Be Still and Know that I am God
“But when you pray,
go into your room close the door
and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”
Matthew 6:6
I used to think that we were to pray privately so that we would not be viewed, but might it be that God desires to be alone with us?
Welcome to My Secret Place
I never thought that I would be opening the door to my secret place, but here I am, doing it. I hope you are finding, or will find, in your own Secret Place, that the God of All Creation is there waiting for you to come to Him. He desires, through the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ, and the Indwelling Holy Spirit, to be our mentor. Imagine, God as mentor. Amazing. How does the Secret Place remain such a secret!
Lingering Laundry Lady
- Secret Place Insights - (DUE to SURGERY I missed a post, and have also been unable to write new ...
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Compassion
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I can’t promise it, but this essay may be the last of, or ...
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Praying Scripture – Amazing, Zing, Zing
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, the following essay is one that I had not expected to be writing, ...
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In Full Harmony
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, HOLINESS - sometimes when we pray, without an eye on the time, it seems ...
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Something’s Amiss
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, on this particular morning, I did not hesitate. I did not even give ...
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Feeling a Chill
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, feeling a chill, I awoke in the night - uncovered. I reached for ...
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The Red Sea and Me
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, isn’t it amazing how the Lord uses His Word to convict us, renew ...
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How Does God Do It?
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, how does God do it? How does He put up with me? Yesterday ...
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God’s Provision
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I am often invited to talk privately with people I meet here or ...
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Unspeakable Joy
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I would like to share something with you, but I don’t actually know ...
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Instant Recovery
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, as I was about to rise from my computer, I was angry. I ...
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Spiritual Dessert
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, if you are familiar with my essays, you know I grew up in ...
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Sound of Silence
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, having successfully loosened myself from the grip of my to-do list, I was ...
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Work of Art
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, it is not often that one refers to Leviticus for inspiration, but lately ...
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Have Thine Own Way, Lord
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, recently I heard a Texas pastor relay the fact that God designed Man ...
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Does Not Add Up
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, when my oldest child was five and I was expecting my fifth, as ...
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In My Father’s House
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, just before the Sunday of March 15th, Ron and I learned that our ...
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Seen and Unseen
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One in April of 1962, in the spring of my junior year of high ...
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Buried with a Bible
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, long before Bibles were being burned in Portland, Oregon, like they were this past ...
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Clip, Snip, and Rip
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I wish I had a before picture to accompany the after photo of ...
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Grandma’s Favorite Hymn
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, in my childhood church, we occasionally sang the following hymn. And often, my ...
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From a Far Place
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, how can I make the comparison that I hope to make without mentioning ...
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Come Follow Me
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I don’t know exactly when it first began to happen, but I do ...
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Simple Truth
- Secret Place Insights - NEW POST 09-14-20 Dear One, what is it about taking a shower that often brings ...
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Wake Up Call
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, dreams, such strange things they are, and yet, at the time…so real. Almost ...
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By God’s Design
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I would like to relate an experience Ron and I had once had ...
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Long Awaited Guests
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, framed and hanging in my kitchen is a picture of a dinner table ...
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Anticipation
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, lately with all the covid craziness, moral decay, corruption in Congress, and agenda ...
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Blessing For Another
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, in the Christian life sinful self, or Satan’s efforts, can so easily trip ...
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Orion’s Belt
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, if you are not familiar with Orion’s Belt, in the Orion Constellation, it ...
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Not Small at All
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I am ready to move on and write about something other than trying ...
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I Am Not Alone
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, how very long it has been since I wrote to you about our ...
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Heavenly Delight
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, due to illness, in the Unknown God essay, I spoke of spending less ...
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The Unknown God
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, in the picture above the woman, unaware of what she is in need ...
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Union of Love and Truth
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I have often heard it said that sharing both the Love and the ...
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Not Just Another Book
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, in our family room a Bible sits on a table between two recliners ...
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Way of the Heart
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, for weeks now I have been struggling to get up early enough to ...
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Moses: The Law-Giver
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, Ron and I watched a docu-film titled Moses the Law Giver. I made ...
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The Letter
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, twenty-five years ago, a friend of mine sent a letter to a missionary ...
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Teach Your Children
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, sometime last week, in the middle of the night, I woke up suddenly, ...
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Let God In
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I came across a quote I would like to share with you. If ...
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Battle of Wills
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, sometime ago, during a sermon, our pastor put up on the overhead screen ...
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A Gift for God
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I am excited to share this story with you. For me it is ...
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God Cares For Widows
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, last year our church hosted an event for women. It was a community ...
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There Will Be
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, as Christians we look for God’s guidance through the example of other Christians, ...
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A Stiff-Necked People
- Secret Place Insights - Dear Ones, often while reading familiar chapters in the Bible we stumble across verses which ...
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In Need of Confirmation
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, here I am, down in the basement, working on sorting through and straightening ...
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Forgiven and Forgiving
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, through the months of February and March the sermons at our church are ...
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A Latent Understanding
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, in the winter 2019, in a house so quiet that I could hear ...
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Denying Jesus
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, Peter denied being with Jesus three times before the rooster crowed. (When Peter ...
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The Love of God
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, midweek, Ron and I were invited to the home of a man who ...
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What If God is Not Real?
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I was listening to a discussion on public radio about the Christian faith…the ...
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When Jesus Prayed
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I was reading in John 17 where Jesus prayed for Himself, His disciples, ...
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Weak as a Kitten
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, after the last of the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, I was scrolling ...
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A Different Read
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, once again Christmas is nearly here, and people everywhere are rushing around taking ...
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Change of Scene
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, it was already the second day of November, 2017, and only a few ...
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Just Thinking
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, reading the Bible in a private place, while rested and unhurried, seldom fails ...
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Maintaining Sympathy
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, this writing is not actually taken from a quiet-time. It is taken from ...
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Another Failure/Another Blessing
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, when I went to bed I was exhausted, busy all day from very ...
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What’s in a Name
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, how many times have we prayed? We do not have any idea of ...
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God Said No
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I read the following poem on Facebook, and it gave me so much ...
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Blame It on Eve
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, as I stood talking to a young mother-to-be who was suffering with nausea ...
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Fencepost Conversion
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, the old memory of me accepting Christ remains an odd one. I was ...
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When Inspiration Ebbs
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, when God places something on our hearts, and we have a deep sense ...
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Thank God for Heaven
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, as Christians grow older Heaven becomes more important. That is, of course, easy ...
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Consistory and the Homeless Man
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, very long ago, in our first small group, we once served dinner at ...
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Knockout Blow
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, in the early morning, as I head for my quiet-time place, I start ...
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God Equips the Called
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, sometimes I wonder if I will ever fully, completely, without a doubt, learn ...
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At the Cross
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, the cross pictured above is the one which stood on the chancel as ...
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Protecting God?
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, while sitting across the table from a long-time friend, after much conversation about ...
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Goals from God
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, the questions we ask about ourselves at the beginning of a new year ...
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Ordinary to Extraordinary
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, during worship these last few Sundays I have been either looking ahead to ...
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A Morning in June
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I came across this from June, 22 of this year. I apparently was ...
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A-Ticket-to-Ride
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, how it rained last Monday night! In the dark of night, with the ...
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Hushed is Seldom Rushed
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, while scanning through my computer entries, I came across the following details of ...
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To Have First Spotted Jesus
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, while reading a familiar passage in John 1:15-42, I experienced anew the story ...
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Do Not Destroy the Work
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, moving through Scripture within the fellowship of the Holy Spirit can often be ...
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No One Can Snatch Them
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I have no idea of how many times I have been asked by ...
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Stamped with the Presence of God
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, do you plan on making the most of this day, or have you ...
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Cloud by Day
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, if you are familiar with the Old Testament you are aware that after ...
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Heaven on Earth
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I picked up the phone to hear a distraught voice. It was another ...
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Worth the Repetition
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I knew ahead of time that I would be home alone midmorning, so ...
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Out of Sync
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, this is something that I am not as familiar with as I should ...
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Done with God
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I received a prayer request for a friend of a friend. The request ...
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Be it Heart or Habit
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, recently, although it was very early, Ron and I got up at the ...
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Out-of-Towners
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, it is not only easy to be out-of-touch with God; it can happen ...
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Mentoring a Nun
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, I have never looked at John 3:16 the same since. Since when? The ...
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Healer and Guide
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, supposedly, after Ron and I having had spent over three hours at Urgent ...
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Good Enough
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, people think that I might be a perfectionist. I say ‘think,’ because I ...
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The Great Banquet
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, last week I wrote to you about how a person might read the ...
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Simultaneous Reading
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, throughout the website I have made references to Bob Sorge’s book, Secrets ...
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Quit Praying For Yourself
- Secret Place Insights - Dear One, recently I was still tired, and wanted to sleep another hour before getting ...
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