When we fear and trust the Lord, He hides us in His presence. Our community, the kingdom of the heavens, is called heaven for God dwells in us. We can draw closer to God. His power strengthens our inward man. He gives us all we need to partake of the divine nature. Thunder is a gospel message; the secret place of thunder is God talking directly to our inward man. When we keep our mind on the Lord, he gives us perfect peace. When we keep the Lord before us, His presence brings us the fulness of joy.
We have both a mind of flesh and the mind of the Spirit; we can walk by the flesh or by the Spirit. When we walk by the Spirit, He gives us life and peace. When we love the Lord and keep His commands both Father and Son will come to dwell in our hearts. We believe on the Lord and know Him through the words of His disciples. Christ lives in our hearts and gives us righteousness through our faith.
Psa 31:19-20 YLT
(19) How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,
(20) Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.
When we fear and trust the Lord, He hides us in His presence.
Php 3:20-21 YLT
(20) For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await—the Lord Jesus Christ—
(21) who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.
Citizenship, G4175
Politeuma ; pol-it’-yoo-mah
From G4176; a community, that is, (abstractly) citizenship (figuratively): – conversation.
Total KJV occurrences: 1
Our community, the kingdom of the heavens, is here called heaven for God dwells in us.
Jas 4:7-8 RV
(7) Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
Eph 3:16-21 RV
(16) that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
(17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
(18) may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
(19) and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
(20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
(21) unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.
His power strengthens our inward man.
2Pe 1:3-4 RV
(3) seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
(4) whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
He gives us all we need to partake of the divine nature.
Psa 81:7 RV Thou calledst in trouble, and I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Thunder is a gospel message, the secret place of thunder is God talking directly to our inward man.
Isa 26:3-4 ASV Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee. (4) Trust ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
When we keep our mind on the Lord, he gives us perfect peace.
Psa 16:7-11 ASV
(7) I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.
(8) I have set Jehovah always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
(9) Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; My flesh also shall dwell in safety.
(10) For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
(11) Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
When we keep the Lord before us, His presence brings us the fulness of joy.
Rom 8:5-8 YLT
(5) For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;
(6) for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace;
(7) because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
(8) for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
According, G2596
Kata ; kat-ah’
A primary particle; (preposition) down (in place or time), in varied relations (according to the case [genitive, dative or accusative] with which it is joined): – about, according as (to), after, against, (when they were) X alone, among, and, X apart, (even, like) as (concerning, pertaining to, touching), X aside, at, before, beyond, by, to the charge of, [charita-] bly, concerning, + covered,
[dai-]
ly, down, every, (+ far more) exceeding, X more excellent, for, from . . . to, godly, in (-asmuch, divers, every, -to, respect of), . . . by, after the manner of, + by any means, beyond (out of) measure, X mightily, more, X natural, of (up-) on (X part), out (of every), over against, (+ your) X own, + particularly, so, through (-oughout, -oughout every), thus, (un-) to (-gether, -ward), X uttermost, where (-by), with. In composition it retains many of these applications, and frequently denotes opposition, distribution or intensity.
Total KJV occurrences: 475
Joh 14:20-23 YLT
(20) in that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;
(21) he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.’
(22) Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), ‘Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?’
(23) Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
When we love the Lord and keep His commands both Father and Son will come to dwell in our hearts.
Joh 15:9-11 YLT
(9) According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;
(10) if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;
(11) these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.
Joh 17:20-26 RV
(20) Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;
(21) that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
(22) And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
(23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
(24) Father, that which thou hast given me, I will that, where I am, they also may be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
(25) O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
(26) and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them
We believe on the Lord and know Him through the words of His disciples. .
Gal 2:19-21 ASV
(19) For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
(20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
(21) I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.
Christ lives in our hearts and gives us righteousness through our faith.
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Richard has once again, stirred my thinking on the word of God and brought to remembrance verses and thoughts that tie in with the subject of “Secret Places”.
Being in a secret place with God is where the believer longs to be. It is there where the worship is pure and no man can enter, only those chosen of God to minister unto Him.
“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us KINGS AND PRIESTS TO HIS GOD AND FATHER, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen.” (Rev. 1:6)
If we have the Spirit of our Father dwelling within us, then we are indeed made kings and priests and are able to minister unto Him.
“O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the cliffs (stairs), Let me see your face, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your face is lovely.” (Song 2:14)
Within the walls of Solomon’s temple were steps. The walls were very broad and the steps within them made a spiral toward the Holy place. Off to the side of some of the steps was a hidden chamber where the priests would hide their garments and worshiping utensils. As they ascended the steps they would enter into the chambers gathering the items needed to worship.
What a beautiful picture of how as we climb higher, drawing closer to the Lord, our garments are changed and we acquire the tools (fruits of the Spirit) needed to make ourselves ready to enter in behind the veil of the place most Holy.