He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust!” Psalm 91:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
There is a secret place in Me where you can abide, as if constantly in the Holy of Holies where all was sanctified and calm in My presence, in peace even in the midst of a storm, like Noah in the ark.
Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. You are my secret place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. Psalm 32:6-7.
What is that secret place that is Me? First, I describe as being in Me as the Most High. It is “the secret place of the Most High.” Psalm 91:1.
The Name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is lifted inaccessibly high. Proverbs 18:10.
That secret place is high above the earthly tumult, the dirt where the devil crawls. That ancient serpent cannot ascend there.
“How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, you who have weakened the nations! But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ “Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.” Isaiah 14:12-15.
And in that secret place you are so close to Me that you abide in My shadow even at noon day. That is very close. And what does Jesus tell you that you must do to abide with Me and I with you?
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” John 14:23.
If you keep My Words, abide in My Words, live My Words, make My Words the foundation of your life, you will be in My dwelling place, My secret place, where no evil can touch you.
Because I have made the LORD my refuge, the Most High my dwelling place, no evil will be allowed to befall me, nor will any plague come near my tent. Psalm 91:9-10.
And for perfect protection in these perilous times on earth, for the devil’s time is short now and he knows Adam’s leasehold is almost up for My Son to open the scroll with the seven seals of the title deed to the fee, you must stay in My dwelling place. If you step out, the devil is roaming about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour, do not swallow his bait and step out in the flesh for then he can hook you and take your captive to do his will. And he will destroy your flesh.
Let Me explain. To stay in My dwelling place, the secret place, you must remain in My Word and let My Word remain in you. This simply means you need to set your mind on a spiritual viewpoint of things that is found in My Word. The mind set on spiritual realities is life and peace, but the mind set on the flesh, just what you see in the natural realm and you own strength, is death. The mind set on the spirit sees healing and prosperity available in Me by faith, which has no limits, the mind set on the flesh does not, but only looks upon what man can supply, which is very limited. You can easily tell where you are setting your mind, you do not have to wonder, if you are depressed, anxious, bitter, and/or angry much of the time, your mind is set on the flesh and it is tending towards death. But if you have peace and joy beyond understanding by the circumstances, your mind is set on the spirit, which just means on My Word. My Words are spirit and life.
That is why the first thing the devil is out to do is steal the Word out of your heart by doubts, lust, disappointment, and whatever dust storm he can raise in your life. He waits on the shifting sands of the sea to see which way you are being tossed and if he sees it is getting to you he turns up the volume and the storm. You have to rebuke him. How? You submit to My Word on the subject as true, resist his attack, and he will have to flee. Guaranteed. He cannot touch you when you remain in the Word. When Job stepped out of the hedge of My dwelling into fear of punishment for his children and property that was all the devil needed to take action.
Do not have self-confidence to overcome by your own abilities. That is what Adam was tempted by the devil to do. Instead of self-confidence have “God confidence,” confidence in the surpassing greatness of My power into you. You can do nothing without Me, but the good news is when you are born again you do not have to, I am with you always. You are never without Me. You are no longer without Me and without hope in the world. Put no confidence in your flesh to save you, put your confidence in Me. Whoever calls on My Name is saved.
Stay in the dwelling place. Noah had to stay in the ark until the flood went down. And then he still had to continue to walk in My Word to be protected from all evil.
If you look at a person’s garden, you know what they planted or allowed to grow for you see the result. If you see corn, you know they planted corn seed. If you see flowers you know they planted those particular flowers. But if you see weeds, you know these got planted in some manner, and if they grew up, you know the person who owns the garden allowed them to do so.
Do you see? Look at your thoughts, at your life, at your state of mind, and you will know immediately if you are walking in the spirit or walking in the flesh. And the devil knows too. And he is a “flesh” devil. He cannot touch you if you are in the spirit.
Now, how do you enter My dwelling? By keeping My Word, but how do you do that? By following Jesus, who is My Word made flesh. And I have made it easy now for you to know where the secret place is so you can run into it when trouble comes and it will not reach you, rather you can be in that secret place forever never to leave it again for it is in Christ and if you have confessed Him as Lord that is where you already are.
Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4.
And once you are in Christ, you have a new and living way to My throne. And you enter that gate with thanksgiving, My courts with songs of praise, but how do you get into the HOLY of Holies? My secret place, My dwelling above the cherubim? Look back at the shadows of time, how did the High Priest enter the Holy of Holies? In a cloud of incense, with the blood of the spotless lamb (sprinkling it seven times), and in holy attire with bells ringing at the base of his robe.
What am I showing you?
I tell you that your prayers are like incense before Me. They are placed on the golden altar before Me in the Holy of Holies. I tell you to pray without ceasing. I tell you to cast everything on Me by prayer and petition. I tell you I hear you when you ask according to My Will, which you find in My Word, and it is done for you. So you enter with prayer, but not a begging victim prayer but the prayer of My royal priesthood, which you are who believe, a prayer of agreement with you great High Priest, Jesus, who is My Word made flesh who dwelt among you and is now in you. The prayer of agreement with My Word, with My promises. A prayer that turns back the tide of evil and releases My Word into the earth to heal and deliver from all destructions.
With the blood of the Lamb. You come by the new and living way, with the Blood that speaks more eloquently than Abel’s, with the Blood that cleanses you of all unrighteousness and released you from your sins, making you kings and priests to minister spiritual sacrifice of prayer and declaration before Me. Apply the Blood, pour it out on a sinful people. Pour it on My altar throne. And let the Blood plead mercy for sinners. Pray for those who are not praying. Help Me to save the souls that I so love. Cover your nation and other nations of the world with the Blood of the Lamb. The Blood will go to work when you release it in the spirit.
And come in holy attire. Come clothed in Christ—the garments of salvation and the robe of righteousness that all who are born again receive. If you do not have your wedding garment on, you know what happens from the parable My Son told about the marriage feast!
And tingle the bell in your heart as you come, making melody and spiritual songs to Me in your heart.
And above all put on LOVE. Love covers a multitude of sins.
And enter the Holy of Holies with confident joy by the Light of the Lampstand (the golden Menorah), the Light of the World, the way, the truth and the life, the new and living way, and come in agreement with My Word of healing, peace, protection, provision, prosperity, salvation, righteousness, redemption, sanctification, joy and, above all, love without limits. You are one to be welcomed.
I am with you. Come and enter My dwelling place, My secret place, and abide there forever. There is only one way to enter. Just has there was only one door into the Tabernacle, the East Gate at the Bronze Altar, so you too must enter My presence by the only door in, which is Jesus, Jesus told you that there was no way to the Father but through Him. And before that He told those crowded around Him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:7, 9-10.
But how do you get there? You take the time to step aside. Like Jesus who would go apart from others. They found Him early in the morning in a secluded place praying, fellowshipping with Me. And often He would send them on and go up on a mountain to spend the night in communion with Me. And this would be after an extremely busy day filled with people clamoring for His attention. But He found His strength renewed by resting in Me in the secret place.
And He invites you to come there with Him. “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30. There is only one way to Me, and that is Jesus. It is only with and through Him that you can abide in the secret place. He has purified you for that place with His own blood upon the mercy seat so that you can come in with confidence, holy, blameless, beyond reproach with your great High Priest who ever lives to make intercession for you, continually cleansing you in His blood as you walk in the Light.
Jesus told His followers at the Passover meal the night before He redeemed you on the cross, “I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world, I am leaving the world again and going to the Father.” John 16:28. And what did He tell you? “I go to prepare a place for you, and I will come again and receive you to Myself that where I am you may be also.” John 14:2-3. Where is He? In My Bosom. John 1:18 (“the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father”). He came forth from the deep place of My heart and He returned there. And He takes you in with Him, even now, if you will go. “Here I am with the children God has given Me.” Hebrews 2:13. Jesus is in the secret place of the Most High, the Holy of Holies, the throne of grace, My Bosom. The very deepest divine place from which all generates forth.
He knocks at the door and if you hear His voice and open the door, He will come in to you and dine with you, and you will sit with Him, and He is seated with Me on My throne. Revelation 3:20-21. “Come to Me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will refresh you.” He will bring you to rest in the lovely green pastures and by the delightful refreshing waters in the enclosed garden, the secret place. And there you will receive instruction and direction, “learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” And that is what you find in the secret place—rest, instruction, protection, direction, correction, perfection, and love, joy and peace.
When you open the door to Jesus by receiving Him as Lord and inviting Him into the center of your life, He takes you to the throne, to My bosom, the very center of the Godhead. If you note in the Book of Revelation, the Lamb is in the very center of the throne and that is where He takes you.
But there are many who have received Jesus who are still living in the outer courts and have never gone to the Holy of Holies though the curtain is open. Why? The never look deeper. They are too busy in the bustle of the outer court. But there is a way that leads right in and enthrones Me wherever you are. You enter My gates with thanksgiving, My courts with songs and shouts of praise, and then you bow down in worship (the secret place is a place of humility of heart before Me where your gaze is entirely on Me and not on yourself and others). WORSHIP IS A CONTINUOUS FLOW OF LOVE AND HONOR BETWEEN YOU AND ME WHERE EACH VALUES THE OTHER AND EACH FINDS THE OTHER PRECIOUS.
Once you have come into the secret place, you can dwell there. “You who dwell in the secret place of the Most High.” Jesus had an extremely busy life but He was always in the secret place.
“I am your shield,” I told Abraham, and I am the same yesterday, today and forever. Dwelling in the secret place, the devil cannot touch you. He had no part in Jesus.
So how do you stay in the secret place in Christ Jesus? I have told you, “rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give constant thanks, such is My Will for you in Christ Jesus.” When you are in the secret place you can do nothing else. It made the disciples rejoice when they were badly treated for the sake of the Name of Jesus. It made the three Hebrews sing in the fiery furnace. It made Paul and Silas sing chained to the floor in a prison in Philippi. It made David sing for joy in the shadow of My wings. “For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.” Psalm 27:5-6.
David sang in caves running from Saul and when he became king he did not stop. In fact, he instituted round the clock praise before Me with loud cymbals, stringed instruments, and trumpets as the songs of the LORD were sung by 288 singers taking turns by lot. And I shielded Israel from defeat on all sides. I did the same later for Jehoshaphat who understood the power of praise and thanksgiving as a sword and a shield.
Jesus told you that when you pray, go to the secret place, close the door, and pray to Me in private where no one sees but Me. Not seeking others praise at your “powerful” prayers or amazing songs, but seeking Me and to lead others to Me.
What you are doing, no matter what it is, do it onto Me as the true Master you serve.
A good way to focus on Me when you pray is to bring a writing tablet and a pen and write down what you are hearing from Me. That is how the Bible was written—people full of My thoughts and not of theirs.
But when you get full of My thoughts, when they plant and grow in you, then your thoughts become Mine. In other words, we agree. And how can two walk together unless they agree? Your thoughts become Mine when Mine become yours. Your desires become Mine when Mine become yours. Do you understand what I am saying? We become one. True obedience does not seem like obedience because you become just like Me—walking in love, joy, and peace. My nature becomes your fruit. The fruit of the Spirit is produced in your life. And there is no law against the fruit of the Spirit. Obedience makes the law no issue at all.
You become godly by abiding with Me in the secret place. A transformation of the inner man so that when people see you, they see Me. Like Jesus. And as He is so are you in this world.
I love you. You who dwell in the secret place, who abide in the shadow of My hand, say, “My refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.” Dream of Me and I’ll be with you, dream of Me, I’ll make you strong, dream of Me so I can bless you with sweet sleep the whole night long. Dream of Me and I’ll be with you, dream of Me, I’ll make you strong, dream of Me and you’ll awaken in My presence with a song!