Tuesday | 16 September 2025
In this season, the Lord is asking us to watch and pray with Him. Mat 26:41. Luk 21:36. Mar 13:33. The capacity to watch is the outcome of hearing the word of present truth and receiving illumination from the Holy Spirit in relation to what He is saying to us. Rev 2:7. After the Holy Spirit has illuminated our spirit, He then helps our weakness by strengthening us with the capacity of Eternal Spirit so that we can pray with Christ. Rom 8:26. We pray with Christ when we join, by the Holy Spirit, the fellowship of Christ’s intercession and travail!
Speaking about how we join the fellowship of His prayer, Jesus said to the disciples, ‘When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.’ Mat 6:6. We know that the secret place is not simply a private place, like a room or a closet, because Jesus said that the Father dwells in the secret place. That is, it is the house of God. It is the secret place of the ladder that connects heaven and earth. When Jacob saw this ladder in his prophetic dream, he proclaimed, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!’ Gen 28:17.
The ladder that connects heaven and earth is the corporate body of the Son of Man. Joh 1:51. In this regard, there is only one secret place. However, we know that Jesus also instructed us to go into our own inner room which is inside the secret place. On His offering journey, Jesus Christ prepared a unique place for every son of God in the fellowship of His body, which is the Father’s house. Joh 14:2. After we have been born as a son of God, the Father places us in the body of Christ where He has chosen. 1Co 12:18. This is our inner room in the secret place.
Further Study:
Genesis 28
References:
Mat 26:41
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Luk 21:36
Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
Mar 13:33
Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.
Rev 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.
Rom 8:26
Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Mat 6:6
But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Gen 28:17
And he was afraid and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!’
Joh 1:51
And He said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.’
Joh 14:2
In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
1Co 12:18
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.