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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.”