In a culture saturated with spectacle and shallow pleasure, there arises a silent revolution: a return to the secret place—a terrain unknown to GPS and untouched by the noise of digital chaos. It is here, beyond the reach of Instagram filters and business algorithms, that true transformation occurs. “My favorite place is my secret place,” says social media influencer and Palm Oli businesswoman Ele Aboh, “there I float and flow; the place where my senses are no longer five but uncountable.”_ This isn’t escapism—it is divine recalibration. In a world where everything is urgent, the secret place teaches us what is eternal.
There is something ancient and unshakable about a life rooted in the secret place. It is not merely solitude—it is the sacred court where spirits ascend and burdens dissolve. “A place where I’m addicted to hunger,” Ele Aboh continues, “a hunger that keeps me light and afloat.”_ Hers is not a physical starvation, but the sacred fast Isaiah described— “to loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free” (Isaiah 58:6). That hunger, that divine yearning, is what heaven answers with fire.
The prophets of old knew this terrain well. Moses fasted forty days and saw God. Elijah journeyed forty nights on the strength of one meal. Jesus, before launching His earthly ministry, withdrew into the wilderness for forty days of fasting. Fasting and prayer are not rituals—they are transport systems to the secret place. “How do I describe my place of secret?” Ele Aboh asks. “I wouldn’t trade it with any feeling or anyone.” This is language born not of theory, but of encounter.
In the secret place, our senses are not dulled but heightened. “Every strand of my hair and every pore of my skin is a receptor,” she says. This resounds Psalm 34:8— “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” To the untrained mind, the secret place is an invisible prison. To the awakened spirit, it is a realm where angels traffic, yokes are broken, and clarity floods like a dawn. It is here that “deep calleth unto deep” (Psalm 42:7) and where even silence becomes a conversation with God.
“I will suffer outside and enjoy succour in my secret,” she confesses. It’s a paradox only the spiritually mature can grasp. Jesus said, “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet… and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly” (Matthew 6:6). This divine mathematics—where loss outside equals gain inside—is the secret to supernatural authority. Bishop David Oyedepo once said, “You cannot carry the weight of glory without sacrificing the weight of self.” The secret place is where the self dies and the spirit rises.
From science to spirituality, the mystery of fasting is now being decoded. As cited in medical research from USC, a three-day fast can regenerate the immune system and ignite stem cell renewal. Yet the Holu Bible already told us: “Then shall thy health spring forth speedily…” (Isaiah 58:8). What medicine discovers in laboratories, heaven releases in consecration. But only those who suffer the loss of visibility for the gain of proximity will understand. “I will live and die for it,” Ele declares, smiling. That’s the price—and prize—of intimacy with the Most High.
In closing, this generation must ask itself a piercing question: Where is your secret place? Is it scrolling endlessly? Or is it soaking in the presence of God, where burdens melt, and identity is reborn? Revelation 3:20 still echoes— “Behold, I stand at the door and knock…” But only those inside the secret place will hear Him. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). In this place, as Ele Aboh has shown us, we don’t merely escape the world—we transform within it.
