Mark Brooks
Met with his mentor Steve Backlund 6 days a week at 6am for four years. They spent time praying, journaling and reading the Word. These years of being mentored were foundational. His private time flowed into his public time.
Revivalist: a believer who is focused, passionate, and willing to pay any price to live in community, purity and power because they are loved by God, whose manifest presence transforms lives and cultures.
Soaking: lay before the Lord and receive with affection. God would take him on adventures.
Devotions: hang out with God to hear what's on His heart and partner with him to go on assignments.
There is a war against you connecting with God. Our nature of wanting to get things done and be productive fights against our devotions. Winning souls can take the place of our devotions. Instead, our devotions should be the source of our motivation to win souls.
Adam would walk together with God in the cool of the day.
We want our assignment, but missing the alignment with God. Spiritual fornication: doing good works without God. Good works were meant to be done WITH God.
Mt. 6:6
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:6
He only shares secrets with His friends.
Secret to Jesus ministry was the secret place.
Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. - John 5:19
You have to stay connected to be a revivalist
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. - John 15:4-7
If you don't Abide daily, you will get burned out.
You can learn from revelation or you can learn from tribulation! The secret place helps us get daily relevation.
Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. - John 6:15
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. - Luke 6:12
Pray from intimacy
Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. - Matthew 6:9
Read about Jesus and his interaction with Father God and then see how he responds to this interaction.
When we hear what He says to do, then we have the grace to do the tasks.
Mark shares how he was insecure the first three years of leading BSSM - rejection was huge!
Kris consistently said, "It's not the most gifted person or the most anointed person, it's the person who God called who is to lead."
In the secret place you can SOZO yourself and ask the Lord why am I having this emotion. The Secret place keeps you from being burned out; keeps you on fire! Secret place keeps you in the truth, replaces fear with love. After you repent from sin, you have to ask what lie was I believing?
How to do "Secret Place"
Schedule it - nobody can steal that spot! Never ever ever ever ever cancel your appointment with God.
He's waiting for me. Do you want a boring powerless life? Then don't have a Secret Place daily.
Journal - he does a journal every year. Write, draw, jot down dreams. Word for the day.
Worship -
Read scripture - meditate on what is it saying about God. What is it revealing about me (humanity)
Make a habit about all the little things he's done to show His affection
Reflect on testimonies. Ask Him to do it again!
Through the Secret Place you have an overflow to leak God and become the living epistles.
Sheri Downs
1968 - Sheri encountered true love of Jesus. Found safety and acceptance.
1995 - Lord called her away. 5 hours before children woke she started her secret place
2010 - 2nd year of Pastoring at bethel she had a stroke. First time living alone. She said to God, why do I feel so lonely. God said, you greet me when you come into that house. Now she says, Hi Pappa, I'm home! She fell down and the Holy Spirit says go have a bath. Have a bubble bath. Get all the candles. Get a bottle of wine. She goes under the water. She hears someone walk in the room. She sits up and nobody is there.
Brandon
There is grace being released today. If we can save you ten years. Came to faith at a young age. At 20, God pursued him and captured by His love. He went to work at a plastics factory. He had a revelation that Father was always with him. He became the secret place. Asked God to give him am instrument.
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