Hast thou heard THE SECRET OF GOD? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Job 15:8

A victory secret is a secret that will make you into a living wonder! A victory secret is the secret of God!

Have you heard the secret of God? Have you read the secret of God? Have you been exposed to the secret of God? The hidden wisdom of God is the secret of God! Have you received the wisdom of God? Have you received revelation from above? If you have not heard the secret of God, you have missed what you really need. The secret of God is the wisdom of God in a mystery that is ordained for your glory and beautification.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

1 Corinthians 2:7

What you need is not earthly wisdom. Earthly wisdom is the teaching of economics, law, maths, science, accounting etc. All these secular subjects are nice but they are earthly human wisdom. There is a place for all those things. But it has no place in the church. In the church, we have something far higher “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom…” (1 Corinthians 2:4). There is a far greater kind of wisdom that comes from God. The wisdom of God contains the secret of God. That is what you need for your life. “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7). This kind of wisdom has been ordained to make you glorious and to turn you into a living wonder.

Let us look at the wonderful benefits of discovering the secret of God.

Six Reasons Why You Must Discover the Secret of God

1. Life and death depend on your discovery of the secret of God:

The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. And the decree went forth that THE WISE MEN SHOULD BE SLAIN; and THEY SOUGHT DANIEL AND HIS FELLOWS TO BE SLAIN.

Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation. Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: THAT THEY WOULD DESIRE MERCIES OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN CONCERNING THIS SECRET; THAT DANIEL AND HIS FELLOWS SHOULD NOT PERISH WITH THE REST OF THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON. THEN WAS THE SECRET REVEALED UNTO DANIEL in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: HE REVEALETH THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Daniel 2:8-13, 16-22

Daniel and his companions were in great danger of being executed. Death was staring at them in the face. The king knew that most of the wise men, astrologers and magicians were hypocrites, full of deception. King Nebuchadnezzar desperately wanted to clear his palace of all imposters. The test that the king instituted would ensure that only genuinely wise people would remain in his palace as advisers. To be a good adviser, you need to know certain secrets. There are secrets behind every great achievement and behind every great person.

Often, we wrongly speculate about what has made a person great. Most of the time we do not really know the secret of someone’s greatness. Discovering certain secrets will prevent you from perishing. The spirit of knowledge is also the Spirit of God. “…When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19). When the enemy comes in to kill you, the spirit of knowledge lifts up a standard against him. The word ‘standard’ is the Hebrew word “nus” which means “to cause to disappear”. Through knowledge, certain things are caused to disappear. Years ago, everyone who developed malaria, asthma, high blood pressure or diabetes simply died of these diseases. Through knowledge, these diseases have been “caused to disappear” and been neutralized.

Life and death may depend on your knowledge of certain secrets. There are secrets that are very important for your life. Anyone who has been blessed to enjoy the secrets of God knows that life and death virtually depend on their knowledge of certain secrets. This is why you need to seek revelation from God. Your knowledge of a secret will make you have the upper hand. All the advances of science, medicine, astronomy, agriculture, mechanics and physics are based on secrets that have been discovered. Those secrets are facts that have existed for thousands of years. Inventors are basically discoverers of secrets. E has always been equal to mc2. Einstein was only the discoverer of a secret that had existed for thousands of years.

A victory secret is a revelation that brings you the victory! Victory secrets are revelations from the Holy Spirit that can make the difference in your life’s work and ministry. Often, the difference between life and death is a little knowledge. God can grant you knowledge today! God can cause you to know a little secret that will change everything about your life and ministry. Some people call these key snippets of knowledge a “revelation”. Whatever you call it, these victory secrets will lead to great victories and triumphs.

Many good examples of the effects of victory secrets can be found in history books. In the fourteenth century, a disease called “the Plague” entered the world and consumed millions of people. Many people died and entire populations were wiped out. The fear of this illness persisted for years as the Plague continued to resurface in different parts of the world, terrorizing the population and wiping out large groups of people.

Indeed, early Modern Europe experienced the worst human disaster in European history, when the Plague hit Europe in 1347. This bubonic plague actually wiped out a third of the population of Europe. Can you imagine a disease that spreads throughout a continent and wipes out a third of its population? Even in modern times, when the Ebola virus spread through Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, only ten thousand people died. Imagine a disease that could wipe out millions of people and “empty” a continent of its population.

Plague victims had a very low chance of surviving due to symptoms such as high fevers, and internal bleeding, which would cause black spots and large tumours. Anyone who contracted the disease died within three to five days.

The doctors of the day thought the plague was created by air corrupted by humid weather, decaying unburied bodies and poor sanitation. Some people also thought the disease was being spread by Jews. The medical doctors of the fourteenth century did not know that the disease came through a simple bacteria carried by fleas and rats. The medical profession did not know about simple antibiotics! They had absolutely no way of fighting the disease. Knowledge of the secret of antibiotics would have delivered millions of people from death.

1. It was not until 1877 that Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of another bacteria, bacillus anthracis. This phenomenon exhibited by anti-bacterial drugs was called antibiosis. It was only in 1942 when drugs that acted that way were eventually named antibiotics by an American microbiologist, Seiman Waksman.1

It was this secret of antibiotics that was absent in the fourteenth century! This is the secret that would have prevented millions of people from perishing at the hands of the bubonic plague in the fourteenth century. Simple drugs like streptomycin, gentamicin and ciprofloxacin would have stopped the disease in its tracks. Today, your chances of dying from the bubonic plague are almost zero.

Not even one person would have died from the bubonic plague if we had had the secret of antibiotics. A victory secret greatly transforms lives. A victory secret saves many lives. A victory secret changes everything.

One of the most important prayers of your life must be the prayer for the spirit of revelation. Pray for victory secrets! That is the prayer for timely revelation and knowledge that will make the difference in your life.

2. Your prosperity depends on your discovery of the secret of God:

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

And I will give thee the TREASURES OF DARKNESS, and HIDDEN RICHES OF SECRET PLACES, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

Isaiah 45:1-3

Victory secrets will lead you to prosperity. Most riches are hidden from view. Most real riches are hidden away from view. That is why they are called “treasures of darkness”. Most of the riches in our world are hidden in secret places. To find the riches of this world, you will need to be given revelation to unlock the secret of how to locate wealth. You will need to discover the secret places where wealth is hidden.

Why some people are rich still remains a mystery to many. People do many things in order to prosper, but few are given the secret of prosperity. Money is locked up in secret places. Without the knowledge of certain secrets, you will live in poverty for the rest of your life. You need the spirit of revelation to give you the secrets of prosperity and of success. Church growth is released through your knowledge of certain secrets. All of our difficulties can be brought to an abrupt end if we discover the secret behind true success.

You need to discover secrets because greatness and prosperity are based on the discovery of important secrets. People who have invented cars, aeroplanes, electronic tablets (such as the iPad), phones and televisions are the millionaires of our world. Many nations do not know the secrets of how to make these things work. Those who have discovered these secrets have become the richest people in the world. Consider the vast difference that exists between those who have discovered the secret of making a mobile phone and those who simply harvest tomatoes and oranges. You do not need any special secret to harvest coconuts or pepper. But you do need to know certain secrets to make a television work. Knowing secrets makes people very valuable. Not only was Daniel kept alive, but he also became the third most important person in town and received prosperity symbolized by a gold chain that was put around his neck. When you discover the secret of God through the spirit of revelation, you will also become important. You will be covered with gold, by the spirit of revelation.

Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Daniel 5:29

3. The secret of God is given to the righteous and to His prophets.

For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.

Proverbs 3:32

You do not tell your secrets to everyone. Why do you expect God to tell His secrets to everyone? The people to whom God has given His secret are those He sees as righteous. God withholds His revelation from people who are wicked and gives them to the righteous.

Servants are close to their masters and work around their space. It is therefore not strange that servants know many secrets that outsiders will never know. Strive to be a servant of God and strive to be His prophet and you are guaranteed a rich supply of wonderful secrets.

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Amos 3:7

4. The secret of God is given at special seasons of your life:

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

As I was IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH, WHEN THE SECRET OF GOD was upon my tabernacle;

Job 29:2-4

Job enjoyed knowing some of these secrets at a certain season of his life. He spoke passionately about the season when God gave him secrets and revelation. You will always look back to the season when God gave you certain revelations.

Job desperately wanted to experience the times of revelation again. True prophets will tell you when they have a revelation and when they do not. The reality is that revelation does not come all the time. Job was saying he wished he were young again, when the secrets of God were being revealed to him (Job 29:4).

Kenneth Hagin described how God blessed him with eight visions of Jesus Christ between 1950 and 1958. He described how the Lord did not appear to him in that way any more from 1958 onwards. Kenneth Hagin was only thirty-three years old when the Lord appeared to him. He ministered until he was eighty-six years old.

It is important to discover secrets as a young person. When you are young, your whole life is ahead of you. You have a good chance of implementing the secrets and revelations that God shows you. I discovered the secret of Matthew 6:33 when I was in school. It has been the greatest secret of prosperity for my life. Seeking God first and building His kingdom first are divine secrets to prosperity!

5. Prayer is the key to discovering important secrets of God:

Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: THAT THEY WOULD DESIRE MERCIES OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN CONCERNING THIS SECRET; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

THEN WAS THE SECRET REVEALED UNTO DANIEL IN A NIGHT VISION. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.

Daniel 2:17-23

When Daniel and his team needed to know certain secrets, they prayed about it. He asked God to show them mercy. God gave them the secret to what they needed to know. Apostle Paul prayed for the spirit of revelation. He prayed, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17). Prayer is the master key to discovering important secrets of your life.

6. Meditation is the master key to the discovery of the secret of God:

O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Psalm 119:97-100, 105

The Word of God is a lamp and a light. When light comes on, all secrets are revealed. Whatever is lying in darkness is exposed and brought out into full view. Loving the Law of God and meditating on it day and night is your master key to the discovery of the secrets you need.

by Dag Heward-Mills