The Power of the Secret Closet
The Power of the Secret Closet
(The Power of the Secret Closet)
- David Wilkerson
When thou prayest,
thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are:
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners in the streets,
that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door,
pray to thy Father which is in secret;
and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly
(Matthew 6:5-6)
If you read carefully the Old Testament,
you will find that God divided His people in the two categories.
Those who sought after me
Those who sought not after me
Zephaniah warns that time is going to come that
the Lord will come by His spirit and consume
those who don’t turn to Him and seek Him.
I want to talk to you about seeking God.
The power of the secret closet
First of all it demands you have a secret closet.
This is not just a clothes closet
somewhere in your bedroom.
Now it can be.
But that’s not what the Bible's talking about
The closet means simply to be shut in with God
anywhere, at anytime, giving God quality chosen time
to yearn after Him, to seek Him,
to call upon His name
Prayer closet is simply ‘a prayer habit.’
Hypocrites they love to pray, that maybe seen of men
(Mathew 6:5)
They have no prayer closet
Because when you get in trouble you pick up the telephone and call somebody else
or there’s a blindness comes over us we do not reach out to the Lord.
We reach to everybody or anything.
We don’t have that habit.
‘Immediately run,
immediately go into His presence,
immediately seek His face,
call upon His name’
We very seldom do that.
You are not praying in the spirit if you’re talking in toungues and your mind is somewhere else.
When you come into the presence of the King,
When you come to God, …
My Bible said, “He sees in secret.”
That means He sees what your heart’s doing.
He sees what your mind is
He sees what your thoughts are
When you’re in that secret closet
your mind begins to wander off.
I don’t think our prayer sacrifice is acceptable unto God
unless we've established that closet.
And our hearts are into it absolutely and completely.
If you want me to hear you,
if you want me to see you,
if you want your prayer answer,
you come to me with a focused mind,
you come to me with a focused purpose
Bible said, “when you shut the door
the next thing you do is praying with all your heart.”
Once you’ve established the habit
and you shut the door
and got rid of all distractions,
God expects you to seek Him with all your heart.
Folks I wonder how many of us here tonight
can honestly say that you have a closet
when you go into that closet focused
that you pray with everything that’s in you.
Folks we wanna go into the secret closet
we get to think prayer is just second nature
No it’s not second nature
It’s something has to be practiced,
something that is learned.
You go to Him in your daily closet.
You go to Him when you are shut in Him in with His presence.
And you focus, and then with everything in your heart reach out.
Reach out and call upon His name.
Sometimes it would be loud.
Sometimes it would be quiet.
But it’s the heart totally given to Him.
If you have established the closet
and you have shut the door
and you come without distraction
and you seek Him with all your heart,
Jesus said, there is a reward.
I could name all the rewards that come from the power of the secret closet,
but there’s one in particular The Holy spirit revealed to me.
And I want to show it to you.
Everywhere you go
will you find a king or nation Israel or Judah
turning to the Lord and seeking with all their heart
order was always restored.
Your life is your kingdom, your home, where you are.
That’s your domain.
That’s your kingdom.
What He would do …
You may not see the sign right now.
The first thing He’s gonna give you is order in spirit.
God will bring order and unity and peace
because you are seeking Him with all your heart.
You’re not turning to other people.
You’re not turning to flesh.
You’re not looking for some, even counselor.
You are shut in with God.
And little by little, inch by inch,
He’s bringing order out of that confusion taking it all the away.
Lord said,
“Not only will I give you order,
but in a time of famine
I’m gonna feed you.
You're gonna be in green pastures till you die.”
Those who do not seek the Lord
they shall be hungry, thirsty
(Isaiah 65:13)
They shall be hungry.
They shall be thirsty.
They shall be ashamed.
When you look around,
see that church today in hunger and thirst.
But the scripture says,
“Those who seek the Lord …
But my servants, they shall eat.
My servants, they shall drink.
My servants sing for joy of heart.”
He’s wanting to establish the people that determine
all through the day just keep running to Him
I know God’s been wooing me more and more.
He’s wooing me into that closet.
Glory comes to a people who’ve established that habit
that daily wonderful marvelous habit of running to Him.