On July 16, 2009, I awoke that morning and immediately the Lord gave me a vision.

From my bed, I looked over and saw my bedroom closet door—seemingly shut—yet, bulging open about half a foot with fish sticking out of the gap. The whole closet was crammed full of fish that were medium in size (like Pompano or Tuna), so much so, that the door could not be closed.

Instantly, I knew the Lord was "luring" me to that closet, which happens to be my "prayer closet." I knew He wanted to meet, and I knew He wanted to talk about money.

This closet is fairly large—about the size of a small bedroom. It's where I often pray and read, and write things the Lord shows and tells me. It's a place where I almost always sense His presence. It's a place where you'll often find me…early in the morning, or late at night.

So, I got up and went into the closet. As I walked in, I saw and heard in my spirit the two incidents involving the Apostle Peter (and others) and how their boats almost sank under the weight of all the fish they had caught at Jesus' prophetic direction.

As the Lord revealed this to me, I knew He was saying the same would manifest in my life and in the ministry He had called me to, and that He was wanting to do the same for the Body of Christ. I knew He was wanting to do just as He had done in the life of Peter and the other disciples. I also knew that it would be imminent.

Then the Lord opened my mind to the fact that both times this happened in the lives of the disciples, as recorded in the Gospels, it was just prior to "seasons of intense ministry" [that's how He said it]—the first, right after Jesus called Peter to "follow" Him. The second was just before Jesus departed the earth, and just before Pentecost.

In both cases—in the natural sense—these disciples would need "money" (a surplus) to sustain them during the seasons of ministry that followed, or at least to help them get started.

So, as I walked into the closet, I knew this vision was far more than just about money. It represented going into the presence of God, into His excessiveness, into His abundance.

God is wealth. He is resource. He is supply. And that wealth and resource and supply is in our relationship with Him. It is in our relating to Him, and His relating to us—each from our heart.

That closet represented the many deposits and exchanges that have already happened between us. It represented the "richness" I have walked into—and come out with—countless times before.

That closet also represented the riches of God's glory with which we are about to be dressed—with which He wants to dress the Body of Christ. We will go in one way and come out another.

It represents God wanting to clothe us in Him, clothe us with Himself, clothe us with His character, His nature, His glory, His abundance, His wealth.

Finally, that closet represented God's excessiveness toward us—yet, beyond us. It would be too much for us. It would be for others, as well.

Because the "fish" represent resources, such as money. Yet, the "fish" also represent souls, which are the ultimate purpose of those resources.

That closet—the place where you meet with God, the place where you lose yourself in Him—is a "storehouse" of provision for what is to come, a "storehouse" for which we will all need His wisdom to manage and direct.

That closet represents God wooing us—wooing us to Himself, wooing us to His resources, wooing us to His purposes and plans.

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After I wrote out this vision and prayed over it, the Lord had this to say about it:

It's time to wake up—oh, sleeper!

It's time to wake up—oh, slumberer!

It is time to wake up to Me!

Come, meet Me where we've met before. Come, meet with Me once more. Yes, meet with Me in the familiar. But know, the familiar is coming to an end.

For I AM preparing a new place for us to meet. I AM preparing a bigger place, an expansive, more established place. But you will only find this "new" place as you open your heart even wider to Me. (Find the end of you, and you will find the beginning of Me.)

Be quick, for I AM waiting. Be quick, for I can't hold out much longer. Be quick, for I can no longer hold back My resources. The "catch" is too heavy and burdensome on My heart. Be quick, for generations of souls are crying out to Me. Be quick, for this "move"—My move—is already beginning.

Be quick. Yet, be wise.

Yes, come for wisdom, for I do not want this "move" to end. No, I want it sustained—and I want you to sustain it. No more, "Here a little…there a little." No, this "move" is forever…until the end.

Therefore, you will need all that I have. You will need all that I AM. You will need all that I offer. And I AM offering all of Me.

Can you believe Me for that?

Jesus says, "Yes!"

Can you say, "So be it!"?

Before you answer—know, it will require all of you.

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Now, as you read this vision and this prophecy—as you consider it and pray over it—know that this kind of supernatural provision from God typically comes on the tail of instruction from Jesus, just as He instructed Peter and the disciples to "Let down their nets for a catch…" And it is often instruction that is against all logic, against all reason, against all experience, against all "rules" of fishing.

Furthermore, in the case of Peter and the disciples, God's supernatural provision came on the tail of Jesus' instruction that required of them a swift response, a swift obedience—swift faith…faith that is already in place…faith that is ready to respond, ready to take action.

So, I encourage you to receive this vision and prophecy coming to pass in your life according to 2 Corinthians 1:20 [NIV]:

            For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes"

            in Christ. And so through Him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the

            glory of God.

Jesus says, "Yes!" to all of God's promises, thereby bringing them into our world.

We say, "Amen [So be it]!" in response to Jesus, thereby bringing them into our life, bringing them into manifestation.

We are in a time for “windows of opportunity” being open to you.

To your households, your businesses, your companies, your families, your churches…
 
We are, right now, in those days, and we need to be alert, aware, anticipating.
 
There are windows for us to step into…windows through which we will become “displays of God’s glory” (not necessarily immediately). But, know, there will come “gathering” about you as you step boldly into that place where you will find God has brought you. We will become displays in strategic places, strategic locations, and strategic relationships. Again, we will become displays of God’s glory from Main Street to Wall Street to your neighborhood street.

I’m seeing this so strongly, and have been for the past few weeks.

I believe over the next few days and weeks, American businesses will find amazing “windows of opportunity” in foreign markets to such a degree that, again, there needs to be caution against “greed” taking over. I see such a down turn in other nations’ markets that they become great opportunity once again for American investors and businesses. Where America was “1/2 off” to foreign investors, America will over the course of time (months ahead) rebound to twice as strong, and double in competiveness.

While there have been measures of judgment throughout the business corridors of this nation, there will be resurgence. But, more importantly, there will be a repentance sweep this nation.

For, these “windows of opportunity” especially include opportunities for the gospel, in ways and places and methods as never before. Have we not, as a church, prayed for “opportunities” to share the gospel? Opportunities of “search and rescue”?

Those “opportunities” are soon to come, and those “opportunities” will become exponential.

Pray for a passion for souls to sweep our churches, sweep our cities, and sweep our nation. Pray for a “righteous greed” for the most precious of commodities…called “souls.”

“God have mercy on the lost…in this hour…that they might be saved!”

Around October 2008, the Lord began showing me, telling me and confirming to me in various ways that we—as the Body of Christ, as individual believers, as a nation—were entering a season of opportunity.

You could pretty much say that 2009 is a year of opportunity. But God does not always speak to us according to “our” calendar. He was telling me, “You’re in a season of opportunity.”

Then, the morning of January 28, 2009, I had the following vision:

I was standing in front of a very large “display” window on the front of a graystone building that was a downtown skyscraper in a major city like Chicago or New York. I realized that the window had no glass in it, so I immediately stepped over the short wall, about thigh high, into the display area which was about four to five feet deep.

I took four steps forward, then turned and looked down behind me to see very nice, darker, short-piled carpet that had my footprints (I saw two) outlined with fresh snow. Yet, outside the window there was no snow on the ground, nor was it snowing. That was it.

As the vision ended, I heard the Lord say, “A window of opportunity.”

Right now, we are in a season of opportunity. What’s more, the Lord is alerting us that we are—or soon will be—facing an open window of opportunity. 

There is a window of opportunity that shall soon be open to you, open to your church, open to the Body of Christ, open to this nation. 

On one hand, you will need to be alert enough to realize that there is no glass keeping you from stepping over into your destiny. On the other hand, you will need faith to take that step...because it is a step. It will require effort on your part. 

This is not a “door of opportunity” that you simply breeze through. It is a window. You will have to recognize it. You will have to expend some energy. You will have to make some effort. You will need faith to step into it. 

After all, it is not normal to walk through windows.

For many—really, for most—this opportunity will be out of the ordinary. In fact, if you only think about and never process it through a heart of faith, you will not do it. You will not follow through with what is staring you in the face.

That's why, Church, we must realize what God is wanting to do here. Realize the opportunity He has for you. Mostly, realize the opportunity He has for His kingdom, here. 

By your stepping through that window of opportunity, God is wanting to put you on display. God is wanting to make a glorious display of Himself through you—to the rest of the world that goes by. 

God is wanting entrance into our storefronts. He is wanting entrance into our business-fronts, our home-fronts. God is wanting entrance into major institutions and major cities. God wants to be seen unashamedly on every frontline of our lives. 

God wants living displays of His glory on every front, on every street.
This is the season we are in.  This is the opportunity we face.

Living in Colorado, the footprints I saw outlined in snow tell me that this season of “windows of opportunity” is now—and will continue through at least the end of March and probably on into April of 2009.

These are major, undeniable windows of opportunity that will open to us. Be assured that there will be no second-guessing them. They will be bigger-than-life and in our face.

Still, I sense the Lord saying that these are just windows of opportunity, windows of time. They will not remain open for long. In fact, once you enter, the glass will close behind you.

It will be as when Israel only had a window of time to leave the bondage of Egypt and step over into the promise of their destiny. Their window of opportunity—their window of time—was small. And once they stepped through, the window was closed and not even Pharaoh's army could touch them.

As you read this prophecy—as you consider it, discern it, decide whether you will receive it or not—I encourage you to meditate on Isaiah 55:1, in which God says…

“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”