The Secret Place

By Benjamin Torres

The Secret Place was written with the intent of drawing people into a deeper relationship with God and to once again reinforce the truth that God is love—that His will is that every person should pursue an intensely passionate relationship with Him, eternally.

The book aspires to succeed in shattering previously preset horizons which evolved either through personal limitation, unfair discrimination, self-exclusion, or religious doctrines and exclusions that were propagated and practiced universally.

Throughout the book the author conscientiously works to aid the reader in his or her walk with the Almighty Father as he delves into personal experience and revelation as they have been extended to him over the years by the Holy Spirit.

It contains testimonies that will hopefully break every religious bone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Creation House Press
• Release date: Nov 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781621368052

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HE WHO DWELLS

AN APPROPRIATE AND highly relevant kickoff will be to remind every single person who reads this book, and every other one in its genre, that the word he in the Holy Bible, in many (or most) instances, where a generic truth is shared and established or an admonition or warning is extended to all and sundry, refers to both the male and female gender.

God refers to Himself as He and Him. This firstly positions us correctly concerning Him (God) as far as gender is concerned. It was important for Father to introduce Himself to the human race thus, since He is the Father of all who were created in His image and likeness (Gen. 1:27). He is in reality and truth the Father of the whole universe, since all created things were created by and through Him; and this He did purely for his own good pleasure (John 1:3).

We can absolutely thank God that nepotism (if I may use the word here), is purely a human trait, since Father is not partial, nor is He a respecter of persons (Rom. 2:11). His divine will shall never change; and that is that not a single soul should go lost. (Read Matthew 18:12–14.)

I am irresistibly drawn to the portion of scripture in Deuteronomy 10, which reads:

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.

—DEUTERONOMY 10:17–18, NIV

For me that is a wow declaration. It is powerful and impacting on anyone who would care to read and even meditate on it. It is almost an all-inclusive description of the loving Father who is tender in mercy, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness (Exod, 34:6, NIV).

So, to continue this meditation, my reiteration is that every single person (having being created in the image of God) is invited by Father to dwell—to be a dweller.

Psalm 36 and verse 7 reads: How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings (NLT). There is room enough for all humanity—even for the one who would not accept this profound invitation—to find shelter in the shadow of the Most High’s wings. Not a single soul is disqualified or rallied against; not a single soul is pushed aside or forgotten. So that truth (Bible truth) completely strips away the tendency or excuse for some to truckle.

Now the word dwell derives from the word dwelling, which means a place of residence.¹ It follows that the statement he who dwells (Ps. 91:1) can be translated as the individual who resides. Once again, the sub-statement he who dwells is rich in meaning; every single soul on earth is a dweller. Even the souls that have passed on to another dimension, to another realm and a different state, are dwellers, right now. People never come to a place or even enter a state where they can be described as, or even claim to be, non-dwellers.

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Not a single soul is disqualified.

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A person is either a city dweller or a country one. He either dwells in a family home, a lodging house, a hotel, a motel, an apartment, a clinic, an institution, a fraternity, a shelter for the homeless, a park bench, a hospice, or on the street somewhere out there.

All of the above are physical dwellings; places in which people dwell for the protection, survival, and restoration of the physical body. All of the above are, of course, temporary dwellings, transitory spaces in which people settle. They are good for the individual as long as he or she dwells on planet earth.

But then there is a permanent, more real dwelling—the place in which man’s spirit dwells.

Here, once again, we are necessitated to elaborate; and better so without trepidation. Just too many people inadvertently end up dwelling in a place they never believed existed, much to their detriment, as there is no way for them to return and change their eternal destination.

The rich man asked father Abraham to send Lazarus to his father’s house to tell his five brothers to repent lest they also end up in Hades, which is where he finds himself. Abraham could only be sympathetic and tell him that his father and his brothers have Moses and the prophets and that there is no way that Lazarus could return to warn them. (Read Luke 16:19–31.) Even if Lazarus could return, what difference would it make to them since they had already decided in their hearts how they wanted to live?

This teaching also awakens within us the realization that every human person is a spirit, has a soul, and lives in a body. We are triune beings even as the Godhead is three, yet remain and operate as one.

We need to add that God has given to each of us a free will, the freedom to choose where we want to dwell spiritually. He does not force us to dwell where He wants us to. He does, however, in His loving-kindness and immeasurable grace, point us to the place of eternal dwelling that He has prepared for all who choose to love and serve Him. (I need to add