Good morning Champion. Welcome to another week, here is breakfast.
Psalm 91: 1-2 (NKJV)
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”
Though your life needs to have a public Christian expression (your evangelistic lifestyle, living out what you believe) you cannot survive with just a public expression, it is vital that we all have a secret garden or secret place with the Lord.
In my message the secret garden I refer to how Jesus in the last moments of His life, those moments before all hell would be let loose on Him choose not a revival meeting or public place but rather a quiet corner of a garden called Gethsemane. It was in that secret place that he found the strength and courage he needed for what lay ahead that night.
We must remember that we too find our strength and ability in the secret place we have with God not in the public arena of Christianity, it is in the secret place of the most high where there is the audience of one that we are as Jesus was made strong. Let’s make sure that our Christianity is not just a public thing but that it has a very special secret place.
Here’s some question to provoke you to thought today.
· Do you have a secret place in your relationship with God?
· Do you go there as much as you need to?
· What do you need to do to make sure that you get from the secret place everything God has for you in it?
Lets finish today by reading the next part of the Psalm to see what happens for us and to us when we chose to abide “ make our home” the secret place of the most high, as we do ask yourself “why would I not abide there”?
3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.
12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Bless you have a great week, live out of a secret place that you have with the most High.
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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