Saturday, August 30, 2008

Powerful message from Kenneth Scott!

The term “Porter” is used because it is not a commonly used term, I wanted to give a brief explanation of its meaning and definition. The dictionary has several definitions of the word “Porter.” One of them, however, describes the biblical definition. It is someone that is a doorkeeper, or someone who guards a door or gate.
The following scriptures collaborate the dictionary’s definition of a porter:
1 Chronicles 9:18 Until then they had been gatekeepers for the camps of the children of Levi at the King’s Gate on the east.
2 Chronicles 9:22 All those chosen as gatekeepers were two hundred and twelve. They were recorded by their genealogy, in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their trusted office.
2 Chronicles 8:14 And, according to the order of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the Levites for their duties (to praise and serve before the Priests) as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate; for so David the man of God had commanded.
2 Chronicles 23:4-5 This is what you shall do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and Levites, shall be keeping watch over the doors; 5 one-third shall be at the king’s house; and one-third at the Gate of the Foundation. All the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 35:15b Also the gatekeepers were at each gate; they did not have to leave their position, because their brethren the Levites prepared portions for them.
Ezra 2:42 The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.
Nehemiah 7:1 Then it was, when the wall was built and I had hung the doors, when the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,….
2 Kings 7:10 So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound-only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.”
1 Chronicles 9:21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was keeper of the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
Mark 13:34 It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
John 10:3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Biblically, porters were responsible for guarding or protecting the doors or gates to the city, temple, or the king’s palace. Spiritually speaking, when we become born-again, we also receive the duty and responsibility of being porters. We do this through our weapons of prayer. In Matthew 6:10, in what we know of as “the Lord’s Prayer,” God gives us a commission to pray for His will to be done on the earth. Demons and demonic spirits are working continually and diligently to keep the will of God out of the earth realm and bring as much chaos and destruction as they can. But when we are willing to pray the authority of God’s Word, we push back the gates of hell, and open the doors of heaven and allow God’s will to be done in the earth realm instead.
The responsibility of what we allow in our home, city, church, nation and so on, depends upon us (as Porters). We have the authority and responsibility (through the power of the Word of God) to guard and protect.
God’s will is done in the heavens without opposition, hindrance or failure. However, His will can only be done in the earth realm when we (as porters) utilize the weapon of His Word, and pray for His will in the earth.
And he set the “porters” at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in…….…2 Chronicles 23:19