Deut' 28:12

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• Deut. 2812

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Open the Windows of Heaven
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(Deut. 2812) "The LORD will open to you His good
treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your
land in its season, and to bless all the work of
your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but
you shall not borrow. NKJ
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(Deut. 2812) The LORD will open the heavens, the
storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your
land in season and to bless all the work of your
hands. You will lend to many nations but will
borrow from none. NIV
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Aligning with the Windows
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7 conditions when the windows are open to us
1) Obedience / Tithing Deut. 281-12
(Mal. 310) Bring all the tithes into the
storehouse, That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this," Says the LORD of hosts,
"If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing That there
will not be room enough to receive it.
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(Matt. 316) When He had been baptized, Jesus
came up immediately from the water and behold,
the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and
alighting upon Him.
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2) Brokenness / Humility
(Gen. 711) In the six hundredth year of Noah's
life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of
the month, on that day all the fountains of the
great deep were broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened.
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3) Prayer / Fasting
(Luke 321) When all the people were baptized, it
came to pass that Jesus also was baptized and
while He prayed, the heaven was opened.
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(Acts 109-11) The next day, as they went on
their journey and drew near the city, Peter went
up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance and
saw heaven opened and an object like a great
sheet bound at the four corners, descending to
him and let down to the earth.
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(2 Chron. 714-15) "if My people who are called
by My name will humble themselves, and pray and
seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin and heal their land. "Now My eyes will
be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in
this place.
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4) Praise / Worship
(Acts 1625-26) But at midnight Paul and Silas
were praying and singing hymns to God, and the
prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there
was a great earthquake, so that the foundations
of the prison were shaken and immediately all
the doors were opened and everyone's chains were
loosed.
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5) Isolation / Relocation
(Ez. 11) NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth
year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of
the month, as I was among the captives by the
River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I
saw visions of God.
God sometimes pulls you away from the familiar
Conviction, counsel, and comfort comes best to
those in isolation.
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6) Placement
(Gen. 2811) And he lighted upon a certain place,
and tarried there all night, because the sun was
set and he took of the stones of that place, and
put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep. KJV
(Gen. 2817) And he was afraid and said, "How
awesome is this place! This is none other than
the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"
Place location, position, situation Gods
spot
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7) Persecution
(Acts 755-56) But he, being full of the Holy
Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of
God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the
Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
Stephen received a standing ovation.
Key Spirit-filled But he, being full of the
Holy Spirit
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Heavens gates will open. Are we
obedient?
broken?
praying?
praising?
removed from the familiar?
in a place?
being persecuted, suffering?