{Lewis quotes and excerpts from Shadowlands and Songs of Light: An Journey into Joy and Healing Author: Kevin Ott}
When Joy Moves Us
When Joy moves us, a new question may enter our minds:
“How do I go about spending more time with God?”
Fortunately, Jesus answered this question for us: Go to the secret place. We are to go into a room alone and close a door behind us. If we do not have a room at our disposal, we find a corner or place of separation that provides solitude, even if only a little.
The next question follows:
What do we do there?
Jesus told us to go and pray. Volumes have been written about prayer, but all of it can be distilled into one simple principle:
the prayer that happens in the secret place is meant to be a heart-to-heart encounter between you and your Abba Father and not an intellectual exercise.
The secret place is where you bare your heart before God and pour every ounce of it at His feet ─ whether it be sorrow, gladness, thanksgiving, intercession, or all of it mixed together. In turn, God draws near and shelters you with His presence in the secret place.
✓ So…do you have one {a secret place}?
✓ Do you go there?
✓ Oh have you ever longed for this sweet place with God?
✓ Have you ever asked Him these very questions?
✓ Have you ever longed so intensely that you weren’t able to think of anything else but Him, His Word, and the time you so longed for?
✓ “It’s a force you cannot stop — for it comes from within and wants more, and to go and be there is pure joy!”
✓ So what’s stopping you? He is longing for you to come! GO!
In Christ I am SHE 