We have all heard and most have quoted Psalms 91:1. However, not many have fully invested in the power of this scripture. The reality is God’s protection comes with a promise but it also comes with a prerequisite.
Let's examine this passage of scripture. It begins with:
He that dwelleth in the secret place…Now let’s dissect the dwelling place...
Dwells in the hebrew is yashab “sit down, settle, to remain and inhabit.
Whoever inhabits, remains, marries…there is a level of consistency that is required here. You have to live here...DAILY...Not a visitation. Not a "when I need it” Not a predicated experience. It is sustaining! It is active!
In order for you to do this you have to choose to. It is a conscious choice. Your heart has to be sold on the dwelling.
The secret place is the hidden place. Where is the secret place of God?
For one, we know where it is not. We know that it’s not out in the open. It is not fully exposed. It is not among any and everybody. Because everybody don’t choose to live and marry where God is.
So where is God? Where is this place? In the O.T. it was in the Tabernacle...and not in the outercourt..not in the inner court…It was in the Holy of Holies..It was a concealed area that only the “elite” priest could enter. The one’s who were chosen through their lineage. Predestined to dwell…. (selah) But even they had to have more than a legacy. They had to exemplify the life that is worthy of entering God’s presence or they would be pulled out as dead men! (SELAH)
But thank God for Jesus! *A praise goes right there*
None of us are clean enough to dwell where He is. But God searches the heart knowing that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. He searches it anyway! And He tests the inner depths/truths to know what the mind of the Spirit is…Not the mind of man. He bypasses flesh to get to what He placed in you to commune with that... because flesh can’t glory in His presence. Only the Spirit can...so He blinds Himself from what He sees on man and looks for what He put in man.
In order for us to dwell in the secret place with God we have to move like He moves…and bypass what we feel (our mind, our emotions, our will) and tap into the Spirit that lives within us because it is TRUTH...
If you live in, remain and marry TRUTH you have full access to live in His protection!
He promised!