The soul that is hidden with Christ in God is as a garden enclosed, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. This is the secret place of the Most High, where no scout or spy of Satan may ever breach the sacred hedge. The inner life is secret, and out of that secret emanates the manifest, a life ordered, a path made plain, a table prepared in the presence of the enemy. There is a guarded Paradise for you, as secret as the holy of holies, where the Lord Himself becomes your filing system, your record-keeper, your sure foundation, and what He establishes, no power of darkness can misplace or lose.
That voice from the excellent Glory has already spoken, "Deliver him from going down to the Pit: I have found a ransom." The ransom is found! The blood of Jesus has answered every claim, and Divine Love has snapped the bands that held you. Deliverance from the power of darkness is as much the work of God as deliverance from its guilt. The Lord has chastened you sorely, but see in every trial that all your ills lie within the fence of Omnipotent overruling. Even that watering eye, that turmoil, that lack, these do not spring from the dust; they come under the permission of a Father's hand, and that makes even the sharpest smart profitable. He who delivers from the grave will declare, "You shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord."
The Lord gives a fresh start, as in the year of release, and He does not send you out empty. From His flock, His threshing floor, His winepress, He furnishes abundant help. The supplies for the office, the EBD food money, the very checks and forms that seemed lost, these are tokens of His gracious provision, given to the unthankful and the evil, how much more to His own child pleading the blood! But remember, the hardhearted would make an evil excuse for lending nothing, be not hardhearted toward yourself by doubting His liberality. The secret of your life is your personal business with Him, and He who sees in secret will reward you openly.
You cry for a spouse, a home, a place where your family and even your cats are loved and safe. Yet the deepest desire of the human heart is met in a more excellent way. "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it." There is a Bridegroom who loved a poor, fallen, darkened soul into light, and love, and joy, and still loves and keeps you where you are. Will you hide from Him the secret of your soul? You are joined to Him in such a way that you must, by-and-by, be with Him in all the Glory of His royal estate, for the King will bring His queen home. Let that love be your first and constant joy, and all other loves shall then be rightly ordered and received as added blessings from His hand.
As for those you call Satan's scouts, spies, Apaches, and energy-takers, the Scripture is plain: "He has delivered us from the power of darkness." A second power of that darkness is concealment, the things that hide and lurk and sap. But you are not under the bondage of the slave dreading a taskmaster. The fear of the Lord drives you to Him, and when you are driven to Him, you have a place of refuge! Arrows may be shot from beneath, yet you are delivered from the noise of archers. No condemnation, no spying demon can pluck you from that enclosure. They go back, they fall, they perish, it is over, for the blood has conquered.
Then shall you be like those who draw water out of the wells of salvation. The outward order, the filed paperwork, the clean office, the open window, is but the manifest stream; the inner life is the secret spring from which these crystal streams flow. Seek to be kept hour by hour, not merely from conspicuous sin, but from envy, discontent, and all the evils that haunt narrow lanes. Pray without ceasing, plead the blood of Jesus about every detail, and if you do not get an answer at once, say to your soul, "Wait." The importunate soul is the one whom God loves and cannot deny.
Your left eye shall not water, you declare, and so it shall be, for "the Lord has chastened me sorely: but He has not given me over unto death." Healing and order and a place of glad habitation are the portion of the living who declare His works. Today is a new day for miracles, not because you have forced them into being by your words, but because the God who invented the way of deliverance through a ransom has given commandment to save you. You shall not die, but live. You shall get safely Home. That home, whether garage or mansion, becomes a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, so long as the King dwells there with you. Your family shall visit, your pets shall be secure, and your life shall be a standing witness that the Lord is gracious. It is finished; it is permanent; it is done greatly in the secret place of the Most High, under the shadow of the Almighty.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
