Understanding The Gates Of Life

If gates can lament and mourn this suggests that gates can laugh and rejoice. Surely what goes through a gate would be a determinant of the category it belongs to.

In the spiritual realm virtually everything has a gate: We have gates of heaven, and gates of hell.

Psalm 78: 73 states: Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven.

While we read in Matthew 16:18: And I say also to thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Also, the treasures and riches of earth have gates that need to be opened for one to gain access:

Isaiah 45:1-3 states: Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut;

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron:

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, who call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

From this biblical passage we gather that

-access to wealth could be gained through these spiritual gates (here referred to as leaves gates.)

This passage indicates:

-That there are hidden riches and wealth that no man has access to unless the Lord opens the spiritual gates that guide them to him.

-That unless a higher authority decrees otherwise, a gate of wealth and prosperity open to ones life may be shut by the enemy.

Please, at this point, let us pause to take the following prayer points:

Oh Lord, Open up unto me the gate of wealth and riches in this land.

Every power that has closed the gate of prosperity against me die in the name of Jesus.

I shall locate and open the gates of prosperity in this land in Jesus name.

Why is it, that one man would have toiled and sweated in a country for years, yet another, with less or similar educational background, within a short period succeeds where the first man failed.

It is more likely that to one the spiritual gates of wealth and riches are opened (as in the case of Cyprus) while to the other these gates remain closed.

From the bible we also discover that side of a gate on which one is found could determine ones fate.

This seen in the story of Rehab in Joshua 2:19

And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

Remember the words of Jesus in the book of John:

John 10:9: “I am the door if by me any man shall enter he shall be saved”

Possessing the gates of ones enemies

This now takes us to the principle of possessing the gates.

He that controls the gate determines the fate of those within.

The Gazites sought to capture Samson by possessing the gate which he was bound to pass through when leaving the city. Samson however overcame them by taking possession of the gate where they lay in wait.