{"id":331,"date":"2019-01-24T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/our-secret-place\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:16:23","slug":"our-secret-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Our Secret Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I receive daily emails from a ministry that sincerely seeks God for His daily thoughts. These were the words God gave them for us yesterday that really resonated within my heart: \u201cWhen you feel vulnerable, make a concerted effort to do what it takes to be as safe as possible. However, you must not forget that abiding in Me is your ultimate security. I am your safe harbor in the midst of a storm. Come and hide yourself in Me, says the Lord.” ~~ Psalm 27:5 \u201cFor in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like me, do you ever feel vulnerable \u2013 even just a little bit? My vulnerable times are when I come home late at night and have that initial eerie feeling of walking into my dark home; driving in torrential rain; waiting for a doctor\u2019s diagnosis; when I\u2019m speaking up in a meeting; or the times when I\u2019m about to go on stage to speak for an event. And, what I do to be and feel as safe as possible, is to pull out the \u201cbig girl antidote\u201d of praying for the sense of peace that comes from He Who is our peace.<\/p>\n

God really is our safe place and when we abide in Him, He does bring us ultimate security. I love that line \u201cCome and hide yourself in Me!\u201d I was with my computer technician yesterday and while he was explaining new features he had added to my computer, I was explaining my 911 emergency number to him. It\u2019s Psalm 91:1 \u201cHe who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty.\u201d When I need peace and a sense of safety, I quickly resort to my Secret Place \u2013 to the place and to the One who quickly restores my peace.<\/p>\n

The shepherd boy, David, and later, King David, knew that peace from an early age. And so did I. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on in your world today, but I\u2019m quite sure I know that there will be times when you feel vulnerable and afraid. But, rather than staying there, we quickly realize those feelings don\u2019t come from God, and we, assertively demobilize them by placing them in God\u2019s hands in the Secret Place and sweet peace comes. It\u2019s not a mind-over-matter moment. It\u2019s a God-over-matter moment.<\/p>\n

At my church, we say \u201cThe peace of the Lord be with you\u201d and in reply we say, \u201cand with your Spirit\u201d. That is \u2013 God\u2019s peace be with you \u2013 spirit, soul and body! That\u2019s the full meal deal God gives us \u2013 without measure when we go to His \u201csecret place\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I receive daily emails from a ministry that sincerely seeks God for His daily thoughts. These were the words God gave them for us yesterday that really resonated within my heart: \u201cWhen you feel vulnerable, make a concerted effort to do what it takes to be as safe as possible. However, you must not forget…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,116,117,44,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abiding-in-me","tag-almighty","tag-hide-yourself-in-me","tag-peace","tag-peace-be-with-you","tag-psalm-275","tag-psalm-911","tag-safe","tag-safe-harbor","tag-safe-place","tag-secret-place","tag-security","tag-shadow","tag-storm","tag-vulnerable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}