DEFINING THE SEASON OF WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY. PART 2

DANIEL’S 8

…25 THROUGH HIS CRAFT AND BY HIS HAND, HE WILL CAUSE DECEIT TO PROSPER, AND IN HIS OWN MIND HE WILL MAKE HIMSELF GREAT. IN A TIME OF PEACE HE WILL DESTROY MANY, AND HE WILL EVEN STAND AGAINST THE PRINCE OF PRINCES. YET HE WILL BE BROKEN OFF, BUT NOT BY HUMAN HANDS. 26 THE VISION OF THE EVENINGS AND THE MORNINGS THAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN IS TRUE. NOW YOU MUST SEAL UP THE VISION, FOR IT CONCERNS THE DISTANT FUTURE.” 27 I, DANIEL, WAS EXHAUSTED AND LAY ILL FOR DAYS. THEN I GOT UP AND WENT ABOUT THE KING’S BUSINESS. I WAS CONFOUNDED BY THE VISION; IT WAS BEYOND UNDERSTANDING.…

EPHESIANS 1

15 FOR THIS REASON, EVER SINCE I HEARD ABOUT YOUR FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS AND YOUR LOVE FOR ALL GOD’S PEOPLE, 16 I HAVE NOT STOPPED GIVING THANKS FOR YOU, REMEMBERING YOU IN MY PRAYERS. 17 I KEEP ASKING THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE GLORIOUS FATHER, MAY GIVE YOU THE SPIRIT F OF WISDOM AND REVELATION, SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW HIM BETTER. 17 I KEEP ASKING THAT THE GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE GLORIOUS FATHER, MAY GIVE YOU THE SPIRIT F OF WISDOM AND REVELATION, SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW HIM BETTER.

DEFINING THE SEASON OF WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY

THIS IS A SEASON OF VISIONS, REVELATION, WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT. PORTALS OF HEAVEN ARE OPEN TO ACCESS A NEW SPHERE OF KINGDOM TRUTH AND GRACE, EVEN AS WE PRESS FURTHER TOWARDS THE NEARNESS OF THE KINGDOM. THE LORD IS ADDING DIMENSIONS OF KNOWLEDGE THAT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO STAY AHEAD OF THE SHECHEM AND DECEIT OF THE ENEMY.

JUST AS WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO US IN THE NATURAL REALM, SO WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO US IN MATTERS OF THE SPIRIT. THE DIFFERENCE, HOWEVER, IS THAT TO SEE AND MAKE THE BEST USE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY OPEN IN THE SPIRIT, YOU MUST HAVE A CERTAIN DEPTH OF HUNGER; A SENSE OF QUEST AND DISCERNMENT, AT LEAST TO PICK WHAT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED AS OPEN OPPORTUNITY.

THIS SEASON, WE HAVE ENTERED, COMES WITH CERTAIN LEVELS OF GRACE TO ENTER, OR EVEN DO CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE WILL NOT NATURALLY DO WITHOUT THESE WINDOWS OF GRACE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO PROBE THE SPIRIT AS YOU OPEN YOURSELF TO THIS NOW WORD, SO YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST USE OF THE MOMENT.

THE LORD OFTEN USES METAPHORS TO SPEAK TO HIS PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY WHEN HE DESIRES TO EMPHASIZE CERTAIN TRUTH. OR WHEN HE DESIRES TO PAINT CERTAIN IMAGES OR IMAGES TO US. ALL OF THESE ARE PART OF THE WAY OF BUILDING IMAGERY SPIRIT, ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO THE PROPHETIC SPIRIT.  THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THESE ARE DAYS OF MATURITY. WHAT THIS MEANS IS, THE LORD WILL BE TAKING US THROUGH VARIOUS STAGES AND LEVELS IN THE PROCESS OF EXPERIENCING AND BECOMING WHAT WE ALREADY ARE IN OUR REDEMPTIVE SPIRIT, BUT WE ARE YET TO EXPERIENCE.

THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING DEFINITIONS THAT COME UP AS WE CONSIDER THE TERMS WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY. THE TERM WINDOW OR WINDOWS IS A METAPHORIC DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN CONCEPTS OF TRUTH THAT THE FATHER COMMUNICATES TO HIS CHURCH. A WINDOW IS AN OPENING IN A HOUSE FOR THE ADMISSION FOR LIGHT AND AIR.

A WINDOW IS AN OPENING IN A WALL FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT INTO THE HOUSE. FIGURATIVELY, A WINDOW IS THE CHANNEL WHEREBY THE PROPHETIC ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES OF THE HEAVEN ARE TRANSMITTED INTO THE REALM OF MEN. OFTEN, THESE ACTIVITIES ARE DONE THROUGH THE OPENING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. THIS WINDOW CAN EITHER BE THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF DREAMS, VISIONS, OR REVELATIONS. THE ESSENCE OF THIS IS TO COMMUNICATE CERTAIN MESSAGES OR DEMANDS IN AN ACCELERATED MANNER, TO ACCOMPLISH AN URGENT PURPOSE.

THEREFORE, WHEN HEAVEN SPEAKS TO US ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE OPEN TO US IN THIS SEASON, WE ARE REFERRING TO AN ACCELERATED RELEASE OF THE MINISTRY REVELATION, VISION, AND SPIRIT OF WISDOM TO ACHIEVE A CERTAIN PROPHETIC MANDATE.

AS WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WINDOWS REPRESENTS IN THE SPIRIT AND THROUGH THE SPIRIT, WE WILL FULLY EMBRACE THIS SEASON. THE SPIRIT IS OPENING TO US TWO DIMENSIONS THAT WILL ALLOW US TO HAVE A CLEARER AND BETTER INSIGHT INTO HOW TO INTERACT WITH THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT, AS THEY RELATE TO THE PRESENT PROPHETIC EMPHASIS AND DEMAND OF THE FOR THE EARTH. 

THE LORD HAS BROUGHT US TO A NEW LEVEL OF DIVINE UNDERSTANDING. THIS UNDERSTANDING AS WE SEE IS A WINDOW OF REVELATION THAT GIVES US STRATEGIES TOWARDS THE APPLICATION OF SEEING AND APPLYING THE MINISTRY OF VISION AND REVELATION. THIS WILL INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF DISCERNMENT TO INTERACT WITH KINGDOM THINGS. WITHOUT DOUBT, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS BECOMING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO US AS WE PRAY. WHAT THIS MEANS IS, WE WILL GAIN GREATER ACCESS TO THE SPIRIT OF SONSHIP AND ELDERSHIP.

DANIEL 9

THE SEVENTY “SEVENS”

20 WHILE I WAS SPEAKING AND PRAYING, CONFESSING MY SIN AND THE SIN OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL AND MAKING MY REQUEST TO THE LORD MY GOD FOR HIS HOLY HILL— 21 WHILE I WAS STILL IN PRAYER, GABRIEL, THE MAN I HAD SEEN IN THE EARLIER VISION, CAME TO ME IN SWIFT FLIGHT ABOUT THE TIME OF THE EVENING SACRIFICE. 22 HE INSTRUCTED ME AND SAID TO ME, “DANIEL, I HAVE NOW COME TO GIVE YOU INSIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING. 23 AS SOON AS YOU BEGAN TO PRAY, A WORD WENT OUT, WHICH I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU, FOR YOU ARE HIGHLY ESTEEMED. THEREFORE, CONSIDER THE WORD AND UNDERSTAND THE VISION:

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HEAVEN’S PURPOSES, INTENTIONS, DESIRES, WE MUST EMBRACE THESE WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY RELEASED AS VISION AND REVELATION, SO WE CAN INTERACT WITH THE MIND OF THE LORD ON A HIGHER DIMENSION OF OBEDIENCE. 

THE MIND OF CHRIST IS THE OPERATIONAL REALITIES OF THE KINGDOM. THE FURTHER WE WALK IN THE REDEMPTIVE SPIRIT, THE MORE WE ENTER THAT REALM OF ASCENDED LIFE, OF RESURRECTION AND ETERNAL LIFE. THIS IS THE DAY OF THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. THIS OUTPOURING DIRECTLY SPEAKS TO THE OPENING OF THE HEAVENLY WISDOM AND VISION RELEASED THROUGH THE PRESENCE OF THE FATHER.

THE SPIRIT OF SUPPLICATION, PRAYERS, AND INTERCESSION WOULD GIVE US ACCESS TO AN INCREASED REVELATION OF VISION AND WISDOM, WHICH WOULD THEN ALLOW US TO WALK IN GREATER DISCERNMENT AND GRACE, SO THAT WE CAN OPERATE IN THE FULL COUNSEL OF GOD IN TIMES LIKE THIS. HENCE, THIS IS AN EXCITING DAY THE LORD USHERED IN OUR SPACE. LET US SEE THIS IN THE CONTEXT OF GOD POURING HIMSELF IN GREATER AND HIGHER DIMENSIONS OF TRUTH.