Does God ever open doors that He closed?

[aflower4God]

Hi all,
This is a question that I have been wondering about for days. See to make along story short God closed a door for me, but does he ever reopen doors. You have heard that saying, when God closes doors he opens another one. But what about the old door, is it forever closed?
Thank you alll in advance for your answers on this question.
God bless you and LOTS OF LOVE to you all {{{{{{{{{BIG HUGS}}}}}}}

 

[wayfaring man]

From experience , when God opens a door / opportunity , and for some reason we fail to enter / accept that provision , and the time of easy access passes , that door may be as one that has closed ... yet , if one is intent on redeeming that opportunity , with much perseverance , it may open unto them again ... but not with the same ease that it first was offered in... I suspect to teach us to be more attentively receptive towards openings offered in the future .

 

[Johnnz]

I am not a great fan of this opening and closing doors teaching. Generally, that's just the way things happened due to whatever the circumstances were at the time.

I find it far more helpful to think in terms of God having one great master plan for me - to see me grow up in Christ. He never abandons that goal, and will use whatever set of circumstances we are in for whatever reasons to continue towards that. He is a God who re-creates, renews, restores, revives, re-establishes.

John
NZ

 

[Autumnleaf]

No. It is always a different door to a different eventuality. You can't ever go back because things are always changing.

The Great Gatsby is a wonderful book that deals with this very topic.

 

[bliz]

To stick with the door analogy...

If it was the right door, but not the right time, a door that was once closed may be opened later.

 

[ub4me]

If God opened the door to begin with, it would have been the right time
If he wants you to move on....he will close the one and open another
God can take you where He sees the need...even if it's back where you were before, God is God and can do as he wills.

Just pray that God shows you His will for your life, and if you walk in it , you will be blessed!!!

 

[heron]

I am not a great fan of this opening and closing doors teaching. Generally, that's just the way things happened due to whatever the circumstances were at the time.

It's a supportive teaching, not a scriptural statement. So as said above, God can do what He wills.

What comes to mind, is that this might be relational. Make sure all the proper things line up if that is so. No spouses in the wings, deadly addictions, emotional abuse. Be smart.

Pr 2:2
Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding.

 

[aflower4God]

..Hi all this is really interesting to know (what you all have just said.
I am wondering lets say a job for an example if God opened that door, one went through it then He closed it to that job, does this mean that it will NEVER be opened again by God????
Thank you all GOD BLESS YOU {{{{{{{{{{{{{BIG HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}

 

[Jpark]

Never mind.

 

[Peripatetic]

I agree with Johnnz... all these doors are not always God's doing. But let's just pretend that they are, and go with the door analogy. Sometimes doors are opened (and you feel a nudge of the Holy Spirit to enter), but it doesn't end up the way you hoped. A new job might be a disaster and make you very unhappy... however, it might be part of the master plan of who you are and how your grow in Him. Other times, something might seem like a perfect opportunity to follow God's plan, but it doesn't work out. It doesn't mean that the door was open then shut. It just means that an opportunity wasn't really there at that time). Can that same opportunity happen again later? Sure... maybe yes and maybe no. But I wouldn't think of it as doors opening and closing.

 

[Not Ideal]

I'm not so sure what to say about this, but a few examples (of christians whom I did not meet in person but whom I heard or read about) come to mind.

One was a lady who was in a relationship with a guy. She wanted to marry him, and I think he wanted to marry her, but somehow -and I don't know fully why- it wasn't ok at the time, and God led them to end the relationship.
However, at a later time, they resumed a relationship, and this time it was ok and they got married.

Another lady really wanted to go to graduate school. Most of her friends and such all were getting grad degrees, and she wanted to get one as well. However, when she applied to law school, the doors did not open. She didn't pursue it further for the time being, and just focused on other things.
At a later time, she reapplied to graduate school, this time to MBA programs, and this time the doors did open. She concluded God had been preparing her (through her job and life experiences) for doing that MBA, and she was ready for it.