The Secret Place: Part 1

Reproduced below are excerpts of a sermon preached by Emmanuel Makandiwa on June 1, 2014, Youth Service.

“FOR the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.” (Psalms 10:3-4; 8).

It is always important for one to make sure that he dwells in the secret place of the Most High. If you look at the way the writer is describing the man in the scripture above, it is more than just a scripture, but a situation prevailing. The wicked does not have the hunger that you have to seek after the face of God. Look at how hungry and thirsty you are to have an encounter with God and with spiritual realities.

You love God to an extent that you think every person should love God the way you love Him and yet there are those that do not care or think about Him at all.

The scripture is talking about wicked people who enter a place, which is called secret where they devise mischief. They come up with evil ideas and plans against the poor.

These are not the poor in terms of finances, but it is a class of people that though they might have a lot of money but they are still poor. In terms of spiritual possessions they do not have anything.

There is a generation hiding in places, which are called secret where they are planning against you. They are there to complicate your day to day activities.

We are living in an age where decisions are being made at a very high level. Things that we now see happening in the physical are determined by certain people that are sitting down in secret places where they control and manipulate situations from there.

You are becoming a victim because you are not part of that group. If the wicked are doing that from a secret place you also have to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” (Psalms 91:1).

This is your time where you have to be recruited and have your name written in the realms of the spirit. You do not have to sleep or rest until and unless you are sure that your name has been registered in the spirit.

When Goliath was intimidating the Israelites for forty days and they were not ready to face him, he knew something they did not know. How the battle got to forty days without the Israelites fighting back is because of the approach used by Goliath.

He used to have several other battles he fought and he would sweat, but this time he changed the rules of engagement. He began to insult not just the physical people that were there but even God and the armies of heaven.

When he did that they could no longer fight him because he was coming from a very high level. It was converted into a spiritual battle, which the Israelites were no longer capable of fighting as physical people until a spiritual guy called David came.

David realised that Goliath had been able to intimidate people for forty days because he had raised the standard and was fighting the Israelites from a spiritual level. It was only the spiritual who could get rid of him.

David also approached him from a spiritual level in the name of the Lord. It was no longer a physical battle, but a spiritual one, which only spiritual people could fight and the physical had to sit and watch as they fight.

It is a shame that most people we have now seem to be developing just in the physical stature. Everything about you seems to be developing just in the physical side and the outward appearance but deep down inside no development at all.

As for some people, their spiritual five senses are not as effective as their physical five senses and they are not effective. If anything is to go wrong physically they can pick it with their physical senses.

Every physical sense they have they managed to put it to proper use and developed it to an extent that they can feel anything and at any time physically, but if you look at them inside there is nothing. Your five senses of the spirit are they really that effective?

Can you smell, feel and hear what is happening around you spiritually and what God is about to do? Most people can do any other thing physically, but when it comes to putting their five spiritual senses to work they are ineffective. That is why things can just happen without your knowledge. Spiritual senses are supposed to be developed and there is a danger if you do not do that. Spiritual people are going to take over the running of affairs on this planet from both the good side and the evil side.

There is a group of people who dwell in the secret place where there are villages and communities. These villages are not physical as you might think and you need to be spiritual to understand how they operate. There are communities, territories and locations in the spirit, geographical places where you find people staying.

There is a group of people living in a village, which you cannot even visit right now and see, but they are there and they sit down and strategise.

They enter secret places and most people are not even aware of those places; that is why they are secret. There are secret people that most people do not even know anything about and they enter places, which are secret again where they utter secret words against the innocent.

They come up with strategies; everything that we now see is coming from there. Things that used to be running well you see them collapsing and physical people cannot see why they are collapsing because there is no explanation.

There are permanent structures that you see coming down and you wonder how such a thing can just come down like that. You will wonder how such strong economies can just come down like that.

It is happening everywhere, personalities, who are very powerful, you see them just coming down and you wonder.

Please note that last week we erroneously published Part 2 of this article, instead of Part 1 reproduced above. We regret the oversight.

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