Secret Place Quizzes (???)

Question 1

To Enter the secret place, all you have to do is shut your _____

Answer 1

Door

Question 2

In Chapter 2 (of the Secret Place), Sorge states that he strongly advocates for a prayer life that is comprised mostly of: (A) Silence and Listening, (B) Repentance, (C) Expressions of Thankfulness

Answer 2

(A) Silence and Listening

Question 3

What is one benefit of radical obedience to the Lord?

Answer 3

Greater intimacy with God

Question 4

Q: Sorge (in Secret Place) says we must repent, not just m obvious sins, but from iniquities which are “hidden faults that we don’t see, the wicked residue from our fallen natures that discolor the fabric of our thoughts, motives, feelings, responses, and desires”. What were some of the examples he provided of iniquities?

Answer 4

Envy, Pride, Lust, Things deep in your hearts

Question 5

When Sorge (in Secret Place) writes about “sowing,” he is referring to giving of your: (A) Time, (B) Service, (C) Finances

Answer 5

(A) Time

Question 6

According to chapter 7 (of the Secret Place), where is one of Satan’s favorite places to attack Christians?

Answer 6

In the secret place when you are in your place of prayer

Question 7

In Chapter 8 (of the Secret Place), When it was time to choose his twelve disciples, what did Jesus do before making his decision?

Answer 7

Prayed about it in solitude, in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights while fasting

Question 8

In Chapter 9 (of the Secret Place), A ____ is anything to which we ascribe power to deliver us.

Answer 8

A “God”

Question 9

Sorge says that ____ was a person who burned for God; a man “set on fire from heaven, a man who incubated his love for God through a steadfast commitment to solitude in the secret place, and thus he became a shining lamp for the entire nation to behold.”

Answer 9

John

Question 10

One of the most powerful tools that God has given us to help us engage in spiritual violence is _____

Answer 10

Fasting

Question 11

Q: Which of Jesus’s disciples e invited into some of Jesus’ most intimate moments because they pursued Jesus harder than the others?

Answer 11

Peter, John, and James

Question 12

_____ accelerates God’s purpose in the Earth.

Answer 12

Prayer

Question 13

What does Sorge mean by “Spiritual leprosy?”

Answer 13

If we do not pray with intensity and if prayer is not the immune system of the body, parts of the body will suffer and fall off

Question 14

Where should we get our main source of manna (i.e. your spiritual food)?

Answer 14

Fed through the Word. Drink through the Spirit/Prayers

Question 15

What should we not expect from church/pastors?

Answer 15

Sunday service sustenance

Question 16

Why is a pearl a symbol for enduring hardship with joy because we know He is working it all together for our good?

Answer 16

It is an irritant that becomes a pearl with more endurance. More pain, larger pearl, more beautiful

Question 17

Who in the bible was iled to the island of Patmos and endured this hardship by devoting himself to the Lord?

Answer 17

John (The Disciple/Apostle)

Question 18

What does it mean to be a “prisoner of the Lord?” (From Chapter 31–The Secret of Confinement)

Answer 18

The longer in the prison of the Lord, the more intimacy and revelation of the Lord is given

Question 19

What does Sorge say about entering into God’s rest?

Answer 19

Sabbath is the week’s rest. Secret place is the day’s rest. We need to be in the Secret Place daily and find rest in God’s presence

Question 20

My experience has been that I don’t get to know Jesus better in prayer. Prayer is where I express my love according to how I have come to know Him. Prayer is love exchanged.” According to Sorge, what must we do then to know Jesus better?

Answer 20

Read the Word/Scripture. Bible reading is reading about the Person.

Question 21

What does it mean to “stand before the Lord?” What did it look like in Elijah’s life?

Answer 21

Sometimes doing less and not doing anything is to do something. We are letting God to move and being still in that moment by standing. Elijah was under house arrest for 3 years, waiting on the Lord

Question 22

How do our bodies get filled with light? How do they get filled with darkness?

Answer 22

LIGHT: Fire from God and the Holy Spirit by looking at Good/good things. Eyes are the window to the heart and soul. So, look at Godly things. DARKNESS: Looking at evil things (lustful, prideful, etc.). Bad images make our hearts dark

Question 23

Who was shown a lampstand with seven oil-fed lamps on it (with the oil coming from 2 olive trees)?

Answer 23

Zechariah

Question 24

What does the lampstand represent?

Answer 24

A person. We are the lampstand based on the bowls of oil, which represents the Spirit and the Word feeding us. We are lamps onto others

Question 25

Who did God take on a painful pathway in order to help him find an abiding relationship with God (In desperation, as he faced hardship after hardship, this person continuously sought after God)?

Answer 25

Joseph