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GREETINGS, beloved nation, in the name of Jesus Christ. Psalms 91:1 says, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Those who dwell in the secret place shall become prime candidates for the manifestation of God’s power and glory.
The secret place is a place of God’s dwelling. To “dwell” means to take a permanent residence and not to be an occasional visitor. The secret place is the dwelling place of God.
The Bible says, “If you seek for Me, you will find Me with all your heart.” God is not found on the surface. Neither do you look for God; but you seek for Him. This involves consistency.
The secret place is also your altar. An altar is a place of dedication, communion and worship. It is a place of sacrifice where the visible interacts with the invisible. The secret place is also a place of angelic trafficking. Every man and woman who wants to succeed in life must have a secret place with God. The question is, “How many believers have a secret place?”
There are five things you should know about the secret place:
1. It is a place of knowing God. You can never truly know God without a secret place where you constantly meet with Him. Getting to know God is a process that begins with an encounter to surrender your life to Him. You can never know God outside your secret place. It is in His secret place that God reveals other aspects of His character.
It is also when God opens a curtain a little bit for you to understand what happened in the past or present. God reveals Himself progressively. The word “revelation” means “to unveil”. You unveil that which is secret and it is in the secret place where God unveils things. Paul said, “That I may know Him” and have intimacy with God.
Paul was hungry to know God. In 2 Peter 3:18, Peter talks about growing in knowledge and grace. Growth is a process, and so we need to be consistent in our secret place. Psalms 103:7 says Moses knew God’s ways because he was always in the secret place, but Israel only knew His acts. Moses spent time with God. The problem with us is that we are looking for His hand rather than His face.
The hand represents His provision; His face represents His glory. We are busy seeking provisions from God rather than seeking His kingdom. With His kingdom comes His provision. For many of us, we don’t enter His presence with prayers like, “God, show me Your ways; I want to fellowship with You; God, change me.” In scripture, we see David and Moses praying such prayers as “Show me Your face, O Lord.”
Those who spend time in the secret place — worshipping, praying and reading the Word — grow in the knowledge of God.
2. It is a place of transfiguration. In Exodus 34:29-31, we see how Moses’ face was transfigured because he had spent time with God. Only those who spend time with God will have a transfigured face. We also see in Luke 9:28-31 that Jesus invited His three disciples to a prayer retreat on the mountain. He prayed and they did not. His face was transfigured and the Heavens were opened.
3. It is a place of strict confidentiality. When you want to know the secret things of God, they are discovered in the secret place. It is a place where we share our secrets — things we cannot share with anyone else but God. In Genesis 32, we see how Jacob stole his brother’s blessing. He pretended to be Esau when his father asked his name. When Jacob was left alone, wrestling with the angel of God in the secret place, he was asked his name and he replied, “I am Jacob.”
Some of you have things that are eating you up — things your pastor, elder, wife or friends do not know about. But thank God for the secret place, where you can tell these things to God. No one else will hear; it will be between you and God. You need a secret place to say things.
Psalms 139 says, “He knows our thoughts from afar.” You can tell God, “I am filled with lust,” “I am discouraged,” in the secret place. In Isaiah 6:1-6, we find Isaiah in the secret place saying, “Woe unto me, for I am a man of unclean lips.”
The environment’s sin had affected the prophet of God, but we see him acknowledging his sin in the presence of God. It’s not that God did not know about it; he admitted to God that he was a man of unclean lips in the secret place. It is here that he revealed what was bothering him.
It is in the secret place that we not only tap into divine direction but also where God confides in us because God will always confide in His people who spend time there.
4. It is a place of divine conception. You conceive in the secret place. Prayer and worship are intercourse with God. Your spirit fuses with His, and divine seeds are released from God. In the last article, we said the church is God’s womb on earth. Two things are needed to conceive: a womb and a seed. Any man or woman of God who has conceived the plans and purposes of God is pregnant in the spirit. So it is a place of giving birth. A church that prays gives birth to the purposes and plans of God in the world.
5. It is a place of protection. The promise of God for those who dwell in the secret place is that they shall be protected. If you want to hide from the calamities taking place in the world, you must dwell in the secret place. Psalms 31:20 says, “Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy presence from the pride of man; Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.”
So, if you want to hide from your enemies, dwell in the secret place, and the devil will not reach you or pursue you in the presence of God. It is also a hiding place, as seen in Psalms 42:1-2. When a deer pants for water because the enemy is pursuing it, the only way to hide is to get into water and the enemy loses its scent. Likewise, when your enemies pursue you like that deer, they cannot find you in God’s presence.
The secret place is a place of power, authority and dominion. It is people with strong altars who can enjoy life here on earth. You are as strong as your altar. The weaker your altar, the weaker you are, the stronger your altar, the stronger you are.
The reason some of your declarations are weak is because they are made from outside the altar or from a weaker altar. Elijah spoke in the presence of God from a strong altar that there shall be no rain for three and a half years. Some of you declare, “I shall not be sick nor poor,” but these things still attack you. This is because you are making these declarations from a weaker altar. The question is, “How strong is your altar?”
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