Secret of the Closet

Where is it that the Christian really learns to get the victory? I believe it is where no eye sees us except God's eye. The hearty denying of self, the taking up the cross in secret, the knowing the way in the retirement of our closets, the casting down of imaginations and everything that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, these are our highest achievements. The closet is the great battlefield of faith. Let the foe be met and conquered there.
He who has much to do with God in secret, cannot use carnal weapons. This should show us the importance of coming forth from the presence of the living God into all our service, that we may be prepared to detect and to mortify all the pretensions of the flesh. It is sad to see a Christian trying to fight in the Lord's name, but clothed in the world's armor.
David said, moreover, "The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." He knew that one was as easy to God as the other.
When we are in communion with God, we do not put difficulty by the side of difficulty, for what is difficulty to Him? Faith measures every difficulty by the power of God, and then the mountain becomes as the plain.