The secret place

Hi there Everyone,

Welcome to Thursday's edition of Prophetic People.

Today, I want to share something with you that came through a time of fellowship that I had with two other pastors this morning.

As you know from reading my previous post here on Prophetic People, I mentioned that I am at present in East London here in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. I've been doing some prophetic equipping meetings for a church here.

This morning, I was invited by a pastor friend of mine here in East London, to go and have coffee with him and another guy. While we were speaking, he just mentioned how God had spoken to him about prayer in the secret place that causes God to reward us openly.

Here is my take on what we all discussed this morning......

Turn in your bible to Matthew 6:5-6

"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

From this portion of scripture here, we read about Jesus' lifestyle of prayer. I believe that He was sharing what worked for Him.

It's amazing that so many of us try to do all the outward things right in the sight of people, but we neglect to understand that our heavenly Father is just waiting for us to come to Him in His secret place, so that He can discuss His Kingdom business with us. This will require a shift in mindset from always coming in to ask for things and do the usual christian prayer stuff. I'm not saying that asking for things is wrong, but that seems to be the trend that we follow when it comes to praying to our Heavenly Father. God is desiring fellowship and intimacy with us more than anything else. We are so quick to run in and blurt out things that we think impress Him so that we can get the stuff we want. I have news for you... He is already impressed with you.

This portion of scripture says that He is actually in the secret place.

This secret place is your intimate prayer life with your Heavenly Father. He is there and He wants us to go there as often as we like. You will see so much more happen if you would just go in there with a desire to fellowship with Him and share your heart and allow Him to share His with you.

The secret place is about being alone with God and speaking to Him. You will be amazed at what will happen. When going there, we must not get into a rut. This is where we start following a formula. There is no formula to follow while in the secret place, but just a real, spontaneous interaction and fellowship with your Heavenly Father.

God has a bunch of rewards to give when we come into that place and pray in secret. What this means is that He will give us the increase and the rewards of what we prayed about. You will begin to enjoy much more success in life if you make prayer in the secret place your priority.

I believe that this was the secret to Jesus' success in His ministry. He only did what He saw His Father do. This is the same with us.

The question we need to ask ourselves is this.....

Do we want God's reward or the reward that comes from man.

Here are some of the things I believe the Lord will release as rewards.

1. Little effort in achieving success in whatever we do, whether it is in ministry, business or anything else.
2. Obstacles will be shifted out of the way. Did He not say that He would make every rough place smooth and every crooked place straight. This makes movement and progress a lot easier.
3. Answers to problems.
4. Strength and the ability to do what you are called to do - (Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength....)
5. Him, moving in and through us to touch people with His supernatural power.
6. Favour with and access to the right people to accomplish His purpose in our lives.
7. A recognisable light that shines from us to others - People will want to know what you have in your life so that they can have it too.

I hope that you would be encouraged today to press in to spend quality time with our Heavenly Father who is ready and eager to reward you openly.

Thanks once again for coming on over here to read this blog.

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Blessings and much love,

Rory