seven simple secrets of a secret place or what to do in prayer you know prayer is very important to
a christian jesus taught about prayer he practiced prayer he's our intercessor he prays for us
and we are called to pray but so many people are confused on what to do during prayer how to pray
and as well as how to experience god's presence in prayer i would like to tackle few of these topics
in this short video in matthew 7 7 it says they seek and you will find ask and it will be given
to you knock and it will be open to you and that breaks down prayer to really three main components
the three types of prayer there is the seeking which speaks of devotion then there is the
knocking which speaks of intercession and there is the asking which speaks of petition when we
are asking jesus for something knocking when we are interceding praying for someone and then
seeking is when we are pressing into his presence abiding in his presence and in this video i would
like to touch on the part of seeking his presence now prayer is not just about seeking his presence
prayer is about asking confessing or sin prayer is also about praying for our needs and praying for
other people but prayer is really given to us so that we can get to know god so that we can get to
know his voice and so that we can get to know his presence on the more practical and tangible way i
will give you seven of things that i see happen in my prayer life regularly it doesn't happen every
single day but i'm gonna mention them that they do happen regularly number one is separation i
believe in something called separating to a sacred space when you separate yourself to a prayer to
a time of prayer when you designate a sacred space where you separate yourself physically to
during prayer it takes your prayer to another level now you can pray anywhere it's true we can
pray without ceasing you can pray in your bed you can pray in your car but something happens
when you designate a place a sacred place sacred space to prayer now it's true that you
are that sacred space to god you're the temple of god you're the property of the holy spirit
you're the real estate of the holy spirit but i want you to remember in matthew 28 verse 16 jesus
said when the 11 disciples went away into galilee to the mountain which jesus had appointed for them
when they saw him they worshipped him but some doubt it so this mountain jesus appointed for them
now jesus could have met them anywhere jesus was already in his glorified body but i want you to
notice he appointed a place he appointed a sacred space where he met them and there he appeared
and there they worshipped him some doubted and so do you have a place where you meet with the lord
it could be in the park on the mountain by the river in the closet in the basement on the top
of the roof it could be in a local church do you have a place that you separate yourself too if you
don't have that place i want to encourage you start with carving or making a place
jesus many times withdrew to wilderness to pray now if he could have talked to his father on
his bed why did he withdrew because something happens even to your emotions and to your body
as you pick yourself up from your bed and you move yourself to that designated that special
place you're almost telling god hey this is this is not common this is not for everyday use this is
for me and you this is special when you separate yourself to a sacred space you're telling god this
is special to me this is important to me and god likes that he wants to be special now do you need
to have that space to pray to god no but if you really want to take it to another level designate
sacred space and separate yourself to that space regularly one of the things
that i like to practice is also get out of town i don't do that every day but you know regularly
leave out of town rent a hotel for a few days and that's my sacred space me the bible worship songs
and just being there with the holy spirit it does something so wonderful to your soul and to your
intimacy with god the second thing that i want to encourage you with and that is to surrender
the struggle and striving a lot of times when you show up at that place what begins to happen is a
lot of struggle a lot of striving happens because you are physical you're living in the physical
world you have emotions there's troubles there's the cares of life deceitfulness or riches there's
temptations there's there's all of these things i mean disciples slept during the times that jesus
prayed that means it wasn't easy sometimes your flesh will fight you sometimes demons will fight
you the devil will try to send you some kind of a nightmare some kind of a hiccup or some kind
of a problem so that you don't get through to the presence of god now god is with you 100 but
i'm talking about the manifest presence of god so what do you do is surrender the striving when the
striving when the distraction is there press in and then all of that surrender it to the lord give
that to god as you give him your problems he will give you his peace the bible says he will keep him
in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon him i like to compare prayer to the three parts of
the old testament temple the outer court the inner court and the holy of holies the outer cord is
when your body you know wakes up and is moved to pray the inner cord is when your soul is praying
you know you're trying to get through the thoughts distractions different arguments different
doubts that's why the bible says some people came to the place where jesus designated for
for meeting with him and some doubt there's a place of doubt that could exist place of fear
place of offense all of that is normal i called it the outer place and then there's the holy of
holies it's when your spirit prays when there's silence when there's peace when there's presence
when there's there's this tranquility there's a it's so beautiful it's kind of like when you're in
the airplane you know when the airplane leaves the gate you know that speaks of like you separating
yourself and then the air airplane takes off you stop prying but how many of you know that first
you know 20 minutes or 15 minutes there could be a lot of turbulence the clouds and the it's a little
bit scary it's shaking and and that's exactly what happens in praise i call it the turbulence when
your flesh and your distractions and all kinds of doubts and fears are there press through that
surrender through it get through that striving and that struggle because there's something beautiful
after that step number three or point number three is the scripture starts to speak see when you
get through that surrender period or when you get through that striving into surrender the scripture
begins becomes alive the scripture starts to speak now some people like to read the scripture to help
them get through that striving some people begin their prayer time with scripture and that's also
good i like to start my prayer prayer time with thanking god confessing my sins and getting things
out of my head so that my mind can be focused and then i dive into the scripture it's most beautiful
when you go from reading the scripture to the scripture reading you and that's what happens in
that secret pla a secret space that secret place is the scripture comes alive the holy spirit who
wrote the bible begins to be present with you and he decodes explains and he begins to reveal
jesus many times in his glorified body met with disciples and he expounded on the scriptures now
you think he's god he didn't need to talk about the bible he could have just talked about you know
himself but he expounded the scriptures because he wants us to be grounded in the holy scriptures
not in our experiences but in the holy scriptures we don't deny experiences taste and see the
lord is good those things are important but the scriptures come alive the rhema comes alive where
god breathes that word breathes into you that's number three so separation to a sacred space
surrender through striving and then scripture speaks number four is when you get the song of
the lord or song to the lord if this is one of my favorite things incorporate worship in your time
with jesus find your favorite worship song and then play that song and worship to the lord why
because something happens in a secret place this is a time where you minister to the lord many of
us we minister for god the things that we do for god the things that we do for other people but in
a secret place we minister to the lord and one of the best ways you minister to the lord is by
singing worship in fact it says in acts chapter 13 verse 2 it says as they minister to the lord and
fast the spirit said now separate to me barnabas and saul for the work which have called them
paul and barnabas and the rest of the people they were ministering to the lord i love that
because almost every time that i get out of town you know for a few days to spend time with god
and i just you know there's a playlist of worship songs that is playing and sometimes there's that
one song begins to minister to me and how i know it's ministering to me because at that moment
it's ministering to the lord and i'm not talking about that i'm playing a song and i'm just
browsing through instagram no no i am engaging with that worship song and i'm singing it to the
lord in fact jesus taught us to pray he says pray like this our father hallowed be our father who's
in heaven hallowed be your name worship is part of that secret place worship is part of that intimacy
with god it's one of the ways to enter it enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his
courts with praise god inhabits the praises of his people he seeks such that worship him in spirit
and truth if you have a difficult time connecting experiencing intimacy practice worship number five
is you really enter that secret place or you enter that deep relationship with god this is one of the
marks is when jesus becomes sweet the sweetness of jesus the word of god comes alive the song begins
to bubble up inside of your heart to the lord and then this is when you know you've entered the holy
of holies when jesus not only he becomes more real but he becomes sweet he becomes more precious his
name causes tears to roll down your eyes there's just he becomes that precious treasure that pearl
of great price see for many people we treat jesus as common we even say jesus jesus jesus jesus but
when you begin to experience the presence of god jesus becomes precious john john the revelator
he was beloved by jesus he laid his head on the the chest of jesus he knew jesus he spent
three years with him yet in book of revelation jesus revealed a new facet of who he was to john
his eyes were like fire his face was shining like the sun his hair was wide as white as wool his
feet stood on the sea of brass and when josh saw john saw him he fell dead now imagine john john
has been with jesus for three and a half years i mean john kind of knew jesus but now he has this
revelation of the majesty jesus becomes more precious jesus becomes more glorious it's not
that he becomes he's always been like that but the new facet of who he is is revealed to us
see that's what the real goal of prayer is to have a fresh revelation of the beauty of the majesty
of the glory of jesus christ the scripture helps us with that the holy spirit helps us with that to
reveal jesus number six see in this secret place in this devotional life when jesus becomes more
real something happens to you you become quiet there comes a solitude silence in here everything
else dies down the bible says be still and know that i am god there comes a stillness here before
there was just noise words there was thoughts and and temptations and troubles and anxiety and worry
and doubt but when jesus becomes real there's a quietness in your soul there's rest in your soul
there is solitude there is this stillness that happens there you can't explain it there's this
this thing where he occupies you he fills you you feel rest that's supernatural you feel
strength that is supernatural the bible says those who wait upon the lord they shall renew
their strength they will mount up with wings like eagles they will run in that guitar they will
walk and not get weary there is this recalibration there's this restoration renewal resetting that
takes place in your soul quietness stillness peace this tranquility that i can't explain with words
it's so beautiful it's so precious and that's the benefit the fruit of his presence and the last
step that i would encourage you to take or to do when you experience that in prayer
is stay longer linger there in that place linger in that presence a lot of times we experience that
and we run we experience that and we're like man i need to go to the next thing i need to run i have
a gym to go to i have a job to go to and sometimes it's not possible to stop everything else in our
life but if you can con if you are in control of your schedule and you can postpone some things
and cancel some things the times that the lord visits you like that postpone them cancel the gym
for that day honestly cancel the other activity if you can and linger in his presence it's the over
time spent in this presence that will throw you into the overflow of life the secret to living
in overflow in ministry the secret to living in overflow in your career is to take over time in
his presence and you might not do that every day but there are those moments you know those moments
i just described them to you kind of in a detail we go from separation to striving surrender and
then we we dive into the scripture we give the lord a song of our heart we see the sweetness
of jesus we experience this beautiful solitude and stillness in our heart linger there stay longer in
that place whatever you need to do stay as long as you can until that lifts because something
will happen as a result of that there will be a residue there will be a consequence of that
you begin to notice you will be different you'll be like moses walk down and your face is shining
you will be like jacob after he encountered the angel of the lord he was limping
you will be like disciples even the pharisees and their enemies recognized they've been with
jesus you would be like stephen they said and his face was like the face of angel why because
he stayed too long he lingered he took overtime in the presence of god god's presence is the key
to longevity fulfillment and meaning in life ministry to the lord launches you into ministry
from the lord a lot of us are ministering for god we're serving god but god wants you to start
serving him directly through worship and spending time with him i hope this was a blessing to you
and i hope that it wetting your appetite to spend time with jesus i want to encourage you to begin
to take time to be with the lord i want to create a hunger in you for god not for me not for my
youtube channel for god if this was a blessing to you let me know below what some of your practices
that you do to experience the presence of god in your life with some books or maybe some things
that you do places that you pray at that help you to experience his presence or resources also don't
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