The Lord: Knock, knock
Me: Who 's there?
The Lord: It's Me, the Lord, and I want to come in.
It is like the Lord is begging to come in. I hear the longing in His voice as He says He wants to come in.
Rev. 3:20 says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him and he will eat with Me."
The Lord is speaking to the church. To us as believers!
God wants to come in. He wants to rule and reign in our lives. He wants to be Lord.
We have prophesied this very thing. Week after week we have been declaring, "The kingdom of God, the rule and reign of God" and today the Lord is saying:
Knock, knock.
It's Me, the Lord and I want to come in.
Now the question is, are we going to let Him come in?
Do we really want His presence? Because it changes things.
Genesis 32:24-32 When Jacob encountered the presence of God not only did his name change but so did his appearance.
Exod. 34:33-35 Moses had to cover his face because it shone with the glory and presence of God.
Are we willing to change our appearance as individuals, as a church, in order to shine with His glory and presence?
Isaiah 6:1-5 When Isaiah had a vision of the glory of the Lord filling the tenple he cried out (v.5) "Woe is me! For I am undone and ruined because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts."
When God comes in, our eyes are opened and suddenly we see the reality of our heart's condition.
The shadow of Peter
Acts 5:15,16 "so that they kept carrying out the sick into the streets and placing them on couches and sleeping pads, that as Peter passed by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them. And the people gathered from towns and hamlets around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those troubled with foul spirits and they were all cured!"
The purpose of His presence is clearly stated by Jesus Himself in Luke 4:18,19
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, for He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed and broken down by calamity). To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (the day when salvation and the free favours of God profusely abound).
The presence of God! the anointed One and His Anointing sets captives free! Any kind of captivity can be broken by His presence.
The Lord wants to come in. To be Lord, to have His kingdom REALLY rule and reign!
Not by our human efforts and great ideas of how to make it happen but by simply opening the door to Him and saying yes to Him.
Knock, knock.
It's Me, the Lord and I want to come in
What are we going to say?
Try another house. Another church. Another person's life. Are we going to let Him pass by?
Or are we going to let Him come in. Let Him rule and reign in our church and in our lives?
Let us fling open wide our doors and say, "COME IN, LORD!"
Ps. 24:7 "Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up you ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in."
Behold I stand at the door and knock....
