HAVE A SECRET PLACE

Blessed morning! Remember to give it all to God, sleep, food and T.V. is not worth it. Confront your weakness and let go of it. Withdraw yourself and pray. If your phone causes you to fall, then give it away. Never allow anything to control you, God has made you to be a leader in your life, it is God then you. So, never allow yourself to be subjected by anything. We always want to be like Jesus in terms power, but everything begins in the secret room not in the public. You cannot just come out and say Lazarus rise like Jesus without being in the secret room. Those who are not in the secret room can be denied by Jesus and He can say, “I do not know you”. We usually speak to God when we are sick or when you want to achieve academically. Stop using God. There are those people who are ATM’s not because they are rich, but they are fools. We tend to use God when we need Him. People go to church on Sunday’s because they need something. The moment we get what we want, we then leave God. People pray when they are desperate, you cannot raise Lazarus when you have not met Jesus in the secret place. So, have your own secret place.

[Mark 1:35]

Jesus woke up while it was dark, early in the morning to a solitary place to pray. Let this be the beginning of your lifestyle. Jesus went to pray without the disciples, at least you have an alarm to wake you up; Jesus did not have.

[Luke 5:15-16]

We have the body of Jesus and want to do more than what He did, but we do not want His lifestyle and acquire His habit. Look, it is possible to break a habit, it just takes a decision to stop. Do not be controlled by anything. Jesus would take Himself away from people, He spent time with God alone. He withdrew Himself often, this is what we need to have. If there was T.V. He would withdraw from it.

[Luke 6:12; Matthew 14:13 and 23]

When Jesus heard that John was beheaded, He withdrew to a solitary place to pray. There were times of sadness even with Jesus, but He did not go to a room to cry or complain asking for help. Jesus knew were to run to even in times of trouble. Verse 23, Jesus had a habit of withdrawing Himself to pray. This is the lifestyle we need to have. He broke the body for us, so use it as He used it. It is not wrong watching T.V. and using social media but the problem is that you do not have time for God. Meeting up for prayer is not withdrawing ourselves, but you need to become alone with God. Even after 40 days, continue and learn to live like this and do exactly what Jesus did. Even in these 40 days and nights, find time to withdraw yourself. When nature calls, no one stops you. So now, let the Spirit call. Praying is not one hour or two but that 30 seconds is very important.

People do not feel like they prayed if they pray less; the bible says we should not pray like pagans who continually repeats words. Speak and move on, pray like a person who knows that God hears. Have faith that God hears you because this pleases God. What I learnt about prayer is that God hears “believe” more than words. It is as if “Believing” is a name of God. Just like when you have two names, where one you are not used to be called by. Just like with God, after shouting and calling Him with many names as preparation, they ask something without believing and God does not hear. Do not make it a religion to pray for an hour. Believe that God hears you, you do not have to repeat words.

Your Father Through the Gospel
Abraham Unknown