promotion, friends, is associated with battle. There's a scriptural principle for it. Now, we read that David went to Bail Parasm. And there is where the Lord gave David the victory. So, David says this after the victory. The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breakthrough of water. I read that out of the New King James, that's chapter 5, verse 20 of 2 Samuel. Now, Bail Parasm could literally be translated, master of breakthroughs.

9:16 Sometimes, I think God likes to drive home a point. We live on a mountain ranch, might be able to see the mountain even behind me. And we have a private road a mile long to maintain. Now, every spring after the snowmills, the runoff causes the silt to clog up the culverts and they're not working anymore. So, what I realized as I was sitting at my laptop typing this content, getting ready to release this article and this podcast, I realized as I'm writing about the waters of breakthrough, at that moment, my husband is down where the culverts are with high-pressured water blasting through these culverts to get this silt out so that they can function again.

10:04 Now, what a coincidence, right? I would call that a God coincidence because it's the only way to fix this problem. This culvert is not going to work again and function if you can't blast that out with water and get the silt out. So, I'm going to say this. It may feel like you are in a battle right now, but guess what? We serve the Lord of breakthroughs. I want to prophesy something to you right now. You have turned a corner. Your breakthrough is coming and you're going to recover even twice as much as before. And check out the scripture, Zechariah 9 verses 11 and 12, and you will see that that is a scriptural principle, recovering twice as much as before.

10:51 Alright, one last thought about walking through these open doors and what God might be wanting to say to us right now. I find it intriguing that my husband and I celebrated our 44th anniversary this past May of 2024. So, we know this is the year of the open door. We've reviewed this in other episodes, the four, meaning the four is the letter, the value of the Hebrew letter, delet, and that is symbolized by a door. So, several nights before our anniversary, my husband had a dream. Now, he often gets a dream from the Lord, but he doesn't see it that way. So, we sit down over coffee and every time I'll start out saying something like this.

11:35 I had a dream, but I don't think it's important. I don't think it means anything. And of course, I'll prompt him because I want to hear it. And so, he'll share the dream and then at the end I'll say, oh my gosh, that's so profound. That's so powerful. Something like that because, you know, he might not see the meaning, but somehow it seems natural to me. And almost every time he does this, there is some powerful divine meaning behind it. So, he's going to share the dream, right? And he tells me that in the dream it's like a clock had been turned back. Both he and I were in high school and we looked young, very young, but it's clear we were married in that dream. So, that's all there was to the dream. So, in real life, what had happened is my husband and I did go to the same high school.

12:20 I was a freshman when he was a senior, but we were not a couple back then. In fact, he had a very steady girlfriend. So, after he had shared this, I commented that that's a good word because to me, the meaning seemed fairly obvious. The fact that we were teenagers indicates youth and health, right? You're right at just the prime of entering into adulthood. And the fact that we were clearly married, to me, symbolized that the Lord intends to restore to us youth and health, even now, married 44 years, and continuing on. Essentially, this is by turning back the clock because how else is this going to happen? He's going to have to dial it back, right?

13:06 Now, in all transparency, this dream came at a very challenging time. I just shared with you. We'd had a vehicle accident prior to this and, you know, now we're not in the place we want to be with our health. So, just by way of sharing, you know, being transparent, my husband and I worked very hard to maintain our health. You know, we battle, we fight, we go to the gym, we stretch, we stay active, and we try to eat right as best as we can. But as I shared earlier, now all of a sudden, we've lost ground. It's a setback. So, in spite of this, you know, what I'm thinking to myself, well, what if God wants to show off, right? Even if we've had a setback, maybe?

13:49 Even because of this, he wants to prove and show off and say, you know what? I'm going to restore your health and your youth better to what it, than what it ever was. And he's going to get all the glory, right? God likes to do that. We know that. So, this is not the first time that I've heard the Lord talk about restoring youth and health, not at all. So, my question to you is, could the Lord be opening the door in 2024 to being younger and healthier than ever before? That's very intriguing to me. Now, perhaps this seems impossible to you in light of your circumstances.

14:29 Maybe you are in some kind of setback position like we are, or maybe you're just not in a good place at all with your health. But I invite you to claim this word for your own. If you feel it is for you, or if you feel Holy Spirit quickening that word to you, please grab a hold of it. Because as for me, I plan to walk through this door in 2024 that I feel is open before us. Now, I want to finish this thought and finish this podcast episode by reading a passage of scripture that has really been on my mind concerning restoring youth and health. Because we always want to look to scripture, right? Does scripture say anything like this? Is this potentially possible?

15:14 So, you're welcome to study this passage and read it on your own, but I'm going to read it in the New King James for us right now. It is Psalms 103 verses 1 to 5. Like the Eagles. All right. I want renewed health. Do you want renewed health? Let's walk through that door together that I believe is opening in 2024. Amen.

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16:47 Thank you again so much for listening. Bless you. And I'll talk to you next time.