Student Study Guide
Lesson 14
Nothing Hidden That Will Not Be Revealed
Section 1 - God Actively Moves Toward Revelation
Section One
Lesson 13 established that God is a God of secrets and that He shares them with those who fear Him. This lesson opens the next dimension: God actively moves toward revelation. He is not a God who conceals Himself as a permanent condition. He conceals in order to reveal.
These are the words of Jesus Himself. Not "nothing important." Not "nothing essential." Nothing. There is nothing in the purposes of God, nothing in the mysteries of the Kingdom, nothing in the deep secrets of His heart, that He has not determined to bring to light. The concealment is never final. The hiddenness is always purposeful and always temporary.
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1. God conceals in order to - to those who have been positioned to receive what He discloses.
2. There is a brand of Christianity that has settled for a ceiling of expectation regarding the knowledge of God - using the truth of God's transcendence as a permanent excuse for spiritual shallowness.
3. God is beyond the reach of the , unaided mind - but not beyond the reach of the illuminated by His own revelation. He made it His intention to be .
4. The concealment of God's secrets is never . The hiddenness is always purposeful and always . Everything moves toward revelation.
Your Reflection
Section 2 - Joel's Prophecy: A Revelation Outpouring
Section Two
5. The outpouring of the Spirit in Joel 2 is not merely a display of spiritual gifts for their own sake. The sons and daughters who prophesy, the old men who dream, the young men who see visions - what are they receiving? The very and of God.
6. The prophetic anointing is, at its core, a anointing - God opening His mouth to speak what He has been holding, pouring through surrendered human vessels the deep things of His plans and purposes.
7. In the end times, God will tear down the wall between the realm and the realm. Those who fear Him, who have prepared themselves through intimacy and humility, are going to receive access to the deepest secrets of His heart.
Your Reflection
Section 3 - The Most Misquoted Verse in the New Testament
Section Three
The Misquotation: Preachers stop at verse 9 and use it as a proof text for the permanent unknowability of God. But Paul doesn't stop there. Without interruption he boldly declares: "But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit." To stop at verse 9 and ignore verse 10 is to use Scripture to justify spiritual poverty that God never intended.
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8. The natural mind cannot receive the things of God - that is true. But the of God has been given to the believer precisely so that what the natural mind cannot reach, the can receive.
9. Both statements in 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 are simultaneously true: eye has not seen - but God has them to us through His Spirit. To stop at the first and ignore the second is to use Scripture to justify spiritual that God never intended.
10. In these end times, God is simultaneously releasing the greatest measure of that has ever been given - available to a generation prepared through fear of the Lord and intimacy with Him to receive and it.
Your Reflection
Section 4 - The Doorway of Humility
Section Four
11. Isaiah 55:8-9 is not an invitation to give up on understanding God. It is a about the instrument we are using to try. His thoughts are not accessible through reasoning alone.
12. A church built on Madison Avenue principles is not a church built on God's secrets. A ministry that operates entirely within what a sharp natural mind can conceive has placed a on itself at precisely the point where God begins.
13. The doorway into the things of God is - a posture in which the natural mind stops insisting on its right to understand before it submits, and instead first and receives understanding afterward.
14. The equation is consistent throughout Scripture: as we go , He takes us .
Your Reflection
Section 5 - Tongues: Speaking the Mysteries of God
Section Five
15. When a believer prays in tongues, they are speaking - the secrets of God - in a language that bypasses the natural mind entirely and operates in the spirit.
16. If tongues were merely an emotional expression with no real content, there would be no reason to oppose it. But if tongues is the vehicle through which the spirit of the believer engages directly with the of God, then its suppression is an act of strategic against revelation.
17. Paul said: "I speak with tongues more than you all" (1 Corinthians 14:18). The man who wrote that also wrote two-thirds of the New Testament - the greatest and revelatory deposit of any figure in the early church. That is not .
18. The he spoke in the spirit became the understanding he walked in and wrote down. Praying in tongues is not an eccentric habit - it is a spiritual with profound consequences for the depth of understanding available to the believer.
Your Reflection
Section 6 - Tongues and Interpretation: The Young Warriors Account
Section Six
⚡ The Young Warriors Conference - 1990
During the first Young Warriors Conference with Dr. Morris Cerullo, miracles were breaking out in the main meeting. Dr. Cerullo stopped and declared that a young girl was being healed in the children's service, calling for someone to go quickly. Seated at the front where it was difficult to move, a simple prayer: "Lord, if You want me to go, have him signal me." But Dr. Cerullo does not signal. He commands.
Minutes later, he looked directly and commanded: "Steve, run to the children. Call out those who are sick. Pray the miracle prayers."
The power of God that came was unlike anything experienced before - an anointing almost overwhelming in its intensity. Running to the children's service with other leaders. Under Dr. Cerullo's instructions, taking over the meeting and calling the sick children forward. Starting to pray with that power on - but not knowing what to do with it.
The senior vice president of the ministry was behind, urgently shouting: "Release it! Release it!" But the how was unknown. The anointing was so strong the children were being shaken when hands were laid on them individually. Then he did something unexpected: he screamed in tongues.
The moment he did, understanding came - not through reasoning, not through instruction, but directly: a knowing that landed in the spirit before it formed in the mind. Hands stretched out over those children: "In the name of Jesus, I take authority over every spirit of sickness and disease… I command every pain to go, and I release the healing power of God now!"
What happened was like fire leaving. The anointing released and moved across sixty-five children simultaneously. Sixty-five were instantaneously and simultaneously healed by the power of God.
That moment was tongues and interpretation in its true, operational form: a mystery spoken in the Spirit, an understanding received, a command given, and the power of God released. The secret of how to release what God had placed was revealed through the instrument of tongues. It was not a technique. It was a door.
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19. The senior vice president could not give understanding through reasoning or instruction - instead he in tongues, and understanding came directly: a knowing that landed in the before it formed in the mind.
20. children were instantaneously and simultaneously healed. The secret of how to release what God had placed was revealed through tongues - it was not a . It was a .
Your Reflection
Section 7 - Grace, Knowledge, and the Chain of Revelation
Section Seven
The AMPC renders this: "May grace… be multiplied to you in the full, personal, precise, and correct knowledge of God." The depth of that knowledge is directly proportional to the measure of grace and peace operating in a believer's life.
21. The depth of knowledge of God is directly to the measure of grace and peace operating in a believer's life. The secrets of God, received through intimacy and fear of the Lord, are the mechanism by which is multiplied.
► The Unbroken Chain
Fear of God → Intimacy with God → Revelation of His Secrets → Knowledge of God → Grace Multiplied → Access to Power → Everything needed for life and godliness
22. Grace is multiplied through the of God. The knowledge of God comes through the of His secrets. The chain is unbroken.
Your Reflection
Section 8 - The Prayer of Ephesians One and the Open Vision
Section Eight
⚡ The Open Vision on Ephesians 1:17
I was being overwhelmed by the Spirit while focusing on these verses. My roommate came home and I could hardly speak - I was trying to explain what I was perceiving about the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation when suddenly I was in an open vision.
I no longer saw him or the room. I was standing in a vast expanse. I saw these words - "May give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him" - suspended in the air, with the most amazing bluish-white light radiating from the word.
I fell to my knees and started crying: "I see it! I see it!" Then the Lord spoke with a loud voice: "Through My Word you will see Me."
That day changed everything. From that day forward, I ALWAYS pray for the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation. And you should cry out for it also.
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23. Paul is not praying for comfort, prosperity, or success. He is praying for a supernatural anointing of - the spirit of wisdom and revelation - into the mysteries and secrets of God.
24. The prayer asks that the eyes of the would be flooded with the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. The purpose is that the believer would know three specific things.
The Three Things the Prayer Reveals
| What to Know | The Significance |
|---|---|
| 1. The hope of His calling | Most believers never understand WHY they were called. The revelation of it cannot be seen until the eyes of the heart are flooded with light. |
| 2. The riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints | What God has purchased, prepared, and holds in trust. Once revealed, it belongs to us (Deut. 29:29). The revelation is not the reward - it is what makes the reward receivable. |
| 3. The exceeding greatness of His power toward us | The same power that raised Christ from the dead - available to quicken mortal bodies and flow through surrendered vessels. Not reserved for the first century. |
25. The revelation is not the . The revelation is what makes the reward . Once it is seen, it can be had.
26. The same power that Christ from the dead is described as being in and for those who believe - available to quicken mortal bodies, to flow through surrendered vessels. The revelation of that power, received by those prepared through fear and intimacy, is what will mark the generation.
Your Reflection
Section 9 - Who Will Be Trusted with the Secrets
Section Nine
God does not cast His pearls before those who will trample them. The deep things of God are not distributed indiscriminately. They are given to those who have demonstrated, through sustained fear of the Lord and genuine intimacy with Him, that they will handle what they are given with care and reverence.
27. God is looking for people He can - not people with the largest platforms or most impressive credentials, but people from anywhere, from nowhere if necessary, who are genuinely, desperately for Him.
28. Those who carry the secrets of God will be those who the world. The end-time manifestation of His glory - greater signs, greater wonders, greater miracles - will flow through people who His secrets.
The invitation remains fully open. God is not withholding. He is longing to share - with the heart of a Father who has kept things in trust for those He loves. The qualification is the same as it has always been:
"The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant." - Psalm 25:14
Final Reflection
Lesson 14 - Practice Test
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Part A: Multiple Choice (5 questions · 2 pts each)
1. What does the lesson say is the error in stopping at 1 Corinthians 2:9 without continuing to verse 10?
2. According to the lesson, what was the prophetic anointing in Joel 2 (sons prophesying, old men dreaming, young men seeing visions) actually about?
3. How did understanding come during the Young Warriors Conference incident when sixty-five children were healed?
4. According to 2 Peter 1:2-3 (AMPC), what is the mechanism by which grace is multiplied?
5. According to the lesson, what are the three specific things the prayer of Ephesians 1:17-20 asks the believer to know?
Part B: True or False (6 statements · 1 pt each)
1. Luke 8:17 teaches that some secrets of God are permanently hidden and will never be brought to light.
2. The gift of tongues is the vehicle through which the spirit of the believer engages directly with the mysteries of God, which is why it has been strategically opposed.
3. Isaiah 55:8-9 ("My thoughts are not your thoughts") is an invitation to stop pursuing knowledge of God because He is permanently beyond human reach.
4. Paul's extraordinary revelation and New Testament deposit were unrelated to his extraordinary prayer life in tongues.
5. The power described in Ephesians 1:19-20 (the same power that raised Christ from the dead) is reserved exclusively for specially designated miracle workers, not for ordinary believers.
6. God selects those He will trust with His secrets based primarily on platform size, ministry credentials, and public reputation.
Part C: Fill in the Blank (5 items · 1 pt each)
1. "Nothing is that will not be revealed" (Luke 8:17).
2. The doorway into the things of God is .
3. "He who speaks in a tongue… in the spirit speaks " (1 Corinthians 14:2).
4. The equation is consistent throughout Scripture: as we go , He takes us higher.
5. The Lord spoke in the open vision: "Through My you will see Me."
Part D: Short Answer (completion credit)
1. Explain what is wrong with stopping at 1 Corinthians 2:9. What does verse 10 add, and why do both verses need to be held together?
2. Describe the unbroken chain from 2 Peter 1:2-3. What is the starting point, and how does each link connect to the next all the way to "everything needed for life and godliness"?
3. What happened in the Young Warriors Conference story that demonstrated tongues as a "door" rather than a technique? What specifically crossed from mystery to revelation?
Part E - Cry Out for It
Begin praying Ephesians 1:17-18 daily. Write the three things you are specifically asking God to reveal in your life:
What is your current practice with praying in tongues? What change is God asking you to make?
What specific step will you take this week to position yourself for greater revelation?