Matthew 6:6
Hebrews 4:16
Hebrews 13:15
Jude 1:20
Joshua 1:8
1 Peter 2:9
Romans 8:26
Colossians 1:27
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THESE PRACTICES WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
Not why you should pray.
The specific, practical, ordered mechanics of what actually happens in the secret place.
What you bring.
What you do.
What you receive.
And what changes in you when you do this consistently.
In this teaching, I am going to show you the six things that are supposed to happen every time you enter the secret place. This is not theory. This is the full picture of visiting with the Father that most believers have never been shown.
Most believers know they are supposed to have a secret place. They have heard the sermons. They have read Matthew 6:6.
They know prayer matters. They know spending time with God is important. But when they actually sit down to do it, they discover a problem nobody prepared them for.
They do not know what to do when they get there. So they do what feels natural.
They bring their list.
They tell God what they need.
They ask for help with what is broken.
They request intervention in what is difficult.
And after 10 or 15 minutes of presenting their needs, they run out of things to say. And they sit in an awkward silence wondering if they are doing it wrong.
And then they leave. And the secret place becomes something they feel guilty about rather than something they are drawn to because it feels empty. It feels one-sided. It feels like they are talking to a wall.
And the reason it feels that way is not because God is absent. It is because nobody ever showed them what the secret place is actually designed to be, what is supposed to happen there, what they are supposed to bring, what they are supposed to do, what they are supposed to receive, the mechanics, the order, the full picture of what I cañ visiting with the FATHER.
Not why you should pray. Not vague encouragement to spend more time with God.
But specific, practical, ordered instruction on what the secret place actually is and what is supposed to happen when you enter it.
And what he discovered is both simpler and richer than anything most believers have ever been shown.
The secret place is not a religious duty. It is not a spiritual performance. It is not a one-sided transaction where you present your needs and wait for God to respond.
It is a visit, a real two-way spirit-to-spirit encounter between a son and a father who is hungry for his company. And like every real visit between people who love each other, it has a natural shape, a flow, a series of things that happen when two beings who belong together finally sit down in the same room.
Today we are going to show you that shape, that flow, what you bring, what you do, what you receive, what changes in you when you do this consistently.
Not theory, the actual practical mechanics of the secret place that most believers have never been taught.
Six specific things that are supposed to happen in the secret place.
Six elements that together produce the encounter most believers have been longing for but never quite experiencing. And by the time this teaching is finishe you will never again sit down in the secret place and not know what to do.
Because the FATHER has been waiting for this visit, not reluctantly, but eagerly, hungrily, with a longing for your company, that is the very reason God created human in the first place.
The secret place is not where you go to perform for God. It is where you go to be with HIM. And those are two completely different things.
Now before we go into the six elements, I want you to sit with something that will reframe everything about how you approach the secret place.
The FATHER heart is hungry for the companionship of his children. His heart hunger is the reason for mankind, the reason for creation, the reason for redemption.
God did not create man because he needed servants. He did not redeem you because he needed religious activity. He created you and redeemed you because He wanted a companion, someone to walk with, someone to talk with, someone to share HIS heart with, someone whose company He could enjoy. You are HIS family.
And every time you enter the secret place, every time you sit down and turn your attention toward HIM, you are giving God what He has always wanted from you.
Your presence, not your performance, not your perfect prayer language, not your theological knowledge or your spiritual consistency.
Your presence, your company, the simple genuine act of showing up and being with HIM.
That changes everything about what the secret place is and what you do, when you get there, because you are not going there to impress God.
You are not going there to earn something.
You are not going there to discharge a religious obligation.
You are going there to give the FATHER what HIS heart has been longing for.
And that visit, that simple daily act of companionship is the most important thing you will do all day.
Before we get to the six elements, we need to dismantle the single biggest misconception that makes the secret place feel empty for most believers.
The misconception that prayer is primarily about need.
NOTE: "Prayer should not be the child of need. It should be based on a spiritual fellowship with the FATHER and with the MASTER so that our needs are HIS needs. Because we are not our own, we are a part of HIM.
Prayer should not be the child of need.
That one sentence dismantles the entire framework most believers operate from.
They come to the secret place because they need something.
They stay until they have presented everything they need and they leave.
And the secret place becomes a need dispensing transaction rather than a fellowship building visit,
And God who designed the secret place for companionship ends up receiving nothing from the encounter but a list.
Prayer is simply talking it over with HIM, getting HIS views, HIS will, HIS plans and our carrying out those plans with HIS grace, ability and wisdom.
That is a completely different orientation.
Not what do I need from God today, but what is God thinking about my life, my situation, my calling, what are HIS plans?
What does He see that I do not see?
What does He want to say to me in this secret place that I will miss entirely if I spend the whole time talking?
And then something that reframes the secret place permanently.
Note: that prayer is a visit with our FATHER. We should think of it as a rare opportunity, not a duty, not a discipline, not a spiritual obligation, but a rare opportunity, the opportunity to sit in the PRESENCE of the Creator of the universe, Who is also your FATHER and who is hungry for your company.
Now, with that foundation in place, here is the first element of what the secret place is actully supposed to look like.
Element one, enter as a son, a daughter. Not as a servant or slave. Not a sinner.
That prayer means coming boldly into the throne room and standing in HIS PRESENCE.
Let's anchors this in Hebrews 4:16. Come boldly to the throne of grace.
And I will explain what boldly means. It means coming with freedom, coming as sons and daughters, taking your place, not earning your place, not hoping for your place, taking it.
Most believers enter the secret place apologetically.
They come with a vague sense that they have not been faithful enough, consistent enough, spiritual enough to deserve a real encounter.
And that sense of unworthiness colours everything that follows.
The prayers come out tentative.
The requests come out uncertain.
The whole time in God's PRESENCE feels conditional.
But I tell you that the new creation man can stand in the FATHER'S PRESENCE as though sin had never been, without guilt, without condemnation, without inferiority.
Because of what Lord Jesus Christ did. Not because of your performance. Because of HIS.
So the first practical thing that happens when you enter the secret place is that you remind yourself of that reality.
You say out loud, " l am a son ( or a daughter). I have been made righteous. I have every right to be here. I come boldly to the throne of grace, not as a beggar, but as a son."
That declaration sets the entire tone for everything that follows.
Because a son who knows he belongs there, prays differently from a beggar hoping to be heard.
He comes with confidence. He speaks with authority. He listens with expectation. He receives with gratitude.
Everything changes when you enter the secret place from your correct position.
Element two, bring the fruit of your lips.
NOTE : "We come with thanksgiving, we come with worship, we come with love, we bring the fruit of lips."
And here I say something that stops most believers cold. "How it does touch our hearts to think that He drinks of the fruit of our lips. He drinks of the fruit of your lips. Your worship, your thanksgiving, your words of love and honour are received by God as fruit, as nourishment, as something He actually receives from you."
Most believers have never thought about the secret place as a place where they give something to God rather than only receive something from HIM.
But here is explicit. The fruit of your lips, your praise, your worship, your gratitude, your declarations of who He is, these are your offering.
This is what you bring into the secret place that blesses the FATHER, that touches HIS heart, that fulfills the fellowship He created you for.
Element three, make your demands boldly.
This is where most believers spend all their time, but from entirely the wrong position.
NOTE: prayer means going into the PRESENCE of the FATHER and Lord Jesus Christ in an executive meeting, laying needs before them, and making requisitions for ability, for grace, healing for someone, victory for someone, financial needs.
Whatever the need may be, we are making a demand upon HIM.
Making a demand, not begging, not pleading, not hoping, demanding, not because you are arrogant, because you know what belongs to you.
You know what He promised.
You know what redemption provided.
And you come into the secret place as a son who knows his legal rights and makes his demands on that basis.
Remember , in the Bible, the woman who pressed through the crowd to touch Jesus. When virtue went out of HIM, Jesus Christ said, "Someone has made a demand upon my ability." That is the picture of bold, faith filled petition in the secret place, not a shy request from a distance, but a confident demand from someone who knows what Jesus Christ provided and is simply claiming it.
So when you bring your needs into the secret place, you do not bring them apologetically.
You bring them as a son standing on the Word.
" Father, your Word says, by His stripes I was healed. I am making a demand for healing in this body right now in Jesus' name. "
" Father, your Word says my God shall supply all my need. I am making a demand for provision in this situation right now in Jesus' name.
Father, your Word says greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. I am making a demand for victory in this battle right now in Jesus' name.
That is not presumption.
That is the prayer of a son who knows his FATHER'S Word and holds it up to HIM like a mirror.
NOTE: that prayer is holding HIS Word up to HIM. He sees Himself in His Word.
He said it. You are asking HIM to do it.
He promised.
And God and HIS Word are one.
Now element four, listen and fellowship.
This is the part most believers skip entirely.
And skipping it is why the secret place feels one-sided.
NOTE : that prayer is talking it over with HIM, getting HIS views, HIS will, HIS plans.
That implies conversation. Two directions.
God⇄you, dialogue.
You speak and then you listen.
You share and then you receive.
You bring your heart and then you hear HIS.
What does listening look like practically in the secret place?
You stop talking. You become still.
You turn your attention to your inner man.
You pay attention to what your recreated spirit is receiving from the indwelling one.
Is there a peace settling over something you brought as a concern?
Is there a direction forming in your spirit about something you have been seeking guidance on?
Is there a scripture rising in your inner man that speaks directly to what you just brought before the FATHER?
Is there a quiet knowing about a relationship, a decision, a next step?
That is the fellowship I describe.
Not one-sided petition followed by silence, but actual two-way communion.
You speak, you listen; you give, you receive; you bring your heart, and you hear HIS.
And the believer who has learned to do this consistently, who has developed the patience to sit in the secret place long enough to actually listen, discovers something that transforms their entire relationship with God.
They discover that God has been wanting to say things to them for years, that He has direction and wisdom and comfort and instruction that He has been waiting to communicate.
And all that was required was a believer who was willing to stop talking long enough to hear.
This is what distinguishes the secret place from a prayer list.
A prayer list is one directional. You speak, you leave.
The secret place is a visit.
And in a real visit, both parties speak.
Testimony about a mother who one morning told her children she had forgotten to visit the Master that morning. And so she lacked HIS quietness and HIS strength. She knew the difference not just in what she received from the encounter, but in what she brought back with her into the rest of her day.
That is the fruit of the listening.
That settledness.
That peace that does not depend on circumstances.
That quiet knowing about what to do next.
That sense of being accompanied rather than alone.
It does not come from talking at God.
It comes from sitting with HIM long enough to hear what He is saying back to your spirit.
The secret place is a conversation, not a monologue.
And the most important thing you can do after you have spoken is stop and listen.
Element five, meditate on the Word.
Give yourself to meditation, prayer, and study of the Word.
Let us be specific about what meditation actually is.
Noted: "Shut yourself in alone with your own spirit where the clamor of the world is shut out." Take one verse, stay with it. Let it drop from the head into the spirit.
Let it become a reality in the inner man rather than just a fact in the mind.
The secret place is not complete without the Word because the Word is the primary way the FATHER speaks objective truth into the spirit and meditation is the process