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Absent From The Secret Place?

Awakened from sleep to ponder this question, “Have you become too busy like Martha and are you failing to spend time at Jesus’ feet like Mary; glanced over at the clock it was three am.   This question from Abba Father caused me to sit and get up to go and spend time in the secret place.   Fear greeted me at the door yet I was so troubled about this, the two edged sword in my hand 2 Timothy 1:7 cut fear asunder, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”   Immediately there was such a calm assurance of peace which illuminated my entire being.   The LORD warned of the danger of being so programmed by prayer books yet failing to sit and listen in the secret place.   (Prayer books are wonderful books and are tools to help you and me.)   This was a personal rebuke which reminded me of a dream where I was praying in my bathroom out of one of the prayer books; I saw a large gray bird perched on the outside corner of the roof that placed him di

Take Your Place

The Church was having a grand celebration and during the refreshment time I found myself cleaning up after everyone suddenly the guest preacher gave me a command, “Stop, and come here!” He continued, “God has not only called you to clean but to minister His Word, it is time to take your place!” I awoke to discover it was a dream which seemed all too real.   The Word spoke from the book of 2 Samuel 4: 4 ” Saul’s son had a son who was lame in his feet.   He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up and fled, and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell and became lame.   His name was Mephibosheth.” On your journey could it be that you have allowed fear to keep you in a place of torment, could it be that you (me too) are living in a place of desolation; a place far from where you are supposed to be?   Could it be that God is giving you a command to take your place?   Mephibosheth knew who he was but because he fear