Transcript: The Audacity of Faith - Entering into Open Doors
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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, his presence, and his power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Thank you because you've answered. In Jesus' name, we have prayed. I sense in my spirit that the spirit of faith, even as we continue the subject, Your audacity of faith. I've been entering open doors. Your audacity of faith. Entering open doors. If you've not listened to the first part of this teaching, I would want...
This is not a part two necessarily. This is just a teaching on its own, but I would want you to get your audacity of faith daring greatly into destiny. I want you to get it and I want you to listen to it with understanding. The audacity of faith, gearing greatly into destiny. My emphasis is somewhat different today as I would be more focused on entering open doors in today's meeting. Are you with me? Yes, sir. You see, there are times when the greatest tragedy in the life of a believer is not that the doors are closed. There are times when the greatest tragedy in the life of a believer is that the doors are open, but they are still standing outside. There are many believers who have prayed for access, many believers who have cried for opportunities, many believers who have fasted for visibility, who have asked God for a chance and prayed for elevation and, you know, done deliverances and trusted for all kind of open doors happening.
Yet when God answers and he sets a door before them, they begin to act like spectators in the corridors of destiny. Are you with me? Yes, sir. They start negotiating with fear. They start measuring themselves against their limitations. They start waiting for things to align, waiting for a guarantee, waiting until they feel ready. And whilst they are waiting, moments are passing. Whilst they are waiting, the opportunity is shifting. Whilst they are waiting, the room that God has opened is filling up with people who have jumped in before them. And what God opened for them now become the testimony that they admire from afar.
You see, Revelation chapter three and verse eight, the bible says, I know your work and I've set before you an open door which no one can shut. And I showed you this scripture that God has already set the door before you. And when he set the door before you, the door was open. The door was not closed, and then you have to open it. Do you understand what I'm saying? What God did was to set before you a door that he has opened, an already open door. Are you with me? Yes, sir. That no man can shut. And you see, this open door is not a promise that God will do everything for you whilst you just sit down and wait somewhere.
It's not a promise. This statement is an invitation. When you hear God say, I've set before you an open door. It's an invitation. It's a call to a specific posture of faith because God did not say, I will carry you through an open door. He said, I've set before you an open door. And there's a word of difference between those two statements. It means if there is a open door that is set before you, there must be an entering that you do. The possibilities that come with an open door are at the other end of the door. The open door itself is not the miracle.
The open door grants you access to the miracle. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's like you are hungry, and the door of the kitchen is open. Is that the miracle? The miracle that there is food in the kitchen. But if the door were closed, you will remain hungry. So it's a miracle that the door to the kitchen is open. That means the first problem is even solved. Now you can remain there not knowing what to do. There can be provisions.
There can be groceries. There can be everything right there. But between you and the miracle is you entering into the door that has been opened. Are you with me? Yes, sir. There's a posture of faith that is needed. God, not to say I will prepare a way. God said I have set before you an open door. The tense is past. It's a past tense.
I've set before you, not I will set before you. The is already done. The door is already opened. It's already directly placed in front of you. God has already arranged the access. He has already created the way. He has already positioned the opportunity. Are you listening to me? Yes, father. The door is not coming here.
It is already set. It is already open. It's already waiting for you to enter. What will become the greatest undoing of many believers is not closed doors. It is open doors they never entered. This is where many believers will get stuck. Because we will we will pray for God to open doors, and we fast for breakthroughs, and we believe that one day, God will create an opportunity for me. And all the while, the door God has already set before them is wide open. And as as it is wide open, they are still praying. Lord, will you handsome in prayer?
Lord, will you open a door? Are standing right in front of it, and they are shouting, God, will you open a door? They are looking right at the door, and they are shouting, God, will you open a door? Will you send helpers to me? They are talking about the door. They are praying about it. They are fasting about it. Yet the door is right there, opened, and they are not entering. Let me give an example of this. Lord comes to David and anoints David as king.
Is that not so? And the moment God anoints David as king, God tells him that you'll be king over Israel. And what David is waiting for is an opportunity, a window that announces him to the public, that announce him to the world because nobody was there when he was anointed. Did I not so? Yes, sir. But the door was opened already. And how do know the door was opened? His father sent him to the to the battlefield to go and give food to his brethren. And upon getting there, there was Goliath waiting there. And Goliath was saying, whoever can challenge me, bring your best warrior.
And he was mocking the God of Israel. Mocking the God of Israel. Can you imagine David going there, looking at Goliath and saying, wow. Omo, I beat everybody everybody in in this this battlefield battlefield today. Today. See what they have to fight. And as it's going back, thank God I'm not a warrior with them. Hey. Ah, Omo, everybody get their own battle. God, that promise you gave me that I will be king.
I'm still waiting for it to manifest. When will it manifest? The door is right there opening, shouting whoever will come, come. Whoever will come, come. That's what many people do. Do you understand what I'm saying? We're going to be praying today. But I sense in my spirit, whilst I was praying, the Lord, I should address this, that a lot of people celebrate when they hear that the doors are open. Because it's a good news, and that is all it is. They don't see it as an instruction.
They don't see it as an invitation. If you go and visit your friend in their house and you meet them by the gate and you keep on knocking and they open the gate for you, You are happy that they've opened the gate. Is that all there is? Will you not go inside the house, sit down somewhere, look for a good bottle of water, or we miss out on that experience, and we only thank God the doors have opened? Thinking that it would mean that the miracles on the other side will meet you outside the door. Whilst you are thanking God that the doors have opened, because that's what we do. That's what we do. And every time believers repeat this pattern, we are... We we have no idea what we are missing out. Are you with me?
An open door is an invitation. An invitation of the man responds. When God sets a door before you, God is saying, move. God is saying, enter. God is saying, this is your moment. I've made the way clear. You just pass through. Pass through. Go in. In other words, open door means enter.
Open door means going. Open door means move. Open door does not mean thank you. It means move. It means there is a response from the one to whom the door was opened for. Otherwise, years will pass by, seasons will pass by, and you will keep on wondering why there are testimonies in the life of others The possibilities that come with an open door do not enter your life simply because you agree with the prophecy. They enter your life because you moved with it. So I told you last week, for instance, that an open door means divine favor. And you would think that an open door means divine favor means I will just sit down and favor will land upon me because the doors are open. An open door means divine connections.
I'll just sit down and, oh, very well of staying in my room. God will just start connecting me divinely. Phone calls on my phone. Hey. Hello. Are you Bolanle? Are you Feremy? Are you Gloria? Are you Michael? We have seen your name somewhere, and we think that is a miracle.
Because you see, our expectations are deformed. And because our expectations are deformed, we have no idea how God works miracles. We have no idea how destiny is manifest, how people launch into greatness. Are you with me? Sir. There's a kind of faith that people claim to have that just sits down one place and says if God wants it, it will happen. If God doesn't want it, it will not happen. But scripture does not reveal faith as passivity. Scripture reveals faith as partnership with God's word. That faith moves when God speaks.
Faith steps when God opens. Faith enters when God opens a door before a man. That is how God... That is how the bible reveals faith. Are you with me? Yes, sir. An open door is a boundary between where you are and where you are going, where you have been and where you have been taken, it is the line between the familiar and the new, between obscurity and visibility, between smallness and enlargement, between your big generation in the private and your public assignment. And that is why entering it will require audacity because you are entering into new grounds. You are entering into new territories. You are breaking new frontiers that you you might never have done before.
You are making steps that you might never have done before or made before. It will require audacity audacity. Are you with me? Yes, sir. And listen to me. Entering into a open door is not as easy as just walking. There is audacity required. This is the audacity of faith. Second Corinthians two and verse 12, the Bible says, for when I came to trials for the gospel of Christ and a door was opened to me by the Lord, God opened the door, you see. Because God opened the door, I came to trials.
Paul entered because God opened. He did not sit outside. I started debating whether it was truly open. He did not wait for a second to confirm again. God opened it, and Paul moved through it. Are you with me? Yes, sir. This is the pattern in scripture. This is what the audacity of faith looks like when it meets an open door. I in my spirit, the door is open, and I move through it.
I walk through it even if it's a land I've never been before. Do you understand what I'm saying? Colossians four and verse three. The bible says, pray also for us that God would open to us a door for the world that we might speak the mystery of Christ. Paul understood that doors could also be prayed open. Are you with me? Yes, sir. But once they are open, the response is never to sit down and muffle at the opening. The response was always to enter and to speak. Are you with me?
Yes, sir. To move and to act, to step through and to do what the door was leading to. When the prison door opened for Peter, You through the open door. You entered into the possibilities that the open door came with. If it came with access, you stepped into access. If it came with opportunities, you stepped into opportunities. If it came with favor, you stepped into favor. If it came with new territories, you step and conquer new territories. That is the miracle. So the question is not, will God open the door for me?
The door is opened. The question, will you enter? And there are times when entering is not easy. Because a door is not just an opportunity. A door is a gate of transition. When you step through an open door, you are not staying where you are. You are moving from familiar into unfamiliar. You are moving into where you have never been. You are doing things you have never done. You are moving from where you have been comfortable to where you have never been.
You are moving from being hidden to being seen. There's a way you have been doing your business before, and God tells you I have set before you an open door. And that open door is leading to territories. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's an open door. It's a season of transition. It's what transitions you from what you are used to to what your destiny promises. Are you with me? An audacity is needed to navigate your path through. Otherwise, fear will crumble your heart.
And I've seen it that the problem and the undoing of many believers is fear. Fear that limits them from entering into already prepared blessings. There is good I like so much. He says thou prepares the table before me. If it has stopped it, that would have been good. But he continues to say in the presence of my enemies. Many of you are not really considered that in the presence of my enemies. I've not consternate well. Because you think that it just means that I've entered prepared blessings that my enemies are watching. You have to go and read the scripture that says, a great and effectual door has been opened unto me.
But there are many adversities. That the reason your enemies are there is not to celebrate you because your door has opened, because the blessing has been prepared. And there are many believers that even though the table has been set, what will hinder them from eating is the presence of the enemy that is meant to watch them. You're not getting... Listen, I'm saying. Moving from a small life into a larger one is an open door. And that kind of movement requires something. It require audacity. That's a move of faith. It requires boldness, audacity.
The audacity to say, God has opened this door, and I'm walking through it. God has opened the door, and I'm walking through it. I might not be able to see everything on the other side of the door, but I'm walking through it. And I'm not feeling as though I'm fully ready, but I'm walking through it. So you have a young man, for instance, who has been walking quietly in a particular role for many years. He has skill. He has ability. He's been noticed by the right person. And one day, he has a word like this that God has opened the door before him, and he goes to work. And he's senior leader then invites him in into a room he has never been to in his life to come and share his ideas before people he has never met before in his life.
Right there, a platform opens that he was not expecting. And in that moment, everything in him, if he has been comfortable with that smallness, with the routine of doing the same thing again and again, of eyes not being on him, of having to be the one to prepare this light but not to present this light. And all of a sudden, God puts him in the room and gives him a chance to speak. And everything in him starts screaming, you're not ready for this. Looks like wisdom. Everything in him starts to tell them to give it time to prepare. Looks like wisdom. You should relax more if you go and mess up like this. It looks like wisdom. What if everybody now see through you and now realize that you're not really the hardworking person that they thought you were?
Just wait a little longer now. Because there will always be such voices that comes to intersect at every time, every instant of an open door that require you to do something you have never done to get to a place you have never gotten to. It's the voice of fear. It is not the voice of wisdom. Because the door is open. God was the one that set the door open. And the only thing that will carry you through that door is not more preparation. It's not another year of staying in the background. It's not another season of waiting. It is the audacity of faith.
The audacity of faith. What if David went back that day and said, I'm not ready for this battle? What if voices came to his head to tell him, ah, guy, your father loves you. If you don't fight this battle, then nobody will hold you responsible. Nobody will hold you responsible. God still has many ways of doing what he wants to do. It is true. But at that moment in time, a door was open, and a door was set before you. That's the thing about this door. It is set before you.
It's not set so far from you. You have to go and use GPS to find it. It is set before you. The issue is that many a times does not come like a door. Because in natural light, when you see a door, you know this is a door. When doors open in the spiritual realm, it looks nothing like doors. That's why the audacity of faith is required when you hear words like this. When you hear words like this. That's why we take time to explain and to teach prophetically what God has said to place people at the vantage point where they can benefit maximally and receive maximally and suck out dry everything inside what God has said. Otherwise, you just sir.
That bold, that deliberate decision to enter into what God already opened for you even when your common sense is telling you don't go. Don't go. It's not your time. Calm down. You're not ready yet. But you know in your spirit, a door has been opened. A door has been opened. And I see many believers that repeat this pattern even though they are praying for breakthrough, and they never experience it. And it's not because God is withholding the breakthrough, it is because they are not entering into it. The door is set.
The access is already arranged. The invitation is already on the table for the alternative to step through. That is what they are missing. Because most believers believe that if a door is truly from God, then entry into that door must be effortless. There must be no resistance whatsoever. And I've heard a believer tell me before that, ah, Omo, I'm trying to do this thing, but it's just too hard. The resistance I'm facing is just too much. I don't think God is in it. It's a lie. It's an absolute lie.
That is not the pattern we see in scriptures. In in first Corinthians 16 verse nine, Paul was the one who said that a great and effectual door has been opened unto me, but there are many adversaries. Meaning, the presence of resistance does not cancel the reality of an open door. In fact, many times, adversaries gather where doors open. Because opposition is the proof that the door matters. Can you just wax into CBN and say, I want to go and visit the MD? What do you find at the gate? The king of glory, the door opened. Opposition asks the king of glory. Who are you?
But the believer thinks that because there are distances that are asking you who are you identifying yourself. Why must you pass through? Why must you enter? It means God must not be here. I mean, I'm facing too much. Why are they stressing me like this? Why are they stressing? Too many things I'm signing. Too many I'm going from one office, That resistance is proof that the door matters. The audacity of faith is what makes you push through resistance.
Push through resistance. They say there are 17 steps you must pass through. You must go from one office to the next office. Have this thing signed. Then once that you sign it, go and print it somewhere. Then you go and start and print this all because you want to register your business or do this or that. You will go through all that stress. It takes the audacity of faith to pass through process and be unwilled. It takes audacity. A lot of people do think that audacity just means you are bold and you can shout and you can...
You you might as well be arrogant. A thin line between arrogance and audacity. Is what makes you stay through process to see it to completion no matter how hard it is. Audacity is what makes you stay through the promise that God has given to you and believe in the manifestation of that promise no matter how dim it might look, no matter how dim it might appear. That at first glance, it might look as though there is no way here. But as God says there is way, it takes audacity to enter. It takes audacity to obey God. Obedience require audacity. Or death. A lot of believers are lacking here.
We are too crippled in heart. We are too timid in heart. We can't survive processes that are meant to make us strong. We can't survive processes that are meant to cook us and build us. We complain at the slightest instance of resistance. Whereas resistance can sometimes be the open door itself. You do not understand what I've just said. That the door that opened itself is the resistance you are facing. That your victory through the resistance becomes access to the miracle you are waiting for. This was exactly what happened with David.
This was exactly what happened with Joseph. This was exactly what happened with Esther. It takes audacity to keep on believing that something can still come out of you when all others start against you. It takes audacity to still keep on believing. Because the easiest thing to do is give up. It means when life tells you give up, when it makes sense the most to give up, audacity or faith is what keeps a man keep on going. So, yeah, man, look around me. And the easiest thing to do is to close the ministry. I mean, I've been doing this thing for seven years. Where have we gotten to?
And you look around and say, seven would be a number of perfection. We have gotten what not achieved for seven years. Those five members. But it's not what God told us. God told us that our voice will reach the world. God told us about this... And and he started recounting. He looked at his family. Says, I don't think this is where God sent me. I don't think there's a way here for me.
I don't think God really met you when he said you come here. Maybe I misheard. The man of God went to a city. In that city, there was a village. I'll link this story to the story of great apostle Hayabu Balola. When he got there, the man of God told the king didn't just come here because we are compassionate. God told us to come. So you cannot send us back. The king said, who is your God? In this place, I am the God, and I'll send you back.
He said, tell your God that I've sent you back. As they were going, the word of knowledge entered his act. So he turned to the king. He said, do you have a sick son? The king was shocked because the son was sick, and he was sick with a communicable disease. They couldn't find out what it was. All they knew was that anybody who stepped close to that is it is it is it is it... Everybody who goes to visit the young man just catches the same thing and dies. So they believe that it was a punishment from the gods. Whereas, it was just...
I think it was tuberculosis. I can't... I forgot what the infirmity was. No. It wasn't. It was... The guy was becoming lean and couldn't move his body, paralyzed. Everybody was getting the disease, so they stopped... They let the girls just kill him. Do you have a son who is sick?
He said, ah. They took him to bed. They could not follow him to enter. He opened the door. That was resistance, and that resistance was the door. You are not getting this thing. Don't always hate resistance. Sometime you need to fight through. You need to be moving. People are pushing against you.
You are moving. You are moving. I like the bison a lot because of how how it looks. He entered into the place. Pray for the young boy. The young boy stood up of his feet. Came out of the door. The king saw. The priest saw. The king who was the god of the village was the first to go down on his knees.
When your god has bowed down, what is left? So when those people go back to their center and they say, ah, god opened the door for us, what was the door? Because we think that the door would mean that the moment I enter, the king would say, hey. We have been expecting you. Please put the coffee on the table. Please bring them and let them eat. You cannot enter. If your heart were to be crippled, imagine the evangelist shouting, hey. What? What?
What? What would I do now? What if it does not happen? What if this guy does not come up? What if he does not... Hold on. Hold on. Help me. What? I should talk.
I thought it was a headache. I did not know if he was this bad. I did not know if... I would know. Imagine the evangelist becoming crippled at heart. He would have apologized, gone back to his city, and a door was actually opened. A lot of people don't understand this. A door was actually opened. Because when the holy ghost was challenging me about this, I saw I saw plenty people standing in front of doors, but they were turning away by themselves because they thought there was no door there. They said no the first time.
They said no the second time. Doesn't mean there's no door there. Doesn't mean there's no door there. You are doubting it to be as fluid as water, to post resistances. A lot of believers like this. Because you see, in this kingdom, the end does not justify the means. It doesn't. The means matter because the means become your testimony at the end. That's the reason why you are the ironicist courts. Because the means you are trying to avoid become the testimony that converts millions in the end.
Does not matter how I get there as long as I get there. It matters to God. It matters to God that there's a Red Sea. What was strengthened on our inside? Bible says in the parable of Rasoah that some seeds fell on the wayside and having not much root when the sun came, it scorched them. And this soils, the wayside, is the apology of a believer. But it's possible for a seed to be in the heart of a believer and that a believer, that seed is caught. And the believer cannot experience the potentialities of the seed because he has not much root in himself. Is that not so? So when the sun comes up, the sun scorches him.
So I have a question. How many believers would you go to after the sun came up and it scorched them? And you would ask them, brother, why are you still here? That will tell you it is because I have not much root. Or is it because the sun came up? It's Nigeria. It's Nigeria. It's the kind of family I came from. Brother, there is something missing in your heart. There is something missing in your heart.
There is something... Leave Nigeria alone. People are buying vehicles. People are building houses. People are building land. People are building churches. Can my destiny must rise and nobody will keep me quiet, that my voice must be my voice must be heard. A great revivalist that I read about many years ago. Many of you know him. Had this method of revival burning so strong within him.
But the churches in his era were dead. People only gathered and sing songs and stand still, whereas he had been filled with the holy ghost. It was an era where speaking in tongues was not a thing. So people would only come and then it was a religious ceremony. He hated what he was seeing. So every time he was invited to a church, he would write them to come and minister in the church. When he gets there, everywhere explodes. People are speaking in tongues. The pastors who are not used to that flow will say, we don't wanna see him here again, and they will walk him out. Sometimes they walked him out during service.
During service. He had been to... I think they said about... It was about 17 churches that all walked him out and told him never to return. Return. A time came, he was blacklisted. Nobody accepted him again because churches have spoken to themselves. When you bring this man, it just causes division. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? Young man said no problem.
No problem. And he went into the center of the city, stood in the marketplace, and started shouting what he was shouting in churches. And people left the churches and came to meet him in the market square. It takes audacity to be rejected and refuse silence. That... The rejection is not silence. It takes audacity. It takes audacity. Many years ago, the popular car brand was sports car that was raining many years ago. The Ferrari.
It was a popular car brand. A particular mechanic who worked with the Ferrari noticed a particular defect in the engine system and took it to the management and said if you can change this, I believe everyone can achieve this result. And it was turned down and shut off because we were already big in the market. Already big in the market. And after being shut off and turned down, he left the place and became Lamborghini. It takes audacity to realize that a rejection can be an open door. Because if they had accepted your invitation, they would have trademarked your idea. And your vision would have died on their inside. Can you realize that sometimes a door that is closed means there is something deeper God is doing with you. What is your perspective to life?
Perhaps the delay you are experiencing is not really delay. Have you not seen... As a thought, I've seen this happen. At every point of resistance was an open door. That was how they came and bundled all our equipment. All what took millions to accumulate, destroyed some of them, was not an open door. One of my young men came to me, and he showed me a project of his he was working on for someone, particular client's office. And at first glance, I saw it. I knew not in my spirit. I just knew by common sense that this would not work out.
I told him, this will not work out. Change this. Change this. And he said, ah, I've sent it. Why are you now coming to bring it to me after you have sent it? What do you want me to do? Okay. Let's let's see what happens. True to what I have said, it didn't work out. Client sent him an email, said, sorry.
We're not... We cannot continue with you. Blah blah blah blah blah. Sent me the email to me. I told him. Reply them with this. Readdress this. Break this down. Move with this. Change this.
Send it. And he sent it. And he replied again. Sorry. This is a nicer offer, but we decided to move forward without you. And then back to me, I saw it. I said, alright. Before that, let's do them again. I appreciate them. Thank them for the process.
Tell them what you've learned so far. Appreciate them for the meetings you've had, for expanding, for even considering you to be a part of the project. And tell them that if opportunities open in the field, you are always available to discuss with them. So if this is a message that shows to me, I said, okay. Good. Send it. Send it to them. Thank you very much. We also appreciate you. That's the end of it.
A month later, they replied. So we wanna start our project now. And we have looked around every other place, and we have decided to continue with you. And it was a project in tens of millions. He asked them why in a meeting... A a video meeting. So why? I thought you have already made up your mind. He said, well, no. We rejected every other offer we got.
No other person came back. See, every offer we got rejected, There's no other person came back except you. So it only makes sense that when we decided to continue, we continue with you. It means if you had stopped at that point, you would not have recognized that there was an open door at that rejection. At that rejection. Which is why when I was praying, it was very important to me that one of the things that jump into your hearts is the spirit of faith. One of the things that is activated within your spirit is the gift of faith. So that the operations of faith can be quickened in and through your life. Are you with me? Yes, sir.
Because many believers interpret resistance as a sign of retreat. Go back. There's no way for you here. When heaven is saying this is your door, enter. Enter with faith. Move in with faith. There are people that see intimidation and they conclude that God is not in it. When in fact that door is great, that door is effectual. One of my young women came to me and was telling me, oh, I got the opportunity to enter into a place. And while while I was there, in the marketplace, and it's place I've only wanted to enter.
But I just found out that the value system is different, and I had to leave. I said, what if that was the open door set before you? Who told you that resistance means leave? Don't you realize if you leave because of resistance, your strength is small? Your strength is small. Hence, why audacity is necessary if you're going to enter into open doors. And that is what I want you to understand. An open door does not automatically produce a new life. An open door simply presents a choice. It offers entry into a new possibility, and faith must convert possibility into possession.
Otherwise, God can open a new job or a door to a new job, and a man can still be unemployed because he never applied, he never prepared, he never showed up as he should, he never followed through. God can open a door to a new level of ministry, and a believer can still remain hidden because he keeps waiting for an invitation while the Lord is telling him, go. Start. Evangelize. Gather people and pray. God can open a door to business expansion, and a woman is still remaining stuck because she's too afraid to price her value, afraid to pitch her service, afraid to speak to clients, afraid to change the clientele, afraid to start where she is even, afraid to scale. What if I scale now and things break? What if I cannot manage? What if I cannot this? What if I cannot that?
God can open a door to education, to mentorship, to scholarship, to training, and a young man can still remain stagnant. Because his mentality is people like me don't get these opportunities. Not realizing that the door in front of him is proof that God disagrees with that mentality. When scripture speaks of open doors, he's not only talking about miracles. He's talking about axes as well. And in seven Corinthians two and verse 12, Paul speaks, when I came to trials to preach Christ, a door was opened to me by the Lord. That means the Lord is capable of opening doors in territories, in platforms, in assignments, in influence. There are doors that God opens into rooms that your background should not qualify you for. Doors that your family history should not permit you to approach, doors that economy should not allow you to enter. But when God opens such doors, the only way to honor them is to enter by faith.
It takes the audacity of faith. Many believers are anointed enough to receive access but not audacious enough to seize it, to enter it. They love prophecies, but they fear responsibilities. They love the idea of an open door, but they are addicted to the safety of familiar corridors. They want God to do mighty works, but they refuse to move into spaces where mighty works are required. That audacity of faith, that boldness to step into what God has opened, even when your emotions are trembling, even when your mind is calculating risk, even when your background is arguing against your future, Or that it is this. This is what God has said, and I move in that direction. It is the outward expression of inward agreement with God. Listen to me brothers and sisters. Another reason why you need audacity is because when doors open, they do not announce themselves.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. Doors do not come with a trumpet. In fact, if your definition of open door is that somebody must notice you, somebody must call you, somebody must invite you, somebody must present the opportunity neatly into your hands, then it means that you will live at the mercy of human beings and human timings, and you will misinterpret the dealings of God with you. Because that is not what open doors mean when God opens them. Are you with me? So the idea many believers have is that if a door is open, then somebody should invite me. Somebody should just call me. Somebody should just drop this thing into my chest. I should receive a recommendation.
Listen to me. Sometimes, the open door is not an event that happens to you. In fact, many of the times, the open door is a spiritual reality that God opens over you, and your responsibility is to respond to that reality with audacious faith by moving, by positioning, by attempting, by initiating processes until what is open in the spirit becomes visible in natural. The door exists whether your eyes can see it or not. So faith, therefore, is their ability to act based on God's word because you have proof, not because you have proof in your environment. This is why we call it faith. If you wait until the opportunity becomes obvious, until the connection is guaranteed, until the results are certain, until the money appears in your pocket, until the capital for the business arrives. You're not living by faith. You're living by sight. Because someone thinks, oh, the open door, it means that business I want to go into the capital will not arrive.
I wanna start importing my goods. I will not have money to import. I wanna start doing this kind of business. I wanna have this to do it. Apostle, I'm expecting the open door. Hebrews 11 verse one, bible says, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The evidence of things not seen means that faith carries proof of an invincible reality. Faith behaves like something is true because God said it is true even though in the visible realm, you cannot see it. Even though the visible world has not caught up with it yet. It means faith is acting on revelation.
It's not acting on what it can see. That's exactly how the audacity of faith engages open doors. That means you don't wait for the opportunity to come before you move. Because the bible says, faith is the evidence of things not seen. So when it is declared that the doors have been opened, I start making moves expecting that the doors have opened, not waiting for the opportunities to be glaring to me. Do you understand what I'm saying? You act because the word of God has declared that access has already been arranged. So when a believer receives a prophetic word that a door is open, that season of his life is not for passive waiting for the door to manifest, for things to start happening. No. That season is for bold action, bold motion.
You start moving as though access already exists. Because in God's economy, it already does. That is how you enter into the door that have been opened. Because one of the things that Apple, when doors open, is that God gives access. Is that not so? Yes, sir. It gives you entry into places where you were previously closed. And when he sets an open door before you, he's saying access is already arranged. The entry point is ready, but access does not come to you whilst you are sitting still. Access is entered into.
An entering access requires your ability to move towards the room even when you cannot see what is inside it. Think of it this way. Think of it this way. You have two young believers. Both of them goes to University. Both of them full of ability. Both of them have no family name to open doors to them. No connection whatsoever. No natural advantage you can think of. No wealthy relatives.
By every natural standard, they both have nothing working in their favor. And one day they come to church, and on coming to church, they hear the man of God declare that open doors have been set before you. And the first one hears it, then he begins to wait for the door to manifest before you. Then he sits down, applies for maybe two to 20 jobs online, and he's waiting for them to reach back to him. While he's waiting, he's buying dinner and watching TikTok. And when no one calls him back, he then conclude that maybe the door has not opened for him yet. Then he goes back to waiting. Then he goes to his status, and he posts on WhatsApp because time is the best. Then he sits down somewhere and he's waiting. But the second young man, same age, same background, same lack of connections, he had the same prophecy, but he does not wait for someone to come and open a door for him before he moves.
Upon hearing that the doors have already been opened, he begins to move instantly by faith. He begins to reach out to every person he can find who is doing what he wants to do. He sends them messages not to beg from them, but presenting himself, offering value, asking to learn, asking to serve. As he's doing this, somebody reaches back to him and say, you know what? Come to my office. He comes to give testimony, sir. The doors have opened the connection. How did the connection come? Do you understand what I'm saying? It came because he was moving.
It came because he was entering, responding to a particular word that came. It's a dangerous thing to just sit down and say, ah, the word has gone ahead of me. I'm expecting things to happen. It's a dangerous thing. The guy is showing up at events. He goes to places where the people he needs to meet are gathered. He does not wait for a mentor to to come and look for him. He goes searching for the mentor. Stop. He doesn't wait for opportunity to arrive.
He puts on himself at the path of opportunities. When he sees an investment opportunity applies for it, a grand opportunity applies for it, is everywhere things are happening toward his business, toward his advancement, toward his moving forward. You see him there. Brother, you are here? I am here, oh, my brother. I am here. Because the door has opened. It's a time for the door has... For the door to open, and I'm in my house. The door did not open in my house.
I must be moving. It... I must be moving. I must be taking steps in the direction of the open door. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? I won't wait until the door appeared right in front of me. I walk towards it. And because it's working towards it, because it's moving that direction that God has revealed, it now begins to see things aligning in his favor. He begins to enter into possibilities that are at the other hand of that manifestation. I told one of my young men, I said, go and start this business.
Go and start this. He told me about it. Go and start. When I told him to go and start, then he told me about some things he was facing. And he said, oh, man of God, this is what is happening. Apostle, where I was working before, they were sharing bad advice about me. And so people that are my clients are leaving me. In fact, the second day after I came, I saw only two people who were there and we did because somebody was spreading bad lies about us, rumors about us, blah blah blah. I don't even know what to do. As a young man, why are you limiting this door that has opened to where you were working before?
Why must your clients be from where you were working before? If a door has opened, can't you move in that direction? Print flyers. Market your business shamelessly. Go from home to home. Go from place to place. Let it be heard far and wide. And as you step in, these are these are these are just initiatives that you'd and sisters? God never gave Abraham an address. God never showed Abraham a map.
God just told him, get out to a land that will show you. That means the showing came after the going. The revelation was progressive. The door was set, but entry required movement. That means if he stayed in his house, he will never see that land. Do you understand what I'm saying? Staying in one place meant never seeing the land. Never seeing the land. Get out, and I will show you. There must be faith required to get out.
Imagine if Abraham had said, when I see the land, I will go. He would have died in Haran with a prophecy that never became possession. A prophecy hanging over his head. And many believers are living like that, waiting to see before they move, then calling it wisdom. That's not wisdom. It is unbelief. God tells you, gather children and begin to teach them God's word. Instead of being crippled by thoughts of everything you must have available. Oh, we don't have a microphone. We don't have a speaker.
We don't have a disk. We don't have a dot. We don't have this this in place, that in place. Why don't those move in faith? I put one child. Make it two, then three. Teach them the word of God. A door has already been opened. Walk through the door, then five. Five becomes 100.
100 becomes a thousand. But if you were waiting for everything to rest in place, some people even believe, you know what? Let me pause this thing God has sent me first. Let me work so that I can make money to now start what God has told me to do. Who told you that what God has told you to do is we start by your money? Who told you your money is ever enough to start? Who told you that your money is ever enough to start? God told you, build an NGO. You say, you know what? Let me give the NGO idea.
I used to even have money for the NGO. So let me now get a job, and then let me... If I've worked for five years, I will now revisit the NGO idea back. You will work for thirty years, then somebody else will start it. You will now remember God told you. I was reading, but I'm just sharing it. He said God told him to go and start a children bible class. And the moment he announced children bible class, plenty people swamped his comment session and said, God told me this 2019. 2017, I saw this. 2015, God set her the children bible class.
I even saw I even saw the the bible manual. I saw the Greek and Hebrew text broken down in a way children can understand. I saw this. I saw that. And the problem with men is timidity. This audacity that is required to step out, to do, to make the first move. To make the first move, if it be thou, big me come. The audacity to step to take your leg out of the boat into the water even though you know that the risk of drowning. It means audacity is not without a risk. Yeah.
It it might happen that I might drown, but he told me, come. Or that city. How do you risk your life on get out, get out? On a God you have never seen. Abraham's family were idol worshipers. And the most high God just appears to him and tells him, get out onto a land that will show you. And you don't demand some kind of credibility of need a just in case. You know, collateral is when you hold back money and you cannot pay back, then you are hoping that they cease. Need a collateral. Give me a...
Let me give me, like, 10,000,000,000 before I step out. Let me know that if I step out and does not work, I can still fall back to something. I need a colander. Is it foolish to trust God? No. How come our trust God is only by mouth? How come when it's time to move as a proof of trust, it is difficult to act out in trust? It's difficult to act out in faith because of the audacity that faith requires. If it be thou, bid me come. Come does not mean you would expect that the words of Jesus will be so powerful that the moment Jesus tells him come, he will just levitate.
And he begin to float on the water soo. Do you know the resistance in his mind already? This is what are in front of you. The fact that the door is open does not mean you will start seeing what want to show you. What want to show you is at the other end of the door. You need to come. Come up, Peter. Come. The door is opened, and there's an invitation saying come. Come.
Come. Stop observing the waves, the ocean, the the altering is around you. Come. Come. What if what if people don't come? What if people don't watch it? What if people don't buy it? What if people... What if I'm done now? What if you are done now?
What if will you die? Can I dare somebody to move? What's the big way I can do this thing that God has been putting in my heart? What's that thing? What's that thing? I see lions. The heart of a lion. I see men taking demands. Making demands. See men walking on water.
Hear me? Hear me? Hear me? Sit down if you can. Sit down. Or shall I spend it faster? Your faith. I see the spirit of fear jumping out of someone. And the sound of my voice. The spirit of fear jumping out of someone.
Of fear. See power resting upon somebody here. Watching me online. Power resting upon someone. Right in the I I hear I see a man of God. There's someone I'm seeing. There's grace upon your life. But there's fear holding you down. Fear holding you down. I see power resting upon you.
I see someone writing for an oil company. You're a writer. And I'm seeing you writing for an oil. I'm seeing energy. I'm seeing something in energy, like an oil company or something like that. And I'm seeing that you're writing gift or that you're writing grace flowing there. And I'm seeing that in bringing you millions. Bringing you millions. Are merchants looking Go and meet them. There are merchants looking for you.
Go and meet them where they are. They are looking for you. People that want to buy what you are selling. They wanna buy your ideas. They are looking for you. They are looking for you. Stop waiting for them to come and meet you. Go and meet them Listen, I'm telling you will be the difference between a lot of people this year. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
It will be the difference. You already have one pool that you are managing, and you're and you're you're already comfortable in it. But that team will not bring you to where God is taking you to. Extend your boundaries. Enlarge your tent. Stretch out for more, reach out for more. But opposed to how will I handle it, the wisdom for structure will come. The wisdom for systems will come. There's someone I'm seeing. Three of them, actually.
Two of them are upstairs at the gallery, but one of them is downstairs, and only one of them is hungry. Only one of them I see I see this... I see the person calling up to me. Their their heart is so... Is calling on to me. And and the Lord is telling me that what has kept this person stagnant is the fear of what people will say. The fear of what people will say. That this individual has wanted to start, has wanted to jump out, has wanted to step out and enter into those doors for many years now, but there's always been this fear of what will people say? What will people say? What will people say?
A kind of a fear of friends, a fear of peer pressure around you. What if my friends know I'm doing this? Something like that. And I'm seeing that desire, that that spirit, that desires approval. Checking out that in the video. I see structures in the heart, strongholds in the heart being broken down. I see struggles. You are the Lord. Most high, you are the Lord. And me does this alone, but for the bible says he who observes the wind would not sow.
And he who regards the cloud will not reap. As a kind of person who is always checking conditions, waiting for the economy to improve, waiting for Nigeria to be better, waiting for their uncle to connect them, observing the winds, waiting for a miracle job, observing the clouds, waiting for a helper to locate them. And the bible says that kind of a person will never sow, and therefore will never reap. Not because God is wicked, but because the person has chosen the safety of observation over the risk of obedience. And if you're a Nigerian, you must understand this. In a land where systems can be slow, where opportunities can feel scarce, where nepotism and gatekeeping can frustrate people, God will not always open doors for you by making someone randomly discover you. Many times he open doors by giving you the courage to initiate what others are too afraid to initiate. You open doors by giving you the audacity to start building when others are still complaining. You open doors by giving you the discipline to become skilled when others are still waiting for a connection. You open doors by giving you the boldness to knock and knock and knock again until the right people respond.
That is how faith enters open doors. You'll not only respond when opportunities fall on your lap. Sometimes it creates the motion until opportunities reveal itself. I have a young man that says, oh, I want to work in tech, but he's waiting for a company to employ him before he becomes serious. Yet the door is open. Audacious faith will tell that young man, begin to learn. Begin to build. Start producing proofs. Create a portfolio. Start writing about what you do.
Start designing. Start coding. Start practicing. Start improving on your craft. Don't wait for somebody to notice you. Jump into the pool. Don't wait for somebody to give you the opportunity to display your value. Display your value and put it in their face. Display your value until they cannot be ignored again. Because doors of access often responds to evidence.
And when the season is declared open, faith goes ahead of you and prepares. Wanna start a business, but you're still waiting for capital. Meanwhile, the door is already open. Odacious faith will tell you start where you are. Start selling something. Start offering a service. Start learning marketing. Start learning pricing. Start learning customer communication. Stop hiding behind the idea of perfection.
Start and grow into perfection. The idea of having everything before you start is never... Is a silly idea. Jump into the pool. Somebody wants to expand and increase their revenue flow. What is the step of faith to take? What is that audacious move you must take? Even as the door is open. Because if you need everything to start, you will never start. Faith begins with the seed.
Faith begins with movement. Faith begins with an attempt. And open doors don't always open in abundance. Sometimes they open into process. And when they open into process, you must understand that process and grow with it. It is your audacity to enter into the process that then leads into the abundance. Young believer said I want to do ministry, but he's waiting to be invited to a platform. The door is open, but he's waiting for a microphone. Audacious faith will tell you to start with one soul. Win one soul to Christ.
Start on the street. Disciple that one. Bring two souls to Christ, disciple them too. Consistently disciple people. That's how ministry starts. It starts with prayer and the word. It doesn't start with platform. If you cannot be faithful with a door that opens with one person, how does it open to a territory? Sometimes a door that opens to one person can become the door you need to a territory. Such was Lydia.
Such was Lydia in scripture. The doors of her heart was open to scripture, to the gospel, to Paul, and that became the onset of apostolic ministry in that region. Are you with me? That's why second Kings chapter seven is so powerful because the lepers did not receive a prophecy that the Syrian camp was empty. Nobody told the lepers that the Syrian camp was empty. They had no guarantee that they would survive. All they knew was that sitting where they were meant sudden death, so they moved. And the moment they moved, they discovered that God had already gone ahead of them. They discovered that the spiritual had already happened, but it became their reality only when they stepped out. That's exactly how many open doors work.
That God has already made a way, but you will only find it when you start working. If you remain at the gate, you will not know that your enemy has fled. You will not know that they have killed themselves and have left all their resources to your hands. You will not know because you are waiting by the gate. Nobody gave them a guarantee. They just told themselves. This is the audacity of faith. You might not have a guarantee, but you move regardless. And the only guarantee you would have is that God said so. It's that the word has come from heaven.
So when we say doors have opened, I'm not saying sit down until life becomes easy. We are saying heaven has authorized access, and faith must now behave accordingly. Faith now starts making calls. Faith starts sending emails. Faith starts applying. Faith starts requesting for meetings. Faith starts showing up at events where people you need to meet are present. Faith starts joining communities that stretches you. Faith Faith starts volunteering where your gifts can be seen. It stops waiting to be noticed.
It starts postponing itself to be useful, to be valuable. That is the audacity of faith. You move because God has spoken. That's the only guarantee that you would ever need. You initiate because door is already set. You step forward because the season has shifted. You're not waiting for a perfect opportunity to land upon your lap. You walk by faith until the door you could not see becomes a door you have entered. And the farther you could not see, it doesn't mean he was not there. Are you with me brothers and sisters?
Yes, sir. Thank you, Lord Jesus. And close your eyes one moment. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. The doors have been opened, you said. Sit right in front of us, you said. The spirit of faith and the gift of faith that must be activated that makes men begin to dare impossible things, makes men begin to respond to life as though limitations does not exist, as though impossibility does not exist. That makes men begin to dear life and demand for their lot until destiny is delivered.
That makes men step into prepared blessings despite opposition and resistance. The audacity of faith that checks out timidity that guarantees progress, that guarantees results, the audacity of faith that pushes through resistance, that grows through process, the authority of faith that walks on water, that moves even when the doors are closed, even when it looks as though physically the doors are closed, but still moves because he believed that God has made a way where there seems to be no way. He still moves. You said that you will release your spirit upon all flesh Under the sound of my voice. We ask, oh lord, right now. That true to what you have said. Let the spirit of faith jump upon men. Please don't say anything. Just close your eyes. Let it rest upon everybody here.
That as they leave this meeting, they begin to dare impossible things. They begin to contend. But as they leave this meeting, those who have been held back by fear, those who have been held back by shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. I'm seeing rags. And the Lord is telling me this is shame. Shame.
A reproach. And as many as have been held down by that spirit caused shame. That the reason for the obstruction is because they are ashamed. Not because they cannot move, but they are just ashamed. Just ashamed. Guilt, everything that stands in the way of progress, everything that stands in the way of audacity, that stands in the way of movement. We declare at this moment that they begin to check out of these people. One after the other, begin to check out of these people. Under the sound of my voice, fear leaves. Dour lives.
Shame lives. Condemnation lives. Pute lives. We declare that there is deliverance. We declare that there is deliverance. And we declare in the name of Jesus that as one lives, now the spirit of faith is resident within you. Now the gift of faith is activated within you. Now there is no obstruction whatsoever again. Now idea that have been in your mind for so long for so long, now the world is becoming flesh. The logos is becoming flesh.
It's becoming... I'm seeing schools starting. As declared by the mouth of the Lord, I'm seeing people jumping over walls, leaping over walls. As declared by the mouth of the Lord, I'm seeing dangerous testimonies accompanying dangerous steps that have been taken. I'm seeing someone who the instruction that God has given to you was take one step. Just take one step. Just take one step. Just take one step. What you did not know was that in that one step was three years. What you did not know was in that one step, it was five years.
It looked only like a step, but it was three years compressed into one, and God was saying, take one step. Just move. Take one step. But there's the one reason or the other why you have not yet, oh my God. But I'm seeing your legs moving. I'm seeing. But finally, the chains have broken loose. I'm seeing. But finally, there's no obstruction anymore. I'm seen.
I'm seen. I'm seeing books being written, contracts being signed, destinies manifested. I'm seeing men walking through doors, doors that have been set open. I'm seeing the sick being healed through the hands of many in this place. I'm seeing the oppressed delivered because someone is stepping out now. I'm seeing I'm seeing limb legs walking because someone is stepping out now. I'm seeing a blind eye is opening because someone is stepping out now. I'm seeing the fullness of the anointing of the spirit jumping out of you because someone is stepping out now. Oh that God has said concerning your life. Beginning to manifest because someone is stepping out now.
I'm seeing the songs being released. Being sang around the world. Sound of revival. International travels. Frequent trips, discoveries and inventions, innovations coming out of your loins. Because now you are stepping out. Walking through the doors that have been set. For the spirit and the bride says come. The spirit and the bride says come. The spirit and the bride says come.
I speak to your spirit man. No more slumber. I wake thou that sleepest. I speak. For the earth are within, the Deborah within. I speak to the mighty man within. Thou mighty man of valor. You have you have been hiding long enough. You have slept long enough. You have been weak long enough.
Thou mighty man of valor. Arise in this meeting. Arise at the sound of my voice. Let there be a sound of a trumpet. Let there be an awakening of destinies. An awakening of destinies. Let the prophet prophesy. Let the prophet prophesy. Let the prophet prophesy. Let the evangelist evangelize.
With hymns, miracles, signs, and wonders. Let the apostles govern. No longer will you be limited by your age. Your background is a little bit challenged to you. What used to hold you back before are now broke? All of a sudden, you can't see any limitation again. You can't see any resistance again. All you are seeing now is it is possible. It is possible. It is possible.
Let there be a revival from within, a revival from within, and a working from within. Let it be a start, an ignition, a start of something new. Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Polo Atifa on our Telegram page at DCN Media channel. You can also stream the messages on Spotify, Ocho Mac, and Apple Podcast. Connect with us via our social media platforms on Instagram at DCN underscore nations, on Facebook at Disciples Christian Network, on x at d c m central, and on TikTok at disciples christian network. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel at disciples television. If you have a testimony from this message, you can mail us at disciplescn@gmail.com. God bless you.