Prayer Closet

 

    The words you use have power.  The words you say to yourself will shape how you see yourself.  God tells you who you are and how He sees you in His Word.  The Bible is His love letter to you.  Never insult the person He made you.  Speak truth into yourself.  It starts in your prayer closet.  It can be a literal room or a secret place tucked away in your mind.

    Reject the lies that Satan whispers into your mind.  Replace self-destructive talk with kind speech.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you and teach you how to speak truth to yourself and other people.  No matter you circumstances, you can keep your soul healthy and alive.  The truth is not based on your feelings.  It is stable and unchanging.  You can feel negative emotions and all be well in your soul.

    The words you use in your thoughts matter, even if they are never spoken.  God used words to create, to bring forth life, and to destroy.  Words hold power because God gave them power.  Words bring life or death to a soul.  You can speak out of love, kindness, and peace to bring forth life.  Or you can insult, be cruel, and curse bringing forth death.

    Joy gives life to the soul.  Destructive words devastates the soul.  Either way you use your words, you reveal your heart.  They convey how you think, framing your thoughts into action.  Your mental closet is a storeroom.  Storeroom in Greek is thesaurus.  Your thesaurus holds all your words derived by abundance of words.  Fill your thesaurus with God's Word and it will become your prayer closet.  

Genesis 1:3-24, 24:24-35, 27:2-4, Proverbs 18:19-22, & Matthew 2:9-11, 12:33-37

Peace Makeover

 

    Can you think of someone you respect because they seem to have peace through everything?  This person seems to have their life put together and can handle everything.  These people are rare, but they are placed in your life for a reason.  They help you get to where you want to be in your relationship with God.

    You are able to be the calm in the chaos person.  It is possible because you like your role model are human.  Your role model struggles in areas just like you.  They just put their complete trust in God.  They practice what they learn in their quiet time every day.  They are willing to change and grow.  If you are able to do that, then you can be stable in life too.

    You need strong Christians in your life to help you gain real and lasting freedom from what is holding you back.  You may not be able to see what has a hold on you until someone points it out.  Find people that you trust to live completely transparent in life.  Find people that will be honest, kind, and loving while pushing you to walk closer with Jesus.

    It starts by turning to the Bible.  Pray over the people in your life and who God wants in your inner circle.  Pray for a mentor to be there with you in life.  These people may change as life changes, but you always will need one.  God is trying to give you are rich and satisfying life.  Will you let Him?

    It is the choses you make in life that make up who you are. Focus on the eternal, so that the day to day stuff doesn't become overwhelming. Speak kindly to yourself as you grow and change.  Your mind doesn't comprehend when you are joking.  It will believe what you speak.  Remember what you say to yourself is what you are saying to God's creation.  Learn to control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.  This is how you give yourself a peace makeover.

Psalm 19:12-14, Ecclesiastes 3:9-13, & John 10:6-10

Secret Friendship

 

    Biblical friendship is a company of persons in close deliberation.  Friendship is meant to be intimate with consultation.  Friends assemble in secret meaning that they share their hearts with each other, but not the world.  They give each other good counsel.  The biggest secret about friendship is that you can have this with God.

    When you think of friendship what do you think about?  What is important to you in a friendship?  For a friendship to be intimate it needs to be someone(s) you trust, can depend on, and hold Philo love.  This is how you build intimacy.  These relationships are in your best interest.  They help you get through the hard times.  They no longer allow you to coast through life with only casual relationships.

    You need this kind of friendship with God to be able to grow and find true peace and love.  It takes strength and being brave.  You don't have the time to be casual or play around.  He sent you here with a purpose and He works with you to fulfill it.  It is a challenge, but all relationships are.  The only difference is that God will never leave you.  He is not in your life for just a season.  He is with you for eternity.  

    The thing with friendship is that you are not always the one going to God.  The Holy Spirit talks to you too.  Jesus is confiding in you if you are being a trustworthy and dependable friend in return.  God knows everything about you and still wants a real relationship with you.  

    God knows your joys, your duties, broken heart, rejections, and betrayals.  He walks through all of it with you.  He keeps your secrets, but will expose your sins like a good friend.  He doesn't do this to hurt you, but to free you.  True friends call you out when you are wrong, but in love not to shame.  A friendship with God will bring confidence into your life.  It frees you from confusion, anguish of questioning things, and loneliness.

1 Samuel 7:12, Psalm 25:11-15, 55:12-15, & Jude 24-25

Sacred Secrets

 

    Sacred secrets are quiet or discreet secrets.  God works quietly most of the time.  He is always working, but sometimes it feels like He is not doing anything.  That is why you can't be directed by feelings.  You have to remember His promises and look for the small things to be grateful for.  Sometimes it can take years praying over something before it happens.  You have to learn patience, so  that you do not mess up your blessing by trying to take over God's job.  

    Some quiet secrets are physical.  It could be pregnancy, growing up, healing, or something else.  These are a mystery that bring joy as you hold them close to you.  Here God is in control.  He reveals your future as it is playing out.

    Some sacred secrets are when you hide yourself.  This is where you love properly.  This is where you use self-discipline to keep yourself holy.  An example is waiting to have sex until you get married.  Your body is a sacred secret for your spouse to discover and cherish.

    You get to decide what is going to be secret in your life.  You can tell the world everything about you, but it will never appreciate it.  It is wise to keep some secrets to yourself.  Some secrets revealed to the wrong person or too soon can be dangerous, toxic, and dark.  If you want to live in the light, then turn all your secrets to the Holy Spirit in prayer to help you with what to do with them.  

    Secrets are a part of the maturing process.  Push too hard and you will miss opportunities to do great things.  You may suffer in ways where it takes years to get back to where you were or to heal.  Take the time to allow yourself to grow, so you can crush pride and find meaning to your message.  If you move too soon, then Satan will find your vulnerable spots and attack mercilessly.  Spend time in your secret place of prayer and your timing will be revealed.  

Genesis 31:25-30, Psalm 25:11-15, Proverbs 17:23-24, Matthew 1:18-19, 2:7-8, John 11:27-29, Acts 16:37, & Hebrews 4:14-16

Secret Prayers

 

    What you want in life you need to go to your secret place in prayer.  This is where you deal with your sin or anything else that will hold you back from getting the life that you want with Jesus.  Here is where Jesus will take the shame of your sins away.  

    If you come to God in your secret place, then you can experience life in a way beyond what you could imagine.  He works beyond the natural world making things possible that you never saw for yourself.  He empowers you in the supernatural world.  

    Secrets have a way of manifesting themselves to be revealed.  If you want it to be good, then you need to start praying in your secret place.  If you do, then you will have rooftop moments in life.  Prayer is a conversation between you and God, so don't do all the talking.  Allow the Holy Spirit to provide you with eternal secrets in return.

    When you go to your secret place in prayer it can take you somewhere new.  It will be challenging, but rewarding.  Are you ready?  As your relationship with Jesus grows deeper, your world gets bigger.  Your secret time with God is what lays out your steps.

    

Psalm 25:11-15, 55:12-15, Matthew 2:7-8, 10:26-27, John 15:9-17, Romans 8:26-30, & Revelations12:10-12

Secret Within

 

    Your secret place with God can be a physical place, but it is always found within you.  A place to go to escape the noise of the world is a place where you can pray, read, meditate, fast, and worship God without interruption, but it always starts within you.

    Your soul is the hidden thing within your body.  It was created by God and He gave your vessel life.  When you give your soul back to God, then you inherit a body to hold your soul for eternity with God.  It is the secret of where you home really is.  We live in this world and it can be wonderful.  There are so many blessings all around us, but our home is with Jesus.

    God has offered this eternity to everyone.  It is your choice to accept or reject it.  To ignore your invitation is to reject it.  If you reject God, then you never really get to explore the hidden secrets that can be found within you.  You never get to experience life with the Holy Spirit's wisdom and comfort.  This is not only frightening, but it is in creditably sad.

    Everyone spends way too much time focused on what is happening here and now.  It is easy to loose track of focusing on the eternal, but that is what Christians are called to do.  The truth should impact your life.  If it is not, then you need to ask yourself why.  Your secret place with Jesus should have an impact on how you live your life.

    I heard someone say recently that if you do not have any enemies in this world, then you are not doing Christianity right.  It sounds daunting, but if you really think about it, it is true.  Jesus said that the world will hate you because it hated me first.  

    If you follow Jesus, then you will have enemies for that fact alone.  It is not personal, but God will use it to expose truth.  The world hates the truth.  Don't let it stop you from pursuing God.  There will be battles, but that is why your secret place within your soul is so important.  Evil can't find you there. 

1 Samuel 17:34-37, Psalms 91:1-8, Matthew 13:10-13, Mark 4:21-23, & Acts 17:5-7

Secret Relationship with God

 

    The secret is that your creator wants to have a relationship with you.  He wants to be known by you.  He wants you to know how much he loves you.  His reality is life changing.  It gives light, purpose, and passion to life.  

    When God feels far away, He is actually right there with you.  He is working, but He is allowing you to figure things out for yourself.  He will never take away your free feel.  He wants you to get past feelings moving you to knowing the truth and working with the facts.  He could fix everything, but what is the point of giving you a mind if you don't ever use it?

    The secret truth is that God is the best reward in your life.  He is not distant.  He is right there waiting for you.  What is happening between you and God is the secret relationship.  The gifts that the Holy Spirit and blessings from God are what the world gets to see as a testimony of your relationship.  They don't get to see the private and intimate time that you have invested.

    You can hide yourself in your secret place, but eventually you will have to face life.  Do not leave your secret place without acknowledging that God is with you.  He makes all the difference in your day.  Jesus showed us how to do it.  We don't need miracles to walk with Jesus.  They are nice, but need to serve a public purpose.  Your relationship is personal.  It will never require a miracle to have a real intimate relationship with God. 

    It takes more away from you to hide from God, than it is to be transparent with Him.  He will guard your mind and heart.  He protects your soul.  All He ask in return is love and obedience.  

    Satan wants you to conceal, hide things, and push God out.  That only leads to loneliness, misery, and sin filled life.  The longer you hold onto your sin the further it will take you from God.  It will always cost more than you want to pay.  If you never turn to Jesus, then it will take your right into hell and eternal separation from God.

Psalm 37:1-4, Isaiah 65:1-5, Matthew 6:5-6, John 11:40-44