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unfortunate position of being locked outside, having lost your keys! You hammer on the door, trying to get someone’s attention, hoping someone will answer. How foolish would it be to do that if you already had the keys! You could open up the door and walk straight in. Many believers treat prayer like they are beggars, shivering in the cold, hammering away, trying to get God’s attention. When we realise that Jesus has already given us the keys and we have access to an open door it changes the way we approach prayer. When I started working at Bethel church in Barnsley in 2001 one of the first things they gave me was a copy of the keys. That meant I had access to the church any time day or night. If I wanted to, I could enter the church at 3.00 am. If the police stopped me I could show them that I had the keys and they knew I had a legal right of entry. When I left that church in 2014, I had to hand my keys back. Now I am restricted to accessing that building only when it is open to the public. It doesn’t matter that I was there 13 years. It doesn’t matter that I know the pastor. I don’t have the keys, so if I enter without permission I am a thief. The church will never pray correctly and never be victorious, praying like it doesn’t deserve to pray. But when we understand that we have the keys to God’s Kingdom and can access His throne room any time, day or night, we have discovered a powerful truth! The Master Key A number of years ago I was ministering in the nation of Zambia. On the last day we were flying home and needed to leave the hotel very early in the morning. I contacted reception the night before and asked them to give me an early morning wake up call. The next morning I woke up suddenly and looking at my watch, I realised they had forgotten to call me! I had only a few minutes to get downstairs. Quickly dressing I grabbed my bags and went to the door handle. Disaster struck as I pulled it, the handle fell off in my hand with the door still locked! I began to shout, but it would do no good as even if my friends heard me, they only had keys for their doors. Eventually I got someone’s attention and a porter came with something very special. He had a master key to the hotel. It was the key that opened up every door! He quickly used that key to let me out. Notice that Jesus, spoke about the “keys” to the Kingdom, plural. There are many keys in the Kingdom. But hidden in the Word of God, is a master key. This is a key that opens up any and every door and it is a key that God longs for His Church to discover. This key is called the key of David. Jesus spoke about this key in Revelation 3v7: “These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.” See that whatever He opens remains open. This shows us that not only is the Key of David a master key that opens every door, but also it brings permanent breakthrough. Many times in life we see the same old problems reoccurring. But the key of David enables a permant breakthrough. Things open and shift and remain that way. Not only does the key of David open things, it also shuts the door. We need to shut the door to sickness, negativity, unbelief, bad habits, doubt, fear and so many other things, in our lives. The believer that has the key of David is able to do this. What is the key of David? The key of David enables permanent breakthrough I believe that in naming this master key after King David, the Holy Spirit is pointing us to the life of David. There are two distinguishing marks of the life of David. Number one – He was a worshipper. Number two – He was a pursuer of God’s presence. This is also where our victory lies. In being a believer that puts on the garments of praise and boldly and passionately lifts up the name of Jesus; we are given the keys of victory. And when like David we say “My heart says of you, seek His face; your face Lord I will seek” (Psalm 63v1), we find the master key that gives us access to keys to Kingdom breakthrough. Several months ago I lost the spare key to my car and couldn’t find it anywhere. That car was being sold and the new owner insisted on having the spare key. Faced with the prospect of knocking loads of money from the agreed price I was in a panic and looked all over the house and couldn’t find it anywhere. I went to bed that evening and prayed saying “Lord, you know where that key is, you need to tell me”. As soon as I woke up, the Lord told me where it was, in a very very obscure place, but I picked it up straight away. The lesson - I worried and stressed and couldn’t find that key, but as soon as I prayed, the key was there. Easy. Here is what God said: “Many of my people are faced with closed doors, they are hammering on the door trying to get it to open and are begging for the keys. Others once knew what it was to live with the open door but now all doors have closed and there is a panic that the keys seem to have been lost. There are keys that open up doors to finance, ministry opportunities, family being saved, marriages being restored. There are keys to abundance, joy, peace and deliverance. For church leaders there are keys to new buildings, keys to your city and community. For evangelists there are keys to nations, regions and miracles. As long as you stress, panic, strategies and try to find the key to your breakthrough in your own strength, the way will remain hidden. But in my presence, keys are found. The key to your breakthrough, the key to your open door. For the Lord says “I am the One who holds the key of David, what I open no one can shut and what I shut no one can open”. The name David means “Beloved”. As you walk in the reality of being the Beloved of God, as you embrace your identity as His Bride, as you rest, enjoy and abide in His presence, and live in the simplicity of being a lover of Jesus, it is in that place that keys are found. Christ still gives the keys to the kingdom to His Church, but not the Church that walks in the flesh, but the Church that walks in the Spirit. I see in the Spirit, keys, lost keys, abandoned keys, keys long forgotten, but keys ready to be found and put into locks that will open with ease to those who have the keys. There is a door of blessing, a door of breakthrough, a door of destiny and Christ has the keys. The Lord urges His people to go back to His presence, back to the place of prayer and fasting, back to the intimacy of worship, become His beloved and find and pick up the keys He intends for you to have.” Heaven on earth In Psalm 62, David says “I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.” Have you ever stopped to think that under the Old covenant David wasn’t actually allowed access into the glory of God? Only the High Priest could access God’s glory and he only once a year. Yet because David was a worshipper and a pursuer of God’s presence, he found the keys to a dispensation that would only come later, after the death of Jesus.
In the same way, although we are now in the Church age, there is another dispensation coming, it is called the dispensation of the Kingdom. In that age, there will be no more death, sickness, pain or injustice. In that age we will see Him face to face and be like Him. Some believers are content to live in defeat and bondage on earth, waiting for that future dispensation that is coming. However, if we as the Church will discover true Spirit and Truth worship and start to really hunger and thirst after God’s presence, then maybe will find the keys that enable us to access what is coming in the future, right now. Maybe that is what it means in Hebrews 6 when it talks of those “who have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and the powers of the coming age” When we have the key of David we can taste heaven now, we can taste resurrection power, healing, glory and justice now. This is what God longs to show His Church. river to carry us to the lost and broken we find ourselves in the midst of the enemy’s camp, but not as captives, but as victors. We have found the keys to the city God has promised us. In speaking of the religious leaders of his day Jesus said “Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.” (Luke 11v52) You see religion always robs people of the keys to the Kingdom. A believer that doesn’t have an active prayer life doesn’t have the keys of victory that it needs. But as the army of God we must discover once again the old secret of the secret place. We must again go back to that secret place of prayer and that river of the Holy Spirit. A Church that responds to the Spirit’s call to pray, will find the keys to their city and whatever other breakthrough they need. Let us all resolve to be the Spirit filled, praying people that Jesus requires us to be. The Keys of Destiny The city of Jerusalem was David’s destiny and inheritance. The only problem was that between David and his inheritance was an enemy. The enemy mocked David saying “‘You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.’ They thought, ‘David cannot get in here.” (2 Samuel 5v6). Like David we too have an inheritance. Psalm 2 says “Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance” (v8). Our inheritance is that we will see His Kingdom come in our nations and His glory change our communities. But we too have an enemy that mocks us “Great Britain (substitute your nation) belongs to me”, says the enemy. “The Church is finished, a dwindling minority. Immorality has won, darkness has won. The Church has failed”. Yet, the Bible declares “Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion – which is the City of David.” (v2 Samuel 5v7) I want to prophesy a “nevertheless” over your church, your community, your nation and your life today! It doesn’t matter how small or needy your church is…..NEVERTHELESS! It doesn’t matter what strongholds are over your community….NEVERTHELSS! It doesn’t matter how backslidden your nation appears….. NEVERTHELESS! It doesn’t matter what the doctor has said.... NEVERTHLESS! It doesn’t matter how hopeless the situation appears....NEVERTHLESS! It doesn’t matter how far away that prodigal is away from God....NEVERTHLESS! You see underneath the city was a hidden shaft of water. It was a secret place that not even the enemy noticed. David and his men, got on their hands and knees and climbed up that water shaft. They came out a bit soggy, but they were right in the center of the enemies camp! They had found the key to the city! The key to taking cities is still the same today. There is a secret place, it is called the secret place of prayer. The enemy cannot see us in the secret place because in that place we “dwell in the shelter of the Most High and rest under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91). But God sees us in that secret place. He promises: “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6v6) In the secret place there is a hidden flow of water. It is called the river of the Holy Spirit. God is calling His Church to fight from their knees. Like David and his men, let us get on our hands and knees in a posture of prayer and worship and enter the river of His presence. As we become immersed in that river and allow the More teaching articles can be found online www.GENERATIONBUILDERS.ORG/teaching ONLINE STORE www.GENERATIONBUILDERS.ORG Confidence in Prayer Prayer is one of those things that all Christians know they should do, but many struggle with. Most Christians desire to take their prayer life to another level. In this powerful teaching, Andrew Murray teaches on why we can pray with confidence and assurance. Let your faith soar, as we look at the relationship God has brought us into and how that effects our prayer life and our ability to access God’s throne room. Blood Covenant When Jesus shed His blood on the cross it was about much more than forgiveness and salvation. When Jesus shed His blood, He entered into a covenant with you. Using the life of Abraham as an example, Andrew Murray teaches on what a blood covenant is and what is the covenant that Christ has made with His Church. 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