The Secret Place

I believe The “Secret Place” started with the Garden of Eden. That was to be the place where God walked and talked with Adam & Eve, where he told them secrets, where they fellowshipped with one another. I believe that the Garden of Eden still exists, that He still calls us there. It’s a place where the Lord walks through, and waits with anticipation for a visit from His creation, from the ones formed in His image. He wants us to come and seek Him, to walk with Him, to explore His beauty.

Let me explain by taking a look at intimacy with the Lord in the very beginning:

The Garden of Eden

1. Genesis 2:8 “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man He had formed.”

2. Genesis 3:8“ Then the man and His wife heard the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day…”

3. Genesis 3:8b-11a “ and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Adam didn’t want the Lord to see him because he was naked. He was afraid and ashamed. His desire for intimacy and friendship with the Lord were quickly turned into fear.

Sometimes we are afraid of intimacy because it exposes us. Everything we are is out in the open; nothing can be hidden from Him. Do you find you are afraid of intimacy with the Lord in your life?

I believe there are places he wants to take our spirits but we must be surrendered to Him.

Surrender means giving him the most important thing to Him: our time. (if our time is spent with Him we will become like Him)

Time with Him instills Trust.

Mutual trust develops intimacy.

Intimacy opens up revelation.

Just take a look at John the Beloveds life, he was close with Jesus. This intimacy with Christ would later lead him to be entrusted to write the book of Revelation.

What revelation has not been entrusted to us from the Lord because we weren’t willing to pay the price to receive it?

In order to be intimate with the Lord we must trust Him, and in return He must be able to trust us with His heart.

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Thank you for reading!

Jenniferlee