The secret place, the most important place to me (Psalms 91:1) It was where the holy spirit started to reveal the importance of worship to me. In my previous posts, I explained my journey with realising the importance of worship. I would have never been aware of that if I had never spent time in the secret place. When I started my journey with Christ, I did not understand the importance of dwelling in the secret place all I did was surface level things. That is not bad at all but as I started to grow, and I desired to go deeper into understanding more about God – that is where a lot of revelation came from. Dwelling in the secret place can look different depending on your relationship with God, it’s a personal thing and it is important for our growth with God. This is where the holy spirit revealed my heart to me concerning how I was worshipping him, I realised that a lot of my worship stemmed from how I was feeling instead of who he was. However, the more time I spent with God, the more I understood that I could not worship based on my emotions alone because my emotions do not take away from who God is.
The secret place is where you build your worship, I noticed the reason I struggled with worship was because I didn’t know God was. How can I spend such an intimate time with my father if I have no clue of who he is and what he means to me? I knew who Christ was to other people and I thought that I could worship God based on people’s relationship with God but that never sustained me. My worship did not come from a revelation of intimacy but from feeding off other people’s revelation of God, so it did not come from my heart. I didn’t worship God because I truly loved him or because I knew that he loved me, but I worshiped him because someone told me what he did for them. Although, that is amazing – God wanted me to know him for himself. In the secret place is where I knew who God was to me, that’s when I knew that he was my father, my best friend, the best encourager, and my biggest supporter. I now worship because I know who he says he is and who he is to me! Once I grew in intimacy with my father is when I grew in worship.
Father, I thank you for who you are! I thank you for continuously pouring into us and for always opening our hearts to receive from you. I pray that we grow in intimacy with you and that we truly know and experience you. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
sharonsfaith.com 