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Bible Passage – Psalms 91:1-2; Read all of Psalms 91:1-16
The Realities and Manifestations Of The Secret Place – Five Empirical Destiny Impact Examples: Psalms 91:1-2 | Genesis 17:1
Summary of Parts 1 and 2
Having gained good understand of the Introduction to The Dynamics and Blessings of The Secret Place in Part One in the following areas:
1. Introduction to the Topic
2. The Dynamics of the Secret Place
3. The Manifestations of the Secret Place
4. Invitation to The Secret Place
5. Result of Acceptance of the Invitation
In the Part Two of our Study – we studied the lives of some patriarchs the realities and manifestations of the Dynamics and Blessings of the Secret Place as we trust the Lord for similar experiences in our lives and times as well. This is the will of God concerning us in Christ Jesus about the Secret Place of the Most High.
We examined the lives of Adam, Enoch, Noah and Abraham understanding through them the benefits of the secret place. Before the benefits are the lifestyle, expectations and living in the secret place.
In the Part 3, the Lord shall take us to GOD further in understand our topic – the dynamics and blessings of the secret place as we consider the secret place realities of the lives of five people in the Bible and draw insights to help us dwell and abide in the secret place of the Most High.
Peter’s Struggles With The Demands of The Secret Place Clearly, we see introduced to us a struggling man but spiritually and in his career.
He had both a spiritual and physical encounter with the Lord Jesus – Luke 5:1-11 Something shifted, his eyes were opened, he saw a much more greater possibilities for his life and destiny, so he made a decision and a choice to follow Jesus. Luke 5:11 | Matthew 16:17 | Matthew 17:1-9-4
His need and calling to the secret place became more in Luke 22: 31-34 | John 213-18
We see the impact of Peter not in the secret place taking the disciples away from their callings to fishing until Jesus came in John 21:3-9 Again, Jesus focused on Peter – John 21:10-18. He dwelt on the issue of love, feeding and keeping.
Lessons On Dynamics and Blessings of the Secret Place From the Life of Apostle Peter:
1. You need definitely knowledge, above ordinary, deeper revelation to access and abide in the secret place.
2. The enemy does not want you in the secret place
3. You are a great danger to the enemy in the secret place
4. To abide in the secret place you need the prayers of the Lord.
5. You abiding in the secret place is to draw others to the secret place
6. The secret place is for lovers of God – intimate relationship
7. The secret place is a place where the word of God reigns supreme
Samson – Answered, Conceived, Given, Called and Mandated in The Secret Place But Abandoned The Secret Place For Pleasures
Judges 13-16
Samson’s Failure To Abide in the Secret Place, Samson was promised, birthed and given as answer to prayer, a gift, a deliverer and a judge in Israel. The greatest but in his life was the neglect and the abandonment of the secret place. He had experienced it but the daughters of the Philistines became his secret place: Judges 16:5 | Judges 16:20
1. Pleasures of the world can take you or keep you away and out of the secret place
2. Your secret and ungodly cravings will take you out of the path to the secret place.
3. Away from the secret place the patience of the Lord May wear out
4. The protection of the Lord is not guaranteed outside of the secret place.
5. You stay in the secret place is a protection, decency and blessings to you and so many others.
Gideon Success Enabled In the Operation of the Secret
Gideon was a nobody outside of the secret place: Judges 6:12-16
1. All we can be and become in God and for God, to the blessings of man is from the secret place.
2. The choosing of the 300 was the power of the secret place at work
3. The dream in the camp of the enemy was the power of the secret place at work
4. The life of Gideon is the dramatization of Ps 91 from promise to reality.
Gehazi’s Disdain for the Secret Place Its Demands 1 Kgs 5:25-27
So close to the secret place yet so far away.
1. It was a matter of the heart
2. It was a matter of his choices
3. It was a matter of unbelief
4. It was a matter of following the master but not with the master but disdaining him and his God
5. It was a question of what can I get out of this.
6. To such, the door of the secret place shall be shut.
7. A horrible door was opened instead –
8. There is a generational impact to dwelling in and not dwelling in the secret place.
Paul’s Absolute Surrender To The Thirst For The Secret Place – Acts 9:1-17 | Acts 9:17 | Acts 26:16-18
Apostle Paul was a man far from the secret place.
The mercy of the Lord was shown and invited him to the secret place, he grabbed it, grew in it, devoted to it and never left the secret place:
1. No necessarily a place of comfort to your body etc
2. It is a place of not my will but thy will be done
3. The blessings and promises of the secret place are for the expansion and enlargement of the kingdom of God.
4. The secret place is to empower you to call and lead many into the secret place
5. It is a life of showing forth the praises of him that has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light to others.
6. The capacity to live an extraordinary life is in the secret place – a became all things to all men so I might gain them for Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:22 | 1 Peter 2:9 | John 1:12.
CONCLUSION
The Overall purpose of the secret place is to help you fulfil purpose and as well-being glory to the name of the Lord through the calling of many into the secret place.
