A Nugget from New Life Network
(by Dr. Larry Ollison)
Scripture for the Day (March 28,2018)
Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith. (Romans 16:25-26)
God has kept secrets for us, not from us. He’s kept the mysteries and now, He is revealing these mysteries to us. It’s called progressive revelation. As we get closer and closer to the time when Jesus comes back to get His church, we are going to have more and more revelation of these mysteries.
There are many things God has kept secret for us and it is our responsibility to obtain these secrets. Once we understand them, they are ours. We can claim them. If we want God to give us those secrets, then we have to know where He keeps them hidden for us. Jesus told us about it in Matthew 6:6: “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” Go into the secret place of your prayer closet. That doesn’t have to be with the brooms and the mops. It is where you go to get alone with God and to get into His presence.
Psalm 91:1 says, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
If you are under His shadow, you are in His presence. So the secret place is in the presence of God. That’s where you are going to get the answers to the mysteries. That’s where you are going to get the secret things of God revealed to you.
I want to tell you something about the presence of God, the secret place. There are no limits in the secret place. God will take you beyond what you can ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). When you spend time in the secret place in the presence of God, He will reveal His secrets to you. But you have to make a quality decision to practice that each day. You have to practice spending time in His presence.
“I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.” (Isaiah 45:3)
I believe that this verse has a two-fold meaning. First of all, in the last days God is going to transfer the wealth from the wicked so that we will receive the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of the secret places (Proverbs 13:22). And secondly, when God is referring to the hidden riches of the secret places, He is talking about the mysteries of the kingdom-the secret things that He has hidden for us for this day and time.
The secret place is an awesome place. You can go in there discouraged and come out uplifted. You can go in there confused and come out not confused any more. You can know exactly what you should be doing. You can go in there depressed, and come out full of joy. Spending time in the secret place is vital. We need to get an established heart. Psalm 112:8 says that the man or woman who learns to trust the Lord has an established heart. We need to learn to rely on Him and move when He speaks. He wants to take us to levels where we have never been before.
