Accessing God’s Divine Secrets

Jer 33:3 (AMP)
3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).

In prayer, there's always an action on both our part on God's. We call on Him and He answers us in response.

What I found interesting was the word mighty as when reading my NKJV version, the side margin shows that another word for mighty was 'inaccessible'.

If we looked at the Hebrew definition for the word mighty, one translation is as follows:

OT:1219
batsar --
to gather, to restrain, to fence, to fortify, to make inaccessible, to enclose
a) (Qal)
1) to cut off
2) fortified, cut off, made inaccessible (passive participle)
3) secrets, mysteries, inaccessible things (substantive)
b) (Niphal) to be withheld
c) (Piel) to fortify

So if I am to read this properly, we could read it as God showing or telling us great and inaccessible secrets or mysteries when we call on Him in prayer.

I find it what Moses said in Deut 29:29 fairly interesting

Deut 29:29 AMP
29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.

Therefore the more pressing question to ask would be:

How are these secrets revealed to us?

1 Cor 2:10 AMP
10 Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny].

If we want to hear it from the lips of Jesus, He promised likewise when he told his disciples about the coming role of the Holy Spirit

John 16:14 AMP
14 He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.

So if I, as a Believer and as a Christian were to act on the beginning verse of Jer 33:3 and pray, it still does not indicate that I would receive or know those secrets hidden and inaccessible unless I refer to the next verse:

1 Cor 14:2 AMP
2 For one who speaks in an [unknown] tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the [Holy] Spirit he utters secret truths and hidden things [not obvious to the understanding].

Having said that, it's not just praying or speaking in other tongues because if we looked at verse 2 in its context, Paul was talking about how one who prophesies edifies the church, and is greater than the one who speaks in an unknown tongue, UNLESS that same person interprets what he said in tongues in order to edify the church with the interpretation.

Hence Paul's instruction in verse 13,

1 Cor 14:13 NKJV
13 Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

Why? That you may be in a better position to edify yourself and the Body of Christ with the interpretation or the revelation of the secret

Sometimes when you pray, you know you definitely didn't receive any revelation. Don't give up! Just keep believing and trusting God that you'll get the revelation from Him!

I like what Oral Roberts had to say on the above verse:

"When I'm waiting on the interpretation and I'm listening with my spirit, sometimes nothing—not a word—comes back at that moment. At other times, I'm able to see the words as if they were written on a page and which I can say out loud to myself. Then, at times, God's full response comes and my mind receives it. I begin to say it and I feel my mind being illuminated, like a light is turned on, and I hear God saying specific things to me concerning my life, or about doing certain things, or telling me just to rest in Him...

when it comes in my mind like this, my understanding is increased greatly. It seems in that instance that my mind is sharper and I am able to grasp spiritual things much better than before I prayed in tongues and received God's interpretation back...

Here's where faith comes in. As I speak in tongues, then follow it by praying for the interpretation, I must believe that God is a talking God, as I am a talking person, and that by tongues I have initiated a conversation with Him, and eventually—if I focus my spirit on Him—I am sure I will get the interpretation. If not at that moment, then perhaps later that day or a week or two later. It's uncanny how you can learn to know and recognize it is an interpretation from the Lord. You've just got to get into it with your spirit totally open to God, hungry to hear Him speak to you, and start believing that He will. It is an act of your faith to speak to God in tongues, also an act of your faith to receive His interpretation.

-Oral Roberts, Unleashing the Power of Praying in the Spirit!

I also like what Kenneth E. Hagin had to say about it in his book, Tongues: Beyond the Upper Room. In his book his was talking about how he prayed in tongues for about 4 hours 45 mins not feeling anything when in his own words,

"I hit a gusher! That is the best way I know how to describe it. In other words, I began to pray both with my spirit and with my understanding under the anointing. Revelation just came rolling out of me as the Holy Ghost showed me things to come...

Until that moment, I was speaking in tongues with no unction or anointing, building myself up on my most holy faith. But when I hit that gusher, revelation just started rolling out of me....

Praying in tongues like that is just like drilling an oil well. If the oilman never put forth the effort to drill the well, all that oil would just stay in the ground. The potential of hitting a gusher would still exist, but unless the oilman drilled for oil, no one would ever see the evidence of it.

-Kenneth E. Hagin, Tongues: Beyond the Upper Room

[bold emphasis mine]

I noticed recently that as I prayed in other tongues over a period of time, I found myself receiving more revelation on certain topics or certain areas that I never noticed before.

For instance, my previous note came about as revelation. I definitely can NOT come up with something like that from an intellectual standpoint.

Likewise, this note also came about as a revelation.

I would see this as encouragement for us to keep that fire of the Holy Spirit burning within us in our personal walk with God, hearing from Him constantly and being able to edify our brethren in the faith from whatever denomination, as we are of ONE BODY.