![]() Psalm 78:42 They did not remember His power, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary, Psalm 77:11 I shall remember the deeds of the LORD Surely I will remember Thy wonders of old. Psalm 63:6 When I remember Thee on my bed, I meditate on Thee in the night watches, Compare for instance the following verses of Scripture: Some synonyms would be contemplation, reflection, rumination, deep thinking, or remembering in the sense of keeping or calling something to mind for the purpose of consideration, reflection, or meditation. Meditation means “the act of focusing one’s thoughts: to ponder, think on, muse.” Meditation consists of reflective thinking or contemplation, usually on a specific subject to discern its meaning or significance or a plan of action. My purpose here is to deal only with the meaning and blessing of biblical meditation and to point out that eastern forms of meditation and biblical meditation are miles apart. It is dangerous and actually opens up one’s mind for Satanic attack as it is found in New Age thinking. Transcendental meditation, as it is often called, is not biblical meditation. This is particularly important to the Christian because of the great and growing emphasis on meditation in eastern religions. The first question we must consider concerns the meaning of meditation and what meditation involves. They are designed to keep us out of the Word which is so essential to our ability to avoid the delusions of Satan and the world system and to hear and respond to the call of God on our lives. But he also has a number of cultural values or belief systems, actually illusions and snares, that he uses to confuse and manipulate the church so that it must, of necessity, fail in its calling and purpose whenever it operates under these illusions.Įach of these are opposed to and work against developing and maintaining the mind of Christ through studying and meditating on the Word. Someone has said that the Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. I would want to keep their relationship to God’s Word superficial and secondary. In other words, I would like to keep people away from serious involvement with the Word of God. I would try to get them to live independently, to think like the world thinks, to think like the natural man thinks in the futility of his mind (Eph. I would try to get them preoccupied with other things. ![]() I would try to get God’s people confused as to who they are and why they are here. If I were the devil (please, no comment), I would do my best to divide and fragment the thinking of the church of Jesus Christ. Psalm 4:4 Tremble, and do not sin Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. ![]() Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. So what is our need? We are to study the Scripture, but for that to be effective, we also need to develop the art of biblical meditation. But if my thoughts are contrary to God’s, then I must exchange my thinking with God’s and for that process, He has given us His inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word. We are to “stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” (Rom. We are also told to “be of the same mind toward one another” which means essentially that we must develop and maintain the mind of Christ or God’s thoughts. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa. Lord our God, we thank you for the love you show us so that we.“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. True, he died on the cross in weakness, but he lives by the power of God and we who share his weakness shall by the power of God live with him in your service. Hear all our concerns, we pray, for we want help from you, not from men, not from anything we. Continue Readingįor the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. Our hearts shall always be in your presence, asking, longing, and. Lord our God, with all our hearts we come before your countenance. Many, Lord, are asking, "Who will bring us prosperity?" Let the light of your face shine on us. However, as the scripture says, "What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him." But it was to us that God made known his secret by means of his Spirit. Search the Daily Prayers Recent Daily Prayers
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