What is ministering to the Lord?
What are “the gates of time”?

What is ministering to the Lord?
Acts 13:1 Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: … 2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

1 Timothy 2:1 First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, 2 for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

What are “the gates of time”?
Acts 20:6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread. In five days we reached them at Troas, where we spent seven days. 7 On the first day of the week, we assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

1 Corinthians 16:1 Now about the collection for the saints: You should do the same as I instructed the Galatian churches. 2 On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he prospers, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” …

Ephesians 6:18 Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert in this with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints. 19 Pray also for me, …

How do we minister to the Lord?
Psalms 81:1 SING aloud to God our strength; make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob. 2 Raise a song and strike the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the lute.

How do we minister to the Lord at the gates of time?
3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

How important is this ministry and at such timing?
4 For this [is] a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This He established in Joseph [as] a testimony, when He went throughout the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language I did not understand.

Colossians 2:16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in [false] humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase [that is] from God. 20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as [though] living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations– 21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”

Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.