Gateways are entry points where the life and glory of God flows into us. As we become aware of the gateways of our spirit, we can sense the eternal life or nature of God in us.
The glory of God is inside of our spirit. There is a door in our spirit called the first love gateway. When we learn how to join our spirit to God in first love, this door opens and the glory of God flows into our spirit.
1 Corinthians 6: 17But he that is joined (continuous repeated action- to glue, cleave, join together with) unto the Lord ( Master, Owner, controller) is one (to indicate the singularity of something, thus emphasizing that there is but one only, one and the same, not at variance with, in accord with) spirit.
Our spirit, soul and body are designed to be connected and interactive. We are designed to be a gateway for heaven to flow into the earth. We are a gateway for the kingdom to be at hand around us.
The life of God flows out into our spirit (our God consciousness), and then through different gateways of our spirit into our soul (our self consciousness) and then though our soul into our body and then out into the atmosphere around us.
The gateways of our spirit are worship, fear of God, reverence, prayer, intuition, revelation, faith, and hope. The gateways of our soul are conscience, reason, imagination, mind, emotions, will, and choice. The gateways of our body are eye, ear, nose, mouth and the feel gate, or the five physical senses.
Our spirit has at least eight senses, which become gateways for the glory of God to flow through.
1- Worship- Obeisance, Obedience, Surrender, Submission, We bow to the Lordship of Jesus over our spirit.
2-Reverence- we glorify him in everything we say and do by allowing His Spirit to move through us.
3-Fear of God- we sense his holiness and see things through that perspective.
4-Prayer-two way communication, we discern Jesus interceding for us through the Holy Spirit and say the same thing. We ask questions, and wait upon the Lord for answers. We discern his will for others and come into agreement.
5-Intuition- we sense God’s leading.
6-Revelation- the entrance of his light, we begin to perceive spiritually.
7-Faith- what God reveals to us, what we see and hear in the spirit, we lay hold of with our spirit, until it becomes a part of us, until it comes to pass in the natural ream.
8-Hope- the confident expectation of God’s destiny for our lives coming to pass within us and through us.
Isaiah 60:1Arise, shine (to give light, to become light, radiating the glory of God); for (because) thy light is come, and the glory (honor, glory, majesty, wealth, splendor) of the LORD is risen (zāraḥ: A verb meaning to rise up, to dawn, to shine forth; to break out)
upon thee. 2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise (to break out)
upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
When we learn how to be filled with the Spirit, until overflowing, His glory shall be seen upon us.
We are the fullness of Him who fills all in all, Behind that is all authority, all power, all dominion—everything. He is going to fill all things, even the world that does not know Him. The knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Isaiah 11:9). God intends for us, as His Church, to be the fullness of Him who fills all in all. That may be a difficult concept to accept. Our minds do not grasp the magnitude of this truth. We are to be the fullness of Christ.
Isaiah 60: 4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. 5Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea (The sea, a body of water, symbolizes “peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues”) shall be converted unto thee, the forces (A masculine noun meaning strength, wealth, army. This word has the basic idea of strength and influence. It can be used to speak of the strength of people) of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.