The Lord showed me years ago, by the spirit of revelation, that the narrow door, the narrow gate, the narrow way was the cross, which is the entrance into the kingdom. Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” This means the cross is a gate, a door, a place of entry. When you go through the cross, baptized in the blood for the forgiveness of your sins, you are coming through the narrow gate, but once you come through the gate, through the door, through the cross, everything changes.

Once in the kingdom, the kingdom, the Lord showed me that wide open spaces are holy places. He likened it to Narnia’s Wardrobe, when they went through those double doors into the wardrobe, they entered into a world they never knew existed. It was wide open spaces, full of beauty and wonder. Now this morning, I am reading Ezekiel 41 in the Passion Translation and it says, “The rooms for the priests were right up the temple walls. The width of the side rooms increased, floor by floor, because the width of the temple increased as it got higher, from the lower level through the middle level to the top level.”

Immediately the Holy Spirit says to me, the call to come up here in Revelation 4 is a call to come up into wide open spaces. The narrower sections are down low, the more spacious places are up higher. The more you ascend, the more you release, the more you surrender the more spacious your life gets, not more narrow. The Lord is inviting us to cast off things on the narrow level so we can ascend with Him through the doors into higher levels. Things get more spacious the more you ascend. We are invited to come up here, but so many settle for the narrow, small life of the down here, not realizing the rooms get wider the higher up we go. Ascend my friends, there is so much more to see, hear, experience and comprehend. Up, up, up we go!!!!