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I like to start with something funny. Please know, this is just a joke. Don't be offended.

But I heard about this blonde lady. She was driving down the freeway when she got pulled over by a female police officer who also happened to be blonde.

The officer asked for her driver's license. She dug and dug in her purse, getting more and more agitated and couldn't find it.

Finally asked the officer, what does it look like? She said it's a little square that has your picture on it.

The lady found a mirror, saw herself and said, oh, and handed it to the officer.

The officer looked in the mirror and saw herself and handed it back and said, you can go. I didn't realize you were a police officer.

Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus' name. God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about the secret place. In the Old Testament there was something called the Holy of Holies. That was the inner part of the temple where the presence of God was.

It was a restricted area, very protected. No one could go in there except the priest and only with them certain times a year.

They had to take the right sacrifices and be extremely careful. They knew if everything wasn't in order, they didn't treat it with the utmost respect and honor they would be killed.

It was a very serious thing. So they went to great lengths to guard it and to keep the wrong things out. In the same way every one of us should have a Holy of Holies.

Not a physical place but down in you there should be a secret place and inner sanctuary where you don't allow everything in.

Any worry, offense, bitterness, trouble, turmoil. That may be happening on the outside but you guard your secret place. You don't let it into your inner sanctuary.

Your secret place should be a place of peace, of rest, of faith where you know God is in control.

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