The Secret Place (September 13, 2020) - Jesse Duplantis

god has been so good and gracious how many people brought your bibles or your ipads or your phones whatever you use for uh for your the scripture i still use the old bible i just kind of like that book you know what i'm saying nothing wrong with it believe in technology and uh uh and but god is so good and gracious so we thank you today if you've got your bibles i'd like you to turn with me to the book of matthew chapter six we preached the other day i think it was last week on matthew 6 33 on who's on first or who is first i want to continue in this chapter and i felt love of the lord the lord gave me something and i want you to write this down this is a statement being undisturbed is helpful to concentration of thought excuse me being undisturbed is helpful to concentration of thought see and you've heard me say it many times preaching should never supersede thought it should make you think so being undisturbed is helpful to concentration of thought so that you have your faculties in every area of your life jesus is talking here in matthew chapter six i think i'm gonna start with verse one and then i'm gonna read on down to verse six jesus said take heed that you do not your arms before men to be seen of them otherwise you have no reward of your father which is in heaven therefore when thou doest thy arms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men verily i say unto you they have their reward verse 3 but when thou doest arm let not thy left hand no with thy right hand do it that doesn't mean you can't tell people what you've given this is all about this is helping the poor here see a lot of people want recognition you know i do a lot of things and they said man you ought to you ought to tell people no i'm not doing that because the description doesn't mean you can't tell people that you what you're giving see what i'm saying but when you're dealing with the poor you should protect their dignity you see what i'm trying to say so if i give to a food bank you'll never know about it think about that a lot of people do that if i give the missionaries you're not going to know about it i'm just going to do what god told me to do see what i'm saying why i keep reading with it verse 4 that that thine arms may be in secret and thy father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly so in other words god is watching you amen verse 5 when thou pressed now he goes from arm giving to prayer when thy press thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the street that they may be seen of men verily i say unto you they have their reward verse 6 but thou when thy prayers enter into thy closet or secret place and when thou has shut the door pray to the father which is in secret or in the secret place and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly i want to talk this morning about the secret place everyone should have one now i'm not talking about getting so literal but you can have a a closet but i'm talking about the secret place god has a secret place he said i will hide you in the secret place of my pavilion i believe that's in the book of psalms every one of you should have that place where you undisturbed and that the concentration of thought you will hear yourself think all right you'll hear the spirit of god so nothing will distract you someplace somewhere it could be in your house jesus did it on top of mountains now what i love about jesus there's a lot of things about jesus we don't know about he left no memorabilia think about that none but wouldn't you like to know what his mother was like as he she was raising him when did he become aware of the message and the calling that he was the son of god even though he said he was the son of man we'd like to know those things some people some people write biographies about themselves which is great some won't do that so other people do it so you can know some things there's a lot of things that jesus kept very secret yet you could open up his heart real quick a child could open up his heart someone that repented would open up his heart and he would speak things about himself and about what god his father would do he was very susceptible to people who loved him and reached out to him and we opened up secret things i want to talk about the secret place enter in so write this down the secret place is made to close off the spirit from all distractions the secret place is made or the closet call it would you want to close off the spirit from all distractions so you can feel alone with god there's a reason for that jesus honored that the bible said well he said i only say what my father says and i only do what my father says to do now how did he know that because he'd go to the secret place even though he was totally tired in his body preach all day and then he would tell the disciples y'all go ahead and get a place and he'd send the multitude home and instead of going to his disciples he'd go up the mountain and pray he might pray all night to the secret place it could be under the tree it could have been a chapel in his house it could be whatever and even though he prayed all night and preached all day before he would be at the synagogue the next morning because he was a churchgoer now the reason for that is just what i said the secret place is made to close the spirit from all this crossfit off from all distraction so you feel along with god because then it's just you and god two of you agree you begin to hear the voice of the lord because you see he will speak through your spirit through a renewed mind which which is the soul of man mind will and emotion to a crucified body everyone should have it i have a chapel in my home i find a lot of times people buy these big huge homes in england and in france and everything and they start uh refurbishing them and i've heard people say this this used to be a chapel i'm changing it into a sitting room that was someone's secret place where they could go before god without any distraction talk spirit to spirit because god is spirit your worship in spirit and in truth write this down in the secret place we become aware of the valley of things which we often overlooked see when you go in and talk with god's spirit to spirit you become aware so the sickest places were made for awareness you and god in the second place we become aware of the value of things which we often overlook even in this secret place you can become aware of just how beautiful this planet is how beautiful flowers are because you become aware see and it can be spiritual physical and financial like when we have a guest speaker we say as we therefore have opportunity let us do good to all especially to those or of the household of faith why because we've become aware that god has sent someone to speak a word to us so it's more than a church thing it's a closing off of distraction to your spirit so god can speak to you and sometimes he just want to talk he may not give you any direction he knows you're going to be guided by the spirit of truth anyway he just wants to kind of hang out with you for lack of a better way to say it so in the secret place we become aware of the value of things which we often overlook it's amazing how many things he's created that we overlook flowers if you ever seen some of these rose petals some of these flowers under a microscope you'd be amazed the workmanship of god's hands but we overlook some of those things see because we haven't closed ourselves off so the world we're being we're absorbing the world around us yet we're overlooking really the best things that are around us write this down in the secret place you find out what you should be grateful for in the secret place you find out what you should be grateful for your message is shaped in your mind when you find out what you're grateful for what are you grateful about you know when i was building this building i was so honored that god would choose me to build a building why would you choose me i know i can't even nail a nail straight i'm not mechanical i can't fix that kathy's way more mechanical than i am sometimes i used to tell her i'd give her a screwdriver go fix my harley you know she could figure it out that is amazing to me if something went wrong jesse don't put your hand on it you're gonna break it more let me have it and she could do it i was grateful that she was a mechanic see what i'm saying you find out just how valuable someone is and sad to say some people don't know what they have till they lose it well you don't wanna you don't want to learn about it after you lost it so in the secret place you find out what you should be grateful for your message is shaped in your mind which is in the soulless room it's because the spirit says it to the soul it's shaped in your mind then you're able to implement what god has spoken to you that's why a lot of people don't understand the things of god because they never go to the secret place to talk to one-on-one they're so distracted by all the other things i'm not distracted about this hurricanes i don't deny them i'm not stupid i don't deny them but i what am i attracted to the bloodline pleading of blood and like i i was telling kevin in the back walker i've had people say well dad suppose all this place was destroyed what would you do rebuild it i bill it again that ain't this no i don't like to pay for the same real estate twice and i certainly ain't believing for it i'm not gonna do what they tell me you know prepare for one stronger your mama i ain't doing that that's craziness it's kind of like prepare yourself for uh you you got to abscess but prepare yourself for cancer no no i'm not going to do that you see what i'm saying you'd be surprised how that stuff gets around you and gets in you which is my next point beware of the cares that try to absorb you they try to absorb you so you you can't hardly think any other way that is what's happened with this pandemic we've become so absorbed that sometimes we ain't thinking straight how can you expect someone to complete their business and only have 25 business when they need every dollar that's coming into that business which affects people and the people tell you that they're not they're getting their money so it's easy for them to say it i'm not being critical here i'm just being truthful you become so absorbed with the problem that you cannot see the answer why because you hadn't been in this secret place where's your closet because i'm going to tell you something about god he's in your closet so let me go over these points again real quickly the secret place is made to close off the spirit from all destruction so you feel along with god it's good to be alone with god it means more than uh uh i didn't read them and read that one in a minute in the secret place we become aware of the value of things which we often overlook see so the secret that's what jesus was saying when you pray go and say so awareness begins to take place that you're a spirit housing a soul and clothing a body and god wants to talk to you i said to you in the secret place you find out what you should be grateful for your message is shaped in your mind spirit soul and body then i said beware of the cares that try to absorb you see people think for some re reason or another that if you go to the secret place that's mental seclusion no no it means more when you go into the second place it means more than mental seclusion it's the spirit's place for communion with god you say that's what jesus he would have communion with god is more than mental seclusion so when that happens you know what is brought into you stability you become stable people things that are unstable are dangerous so it's more than mental seclusion just trying to go in a room somewhere no no it's going to bring stability in your life the spirit place is where you commune with god that's why we when we take the the last supper we call it communion we're communing it with his death burial and resurrection it's more than just a thing you do that's why jesus said this do this in remembrance of me not remembrance of the thing not in remembrance but of him making sure that when you eat that host you know that his body broke and when you drink that juice that's his blood being shed now the way to know those things is done through communion now the reason why i know the devil couldn't kill me because god said i shall live and i die and i've been down in three airplane crashes which will make you speak in tongues make a baptist speak in tongues in a second nobody fights each other on a plane when he's going down and i've never heard anybody say buddha muhammad i might be critical here you know what i heard jesus because he's alive and well how do i know that communion with him the secret place so i don't let the things that around me becoming absorbed the cares of this world absorb be for me some are the deceitfulness of riches well in other words as god gives me way more money i mean i don't get deceitful about it because you see i'm not absorbing that see when you're full of the holy ghost you can't put no more in you and nothing else can get in there neither that's why god said when you cast the devil out get rid of them because they'll go to and fro on earth and if they can't find someone again they come back but if that person is filled with the spirit of god they got to go on so let me say it again beware of the cares that try to absorb you so it's wonderful to be grateful how many times have i said lord did i say thank you enough he said you did i said i'm gonna say it one more time i love my conversations my conversations come with god when i'm in my secret place and sometime i go and he says what jesse i said i don't know i just come to say hi i just come to say hello hey how you doing that sounds odd i know it's not hard when you know each other instead of just believe each other when you know in whom you have believed and you're persuaded that he's able to keep what you commit to him so what are you committing to him do you see what you understand what i'm saying see that's the secret place let me say it again being undisturbed is helpful to concentration of thought because now the only voice i'm going to hear is his write this down in the secret place we get a sense of perspective so in other words number one you get a sense of awareness number two you get a sense of perspective and the second place we get a sense of perspective what is perspective what does it do perspective helps you to see your life in true proportions how many times you put on clothes you go that don't look like me no that's you or you hear yourself on tape somewhere that's not that don't sound like me yes it is everybody else says it is see perspective causes you to see your life in true proportions let me say it again perspective helps you see your life in true proportion so i know in whom i have believed i'm persuaded i know what i'm going to do i know when i'm gonna get there see most people don't know where they're going so when they get there they pass it some people get so disturbed by cares that they get so worried and we'll do it they faint he said let us not be weary and well do it why because you're going to faint but you don't want to faint you want to be there when the thing shows up and shows out so to get true proportions you have to have perspective kathy asked me about that this morning she put on that navy blue blob what do you like this she was asking from my perspective i said yeah i like that it's really nice i think i'm gonna put a gray something what'd you call that thing shawl another shawl a scarf with it i said fine well she wasn't finished yet she wanted more of my perspective and here's the next thing does it make me look heavy i did not answer that and neither should you if you want to live long then she put on some jewelry what about this what about that put on a piece of hair yeah i said yeah i i like that it's not perspective awareness she did it in her secret in her closet kathy dresses in her closet it's big enough she likes to be in there well that's good so in the secret place we get a sense of perspective and the church which is this is your home away from you get a sense of perspective that's why you don't like people sitting in your pew i'm going how many of y'all know what i'm talking about lift your hand up you know that your butt feels better in your pew than in this social destiny am i correct why perspective awareness what you're doing is taking ownership which is a wonderful thing you see that's why it's it's it's wonderful write this down never brood over small misfortunes or disappointments why they darken your surroundings never brood over small misfortunes sometimes things blow up or disappointment sometimes we have some disappointments you don't brood over them you don't deny them you know they darken your surroundings see you got to push the light you've heard me say that if you push the light darkness won't have a place to manifest [Music] have you ever heard me anybody watching me all over the world here said we don't know what we're going to do i know exactly what i'm going to do i'm not bragging about that why been in the secret place been in the closet now there's been some times i say lord i need to question some things and he didn't wasn't disturbed about it because sometimes you need to more than believe you need to know you got to get beyond belief see so per perspective helps you your life you see your life in true proportions and when you see your life in true proportions you do not brood over small misfortunes or disappointments simply because they darken your surroundings yeah but jesse look at this i don't want to look at that i have the power to look at what i want to look at that's right this all has to do with what i want to do it all has to do what you want to do like kathy the other day she said listen jesse i want to go home she said i i ordered something i'm going to go get it now i said well can we can we we're going to go out this afternoon late and we're going to grab up my team and get no i want to go now so she gave me a prophecy take a nap which i'd received so i went to one of my favorite chairs and i did she went get whatever she was whatever she ordered i don't know i didn't know it turned out to be some glasses i think i think the ones he has on wait so i said she said you like these glasses looking for perspective awareness i said yeah i said their prescription right yeah i said she said there are designer frames is that what you say some kind of frame thing which means there's more money than i thought but i don't need to worry about it because she takes care of that you see so i'm not going to brood over my misfortune [Applause] i ain't going to tell you how much but why because she'll darken my surroundings i know how to preach a point ladies and gentlemen you understand i know how to get your attention the other day we went eat at pf change with kevin and cathy said i did great friends spiritual sons and daughters got great ministry you know we've been on diets really watching ourselves and kevin he ordered some combination fried rice with extra white onions and broccoli he got it you got to make it different and he's sitting there eating i said lord tell him to give me a piece of that meat he did not obey but i did not brood over my misfortune i disappointed but i thought i said he went oh yeah but take what you want actually i didn't need to ask it it's saying well i got just take what you want so i just i don't ask kathy i just reach over with my fork and get and she says i was going to eat that i said well don't brood over your misfortune i'll order you another order oh then i'm gonna eat too much i said man you can't you can't win for losing here so but so many people brood over those things that's right and it darkens the surroundings write this down your life must be reviewed under the light of god that takes time and patience your life must be reviewed under the light of god that takes time and patience that's why you go to this secret place he said when you get in your closet what god see you gotta remember god's in there waiting on to talk to you yes see why why does god do why because he don't want distractions he wants to hear 100 of what you got to say isn't that wonderful he's so interested in you because you're his child think about that see it so it's more than just praying it's more than just relationship it's fellowship now you're doing something god i'm cutting out that's what fasting is all about it's not just so you can starve you just shut down the natural generator and turn on the spiritual generator even the apostle paul talked about uh physical things you know and married life in other words sometimes you have to separate yourself from your wife or your husband you know so y'all don't get together and fast and pray in other words he wants your undivided attention kathy wants my undivided attention sometimes see what she doesn't know i hear everything she says and a lot of time while she's talking i'm thinking she said are you listening to me yes you want me to repeat it that makes me mad now i said i can repeat it word for bird i heard it all well look at me when well sometime when if you ever know small people they start thinking about something they'll do this she don't like that my mind gets to thinking so you know i'll look off somewhere she wants that undivided attention your life must be reviewed under the light of god this takes time and patience now who don't want it yesterday everybody wants it yesterday my god we're americans we like fast food we like it all fast we we actually save slow and spin fast we like it fast that burn it all that was one thing i always did when i went on vacations was spin all i brought i wasn't going to save it to pay a bill i used to go with my brother-in-law deborah jewels these are when the kids were little and that would be little jewels and ryan and julie and of course jody they were that little girl a little kid you know and they loved they said we want to go with uncle jesse cause as soon as we got in that van like we might go to destin i turned around i said okay what are we going to stop and eat at well it's not ready it it we ain't ready for lunch i said no i'm talking ice cream and cake and candy oh they say pull over by the time i got them the destiny they won sugar highs and it might be the last day and i said i got 100 left let's burn it i don't want to go home i worked all year long for that vacation i worked hard you see what i'm saying save money so i could have a good time i'm not gonna go home he said well i'm gonna try to say no no no no no well sometimes i i love raw onions you know the kind that's what they call them things in my shallots you know they long but the problem i have when i eat those things they make me burp and they went in the back of the bed kill them man i eat a whole shower they go oh but they get so mad and sometimes i had a van and those they didn't have no seats in the back and no windows so i'd say well get some lawn chairs y'all just sit back then they can the kids can play on the carpet but i'd do it on purpose and they go fly up against the wall it was all carpeted hanging on and i just enjoyed myself my shallots sometimes it got so bad they said let's stop and have an ice cream so they could get away from that onion smell i like onions i always have like onions you see and but when i got home i could give you good memories of my vacation you know if i flew out i said i want enough money to get my call out the parking lot and they said how was your vacation it was wonderful now the reason why i did that i reviewed that vacation before i went on it i put it under the light so i knew what i was going to do i knew i was going to have a good time and it takes time and patience to do those things so remember this you're going to get it it's kind of like when you're growing up you just can't wait to be 18. oh god you know it takes 35 years to become 18. i mean yeah young people god ha well but when you pass 25 you begin to speed up don't you yeah all of a sudden you're 50. you said lord put the slow down no why your mindset changes see so the secret place produces awareness and produces perspective and it gives you concentration of thought that you now hear god i love these points coming up ready for this in quietness god speaks if we listen patiently and honestly in the quietness and quietness god speaks even when there's a holy ghost meeting going on like people shouting screaming it's that still small voice that grabs that attention and quietness he speaks that's why jesus that's what jesus was saying get to your closet get to your secret place because i got some wonderful things to talk about and he'll tell you your whole future if we listen patiently and honestly that's a wonderful thing right this time in quiet times well let me go back up to the other point then i'll come to this so you write it down in quietness god speaks if we listen patiently and honestly what is he saying now this other point in quiet times the convictions of our faith strengthens its hold on us in quiet times the conviction of our faith strengthens its whole on us my god now faith is the substance of things hopeful evidence of things not seen so i don't care how long it takes because my faith is in the now that faith is strengthened that conviction is strength and it takes hold of you that all you can think about is that faith that thread of the fabric of god clothes that clothes you it strengthens i love that it's hold on you i've had people say boy but jesse you're so strong on it whatev i've been in the quiet times i've been in the quiet places and what it did it strengthened my conviction boy and it it holds me more so when i see something uh that i don't want to see like hurricanes and stuff like that instead of going oh my god oh my god and i mean i mean it's terrible what's happening in lake charles things that did but i remember in uh when hurricane audrey hit cameron anybody remember that over 400 people died yeah oh it was terrible i remember hurricane betsy in 1965 coming up the mouth of the mississippi hurricane camille 1969 these things are emblazoned in my mind when it hit a biloxi in those areas it was terrible but you know you go to blux it still looks pretty good they rebuilt it now some people left can't handle it and that's okay you can you can move that's not the issue you got to go away you feel god wants you to go where you feel peace at but if you run it from trouble it's going to follow you it'll show up in portland oregon it'll show up in a craziest place you ever thought see but if you defeat it haven't done all the stand stand therefore it'll get away from you instead of getting close to you so in the second place god has an opportunity or in the secret place god has an opportunity to become real to us think about that so there you have awareness perspective opportunity in the secret place god has an opportunity to become real to us is god real to you or is your religion real i'm baptist i'm methodist i'm episcopalian i'm presbyterian i'm pentecostal whoo i'm charismatic where is it god and all this stuff has god become real to you you know how you know when he's real when everything's going wrong not when everything's going right anybody can talk faith when you got a pocket full of money [Music] this man oh my god how are we going to do this in the second place god has an opportunity to become real to us why because in quietness he speaks if we listen patiently and honestly in quiet times the convictions of our faith strengthens his hold on us i got to stay on that for a minute see i know so much about it that i have a hard time getting sick when you saw me sick betty you've been knowing me a long time huh since we kids what 13 14 maybe even earlier than that i guess i don't know what jesus is it's because i'm better than you no it's just that what happened is in those secret place that faith man those convictions of it strengthens and holds me more i mean i don't like disappointments i don't like misfortunes i've had some but i don't brood over them you ever notice a lot of preachers always preach the bad stuff that happened to him you ever heard of testimonies anybody got a government yeah the debt been beating my brains i'd always shut up i don't want to hear all that then right at the end but the lord so you gave satan all his glory then finally you said and god i remember one time i went preaching jennings louisiana me and kathy and meredith no meredith my granddad jody jody was little what uh five six something like that when i got there i said uh do you all have evangelistic quarters yes oh i said because we thought we're going to get a hotel the evangelist the quarters was a sunday school room he said you and sister kathy your daughter can sleep on the floor am i right i've slept on the floor before me and my brother we slept in eight foot wide 32-foot trailer on the floor i turned out all right i looked at that and if you want to go to the bathroom you have to walk down the hall so me and kathy we did not blink you know why our faith has strengthened its hold on us so we slept on the floor i slept with one eye and one eye one eye closed one eye open watching them roaches so they wouldn't bite cave or by jodi oh they didn't care you know what was their reason scriptural thou has to endure hardness as a good soldier of christ i don't have to go through hard times to be a good soldier good soldiers have good character when it's hard times or good times but it's the truth yet i didn't get mad about it i said well they just missed an opportunity for the blessing of god in their life but we never said nothing now today they try to do that i'll say that's fine i'll take care of my own uh arrangements i told one preacher one time in alabama i said i'll take care of my own hotel foods all that kind of stuff he said well good that's great i appreciate that big church 2000 there kevin there so he invites out about 10 people to eat at this hotel that we're staying at and he says just put it on your own bill he ain't paying for it remember that i got it just put it on your own bill i said sure i didn't know i was going to buy for 12 people that day he's not much of men she's so sick and messed up because he said he loved to take advantage of people that's sad and i heard through the vine man everything that man justin plans touch prospers you know why i'm generous i said i'll buy you dinner fine i won't mention the preachers but there's two preachers one time in hawaii and you know when you go to those high-class hotels they have breakfast and they start off at about 65 70 for the buffet and they sit there eating and one of the preachers says you know if we go to denny's we can get this same breakfast for 7.95 and the other priest said go trying to save money only vacation when there's nothing wrong with that my god you worked all why don't you just enjoy what the lord has placed in your hand amen you see the i think what it is he didn't know for sure if god could bless him that strong and you don't know that till the test comes anyway but it doesn't make any difference if you're not moved by what you see you move by what you believe in that's what i do i'm not moved by what i see i don't deny it because you see because i've been in the secret place i've had my ministry in my life under the light of god who lord and i i've i i i've paid the price for patience yeah i did i paid it but i said let patients have his perfect work and i paid the price of time it's not that i didn't want it yesterday that's not the issue but i still got it let me say this here i want to close with this your heart was not meant this is a point your heart was not meant to be a thoroughfare to traffic in business it is meant to be a temple where god dwells but a lot of people their heart is uh it's become uh what's the word a thoroughfare to trafficking business i had a great preacher someone knew what he'd say uh you need to learn to play golf i don't like golf i mean gossip like game you know but i i they say it relaxing not me they don't um in fact i don't speak in english there's other words i say i said this game will send me to hell i gotta i can't play this game but his his reason was jesse people love you i said well thank you you need to learn to play golf man you can you can get a lot of partners playing i don't want to get around people to for me just to try to get their money but see you become so callous to that that uh it'll help the ministry ah so you use a little deception you're not there to enjoy that person you're there to say well maybe not you know that would you like that no you would it would hurt your feelings wouldn't it at least man my god man were you trying to get a ramen just so i can give you something come on i don't mind giving you something that's not the issue but the point it would be wrong see that person's heart is at that on this particular thing became a thoroughfare to traffic in business my partners come because god speaks to them and i tell people where moneys are going i i'm very open about those kind of things and uh i don't ask people to do something i don't do myself if i ask you to give i give myself i've had people say you don't need to do that brother jesse you've given your life we've all given our lives to the lord for god's sake all right touch not god's anointing and do his prophet no harm but we're all anointed if you're born again come on talk to me jesus yeah that doesn't mean you special could be in the executive branch of god's government the apostle the prophet the evangelist the pastor teacher but what you should be if you're in that five four minutes is be more of a servant be more of a blessing instead of so you know acting like the mafia kiss my ring you know what i'm saying let me say it again your heart was not meant to be a thoroughfare to trafficking business and i i'm a businessman i believe in business i misunderstand it this is when i'm going into the secret place the closet it is meant to be a temple where god dwells ah how can i say this i've had god get excited because i was going to the closet what i got my boy is coming well how many times man my grandmother when they were alive both of them they'd be standing outside on the steps waiting for us the grandkids to come just waiting to see us my grandpas wouldn't but the grandmas were they just we wait for meredith and jody to get around it we just we enjoy that they they sense it and know it what's the same way with god when i go to the i went to the secret place this morning i just walked i need my voice here and i began to hear the oracle of god i began to hear things in heaven as well as things on the earth i began to hear angel wings physical from my physical ears and how many times god said what you think he likes to know what i think there's been some times i say you know let's reason together here if you really knew this person you wouldn't love them don't look at me weird i've said that to god let me tell you i know this guy this guy's a devil from hell sin in the hell nobody else think different of it he said i get no enjoyment out someone going to hell it had dawned on me i would enjoy that boy going to hell because he was the most aggravating person i've seen in my life but yet jesus died for him he said now jesse you got to get past that this was years ago so i asked the lord to forgive me and then i said i'm i'mma crucify my flesh he said what you gonna do jesse i said i'm inviting him to dinner all right all right you're going up you're going to fight me i said i'm up i'm about i ain't talking mcdonald's nothing wrong with mcdonald's i just said i'm gonna crucify me i learned to do those things and i found all that in the secret place because god speaks when it's quiet the still small voice see what i'm saying how many times when someone shared something and i'm about ready to receive an offer and the lord would just kind of pass by like i'm passing by y'all on the front row and says you could do that just a very small you could do that i said well if i did then no one else would get the blast he said no that would be the overflow yes sir i'm yours to command jesus i didn't go tell anybody something like that took care of it now they had extra so they could do other things they never thought they would would run into you know you know i think so then there's been times i went i'm generous i got a generous heart i walk up so i'm going to be a blessing the lord said don't do that if you do jesse you're stopping my discipline [Music] now that really struck me when the lord said that discipline because that's the only way i can get that guy's attention i heard brother hagin say and i i asked kevin kevin with the rhema i didn't go that god kept telling brother hagin rest tell me if i'm correct kevin i think it's right and he just went so he wound up breaking his arm well god didn't break the man's arm but he said no you're listening to me you should have rested yourself i never forget one time brother hagin was 82 83 and one of his board members passed away or brother kennedy what a wonderful man how catholic hoga ralph kennedy did not get any better one of the greatest men god ever put in shoe leather his wonderful wife margaret uh martha not margaret martha but i'm telling you what i just love being around him well he passed so uh martha was so kind to allow me to be one of the speakers at the funeral but the main speaker would be brother hagin this is one of the best things i've ever done in my life one of the best well you know we had three other speakers beside brother hagin you know we said a few things had about 10 minutes a piece something i got maybe five minutes something well the place was jam-packed and so then uh the pastor of the place said uh brother hagin come on up and give the main message here so brother hagin gets up now he's 83 84 you know and he's walking now brother i i like this is the pew and i'm standing like this and and and this well let me do it over here so you can see it okay i'm standing right here pews right up against the and there's the steps here come brother hagin okay now he's 83. see he gained a little weight who cares at 83. he does this and i've seen his le he goes so what i did nobody noticed it i just got behind him up and i put my hand his arms were like this and i put my hand under his uh elbow and i pushed up anyway it stabilized him he he looked at me went thank you i said you're welcome it's one of the best things i ever did in my life it felt so great just held him he got him preached a marvelous message when he came down he looked at me and i knew what to do i just got a little close as he come down you know like and as he came down kevin i kind of kind of he you know his forward motion was coming and i just did this held him back a little bit you know he goes thank you i'll never forget that long as i believe i did it with rw schambach because the praise and worship leader kept singing and singing everybody been standing up for an hour and that brother shamba and he was 80 and i saw it so i just got behind and took this hand oh i had pain in my shoulder and i took my hand under his elbow and i pushed up he goes he just look at me thank you i said my god lord strike that worship leader dumb stop stop the music because my arm is my soul i held him man i i'll never forget that long as i ever lived i got to be a blessing to the man of god now why why because i was sensitive to their need i had been in the secret place and i closed with this statement now this is gonna blow your socks off you're gonna have to be real spiritual understand what i'm about ready to say there's been times for lack of a better way to say it everybody look at me everybody look at me that i'm standing by god god god oh i'm getting somebody met god he starts to do this spiritual speaking i put my hand on his elbow and a push-up and he looks at me says thank you because his capacity to hurt is far greater than yours and his capacity to love is far greater than yours so don't hurt him amen come on amen how many you've heard me say that andrew womack said that's one of the greatest stories he tells every time i'm with him we got preachers jesse tell them that when i and i've told it here before you let the lord say it again i went in to do my morning devotion boy and i'll tell you what kevin i i i had it on me then the only way because the anointed oil i was greased up i was ready for old lord jesus i got in there and got and something was wrong i sensed it as soon as i walked into my secret place he was there but something was wrong brother and it wasn't with me oh i won't make you mad huh say if you've been in a secret place you'll understand what i'm talking about one with me and i said cause he wasn't acting the way he normally acts i know god i can tell when something's wrong with kathy i know her i've been married of over 50 years you know when something's wrong with your children they may not have said that you just know it especially mamas and i realized something was wrong and it was it with me oh lord look at people they get oh oh he thinks he's so spiritual i am spiritual amen i've been in the secret place and i stopped and ricky i said this lord something's wrong did somebody hurt you today and the lord in that quiet steal some over he said my children have disobeyed me it hurts me i sensed it i knew it i said lord not that he's god he can do anything you know i said lord i'm gonna cancel all my appointments today and i had a bunch of them ricky i had a bunch of them that day i said i'm gonna stay in this my secret place i said i don't know how to say this to god everything but best way i can say it in my mind is so for like like a better way of saying it so you feel better till you feel better now that that didn't even come up to what i was talking about the only way i could think you know and man i prayed and i worshiped the lord and i stayed there and it must have been maybe 10 minutes all of a sudden i heard the lord go thank you jesse you refreshed me that's the secret place that's what you find out that's when jesus said when you go in your closet in other words don't give his time away all right because the most important thing you can do is spend time with him and allow god to be the god he truly is you see what i'm saying did you understand the analogy because his capacity to love is far greater than mine but then the other side of that coin god's capacity to hurt is far greater can you hear some of his some of his statements in the old testament he said israel went a in that's the word he used when a and with other gods have you have you had one of your spouses your spouse commit adultery on you how that hurts drive a knife right through you god said that a whoring whoo that's hard but people don't think oh that's god no his ability to love his f he's agape i mean so far beyond that but his ability to hurt is the same thing also he's a god of great feeling but you won't know much about that until you get in the secret place how many are you going to form your secret place hold your hand up come on do that do that at times find your way don't get too literal on the the place you can but spend that time and watch god do unbelievable impossible things simply because it's doable and maybe one day you'll hear this you refreshed me you enjoyed it 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Published: Mon Sep 14 2020