The Secret Place


The Lord wants us to meet with Him in secret... Matthew 6:6! The invitation is given to every believer, every day, and is without limit. Jesus said,"if anyone is thirsty, let Him come to me and drink!"   Are you thirsty?   In the Secret Place we will know Him as our daily Bread and our living Water.  Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." He is the fountain of living Water, for us to come and drink of each day. The wells of salvation are found in Him... In His presence are springs of refreshing, peace, forgiveness, healing, wisdom and strength.  The waters of His presence will cleanse us of sin and fill us afresh with His love. He refreshes the weary. He satisfies the longings of our hearts.  Psalm 87:7 says "All my springs (of joy) are in You."  He alone is the living Water, and delights for us to come daily and drink freely as we worship, wait, pray, meditate on His Word. He will fill us so that this living water will spring up in us to water others.  Sometimes we feel exhausted, spent, depleted....and that is just an indication we need to choose to come to the Living Water! Apart from Him, we can do nothing, but as we drink of Him all things become possible and He will be to us a well of water springing up to eternal life. 
 
Come and drink freely, and allow the living waters of His presence to refresh you and overflow from you. This fountain never runs dry!

Lord, thank you that You are the Living Water.

Today we honor and appreciate all of our Veterans with much gratitude. We thank God for you and ask Him to bless you and lead you and overwhelm you with His goodness and love in Jesus Name.

 

The Secret Place


What if every day  we truly live in the reality of knowing Emmanuel, God with us. He is love and He wants to be with us! Remember He created us because He desired relationship with His family. He walked with Adam in the cool of the day, in relationship. We were separated from Him by sin, but in His love He  initiated His redemptive plan to reconcile us to Himself by sending His Son to become a human being.  His Name would be called Emmanuel God with us. This promise if for the entire world. Im so thankful He is with us and will never leave us or forsake us. The Light of the World came to earth to bring us out of darkness and into His light.. The Savior of the World came to rescue us from an eternal separation from God. The Prince of Peace came to dispel our fear and the turmoil of this earth. The King of Kings came as a precious baby who really was born in a stable and was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger or "feeding trough".   One of my favorite things is that manger.   The word is "feeding trough".  Jesus, the Word of God, laying in the feeding trough where the animals would typically come to eat each day.  He is the Bread of Life!  His Word is our daily food.  How we need to come to the feeding trough of the Word of God and find Him there each day. He is Emmanuel, God with us   and is now revealed through YOU and I.  Let's  encounter Him in a fresh new way in the Secret Place. He is Emmanuel, God with us, revealed in us, loving this world through us.  Thank you Lord!