How many days go by in any given week that you don't open the world of God
Days go by
You're busy
Listen to what he says this book of the law, which would be the Bible to us 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
If you'll do that. He says and you'll have success
Somebody says well now what's this meditation business?
Let me just say this to you
It is the simple key to accomplishing anything and everything
God sets before you
Find half an hour
Every day just 30 minutes
every day for yourself where you can be alone with the Spirit of God and meditate
This is going to transform your life
in an extraordinary way
You meditate
I'll share with you Scripture
The book of Joshua chapter 1
this book of the law
Shall not depart out of thy mouth
But thou shalt meditate therein day and night
For thou may observed to do according to all that is written therein
for then
Thou shalt make thy way
prosperous
and then
Thou shalt have good success
Now that's the first time in the Old English versions that the word success appears in the Bible
Then which makes it so important
You want to be successful in your life?
You want a deal wisely in the affairs of life?
You want to be prosperous
These are all sayings that
somehow or another
Every one of us yearns for want to be successful for God we want to achieve the goals that God's given to us
We want to help other people become successful
Want to help other people become prosperous
God shows us how his word is so clear on this
Meditate meditate therein day and night
That thou may observe to do
Which means if you meditate on the Word of God, he'll give you an understanding
He'll give you motivation. He'll give you an inspiration and
Propel you to do
so it's so important to
observe to do
He says the Word of God will cause you to if you meditate the word will bring to you a propelling force
see he would give you an understanding and
motivation and inspiration
To do what God wants you to do
Now don't forget 30 minutes a day it's not too much 30 minutes of being quiet before the Lord and
Just to meditate. Oh, I can tell you what this would do for you. I know what it did for me
See and I can imagine what's gonna happen in your life.
I mean you spend hours with different people and with different things so half an hour 30 minutes is not too much for you
privately to meditate on the world
in your room
Or in the privacy of your heart wherever that might be whether it's under a tree or somewhere in your car
Whatever it is now, you can actually get half an hour
for yourself
Start thinking now where you're going to get half an hour every day. It doesn't have to be the same place
But make sure you do it
Have your writing material close by because God's going to talk to you see the Holy Spirit's gonna talk to you
He's gonna bring you ideas and he'll bring you visions, you know, explain something to you. He's going to teach you to unveil the future to you
Just get ready
Meditation times are times where the Spirit of God can really get down to business with you as an individual
And minister to in a special way and help you chart your course
For the future that is planned for you people who don't meditate who don't spend time to meditate lose so much
They have a confused life. They never go in a straight course that this way today and that's what tomorrow they're always inconsistent
Meditation helps to get your spirit seasoned in the world
You can control your meditation through the word and the spirit
Through the word now, you know
You can be alone and all you're thinking about is all junk
You can think of all the wrong stuff while you're alone so when I talk about meditation here. It's well directed meditation
Remember when God spoke to Joshua
He didn't say and thou shalt meditate day and night
He's said meditate there and he was talking about the word to meditate in the Word of God is meditate in the word
See so you take some scriptures the Spirit of God can guide your mind to those scriptures
You can write out something or if you pray and that's why I said control your meditation through the word and the spirit
When you pray another
Pray in the Holy Ghost. He'll well up some thoughts in your spirits. He'll wear up something in your mind
And when he does that you have an inspiration to meditate in the direction that God's bringing to you
You know, there are a number of words for meditation, but the most often use and the ones used in Psalms 1
And also Joshua 1:8 is the word Hagia is the most frequently used
Haga all right Hagia or mutter speak under your breath
Amen to speaks God's Word under your breath meditating as easy as worrying if you can worry you can meditate
Alright just replace it with God's thoughts shall supply not maybe not hope so shall
Nothing can be more definite in the English vernacular. Shall
God speaks to you when you're reading the word and God says whatever good you find out of it
Take that verse and meditate sometimes just one word. Not the whole sentence will bring revival. Like shall
Shall or you are sick and
you memorize this verse Matthew 8:17 himself
Took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses
Himself now sudden his value starts growing in your mind his worth starts to increase and all of a sudden faith
rises in your heart
That's the process of meditation you read God's Word you memorize God's the part that speaks to you and then all day long
All right, when you close the Bible all day long, you you you you the verse you memorize you chew on it
All right, you can do your work and all that but intervals here and there you start to bring it up again
Let's say you're a fearful person. All right, very fearful
Okay, no one knows your fear fear of disease or the future fear of losing this losing that whatever it is
Take the verse for God has not given us a spirit of fear
But of power and of love and of a sound mind
You believe in God for a baby. He maketh the barren woman Psalms 11:3
He maketh the barren woman to keep house
meditate on it meditate and the power of God's Word is such there is like see Jesus called God's Word seed and
seed germinate
So what you're doing is causing the seed or whatever you are reading that seed will germinate into a harvest in your life.
If you know how to worry
Then you know how to meditate worry is a negative form of meditation
Now what is what does it mean to meditate? What does that word mean?
Literally the word meditate means to mutter. It means to speak out loud
It means to roll over in your thinking over and over and over again
It's just like that cow that's grazing in a
Pasture eating grass and he's chewing that grass and he deposited in that false stomach brings it back up again. Chews it again
Deposit it brings it up. Chews it again. What is he doing? He's just he's meditating in that grass. He's he's muttering over
He's I mean, he is squeezing the juice out of that thing, you know
And that's what it means to meditate. It means to to mutter
It means to roll over in your thinking either by saying it out loud or under your breath
Its to roll it over and over and over and it and concentrate in it my God
Shall supply all of my needs or demands according to his riches in glory
you begin to go through every word you go through every phrase you begin to just make this is this is not just
Like reading a whole chapter
It's like taking just just a piece of it and taking that scripture just chewing on it and chewing on it I call
It in in Bible School milking the scripture and it won't you won't get the milk out of it
And unless you're willing to chew on it long enough
Chew it and chew it and chew it and chew it and chew it
And the people that will chew the word
And meditate on the word are those who are going to get the results of what it says when you do that