There are several clichés that are urban legends and I don’t find them in the Bible. God won’t give us more than we can bear. I found there have been many things in life that are more than I can bear on my own, but that is why I have to cast my anxieties/cares (1 Peter 5:7, Psalm 55:22) on God. God helps those who help themselves when clearly the example that Jesus gave of the rich man and Lazarus who had no regard for his neighbor and lived in selfishness is not the way to go, it should say, “God helps those who helps others,” and next where do they come up with when God closes a door he opens a window?
Windows are smaller than doors. A window is a little small to crawl through especially those basement windows, unless they installed those larger windows, and now I find I’m going to have to bar my basement windows to keep the thieves out. If God is going to open a window, it better be a sliding glass door and I’m going out it the back way. When God closes the front door, he opens the back door.
They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows. Joel 2:9
Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares. Jeremiah 9:21
Recently, I had a dream about an evil mafia man that was guarding the front door of a lodge/compound that I was in and he was holding several people and me hostage. There was a car that belonged to this evil mafia man in the compound, but I did not have the keys to his car, but I had my daughter’s car and the keys to that one. The evil man was guarding the front door, but he was not guarding the back door because he expected me to come out the front door. I ended up going out the back door and down a one way street out of the compound. As I was leaving the back exit down this one way street the wrong way, many semi-trucks were dodging me that were coming into the compound back area. All the people in my car made it out safely. There was another car load of people, but I did not see how they got out of the compound and if they made it safely.
I know the back door represents single ministries in my life and the one-way street represents the amount of people I meet that it is not a give-take relationship. It’s more giving on my part. That is very typical of single ministries, because many singles have not been in a day in/day out relationship where it’s give and take. Some have, especially the ones that care for their children on a regular basis, and lay down their lives for their children know what making sacrifices for others is about usually. I’ve also met few singles that take care of their widow mothers or elderly or sick parents. If you made decisions all your life for just yourself, than you don’t know what it is like to bend your will to another person in making decisions together for the good of the household. Submission like the Bible talks about is two-way for the good of the whole.
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:21
I have found scriptures that talks about the “windows” of heaven and that is plural:
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the Lord of Heaven's Armies, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! Malachi 3:10
The officer had said to the man of God, "Look, even if the Lord should open the windows of the heavens, could this happen?" The man of God had replied, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!" 2 Kings 7:19
Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The windows of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake. Isaiah 24:18
Open Doors:
There is a wide-open door for a great work here, although many oppose me. 1 Cor. 16:9
Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me 2 Cor. 2:12
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Rev. 3:8
On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. Acts 14:27
And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Col. 4:3
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