Undone In The Secret Place

Undone In The Secret Place

“And Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. And the glory of Jehovah abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel. And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain. And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.” (Exo 24:15-18)

God and Moses spoke and spent time together. God imparted His will and spoke of ‘freewill sacrifices’ from the people of Israel to build an intimate place for God to rest upon and for Him to dwell with His children. In this intimate place on the Mercy Seat was the testimony of God, The Living Word. In the intimate place high up on the mountain, Moses cried out to God and interceded for Israel. Moses cried out and said to God “Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found grace in Your sight, make me see now Your ways, that I may know You, that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. And He said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest. And he said to Him, If Your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here.”(Exo 33:13-15)

In this intimate place with Daddy God, Moses’s character was being transformed into Christlikeness. Today, because of the new covenant of Jesus we don’t have to hike up a mountain to be intimate with God. God lives in the born again. God’s presence is now living in us and goes with us wherever we go. We are the ‘ark of the new covenant’; within us, is the Living Word of God’s testimony of grace, wrought in us by the indwelling Holy Spirit. We are the new temple of God. We are the children of God and we choose to make every Testimony of God, of utmost importance to us, because it is of utmost importance to Him.

But Satan loves to exploit our fleshly nature. When we let our fleshly nature become our master, we head on a downward slope towards death. Satan loves it when the children of God let their fleshly nature rule over them and when we do that, Satan, who is the ‘selfish one’ begins to impart his qualities into us and just robs us, and steals from us, and kills us and destroys our intimacy with God and our relationships with people, until there is nothing left. Satan loves it when God’s own children don’t cherish God’s precious Oracles. Satan loved it when the children of God partner with the cursed fleshly nature. Moses knew the dangers of allowing his fleshly nature to rise higher than God. Moses knew he had to go low-low-low into the presence of God.
“And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water. And He wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.” (Exo 34:28)

Moses met with God face to face and was constantly going into intimacy with God. For 40 days on the mountain in the intimate place with God, Moses humbled his fleshly nature by means of eating no bread and drinking no water. Jesus was His nourishment. Moses knew that His fleshly nature had to be humbled in order to walk in the Kingdom of God. Moses knew that if He didn’t humble his flesh, Satan was waiting to exploit him and he could miss what God wanted to give him in their intimate time together.

Not that we are all called too fast for 40 days, but let us recognise what Moses was doing here. Sanctification does not come through works. Sanctification comes from Christ alone. Let us be aware of the importance of intimacy with God, and positioning our flesh where it belongs. Our flesh will always want to be the master, and when we allow it to become the master, we enter into the realm of the curse of the fleshly nature. The fleshly nature is under the power and curse of Satan. It is our responsibility to position ourselves so low, that our flesh becomes nothing but obedient, poor, meek, humble, pure, sweet smelling servants of God. This confuses the enemy because it’s completely outside of his nature.

God has a new nature for His children to partake in. God sent His son Jesus to be the Living Testimony of a new way, truth and life for us in Him. It’s a selfless life that is far beyond the reach of the curse of the fleshly nature, far beyond to clutches of Satan. Yes we make mistakes, but Jesus is the Bridegroom, and we are the Bride of Christ. He is in a marriage covenant with you and in this marriage, no matter what you do, He is the Husband, and the provider, the Bread Winner and the Pursuer of the Bride.

“And it happened as Moses was going down from the mountain of Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony being in Moses' hand as he went down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face had become luminous through His speaking with him. And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face had become luminous……” (Exo 34:29-30)

Just like the state of Moses was distinctly different before and after he came down from the intimate place with God on the mountain. So will we be different, after intimacy with Jesus. Just like Moses had no direction before going into the intimate place with God on the mountain, but after coming down the mountain Moses was full of purpose, identity and destiny. So also will we be filled with purpose, identity, destiny and overflowing love while abiding in the intimate place with Jesus. Moses released more of the Kingdom by accident, staying close to God, than he ever planned to do in his own strength, away from God. Moses didn’t even realise, how being in the intimate place with God had changed him, his people were the first to notice the change.

This is a powerful word for the body of Christ today.

To overcome the waves of circumstance, we have to come to a place where we let Jesus, and His intense love for us matter, in all areas of our lives every second of the day. His love is so powerful it can overflow in our lives and into the lives of loved ones. To align oneself for breakthrough, it is so important to realize the scale to which our fleshly nature has risen itself above God. Most of the time it’s worse than we could ever possibly conceive. God thought it was serious enough to send His only Son to rescue us from self. The nature of our flesh always floods our hearts with thoughts of self and blocks out the voice of God.

Instead, let’s yield ourselves to Jesus and become flooded with the refreshing Living Water that overflows selflessly. Nothing about Christianity should be about self. We have been saved and adopted into a family that burns with love for God and His children. Sanctification through intimacy with Jesus is for the benefit others, but becomes a blessing in itself to the one being transformed, because it’s an eternal treasure we get to lay down at the feet of Jesus. When we eat and drink of Jesus, He begins to restore the softness and purity of a once lost nature. How do we become sanctified? When we drink in deep, the Living Waters. We must go low to drink from the River of Grace. When we yield ourselves intimately to Jesus, we become low-low-low enough for the Living Waters to flow over us. When we let go and float down His River of Grace towards the deep white-hot centre of His burning heart, we become so hidden in our secret place with Him, that the proudness of our hearts and the things of this world cannot find us, nor affect us, but rather we can become so immersed in Jesus that we begin to affect the circumstances around us as we release the Kingdom of Heaven. As the sunbeam imparts the flowers their varied and delicate tints, so does God impart to the soul the beauty of His character.

As children of God we must never take the indwelling Holy Spirit for granted. This is one of the most powerful and continual miracles of God. Every little fruit produced is an absolute miracle and God loves it, but God wants us to be His vineyard. When we nestle ourselves in the deepest and most secret place in His heart, we have attained the Goal of our salvation and received the Prize, which is simply Jesus himself. Hallelujah! That is the joy and the treasure of life. The scriptures are true, (Jer29:12-13). We have found the Prize of Heaven. Jesus the precious Son of God is ours to behold. When we are intimate with Jesus, we slowly begin to be infused with His character. We catch His Light and we begin to burn bright like a star. We hear His voice and our hearts explode with love. We look into His eyes as we begin to melt and pour out onto His feet like sweet smelling fragranced oil. The very fabric of our reality is undone as we immerse ourselves in the His Divine realities. The very construction of our fleshly nature becomes undone and Jesus begins to re-program our soul and the image of His Divine nature begins to burn in us and shine from us.

In the secret place deep in the heart of Jesus, pride becomes undone and the lowly Spirit of the Servant King overtakes us. Selfishness becomes undone, as the floodgates of Heaven pour out love and grace into the driest places of our heart. Our hearts of stone become undone, and formed into hearts of the softest flesh. The idols of our hearts dissolve and become undone, as they give way to the King of Glory. Shame becomes undone, as the Spirit of Christ fills us, as He crowns our hearts with the purest gold and most precious stones. In the presence of the Prince of Peace, our mistakes and past accusations turn to ashes and He washes us with His own precious Blood. Our face, marred by the world becomes undone, and shines just like Moses, expressing the peace and joy of Heaven drawing in and attracting the lost and broken of this world. Our hunger for the treasures of this world becomes undone, and transformed into a deep hunger for the treasure that is Jesus, and in the secret place deep in to the heart of Jesus, we get to feast on the Living Bread and we drink of His Blood which sustains and nourishes us every day. (John 64:47-52) Undone in His presence is our destiny. Undone in His presence is where we exchange our life for His. Undone in His presence and full of the Divine nature is where the children of God live from. The world is starving for the Living Bread. The world is dying of thirst for the Living Waters. Jesus is the Living Bread and the answer to world hunger.














Reference:
1Co_1:30
Joh6:47-58
2Th_2:13
1Pe_1:2
1Th_4:7
Rom_6:19
1Th_4:3
Joh_17:17
Joh_17:19
Rom_15:16
1Co_6:11
1Joh3:1-3