All the gates that are standing against you will crash today in the name of Jesus! And the gates of heaven - life, prosperity, favour, grace, opportunities, healing and breakthrough are opening for you. While the gates of hell – opposition, failure, disappointment, enemies, sicknesses and death will close. Yes, you cannot enter or exit circumstances, positions without going through the gates.  Everything about life is a function of gates. The decisions about life and death take place at the gates. Remember the word of God said that the battle is at the gates. And that is why bible talks about the gates of heaven and the gates of hell. If the gates (powers, doors and windows) of heaven open for you, you will be blessed on earth. And if the gates of hell are unleashed against you, my dear you will sure need an urgent divine intervention to overcome them. You are where you are today because of the activities of these gates. Thank God that Jesus assured us that those rampaging gates of hell will not, never prevail against us. You must get my book / audiobook Power of Midnight Prayer immediately to have a deeper insight into the locations, operations and the powers of these two opposing gates and how their activities affect us. I called it there crashing the gates!

    But here, let’s limit ourselves to the gates of Jericho, “Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or come in.  But the LORD said to Joshua, ‘I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors.” Joshua 6:1-2. Are there people like that today? Nothing good, no favour is coming in or going out of their life. Everything around them is stagnant. God told Joshua and the Israelites that he had given them Jericho and everything in it, but when they approached, the wall was too high and the gates tightly, securely, firmly shut. Nothing, nobody, no goods and services were going in or coming out of the city. They knew that the Israelites were around and they didn’t want to give them any chance. The enemy has made things very difficult for you because he knows and understands God’s plan for you. True. He heard the divine promises for your life. He is aware of your confessions, ambitions, prayers and efforts to reach your goal and destiny, hence, his determination to frustrate, block and if possible destroy you and your plans.

   Yes, he did same to Jesus. He knew about Jesus’ mission and wanted Joseph to disown Marry and the baby in the womb, so that they would label the child a bastard. When he was about being born, there was no place for him except the animal’s pen. When he was eventually born, the jealous and wicked Herod killed hundreds of children, targeting him. But he divinely ‘escaped’. And throughout his life and ministry he struggled with the gates and powers of hell. The enemy struggled to oppose, discredit and destroy him. Even at the cross, he almost missed it. When he was buried the same gates of hell sealed his tomb and mounted soldiers there, but the power of God overruled. Thank God he eventually fulfilled his mission and ascended gloriously. This is also how the enemy goes after all of us. But today, God is saying that he has given you the keys to open the gates and also the power to bind and crash those ones that are against you. 

Seven Times

   God told Joshua and the Israelites that they must march round the city of Jericho once a day for six days with seven priests walking ahead of the Ark, and seven times on the seventh day. My God! There are so many things, blessings that God has given to us that we must have to act before we take actual possession. True. Yes, Joshua had the divine encounter and assurance with the commander of the LORD’s army, but the Israelites will still have to march in obedience. You have the prophecy, the vision, the dream and the promise, but you must also act and do something towards that vision. And not just doing something, you must act on time and in total obedience to the divine instructions and plan if you want to be successful. Every divine promise has a divine plan, road map to bring it to pass. You must find and follow it to succeed. Now, seven is the number of completion and rest. From now you will have rest from those your struggles in the name of Jesus! God rested at the seventh day of creation.  Yes, we can have rest here. We must not struggle throughout life. No. God can give you rest, prosperity and victory right here.

    There is something divine about this number seven. And can we scratch it a little here? Jacob was to serve seven years to be able to obtain his dream wife Rachel. The famine and the time of plenty at the time of Pharaoh and Joseph were to be seven years each. And the king’s dreams were also seven fat cows, seven thin cows, seven heads of grain, etc. Elijah after the decisive battle of Mount Carmel prayed seven times before the rain came. Are you listening? I love that encounter so much. When your prayer, sacrifice and obedience are complete, the rain will pour down in torrents. You also remember that Elisha told Naaman to dip himself seven times in the Jordan River to be healed of his leprosy.