The Secret Place

Good morning! You are so loved by God.  As you spend time in His Word, He will speak to you concerning His love for you, His plan for your life and the reality of His presence. The Holy Spirit is in you to teach You and guide you and Help you.  

I'm so thankful that today we can pray like David in Psalm 61. "Hear my cry. O God; Give heed to my prayer, From the end of the earth I call to You, when my heart is faint; lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.  For you are my Refuge, A tower of strength against the enemy, Let me dwell in Your tent forever; Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings."  Sometimes we feel far from the Lord, as far as to the end of the earth!

 

Our heart grows faint and we feel so overwhelmed, so inadequate. But it is at this time that He leads us to Himself, to the secret place where we can take refuge in Him. He beckons us to come spend time in the private place and cry to Him, call to Him for help and pray. 

 

Make time to spend with the Lover of your soul in the secret place of His presence as you begin your day. Then you can continue to abide in Him, in continual fellowship and prayer throughout your day.  Draw near, and He will draw near.   He is our Refuge and our Dwelling Place. He will teach us how to pray in the secret place of His presence . Thank you Lord!  We love You and we worship You! 

The Secret Place

The Lord will illuminate His Word to us as we meet with Him in secret. It's so exciting that He wants to fellowship with us daily in the pages of the Bible. We experience Jesus through His living Word. He is the Light of the World, and as we follow Him in His Word we live in His light. He is Wisdom and will impart wisdom, through the Word, beyond our experience and natural understanding.

 

He is the Bread of Life. The Word is our daily bread. He is the Living Water. His Word  will refresh, strengthen and revive. You will discover Him day after day in His Word. You will know HIM, your Redeemer, Healer, Strength, Author and Finisher, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Don't be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind to the Word of God, and you will know His will! 

 

As you meditate in His Word day and night, (Psalm 1), you will be like a tree planted by rivers of water, your leaf will not wither, you will produce much fruit for His glory and you will prosper in all.  Our effectiveness in prayer will be determined by our time reading, meditating on, applying, obeying and being transformed by God's Word.  Faith, the foundation of prayer, comes by hearing the Word.  In the Secret Place of His presence, the Holy Spirit  will teach us the Word and how to pray!   

The Secret Place

 Jesus said,

"When you pray

Go into your room (closet, private place)

And close the door

And pray to your Father, Who is in Secret.

And the Father, Who sees in secret,

Will reward you openly." Matthew 6:6...

 

What an amazing invitation and command given to all who are His children. Think about it, we are invited to close the door to all of the activities of life, every other voice, and meet with our heavenly Father in secret.  He hears us. He sees us. He rewards us. Jesus compels us to come.   In Matthew 11:28,  He says

" Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest." In Psalm 23, we see that He "prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies." We must choose to come and sit at the table, the table of His presence. We are to come as we are, to receive everything we need, and to be transformed by the Holy Spirit.  

 

In the secret place, He teaches us how to pray. He saturates us with His love. He forgives and cleanses sin and clothes us in His righteousness. He makes all things new. He gives wisdom for the days ahead. He strengthens us in the journey. In the secret place, we can enter into His rest and receive His peace. He replaces sorrow for His joy, we exchange our fear for faith in His unchanging living Word.  He equips us with the  armour  needed for the raging battle. We can "come boldly to the throne of grace to find mercy and grace to help in time of need." We decrease. He increases. He transforms us and builds us and rearranges things. He gives us His heart for people and regions and nations. He unites us to His purposes, renews our mind to Truth.  In that place we can be still and listen. We can worship and adore and love our King. Come daily, come often, Come early. Close the door and experience true relationship with the living God. In the Secret Place we encounter the Lord, our All in All. And, as we make it our pattern to  come, He will teach us how to pray.

 

The Secret Place

As we make time to meet with the Lord in prayer and in His Word each day, He promises to instruct us in His will, guide us on His path and direct our steps. The Holy Spirit will meet with us  in that secret place with the Father and Jesus! In Psalm 16, David speaks of setting the Lord continually before him, taking refuge in the Lord.  "You will make known to me the path of life. 

 In Your presence is fullness of Joy....... The secret of the Lord is for those who worship Him He will make then know His covenant." 

 

In the Secret Place we will discover God's will. "He will instruct us and teach us in the way we should go. He will counsel us with His eye upon us." Jesus spent much time alone with the Father, receiving from Him all that which was necessary for the day. When He told the disciples to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," He was telling them that each day would require a fresh supply from the Father, of grace, wisdom, strength and direction.  He will strengthen us and give us all we need for the day.  He is our All in All.  He is the Light of the world and in Him is no darkness.

  

The Secret Place

In the secret place of prayer with the Lord is where Colossians 1:9-12 will become a reality in your life.

I'm praying this verse for you now,  asking the Lord that

"you may be filled with the knowledge of His will

 in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,

 to please Him in all respects,

 bearing fruit in every good work

 and increasing in the knowledge of God; 

strengthened with all power, 

according to His glorious might, 

for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience;

 joyously giving thanks to the Father,

 Who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light."

Jesus said in Matthew 6:6 that we are to go into our secret place, close the door, and pray, and our Father will see us and hear us and He will transform us.

Did you know it's possible for you to be filled with the knowledge of His will in your life?  He is your inheritance!  He is your All in All. Find Him intentionally, in secret!

The Secret Place

Jesus has instructed us in Matthew 6:6  to pray,  and to have a time each day that we go into a private place to pray to Him in secret and He will reward us openly.  Oh the joy of meeting with our King in secret!  In that secret meeting place He will teach us how to worship, how to receive forgiveness for our failures, how to wait upon Him, how to pray. He will transform us by His Word, impart wisdom, love, joy, peace and all we have need of.  He will fill us with Himself. He will show us great and mighty things that we do not know. Today I want you to be greatly encouraged as you read one of the most powerful "secret place" passages, Psalm 34:4-10.

 

4 I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

5 Those who look to him are radiant, their faces shall never be ashamed.

6 In my desperation I prayed, the Lord heard me and saved me out of all my troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and  delivers them.

8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.

9 Oh fear the Lord, you His saints, those who fear Him have no lack!

10 The young lions suffer want and hunger; those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

 

I pray this verse will greatly encourage you today!  As you make time daily to meet with the Lord in secret, it will change your life!   This verse declares that as you seek Him, look to Him, cry to Him, worship Him, take refuge in Him, revere Him in the secret place each day,  this will result:

He will ........Answer you; Deliver you from all your fears; You will be radiant; You will never be ashamed; He will hear you; He will save you from all your troubles; He will send angels to encamp about you; He will deliver you; He will bless you; You will have great joy; You will have no lack; You will lack no good thing.

 

And He does all this so that we can experience relationship with Him and bring His love Word and presence to this hurting world and set the captives free in His name. Thank You Lord! 

 

The Secret Place

I'm praying for you this morning that Mathew 6:6 is becoming a daily delight to you as you spend time in the secret place with your Father. 

 

I am also praying this powerful verse from Colossians 1:9-12 for you and your family, asking the Lord that "you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light." This is an incredible verse to pray! Did you know it's possible for you to be filled with the knowledge of His will in your life?  He is your inheritance!  He is your All in All.

 

 I love Colossians because it contains incredible insight to God's plan for how are to live in Him right now. I believe much of it relates to a lifestyle that the Lord desires and makes available to every believer, but that  only those who spend time in the "Secret Place" of prayer and the Word will experience.

 

In verse 1:23 Paul gives a strong admonition for us today... that we are to "CONTINUE in the faith, firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard..." Every day our circumstances, our own thoughts, the things of this world have the potential to move us away from the hope of the gospel and even cause us to waver or get off course.  But we don't have to!  We can stay firmly established,  strengthened by His presence, We continue in the faith to the degree we spend time with Him in prayer and in the Word!  Let's stay alert, steadfast, understanding the times we are in, desperate for His presence. Be greatly encouraged today!