4 - The Valley Gate: {Nehemiah 3:13}...Ah, the Valley Gate! This gate is an experience of passing through a narrow gorge, a deep narrow passage with steeply rocky sides, as between mountains. But that is just it, it is in the valley, not on the mountain, but down below in between the mountains. The Valley Gate is a part of the overall process of our development. The Valley Gate is a word picture of Psalms 23, walking through the valley of the shadow of death, with no fear of evil. Without the valley, how would you ever appreciate the mountain top? The Valley Gate is not designed to do you in, but to bring you out into a lively hope, a place where we really come to know that the Lord is with us, even in the darkest and toughest of times. This is a key core kingdom value for the corporate saints. Thus, the Valley Gate is to be restored and rebuilt into the corporate anointing. Intense trials and low valleys are not purposed and designed to undermine your progression in the kingdom. They are ordained of God for a specific time, place, and purpose, and for a strategic usage. Particularly, they help aid and to steer our thinking toward total trust in the Lord. As James 1:2 says, "Count it all JOY when you go through different temptations, tests, and trials, knowing that the trying of your faith is working patience and endurance in you." For there are only two kinds of tests in the earth, the test of prosperity and the test of adversity, as confirmed in Ecclesiastes 7:14. Both serve one another.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:36:14 +0000
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