How To Open
Doors!
"Meanwhile praying also for us, that God would
open to us a door for the word, to speak the
mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains."
Colossians 4: 3
Paul had been called by God to preach, so
he expected God to give him opportunities for
evangelism. Paul called those opportunities
an open door.
As soon as Paul saw such a door opening,
he went through it in full faith that it was God
who was giving him an opportunity to preach.
On an occasion, Paul and his companions were
preaching
in Asia Minor. When they started off in a new direction, they
were prevented (Acts 16:6-10). When Paul had a vision during
his
sleep of a man in Macedonia calling him to preach, he
changed plans, and the Gospel made its first entrance into
Europe.
Paul wasn’t frustrated about God closing one door because
he expected another door to open, and it did. Even when Paul
was under house arrest in Rome for 2 years, he preached and
taught about Christ (Acts 28:30-31), winning many in Caesar’s
household to Christ (Acts 28:23-24; Philippians 4:22).
Would you like God to use you to spread the Gospel?
Then pray for open doors and be ready
to go through
them.
"Every single believer is a God-
ordained
agent of evangelism."
R. B. Kuiper