Jesus Words Doctrine

Psalm 91:1-2 “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
² I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”

I’ve spend a large portion of my life trying to find this secret place that God has. Like all spiritual things it is hiding in plain sight in Bible verses that you may have read hundred’s of times. Yet until the Lord reveals them to us, we are blinded as to their true meaning. Thus it is with this secret place of God.

The latest enlightenment that cracked this mystery wide open for me I only saw within the past few days. It took from January 1980 until just 34 minutes before January 2026 begins where I live. Yes it is New Years Eve, and 2025 is just about fully exhausted. Now I am able to write concerning this.

I have been having some really deep times of prayer with Father. Things are clearing up, I now see new things that I have never before seen. He is inviting me deeper than I have ever yet gone before. So here is what Jesus Christ said that brought new light to my spiritual eyes.

Matthew 6:6 “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

Amazing isn’t it? First of all our Father is inside of the secret place. This is where he dwells and where he resides. So it is in the throne room of heaven. This is where we see Father seated on his throne in all of his glory and majesty. So the secret place of the Most High is where Father God dwells.

Yet Jesus Christ not just invites us to go there in prayer, but he commands us to! What an honor that is! We are to find a prayer closet, that is somewhere alone and separate from other people. Then we shut the door figuratively, or literally. Father who sees us praying in secret will then reward us openly.

What interests me now is that in Psalm 91 it says, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” We are being invited, called, even commanded, to DWELL, or LIVE FULL TIME in God’s presence, in his secret place.

This is how we receive all of the blessings and the benefits of Psalm 91 as our own. When we live and dwell in Father God full time, we are dwelling under his shadow. Like baby birds are gathered under the wings of their mother in the nest. So we are gathered under the wings of our Father God.

As we dwell here, our Father who sees in secret shall reward us openly. This refers mostly to him answering our prayers and petitions for us. If we pray infrequently, and just a little, then most of our prayers will never be answered. If we dwell full time in Father’s presence in prayer, then all of our prayers will be answered “openly”. That means they are physically manifested.

So we can locate ourselves somewhere in between these two extremes. If we want our prayers answered, and all of the benefits listed in Psalm 91, then we need to spend a whole lot of time in our prayer closet.

Popular religious beliefs today make it sound that we can live our lives as we want to, pray just at meals and before we go to bed, and that God will bless us, and do everything for us for free. Yet this is so very untrue.

Jesus said for us to count the cost to see if we have what it takes to continue as lifelong disciples of King Jesus Christ. Notice that he said, “COUNT THE COST”. The only time that we count the cost is when things cost us, and they are not for free.

Go back and look at the conditions that Jesus places upon being his disciple. It literally will cost you everything that you have to be his disciple. There is nothing free about it.

Then we also just saw how that to get all of our prayers answered, that there is a huge cost involved. We have to actually dwell in the secret place of God. That is in his throne room in active prayer, praise, and worship.

Yet by us paying the price to do these things we shall be rewarded openly. All of the benefits of Psalm 91 will be ours, and all of our prayers will be answered. We will also get to go to heaven. Jesus Christ in his teaching makes it very clear that we must obey his commands in order to go to heaven.