A gateway is a place of authority where dominion is exercised. Whoever controls your life’s different gateways exercises authority, dominion & control over you. Your gates are designed to be open and flowing from the inside out so that you become a gateway of heaven.
1 Cor 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Thes 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Each year of my life looked at each soul gate. During this process I sought to identify the nature, nurture and trauma affects that had conformed me to external world and shaped my life.
I looked to identify the familiars that were behind these factors. I discovered I was fractured mentally and emotionally, and my true eternal identity was obscured behind strongholds and walls built to protect myself. I had belief systems that were lies masquerading as truth.
I had behavioral coping and defense mechanisms created by my survival instinct to protect myself, but I was imprisoned behind those walls. I walked with God daily through my gates to identify where when and how these things operated.
I systematically dealt with each gateway. I progressively became more whole and integrated spirit, soul and body working together in unison. This process requires desire and discipline before it becomes a delight. We are in a marathon not a sprint and it is really worth taking the time to prepare and train well.
Heb 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
This process may seem daunting and potentially painful. Your soul’s fear and the familiars will do everything and anything they can to put you off and intimidate you. Don’t be robbed of your future and destiny by your past, nature, nurture or trauma experiences or sin, guilt, shame or condemnation.
I worked through all 62 years of my life. First Love – key gate-Emotional damage – Relationships, Parents, Spouse, Family, Friends, Authority Figures. Unmet needs affect our soul’s desires & motives. Unhealed hurts affect our emotional desires & motives.
Soul’s attempt to meet its own needs create our behavioral responses. Acceptance, Love, Security, Safety, Approval, Significance, Affirmation, Identity, Purpose, Affection, Value, worth. God desires to meet all our needs.
We need to know God’s love as a foundation which is why engaging first love is vital. I sought to unblock my soul gates. For each year of my life in relationship with God I looked to identify the causes of each of my soul gates being blocked. Key is being ruthless, honest & open to the light.
I engaged relationally with God to identify by revelation – Patterns of sin, weakness, hurts, mind-sets, character issues etc. Our soul will try to make excuses, project blame onto others or be in denial. We must be willing to Own it, confess it, Repent, Renounce, forgive as necessary. All our blockages can be removed.
I had a desire to flow in everything that God had created me for. I was willing to put in the discipline. That desire produced the willingness to persevere and persist. I now feel so much more whole and integrated and at peace than I could have imagined.
I opened my first love gate. I invited Jesus to stand with me in each of my soul gates. I asked Him to reveal anything that had negatively affected each soul gate. I did this for each year of my life back to the womb. You can go beyond into generational line.
When I identified the specific sins, lies, beliefs or hurts I repented, renounced or forgave and took any familiar to the court. I applied the blood of Jesus to cleanse the gateway. I surrendered the gateways afresh to the Lordship of Jesus. I focused on flowing from my spirit gates outwards to engage my soul.
Conscience – protector director. Sin, Deception, Pride, Independence, Judgment, Criticism, Defensiveness. I found patterns and specific events came to mind as thoughts. I repented and renounced the specifics and applied the blood of Jesus for specific sin in each year. Sin, rebellion – dull, desensitized conscience. Weaknesses, patterns of sin, “normal acceptable” behaviors – nurture. Own it, confess it, repent, renounce it, apply the blood of Jesus, receive forgiveness & cleansing. No guilt, shame or condemnation. Righteousness can be our guide. Reverence and fear of God empowering it.
Reason – translator and interpreter of the thoughts of God – know the truth. Strongholds, Words spoken, Words received, Curses, Fear, False doctrine, Lies, Deception. I identified each thought, lie, doctrine that I had received that set up my belief systems and values that were the building blocks of my life. I identified the thinking patterns and where they came from as I explored each year and received the revelation. I repented and renounced, applied the blood of Jesus. The neural pathways were broken and now truth could replace lies.
Imagination – receiver and transmitter. Images pollute or blur what we see and perceive. Images, TV, Films, Books, Fantasy, Games, Internet, magazines, real life. For each image that came to my mind I acknowledge it as sin or hindrance. I took the blood of Jesus like red paint on a brush and obliterated it from record.
Subconscious Mind – heart – memory and program storage. Prov 23:7 For as he thinks within himself (Heart), so he is. Hard drive- memories are stored that trigger and load default programs into our conscious mind. Like a storage facility with many lockers.
I asked Jesus to search my heart. Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 and see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way. Expose the negative memories that were the trigger points.
Apply the blood of Jesus to each memory in each year that gets brought into the light. The memories get obliterated and the neural pathways broken.
You then have more storage capacity to deposit the truth and sow seeds into your heart as a testimony.
Emotions – responses and feelings. Rejection, Disappointments, Fear, Unforgiveness, Betrayal, Vows. I dealt with each memory I received revelation about, linked to the hurts I received. To see how they had damaged my emotions and affected what I felt about myself and the world around me. I chose to forgive and release the debts to those who had hurt me, and I received healing and restoration into those damaged areas. I also asked for revelation of anything I had done to hurt others out of my own brokenness and repented.
Will – motivation, courage, persistence. Sin, Rebellion, Stubbornness, Control. I received revelation where these issues operated and the experiences that created them. I repented and renounced and applied the blood of Jesus.
Choice – to worship by surrendering to God’s will. My desire to honor God with my life and behavior and obedience through reverence and fear of God can motivate my choices free from the effects of my damaged soul. I have free will to choose and I choose not my will but God’s be done.
Unmet needs affect our souls desires & motives. Unhealed hurts affect our emotional desires & motives. Unresolved issues affect our Trust – Doubt. Don’t bury it, suppress it, cover it up, deal with it.
Take your time and be consistent, diligent and perseverant. It took a lifetime get into this state, but it does not need the same time to be transformed if you are proactive. The choice is yours you can stay as you are or be conformed to the eternal pattern that is God’s heart.
After cleansing my gates, I spent 2-3 years daily engaging my gateways to understand how God had wired me as a person. My redemptive gift, spiritual gifts etc. Who I am and how wonderfully I was designed. I sought to experience my spirit and soul gates flowing together integrated and whole, one spirit with God. Identifying the familiars, mind-sets, behavioral patterns, lies. Develop your specific 40-day battle plan for each behavioral bondage, familiar or group of familiars. You Need basic biblical foundations of truth vital to bring freedom.
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 and see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way.
We can use this process like our own court busting session to search, try and purify our hearts.
John 8:31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
2 Cor 10:4-5 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
James 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Prov 18:21 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Rom 12:1-2 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Identify the familiars, Take the familiars to court, Use and enforce your verdict. Take captive the thoughts and enforce your court orders, work though the issues that are identified as you cleanse your gates.
Know the truth to be set free. Bible verses that confront the lies and mind-sets. Meditate in and confess the truth. Experience the truth by encounter. Use the righteousness and truth declaration and, who I am and since I am scriptures.
Weeks 1 & 2 Defeat negative speech and thoughts by replacing with positive speech and thoughts. Renewing the mind to know your identity as the righteousness of God. Start the day by surrendering your tongue to God through praise and thanksgiving and praying in tongues. By faith daily open your first love gate and invite God’s presence to fill you. By faith daily step into heaven and receive your robes of righteousness.
Daily confess and meditate on the righteousness of God declarations and meditate and use daily declarations of God’s promises and truth. As you cleanse your gateways begin seeking God to reveal what He wants to deal with (Keep a List). Review the list. Arrange a lie bust. Take the specific issue or familiar to the court. Decree and declare and use the verdict.
Focus on thinking about the truth but make sure you take captive any negative thoughts. If thoughts continue, do a contempt of court case. Ensure you finish the day in victory, by confessing, forgiving, praising and sleeping with Holy Spirit. NEVER SLEEP WITH THE ENENY.
Week 3 & 4 – Establish positive speech and thinking by meditating on and declaring the truth. Establish new mind-sets based on your identity as the righteousness of God. By faith daily open your first love gate and invite God’s presence to fill you. By faith daily step into heaven and receive your robes of righteousness.
Meditate and use daily declarations of God’s promises and truth add the Who AM I scriptures. Continue daily confessing and meditating on the righteousness of God declarations.
Take captive every thought and praise God when negative thoughts come. Continue to use the courts if you need to. Be open for the Holy Spirit to lead you to give away what has been given. Ensure you finish the day in victory, by confessing, forgiving, praising and sleeping with Holy Spirit.
Week 5 & 6 – Persevere in a lifestyle of positive speech and thinking. Claim your rights as God’s son in your righteousness. By faith daily open your first love gate and invite God’s presence to fill you. By faith daily step into heaven and receive your robes of righteousness.
Continue daily meditations and declarations and add the- Since I Am scriptures. Continue confessing and meditating on your rights as a joint heir and son of God. Take authority over the areas of weakness in your righteousness.
Continue to use the courts if you need to. Be open for the Holy Spirit to lead you to give away what has been given. Ensure you finish the day in victory, by confessing, forgiving, praising and sleeping with Holy Spirit.