On this final day of 2024, the year of the open door, I woke up hearing the Lord say, “On this last day of the year, there are some doors that need to be closed.” I jumped out of bed and began writing what I was hearing the Lord saying, the excitement about the doors He wants to shut is equally as exciting as the doors He said at the beginning of the year He wanted to open. My first sense was to think of Noah and how God shut the door behind him when he and his family were in the ark. God is about to shut some doors in our lives and He wants us to partner with Him in doing it on this last day of 2024.

One door we need to shut is death’s door. I was praying for a friend who has cancer, the other day, and the Lord told me to shut the door to death in her life. That is exactly what I did. I shut death’s door, that is not a door she will walk through as she goes though this cancer journey. Our decree is from Psalm 118:17-18 “I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD. The LORD has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.” We shut the door of death with a decree we shall live and not die!

Another door we need to shut is the debt’s door. We shut the door of debt by declaring Matthew 6:12 “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” We must not go into the new year with any debts of unforgiveness in our lives. The debt door must be shut, declaring no man owes me anything, I have forgiven everyone of everything. Sin is a debt we keep a hold of and the Lord is wanting us to shut debt’s door on this last day of 2024.

A third door we need to shut is destruction’s door. We shut this door by declaring Ephesians 4:29 “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” We must shut the door to destructive speech, our words are powerful and we must close this door.

The side door to destruction’s door is the door of anger. This door must be shut and shut immediately. We shut this door by declaring Ephesians 4:26-27 “Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.” We have to shut the door to anger as it is not our friend, it is an opportunity for the devil to come in and wreak havoc on our relationships. This door needs to be shut today.

Friends, as we leave the year of the open door, 2024, we need to shut some doors. These doors have not done anything to bless our lives and God has things planned for us in the coming year that our beyond all we can ask, think or imagine, so shut some doors as you leave the year of the open door, and then tomorrow we will walk into a New Year free from those doors that sought to hold us back not propel us forward.