REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

"Get To The Secret Place!"

ICEBREAKER: What is your favorite thing to do when you have nothing to do? (It could happen!)

INTRODUCTION: Today's lesson reminds us that we need to get to the secret place and build a habitation for our God in our hearts. Psalm 91 breaks it down for us. There are many secrets that are revealed in the secret place. The secret place is the place where we meet with God and He meets with us.

People who dwell in the Secret place...

Feel what others don't feel

See what others don't see

Know what others don't know

The secret place is...

· The place of protection

· The place of provision

· The place of perfection

· The place of purification

· The place of promotion

· The place of proclamation

CONFESSION:

· I gotta get to the secret place, the place I wanna be

I gotta get to the secret place, where it's only God & me

· I gotta get to the secret place, the place I wanna be

I gotta get to the secret place where I defeat my enemy

· I gotta get to the secret place, the place I wanna be

I gotta get to the secret place where I find my victory

· I gotta get the secret place, the place I wanna be

I gotta get to the secret place, where I live in harmony

· I gotta get to the secret place, the place I wanna be

I gotta get to the secret place where I find my sanity

· I gotta live in the secret place, the place I wanna stay

I gotta live in the secret place, I praise Him night & day

DEFINITION: Abide: to dwell, remain, continue, array, endure

OUTLINE: Secrets of the Secret Place

1. Secret Place dwellers (SPDs) are abiders

2. SPD are sin avoiders, traps & snares

3. SPD are knowers...they know the secret of the shadow ...the almighty

4. SPD are climber; Most High Psalm 24

5. SPD are proclaimers; AND I will say...of The Lord (about, from)

6. SPD are depositors; in Him will I trust, trusters

7. SPD are receivers

8. SPD are treaders

9. SPD are lovers

10. SPD are callers

11. SPD are inhabiters not inhibitors; dwellers not visitors

12. SPD are fruit bearers

13. SPD are rejoicers; John 15:10,11

TEXT: Psalm 91

STUDY GROUP QUESTION:

1. What does it mean to you to abide in the secret place?

2. There is protection in the secret place. What do you need protection from or for?

3. There is provision in the secret place. What kind of provision could you use?

4. Secret place dwellers are proclaimers. Complete the following statement in your own words: And I will say of The Lord, He is my ______________________________.

5. The secret place is a place where God perfects us. What has God allowed or used in your life to perfect you?

6. Which of the secret place secrets listed above do you need more revelation?

PRAISE REPORTS & PRAYER REQUEST:

ACTION POINT: This week I choose to spend time in the secret place with God.