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Psalms 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
How many of you remember when you were growing up how it was always so much of fun to have a secret place? A hideaway where only those you wanted to invite would be invited. A place only you knew about. I had this tree in our backyard where I would sit on the branches for as long as I wanted to until I heard a call to come inside.
In the teen years, my secret place was always my room with my head stuck in some new, interesting, adventure book. It lasted from page one to the end. Lost in the land of books in an awesome adventure tale. Some of you may have had caves, tree houses or dens.
Well, as the years progress, I guess we start to consider the secret place a childish fetish. Adults must behave like adults. Grown-ups have no time for such idiosyncrasies. Sometimes our adult way of thinking is a limited way of life. The simplicity portrayed in child like faith allows us to trust in our heavenly father completely without logic, reason or evidence. The power in the kingdom of God has to be believed in and accepted like that of a child. Trust like a child, hope like a child, believe like a child and receive like a child.
You see there’s this secret place that our Father in heaven has for us where he meets us face to face. Life has so much of turns, bumps, cares, turbulences and facades that even grown ups need a secret place to go and find strength to continue. Psalms 91:1 points us into the direction of this place. The secret place of God is in his presence covered under his mighty hand, shadowed from everything natural and supernatural. It is a dimensional shift where you disappear without a trace to find solutions to problems. It’s the place of comfort where you find rest from weariness, shelter from the storm and refuge from the battle. It’s a place of mending wounded hearts. The secret place has your maker waiting to mend you and reshape you to his likeness and original intention for you. People wound people so we need to go to one that is higher than man to make the alteration.
The Lord has a place set-aside just for you. Your own personal tent meeting one on one .A meeting place that elevates you and pushes you through the higher depths of Christ. The secret place is a sanctuary of hope to come and tell him all yours woes, to cry a few tears and to rest your head. The secret place has no set venue, no set time or no set appointment .You can turn up anytime, day or night and he will meet you in his supreme omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent glory. The Secret Place is where you are safe and secure, accepted and loved. You are mask less in the secret place. The strong face the world sees in the face of adversity can be unmasked for Jesus to wipe away the tears. Jesus wants you to meet him in his secret place to minister to you. He wants to reassure you of his perfect will for you and his power to make it all right. He wants you to know he will ordain your footsteps and lead you to the right doors if only you will ask.
Every one of us need to enter into the secret place daily, just as the deer pants for the waters so our souls pant for the presence of God. The waters kill the scent of the deer from the predator just as God’s presence removes us from the scent of the enemy. This is the one place we can not come under attack from the evil one, the one place we have an opportunity to meet the Lord and give him our undivided attention. The presence of God leaves the world outside and as long as the world is outside, its persecutions, pain and problems stay out with it.
I will seek the Lord and in his presence I will find counsel, strength and a promise for a better day. The world cannot be faced head on without the seeking of the face of God. In the secret place the hidden secrets of God are revealed. You see the devil will attack you on what he knows about you but he can’t attack you when he has no idea your next move. A secret weapon is unknown to the enemy. He will act on your negative thoughts, ideas and human plans. All natural weapons fail in spiritual warfare. Spiritual weapons are revealed in the stillness of God’s presence. The secret place that you and God meet in releases in you a strategy to win, a key to victory and a position of elevation. Secret weapons leave attackers disarrayed and surprised. There is no time for the enemy to counteract. You will leave the secret place with a secret weapon.
I will bow my knee before my father and lift my countenance in the shadow of his glory, resting under his might. I will tell him my cares, whisper out my fears and show him my tears.
Here is where you are called to move into the deeper things of the Spirit.
Into a realm of glory for where he is, his glory is present.
Don't you want the Lord to increase in your life, don't you want to walk in the fullness of joy and have your cup running over. Seek the Lord and the beauty of his holiness in the secret place of the highest, go into your prayer closet and don't leave empty handed. Leave with a strategy to win. Leave with a destiny. Leave with a method of success and leave with the father’s approval. Leave with the secret weapon designed just for your unique victory.
In his presence you will lay down your life before Jesus and be transformed by the renewing of your mind. You will leave your plans, your will and your ways and receive his impartation to take on Christ plans, Christ’s will and Christ’s way. You will enter orphaned and leave adopted. You will leave the winters behind and enter the season of refreshing. When you sow into the Spirit you will reap heavenly things that do not rust or fade away.
Come closer to the face of God and receive the Words He has just for you. Words that can set you free from all bondages the enemy has placed in your way. Go deeper in the things of the Spirit, come and sup with the all mighty God for now is your time and season to go into His secret place.
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God and "He" will lift you up in due time." God wants us to surrender everything over to him. When we hold unto our problems we limit God's intervention. I will rest in the shadow of the almighty, in his presence I am free, I am covered, I am protected and I am redeemed. Let God have his way.
Prayer Thought
Dear Lord Jesus, help me to come into the secret place daily that I may meet you. In your presence Lord, I am secure, safe, protected, loved and still. Thank you for allowing me to come before you confidently, directly and freely. I love you Lord and my desire is to be where you are dwelling daily in your presence. Amen
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