This new study is on Love, God’s Love, and Its power to change you and protect you; hence, That’s The Power of Love. I plan on following the leading of The Holy Spirit, but for now it seems we’ll do three studies. The first on The Secret Place, the second on love changing you, and the final on what Biblical humility actually means. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t mean embarrassing yourself, talking down on yourself, or even a vow of poverty.
Let’s jump right into the study!
Psalm 91:1NKJV
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
This is my favorite Psalm, but… I always wondered where is the secret place, how do we get there, and how do we know if we’re still abiding there or not? Well, the Lord has answered my question thoroughly. First, I thought it would interesting to briefly check Google. It wasn’t. Everything I read was from people just as clueless as me. Let’s do some important back peddling, and then we’ll get to The Secret Place.
When Christians speak about the Lord, they talk about “Getting closer to God, seeking God, moving forward in Christ, going deeper in the Lord, and going higher in the Lord.” I’ve said all of these things at one point myself. Guess what? They’re all wrong. The Holy Spirit would try to point scripture out to me when I said these things or heard these things, but I never understood what He was saying….
2 Corinthians 5:21NKJV
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Paul is telling us that we are made righteous through Christ. We have several scriptures on this topic. If you’ve been made right with God, why would we need to work on getting closer to Him? Let’s look at what the Bible says concerning our position.
Ephesians 2:6 NKJV
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Our spiritual position is raised with Jesus and seated WITH Jesus. How can we get a higher seat than that? Why would we have to walk forward progress to meet the Lord? One more scripture on our position….
Hebrews 4:16 NKJV
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
We are permitted to boldly come to the Throne Room, boldly approach God when WE want to. We don’t have to be summoned, schedule an appointment, or submit a request. This isn’t figurative speech. We can spiritually approach God and pray when WE want to pray. How could we possibly get closer?
We’re made righteous with Christ’s righteousness, we’re seated with Jesus in heavenly places (can’t get any higher than Heaven), and we’re permitted to boldly enter the Throne Room to approach the Almighty God. So, where is The Secret Place? You should already be in it. You might already be there. We should have no need to look for it or seek it. Wait, a min! Before you think you’ve been let down, you haven’t been! There’s a reason you may not feel like you’re in that Secret Place. We’re getting there…
The Secret Place that you’re supposed to be in is The Place of Love, His Love. Let’s look at some scripture, This is the most powerful one concerning His Love…
1 John 4:8 NKJV
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
God is Love. If you don’t love, you can’t be in The Secret Place. You can walk yourself right out of it. If you’re not in love, you’re in hate. There is no in-between in this matter; kind of love, mostly loving people, trying my hardest, or doing my best. You’re either in love or in hate. Some people are playing the love and hate hopscotch game.
This is the example that the Lord gave me to share.
Dogs, cats, and other animals are meant to roam around in the wild. We bring them into our home and show them our secret place of rest. They stay in our home with us. We love them and protected them. For dogs and other animals that run away, we keep them on a leash when they go outside. Leash, as in a comparison for humans? Yes, dogs are curious and the closer they stay to us the safer they can be. We feed them and nurture them. We know where they are at all times. We watch over them, and only let certain people and things get close to our pets that we love.
What does this mean to us?
We, in our flesh nature, are meant to roam around in the world. God renewed our spirit, brought us into His Secret Place, and showed us where He rests. He gave us His Holy Spirit so we can stay at home with Him. He loves us and protects us. He doesn’t want us to run away out of His Secret Place into danger, so He constrains us with His love. This way He always knows where we are, and can watch over us.
2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV
For the love of Christ constraineth us…
The word in Greek for constraineth is sunechó and Strong’s also gives the meaning of hold and keep in. The love of Christ holds you. The Love of Christ keeps you in.
This is very exciting! Do you see that you don’t have to find The Secret Place? It’s not this unattainable place out there for the people who are super spiritual gazing up into Heaven with their mouth hanging open! No! Just like Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden which was prepared for them, likewise your spirit was renewed to be God’s Secret Place. Adam and Eve were there physically and spiritually, we are there spiritually.
Why don’t some people feel like they’re in that Secret Place? Every time you walk out of love or sin, you’re jerking on that love leash, the constraining love. If you keep jerking on the leash over and over, just like a dog does to a human, you can break free and take off running away. If you feel like you want to “be closer to God, go higher, deeper, farther, walking forward,” or whatever else people say, you only need to do one thing, fall back on love.
I’m not going to write too much on love, because we’ve been taught the concept of Godly love a lot. What I will say is that you’re either one of two kinds of people you check in with the Holy Spirit regularly on your love walk, or you need to start checking in with the Holy Spirit regularly about your love walk. I want you to see these two scriptures in the light of what we just studied.
Galatians 5:6 NKJV
… but faith working through love.
Faith works through love, or as the King James says it, “Faith works by love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 NKJV
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
When people refuse to love, which includes trues forgiveness, they’re not in The Secret Place. The hedge of protection over their life is down. Not only that their faith won’t work. Even worse, Paul in this last scripture is telling us their voice won’t even sound right. What he means by that is your words will lose God’s power. “Whhaaat?” You might be thinking. Give me a min… The Lord blesses our words to help people heal emotionally, encourage others, bring joy, create peace, and create an atmosphere that blesses people. When Christians aren’t walking in love, or should we say walk out of The Secret Place, they lose the blessing on their words. He’s saying your words are unpleasant sounds.
Love is everything. It’s not just your protection and faith; it’s Who God really is! Everything about God is rooted in love and rooting yourself in love is the answer. Love is where we’ll see scripture happen.
Thank you for going through this study with me. Lord, please bless everyone reading with a greater revelation of Your love.
Christi
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