AS DOORS CLOSE, NEW DOORS OPEN: Barbara Willoughby

annual ladies advance meeting and it was a year that we will never forget we shouted and danced and sweated and but this lady spoke with such a special anointing and a spiritual authority that only comes from people that truly walk with God you can't fake that and this is a true woman of God I'm so so honored and so blessed to have her not only as a friend but somebody that's gonna minister to us here this morning you are in for a treat god bless you amen amen [Music] God is wonderful there's nothing that I could say this morning except he is a friend and when we say that first song I thought about friendship with Jesus and I couldn't think of a time as we were worshipping Him we entered into this service I could not think of a time that he failed me I'm talking about a friend I'm talking about not a fair-weather friend but a true friend you know when you find one that is with you when you're when you're good when you're bad who's with you when you misunderstand them who doesn't walk away from you I'm talking about a true friend and this morning as we've gathered together and we worship Him I thought [Music] then I could trust in I love the Lord this morning and I'm so thankful that you've allowed me to come back to this church I love this church this church reminds me of Singapore when you get together you have a mind and a purpose to gather together and the first thing you want to do is to spend a good amount of time worshipping Him because that's all he gets out of this service he doesn't get amazed when we come up and we preach the word he doesn't go wow that was a great thought I never thought of that he isn't amazed by all the things we can do but he longs for our worship and as we worship together this morning it took me back to Singapore where we have a group of people just like you who are not afraid to spend a long time worshiping the God who created him created them and to give him thanks and praise for all that he's done for them so thank you for putting God first thank you that's what I'm impressed by I'm not impressed by buildings although this is great I'm not impressed by people's education although it opens doors sometimes I'm not impressed by who you're related to although that's grating you might you better be very careful what you say because everybody in UPC is related to each other except me and Steve we're related nobody so you can talk about us and nobody on nobody you won't affect anybody but everybody else is related to everybody you got to be careful but I'm not impressed by who you're related to either by who you worship [Music] so thank you for giving Jesus a place in this service last year was a very unusual year for tabernacle of joy Singapore and it was a very unusual year for me it started a progression in a direction that I did not know I would be going and towards the end of that year in November it seemed like the heavens were closed that year it didn't affect my walk with God it did not affect the way I was going to worship Him because my worship is not contingent upon my feelings I do it because it's the right thing to do I give him thanks not because he's given me something to be thankful for although he has done that but my relationship with him is built upon the principles of God and if it says to do it I do it so it was a strange year there was many times that I praised gone and I worshipped him but I didn't receive personal promises during that time but I just held on to a hand that never changes and I waited and I was still and just said God when you're ready to speak my ear will be open and I will listen till then I will love you I will wait I will wait and I waited I waited through my time a sickness no word from God lots of words from the medical profession those I didn't didn't like very well and many times when we would go to the doctor we would leave and it would take our breath away we would look at each other and we wouldn't say anything in the doctor's office and a lot of times my eldest daughter Megan was a strength to me she would go with me to every appointment she would be so strong and we would try to be strong for her and we would hear the reports and it would take our breath away but we didn't want to confess anything but what the Word of God confessed and the heavens were silent until November we got into November and the church was going through quite a different journey with me being so ill and two of our key leaders were embarking it besides trying to do their ministry they were both embarking on an education process and trying to get degrees and their their minds were sorted and going many different directions and trying to focus on God so we had many things going on and many other things in the church happening and so it was a year of very interesting happenings and at the end of November I was praying and God told me Barbara this is gonna be a year of closure and so I told the church I got up and I said God is getting ready to close some areas I said this excited me because I had been waiting for God to close this door of sickness so when God told me I'm getting ready to close some areas I rejoiced in my heart and I told the church I said have any of you been struggling or been going through a process or difficulties or waiting to try to get out of something you're involved in a wanting God to close an area that you don't like he's getting ready to shut this down at the end of 2007 it's a year of closure but the thing that was more exciting to me that I realized is when God told me Barbara this is a year of closure I knew that if he closed the door he's gonna open another one and I told the church as sure as you may be God to close an area that has been an area that has not been pleasant to you you must also be aware that God is getting ready to open a new door and the new door will be better than where you have been and the old are usually disconnected to the new door so you gotta open your eyes and you have to be awakened and you have to realize what God is getting ready to do and this started me on my journey waiting for 2008 every day I woke up with expectation 2008 is coming and this door is gonna close and God's gonna open a greater door I'm waiting for it I'm longing for it I'm expecting it to happen and when 2008 came we were at the church and it was an all-night prayer meeting and praising and worshiping to enter the new year with Jesus and in the middle of that meeting God spoke to my heart and he gave me a message God told me that 2008 was a significant year and I believe this promise is for you women that are sitting here in fact as I was studying and I was thinking about this somebody sent me a little pamphlet that a rabbi named rabbi Ginsberg wrote to say what would the significance was to the people of Israel for 2008 and he said that the year 2008 in their terminology they say is 5 7 6 8 it is the year of shemitah it is the seventh year of the seventh cycle it is the year that is certain is is observed as the sabbatical year for the Land of Israel and during this time he said we are commanded to halt our agricultural use of the land we are commanded to stop everything in the year of five seven six eight and we are to observe the things of God and he also wrote in this article likewise the sabbatical shemitah year can be seen even by those individuals who are not farmers he said this is not just for those who are literally farmers he said but in the Land of Israel as a chance for everyone in during the year of 2008 to dedicate themselves and then it would be a year of spiritual elevation and I said it was a year of opened doors that during this year that all those who in Israel who were farmers were to stop what they always did they were no more to take their hands and do what they knew they were to do to plow the earth but this was the year that was to be set aside it was to be a year of spiritual elevation it is a year that God has given to us and he told me would be a year of opened doors in this article he said this is the year to say speak javea for your servant is listening this year he said we shall all become vessels for prophecy and merit the fulfillment of the prophetic words your sons and your daughters will prophesy what where do you want me to go speak I will follow he went on in the article to say that this was exactly what happened to Samuel you know the story when Samuel was with Eli and Eli had gotten so unaware of the things of God that Samuel was sleeping next to him and the voice cried out and he thought it was Eli and he ran to Eli side this happened three times this rabbi was writing in his article and he said finally and this encouraged me because three times God spoke to Eli in other words it said to me you don't have to be worried about if God's gonna speak to you and you're not gonna get it do you see how God works used to understand his nature in the year of 2008 God will be speaking and you don't have to fear that wow what if I can't hear him what if I'm not spiritual enough what if I don't have a clue am I gonna miss what the Spirit is saying but in this example he spoke three times and even the man who should have known what to do who was so carnal God still instructed him and gave him the wisdom to tell the one who is ready to receive the words what to do God is gonna give you an opportunity in 2008 don't miss it don't miss out to what the Spirit is saying don't miss out to what God is going to do don't miss out into your opportunities to be used to do something miraculous for God because this is not breaking the ground to the church and move over to the spirit and this is what the scripture is that I wanted to read you these are the things I've been dealing with and I hope you don't mind me being personal and sharing that with you but I want to tell you three qualities that God looks at to open doors this is the year I sang of open doors this is what God told me it is a year of spiritual elevation it is a year for going up somewhere you've never been before and there was three qualities that causes God to open doors and I want us to read revelations three and say and I'm gonna try to do this quickly these three points that I thought God told me revelation three six through nine he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches so God is speaking the only problem is is we have to make sure we listen and I know that you women are women of prayer and if you will pray you are going to see that the three qualities that he looks for to open a door that no man can ever open and no man can ever shut you are able to do that and you probably have those three qualities he said and the angel verse 7 and the Angel of the Church of Philadelphia write these things saith he that is holy say holy he that is true say true he that hath the key of David he meant open and say open and no man shutteth say shutteth and no man openeth now this is telling us that this is God God who is holy who is true who has the key that unlocks every single door he is the one that is then is talking to the church here and he is saying that I am the man that can open a door and I am the man who is holy and true and will not lie and if I opened this door for you it will be a door that no man opens and with no man opens it this door will never be shut by a man that encourages me I don't want to walk through a door that a man says to walk through I am NOT interested in a position I'm not interested in that remains a man I want him to be pleased I want him to love me I want him to open the door I'm hungry for his voice and then he says I know your works a he knows my works that's not a scary thing when you love God and you walk for him that's something to scramble hold on and say it's all right he knows my works he knows my coming he knows my going he knows my time I spent with him he knows me I recognize his voice he says I know thy works behold behold behold children of God behold women at this conference I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it now these are the three qualities that spoke to my heart for people who want to go to the next level number one you have little strength have you ever felt that way I said God that's me I have little strength he said but if you have little strength if you have little political authority if you have little influence if you have little if you're little in numbers if you feel you're insignificant if you feel like you don't have much influence if you feel like you don't have much earthly power Authority if you feel weak if you feel insignificant if you feel unqualified then you know God is looking for those type of people he's looking for people who are totally lost without him who say I can do nothing I can do nothing I can do nothing but Christ send me he said if you have no strength if you feel empty that's how I felt in November I felt like I was in a void or there was a vacuum or that I was somewhere and God was up there and I knew he was there but I was just feeling God where are you Genesis says that he hovers he hours on top of the darkness and the boys if you are here and you're feeling a boy are you feeling an area that you need God to feel he dwells on top of those areas just like Samuel wasn't closest to the Holy of Holies Eli was that's where he laid he was the one who's to be the closest one who was supposed to reach and do the things of God and Samuel was further down the line but God looks at the heart he looks at those who are desiring to do something he looks at those who have a desire and a want to be used for him and it jumps over he jumps over his word will go to those who live in here to here second Corinthians 12:10 says therefore I take pleasure in infirmities and when I read this I thought well Lord I don't know if many of us do this even myself says I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecution in distress I take pleasure in these areas why does he say he takes pleasure when he's sick why does he say he takes pleasure when people reproach him when there's misunderstandings when there's persecution when this distress and he doesn't know where to go or what to do he says for while I am weak then while I'm weak then in the middle of the night when you're flat on your back and you're at your weakest vulnerable place then when you're in the middle of a situation of misunderstanding and you've done what you thought you should do then when you're when you're being persecuted for his name's sake then then you're really stronger when you're your weakest you're the strongest in Christ but God it says in first Corinthians 1:27 hath chosen the foolish Nassif Allah shhhhht things of the world to confound the wise and he's chosen what the weak things say weak things of the world to confound these that are mighty so if you have a quality this morning that you feel like you have no strength god I don't know where you're at but I feel like I've got no strength I don't know what to do I don't know where to go they'd be ready because spiritual elevation is right above you if you'll just grab it if you'll just believe he's looking for the weak he's looking for those who need him and he'll open a door that no man can open can you get it he's gonna open the door for you that no man can open and when he opens it no one can shut it no present things to come it doesn't matter what comes before you that door will remain open that door will not shut because he has ordained it the second quality it says here in this scripture besides that you have no strength it says that you've kept my word I want you to say these are all things I can do I am NOT talking about something that's whoo out there that you cannot obtain this morning God's Word is simple but it's powerful it's sharp it can go right down to the area that you had this morning and he can go into a surgery on you that will leave no scarring that will cut out that area that is hindering you from doing his perfect will let his word go in you now and let it do the operation that it needs to release you in the spirit to do what he wants you to do the second quality for an open door and spiritual elevation in 2008 is the words he's kept my word somebody asked me they came up to me was a young aim couple that came to Singapore recently and they were just interviewing me as they were walking down the quarters of the church they said can I have five minutes sister barb I said sure they said I want to ask you some questions and I said okay I don't know that I have all the answers but you're welcome to ask him and he said what made you the spiritual person you are today and I said well I can tear the first thing it popped in my head the number-one thing that makes me who I am is the Word of God and I told him and he wrote these words out and he mailed them to me I said the Word of God has been essential for me to exist when I read my Bible I can instruction from God God speaks to me in a very very clearly through the Bible it has been through reading the Word of God that I have learned his nature his likes his dislikes I've learned things about God through the years just as I've learned things about my husband through the years I've learned what my husband is thinking and I can even tell by his facial expressions we've been married 25 years but I've been married to Jesus since I was seven and I'm gonna be 49 I talk about relationships why does he say if you kept his word because his word becomes the anchor to your soul when I went to Singapore I had nobody I have my husband and he and me and I had one baby and when I got there all I had what's the Word of God I didn't ask somebody to pick up the phone to and call and pour out my problems - and when we were building the church and the Saints were new even the first time I had fallen sick I couldn't tell that the Saints what was going on in my own life because they were such new Christians I did not want to do anything that would hinder their faith in God so what did I do I turn to the word his word became my comfort his word became my strength his word is what I learned to trust him it's his word that never changes so if you will not forsake the word he will bring you to a level of understanding him his nature the way he operates the things he does and it will unlock doors for you to walk and minister that no man can open why do I trust so much in the Word of God it never changes it never changes now I'm not talking some deep I'm not preaching something deep deep deep I'm not that way I'm very practical and that's how God works with me something that I told God I need something I can build on then when the storm comes my house isn't washed away when life gets difficult I wanted to stay firm and life is difficult life is not easy we live in sin we live in a sinful world we live in a world that is ruled by the powers of darkness how do you combat something you can't see you combat it with something else that you can't see the Holy Spirit you use the Spirit in you to move and guide you and instruct you to the word you go to the word and you say it's the same yesterday that means if it happened back then for Moses I can stand on it if it happened for Noah I could stand on it if it happened for Jacob and Esau and Abraham I could stand on it it's apostles did it I can do it it's mine it's my walk it's my fortress it's my shelter it never changes proverbs 3 one through three say my son forget not my law but let thine heart keep my Commandments why the first reason I love the Word of God is because it's the same it never changes John 1 and 1 he's this it says in the beginning was the word and the word was of God and the Word was God so if you want one thing that you can depend on do do the Word of God because it was God it is God it will always be God and you'll never be misled wrong if you base your life on the word and the second reason I love it so much as it says it will air it will add length of days long life and peace it says forget not my laws but let thine heart keep my Commandments why verse 2 for length of days say length of days long life peace shall be added to you do you understand why he says I opened the door for people who will not forsake my word because those are the people I will build upon and when the winds come and the storms come they will remain firm and those are the people that I will give late the days to a long life to do I give peace to anyone I was in the middle of my sickness and they were telling me you will never live if you live for five years you can count yourself lucky that's what they're telling me every time I go in there but I read this scripture and I say God your word says if I love your word you will give me laid the days you will give me life you will give me peace when the devil tells you it's over and he will tell you it's over you tell him my peace is in the word my strength is in the word and it will not change and I could depend on it and build my life on it another reason I love the Word of God it gives you favor and understanding favor and understanding with God and man now how can you go wrong with the Hat you know it's really funny there's so many people in this world that are scratching and fighting to get to the top of the pile and this scripture tells us you want that open door you want that ministry opportunity don't get in the rat race don't get in the clawing of who's who and who gets to the top of the pile don't even fall that's the devil's trick that's the way he works he told God I will ascend I will be like the Most High I will when you get to where you're feeling that way you are not like Christ when you say I'm weak I'm insignificant and when you say I got to trust in your word then God says I'll tell you what if you're trusting my word I'll give you favor with man I'll give you a favor with me I will lead you and I will give you understanding it says in proverbs 3 4/3 4 through 6 soul shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man verse 5 how trust in the Lord so I could do that trust in the Lord leading not into your own understanding acknowledge him and what happens he directs you he directs you he moves you to the open door he let you walk through it why because you do not deny his word Psalms 1 & 6 says everything you do will prosper how do you get you know you see these people with the Midas touch everything they touch turns to gold and oh I wish I had all that I wish I was like them I wish I had their money or their prosperity or their this or that the Bible says that if you want everything you touch to prosper then it says blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates on it he gets it to his heart and he says what did your law say I don't want to be sidetracked by man I want to do thus saith the Lord and he says and he shall be like a what a tree I'm talking about something that grows strong and the roots grow deep into the ground and the wind blows the tree and it bends and it blows this way and it bends but the tree remains firm and it says further in the scripture that his leaf shall not wither and whatever he does will prosper see the advantages of not forsaking his word hey it doesn't matter what life says it matters what the said the Word of God nice smash you're gonna die before five years and Jesus says love my word I'll give your long life serve me and I'll open the doors go and I will send you seek me and you will find give and it shall be given unto you the last reason I love the word is it gives you faith the scripture says faith cometh by what and hearing comes how some people say I need more faith you know what I say you need more word how come you're soaked you're so powerful in faith this is how come when you get this in your mind and you say created me good mind reshape my mind create in me a clean heart God I got to get this word in me I got to eat it I got to get it down into my soul and when you do that God since the faith comes first comes the word and when you get the word when he speaks Roma to your you read the written logos when you get that your faith comes you need more faith read the word eat the word it will not come back void and the last quality for an open door in 2008 or a spiritual elevation the scripture says he has not denied my name we are the people of the name this is an open door for us say this is for me this did not say it's for every big church that runs to 25,000 and above it's for all the mega churches or it's for all the people who are known and our great personalities worldwide no he says it's for those who have not denied my name we don't have to wonder today is this an open door that's coming to me we are the people with the name in the day and living day that we're living in right now they say it is not politically correct to say anything bad about anybody or not to agree or not to want to work in total harmony that's have an ecumenical council and let's all agree that we don't agree on everything but let's try to agree on the things we do and let's not make an issue about the things we don't want to make an issue about what is the word say I am NOT for putting anybody down but I'm also not for putting Jesus down I am a person that is buried in the name of Jesus and I will not be ashamed of the gospel I apologize when everyone else is diminishing the significance of the name we must continue to expound it we must continue to enlarge it we must continue to magnify it we must continue to publicize it we must tell him who he is we must tell him the power of his name Peter realized that it was all in the name of Jesus and with that name you could do anything in fact when he was at the gate beautiful that's all he offered that's all he offered he said silver and gold I don't have but such as I do have in the do not deny that name that name is the key to a spiritual elevation in 2008 he know that it was in the name the book of Acts it talks about the name the first church that ever was was built on the name x3 and 12 says nor is there salvation any other for there is no other name given under heaven whereby we must be saved [Music] x12 says but when they believed Peter when they believed Philip as he preached these things concerning the kingdom of God and the name when they believed him when he preached the name of Jesus it says in that scripture that they were baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit acts 2:38 says repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus and then verse 29 says the promise is unto you and your children and to all those who are far off it's the same today folks the promise is for us today Peter and John when they went before the sanhedrin and x4 they were told to stop preaching in the name of Jesus they locked him up and the scripture says 5000 was added to the church healing took place when they preached in the name of Jesus and they tried locking him up and in acts 5 it says that believers were increasingly added to the church multitudes it says in the scripture that they brought sick people out on the streets in their couches and beds and they were healed as the shadow of Peter passed by them what do you think that was it's because he preached the name he filled the city with the name he told them who Jesus was and the power that was available to them now that he had died and rose again and when they threw him in the prison in acts 5 that night the angel of the Lord opened the prison and what did he do the next day he went back to the temple right where they told him to get out and they locked him up he went right back to the same place and he said and they said to him didn't we command you are you are you a little dense didn't you just get locked up last night didn't we tell you to not preach and teach in his name and look look what you've done you failed Jerusalem with this doctrine and Peter said am I supposed to obey you are you telling me I'm supposed to do what you say just cuz you're gonna throw me in the prison did you not see who unlocked my door I'm talking about who's opening doors in 2008 I'm talking about a God who has promises for you and for me and for every single believer that's here and if you are here and you've never received a spirit throw your hands up the door is open for you to will just stand with me right now if you want God to open a door for you I want you to reach your hands up come on reach your hands up if you want an open door it's here it's here I can feel it I may not have much strength to jump up and down and screaming in the microphone but it's here it's above you grab it it's above you an open door that no man can open an open door then no man can shut grab it grab it at your promise it's your promise if there's anybody here who has not been filled with the spirit you come up here right now we'll lay hands on you he'll fill you right now if there's anybody who wants an open door seek him he's speaking now listen to what the boy says listen to the voice here listen [Music] I'm knockin he who has an ear let him hear let him hear let him hear what is God speaking to you about come on let the word speak to you open your heart open your heart lay hands on those who are next to you come on it's here that door you've been waiting for it's here Shia Imam Imam aha yes ladies the Holy Ghost wants to do some miracles right now we're gonna ask our speaker sister Barbara Willoughby to come down front she has struggled with cancer and different things in her body we're gonna pray that when she goes back into the doctor that she will receive only good reports in Jesus name in the name of Jesus if there are others that needed healing we want you to come up front here we're gonna take a few minutes and we're gonna pray the healing power of God in the name above all names I want this place to turn into a named session Dan and upon the word of God in the name of Jesus if you're sick come across the front our singers are gonna sing Jehovah Jireh we're gonna sing we're gonna pray and we're gonna witness the miracles at this moment no one in the building spectate but we will all pray in the name of Jesus stretch forth your hands for those that need healing in the name of Jesus right now [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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