The Secret Place of the Lord

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The Secret Place of the Lord

Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.” Psalm 2:6

When the nations rage against God and attempt to cast His fetters, God is not moved even in the slightest. Instead He has a word for the rulers who dare to speak past His established plumbline of truth and righteousness. The sure and clear message of God, even in times of national moral crisis, is that God’s Son is seated high in majesty and power above ever other name that is named. Once our hearts are united in prayer with Jesus, and at the moment that He draws us into His secret place, everything becomes so expressly clear: “He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure: “ Psalm 2:4-5.

Just as in the time of Elijah we face a confrontation with a demonic force that exalts itself against God and against His anointed. Elijah was a prophet sent by God to bring down the strongholds of darkness that Jezebel had built all over Israel. The spirit of deception which Jezebel had sown in Israel brought the people out of communion with God and into covenant with false idols. Instead of worshiping God, the Israelites were led to believe that their salvation could come from another source. But Elijah knew God in the secret place. Elijah knew that God was the King and all other ideas or idols or false gods were deceiving the people into great sin. Elijah was so intimately acquainted with God’s voice that he didn’t doubt of God’s power to draw the hearts of the people back their God and King.

In California today there is a battle for identity – the very definition of marriage is under fire. We are facing a confrontation with the influence of ethical humanism which claims that man’s ideas and opinions are superior to God’s. But just as Elijah spoke to the people of Israel, there are prophets and intercessors throughout our state that are contending for the destiny of our state. Instead of trusting in and relying on the operations of the mind to survive, we are people of the Holy Spirit. God’s ways are far better and longer lasting and exceedingly more bountiful than any humanistic ideal that exalts itself against the Cross of Jesus. God’s eyes are set upon the treasure at hand: the hearts of the people of California. “How long will you falter between two opinions. If God is God, then worship Him!! Let the sacrificial altar of fasting and prayer be continually kept aflame along with the passionate fires of intercession in faith that God will answer from on high and baptize our state with justice, righteousness, truth, and mercy and turn our hearts back to God’s heart.