What Do You Do in Your Secret Place?
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🌿 What Do You Do in Your Secret Place?
“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
— Matthew 6:6
Everybody has a room nobody else enters.
Not always a physical room. Sometimes it is the three minutes before you fall asleep. The tab you open when the house goes quiet. The thought you rehearse on the drive home. The place where nobody is correcting you, applauding you, or watching you perform.
That is your secret place, and contrary to what your flesh tells you, it is never empty.
A secret place is a spiritual battleground where extreme things happen: extreme good, or extreme evil. It is the one room where you are most vulnerable, where your real self shows up without an audience to perform for, and where the actions that will define your future are quietly born. Whatever wins in that room will eventually walk out into your life in the open. Nothing stays hidden forever. It only stays hidden long enough to grow.
🕯️ Your Secret Place Is a Battleground, Not a Blank Room
As a Christian, your secret place was designed to be:
- A sanctuary of holy quietness.
- A space for communing with God in solitude.
- A place to read the Scriptures and meditate on His Word.
- A holy ground for fervent, unhurried prayer.
But the same room can become something else entirely. For some, the secret place becomes:
- A haven where the devil sits down and grooms negative thoughts, feeding them slowly until they feel normal.
- A place where evil is planned, or shameful acts, such as watching pornography, are committed without shame because no one is there to see.
Same four walls. Two completely different tenants. The room does not choose which one moves in. You do.
Prophet TB Joshua taught:
“The management of our heart and its thoughts is fundamental to our faith and holy living.”
Notice he did not say the management of your public reputation. He said your heart, in the one place only you and God can audit.
👁️ God Sees What Man Cannot See
Matthew 6:6 already told us plainly: “Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Read that again. God sees what is done in secret. Not “God suspects.” Not “God assumes.” God sees. There is no door you can close on Him, no incognito tab, no locked phone that hides you from the Father who is Himself unseen and therefore perfectly positioned to see everything you think is private.
Paul says the same truth from another angle:
“Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness.”
— 1 Corinthians 4:5
This verse carries two truths at once:
- God sees everything done in your secret place, right now, in real time.
- What happens in secret does not stay in secret. It manifests publicly, whether it is good or evil.
Prophet TB Joshua put it in a sentence you should not forget:
“What you do in secret is what will answer you in the open. There is no shortcut to spiritual maturity. We are made spiritual by living in the Word and by the Word living in us.”
Your public life is simply your secret life, delayed.
⚖️ Two Altars, One Room: Good or Evil
Every time you walk into your secret place, you are choosing which altar to build. There is no third, neutral option.
For Good:
- Praying with a humble heart.
- Studying the Word to draw closer to God.
- Meditating on God’s promises until they renew your mind.
- Worshipping God with sincerity, when no one is around to see you lift your hands.
The reward: great blessings, spiritual growth, and divine strength that shows up exactly when you need it.
For Evil:
- Breeding negative thoughts: hatred, envy, lust, self-pity.
- Watching ungodly content, such as pornography.
- Planning evil acts: deceit, revenge, manipulation.
The result: destruction, guilt, shame, and spiritual stagnation that no amount of Sunday performance can cover.
| Secret Place for Good | Secret Place for Evil | |
|---|---|---|
| What fills it | Prayer, Scripture, worship, meditation | Lust, hatred, revenge, ungodly content |
| Who is welcomed | The Holy Spirit | The accuser and his suggestions |
| What grows there | Faith, discipline, intimacy with God | Guilt, addiction, spiritual weakness |
| What it produces publicly | Strength, favor, discernment, breakthrough | Exposure, shame, repeated defeat |
Prophet TB Joshua said:
“A man is what he thinks about all day long; the level of the thoughts of your heart determines your life.”
Whatever thought you allow to sit unchallenged in your secret place is not neutral. It is either building you or dismantling you, one unseen minute at a time.
🌾 You Cannot Escape the Harvest
You are free to choose your actions. You are not free to choose the consequences that follow them.
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”
— Galatians 6:7–8
This is not a threat. It is agriculture. A farmer does not argue with the harvest; he only decides what to plant. If you sow goodness in your secret place, prayer, the Word, worship, obedience, you will reap God’s blessing, whether or not anyone ever finds out what you sowed. If you sow evil there, lust entertained, bitterness rehearsed, sin planned, you will reap destruction, whether or not anyone ever catches you.
Prophet TB Joshua warned:
“Temptation is the presentation of evil; it is an opportunity to choose temporary pleasure rather than permanent gain.”
That is the entire trade the enemy offers you in secret: a few private minutes of pleasure, in exchange for a public harvest of regret. It has never once been a fair trade, and it never will be.
🕊️ Witnesses from Scripture: What They Did in Secret Decided Their Story
The Bible is full of people whose secret place decided the rest of their story, for better or for worse.
Daniel: Secret Prayer Under a Death Decree
When King Darius signed a decree making prayer to anyone but himself illegal, Daniel did not negotiate with his secret place.
“Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.”
— Daniel 6:10
His private discipline, kept even under threat of the lions’ den, became the very reason God shut the lions’ mouths in public.
Joseph: Purity Chosen When No One Was Watching
Potiphar’s wife did not just tempt Joseph once; she pursued him daily, in a house where he had every opportunity to sin without consequence, or so it seemed. His answer reveals what filled his secret place long before that moment:
“How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
— Genesis 39:9
Joseph’s private conviction, formed away from any audience, is what carried him from a prison cell to Pharaoh’s palace.
Jesus: Gethsemane Was a Secret Place Too
Before the cross, before the crowd, before the soldiers, there was a garden.
“Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed.”
— Matthew 26:39
Even the Son of God did His hardest wrestling in private. What He settled alone with the Father in Gethsemane is what carried Him through Calvary in public. If Jesus needed a secret place to prepare for His assignment, so do you.
Achan: A Secret Place That Buried a Nation’s Victory
Not every secret place example is a hero’s story. After Israel’s victory at Jericho, Achan took what God had forbidden and hid it.
“When I saw among the spoils a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold… I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent.”
— Joshua 7:21
One man’s secret disobedience cost Israel a battle at Ai and nearly cost him his life. What he buried in secret did not stay buried. It surfaced and answered him in the open, exactly as Prophet TB Joshua said it would.
🛡️ How to Guard and Maximize Your Secret Place
You do not drift into a godly secret place. You build one, deliberately, the same way the enemy tries to build a foothold there. Here is how:
Create a sacred routine. Set aside time daily, not occasionally, for prayer, Bible reading, and meditation. A secret place without a routine is a room left unlocked.
Fill your mind with positive, God-centered thoughts.
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.”
— Philippians 4:8
What you rehearse in private is what you will reproduce in public.
Avoid temptation deliberately. Guard your secret place from evil influences. Stay away from the specific content, apps, and habits that you already know invite the devil in, especially explicit content that grooms lust in silence.
Invite the Holy Spirit to take charge. Ask Him directly to occupy the room you used to give to the flesh. He does not force His way in; He waits to be invited into the very place you have hidden from everyone else.
Prophet TB Joshua reminded us:
“Character is the one that carries whatever we become. If your wealth is bigger than your character, that wealth will be spending you.”
Character is not built on a stage. It is built in the room nobody sees, one private decision at a time.
🙏 Prayer
Lord Jesus, I surrender my secret place to You. Search it, and show me what I have allowed to live there. Help me guard it with diligence and fill it, deliberately, with Your Word, Your presence, and fervent prayer. Cleanse me from every hidden thought or act that has been quietly building a harvest I do not want. Holy Spirit, take charge of the room nobody else enters, so that what I sow in secret produces a life You are proud to reveal in public. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
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