The key of David

Revelation 3:8 ‘He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word.
Isaiah 22:22 The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; and he shall shut, and no one shall open (this was said to Eliakim – the God of rising).
There are many, many doors that these keys will open. God does open doors for us and there are times we have to ask God for a door to open. Paul asked the church in Colossians 4:3 …pray for a door of utterance to be opened for me… opportunities to speak and ears that will hear.

Open doors means change for new things to happen – God wants to open doors for you and for those you pray for. Consider now what is facing you this year that needs some definite action.
1Corinthians 16:6 I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Our prayers can see the doors of peoples’ hearts being opened.
Revelation 3:18 Behold I stand at the door and knock.
We cannot stand halfway between two open doors of the same room. 1Kings 18:21 loiter between two opinions.

There are doors that need to be closed.
Things of the past, whether good or bad. Good in the sense that they were productive but the time has come for change.
2Corinthians 2:12 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
There are doors that need to be closed to things of the past that have been problematic and difficult. These things cause us pain or regret or shame. These things invade our minds and imaginations and God’s grace helps us to rise up (in our God of rising) and find new hope for new doors to open up before us. This is the redemptive work of God through suffering which brings new hope.

God prepares a place where we can go to him with those things and close the door on them - and a new door opens up.

Matthew 6:6 When you pray go into your room and close the door…
Psalm 31:7 You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities, and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

This is the enlarged space where Kingdom doors are opened up to us. This is like a large room with doors everywhere that would seem to have no back wall.