The Law of Meditation
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:” Proverbs 23:7;
The Law of Meditation is living in the Word of God at all times. As children of God, we must learn the importance of meditation. Through meditation, we quiet our mind and heart so we can hear God speak to us. When we listen to God and follow his instructions on a daily basis, we are able to live a prosperous and peaceful life. The Law of Meditation shows us that everything we see is in our minds. Whatever we meditate on in our mind determines the way we view what our eyes see. In our mind, we set boundaries, we make unjust decisions, and we tend to stay stuck in situations that have become comfortable to us. Meditation increases the developing of the mind. The Word of God provides us with spiritual experience and causes our mind to secure new information and grow spiritually.
In sharing the first four chapters with you, we have focused on laws pertaining to the heart of mankind, and that’s where the major changes have taken place thus far. In the next five chapters, I will be sharing laws pertaining to the Soul of mankind with you. In my book “Come and Learn of Me” I write about the makeup of mankind. We are a tripod type being and that means, we are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a physical body.
Then I ask the question, “who has your soul”? Within the Soul of mankind are the mind, will and emotions. When a person is saved, their spirit (heart) is changed, but there is still something that has to be done with the soul. Our minds are to be renewed by studying the Holy Bible and downloading what it says about our new life in Christ.
3 John 1:2; “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
When we live in the Word of God, our soul prospers, and our lives are filled with joy and satisfaction. Our minds are renewed with God’s Word, and we walk in the truth. As an apostle of the church, John said he had no greater joy than to hear that those under his leadership were walking in truth. That has got to be the heart’s cry of every pastor and church leader, and it certainly is mine. I want to see every member of every church, and everyone who hears the teaching and preaching of God’s Word, walk in truth as a result of ministry.
God’s truth has many facets, but when it comes to living successfully and happily on planet Earth, we must live within the safety and provision of His laws. God’s laws, both natural and spiritual, are the absolute truths by which His Kingdom functions.
Therefore, we should know His laws and live our lives according to them if we want to live productively and peacefully. Many people have come to understand God’s natural laws and work with them. Whether or not they are saved, they have been able to develop and invent wonderful things just by discovering God’s laws.
For example, mankind has taken the laws of aerodynamics to cause airplanes to fly. They developed the television, the internet, and other forms of communication and entertainment in the field of electronics. The discovery of electricity and the laws governing it have revolutionized our lives.
Human beings have accomplished all of these things and still, the world is in turmoil. Why? Only knowing Jesus Christ can change the very inward nature of a person from being sinful to righteous. As believers, we take this one step further. Only when Christians live by God’s spiritual laws can their outward life reflect their new, godly nature and impact the world around them.
The way Joshua and the children of Israel were going to possess the Promised Land by meditating on God’s Word day and night. (Joshua 1:8)
Today we must possess the promises of God by operating in this same law. We are to literally live in the Word of God at all times. Jesus taught us the Law of Meditation. (See John 15:7)
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, if ye continue in my word, then are ye, my disciples, indeed, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:31-32)
Jesus is the Living Word, and when we abide in Him, we abide in the Word of God. He and the Word are the same.
Jesus is Truth, and meditating on the Word day and night is how we know the truth, and how we are set free, forever. This is also how we get our prayers answered. How this works, again, is very simple.
When we think the way God think and pray according to His will and Word, then we will have whatever we pray. The catch is we must believe what we are praying. Our physical eyes are the gates through which we contact the world around us, but our minds determine what we actually see with them. How our minds think and the knowledge and wisdom contained in our minds determine what we actually perceive. The Law of Meditation shows us that everything we see is in our minds. What we meditate on is going to determine the way we view everything our physical eyes observe.
When the twelve spies went into Canaan, only two of them saw a great land given by God and prepared for them by God. What they saw in their minds gave them the inspiration and ability to possess it. Why? They were meditating in God’s Word, and His promises, day and night.
They were seeing what God saw and thinking God’s thoughts; therefore, they were able to do what God said to do. The other ten spies still had their eyes on themselves, thinking about what they wanted and what they were capable of doing. They were not meditating on God’s promise, so they saw only giants and a land too great to possess. This is a perfect example of how a renewed mind can make the difference between success and failure, just as God told Joshua. The enemy knows how God’s laws work, so he perverts them to accomplish his own evil purposes.
In 2 Corinthians 4:4; the Bible says that the devil has blinded the minds of those who do not believe God’s Word. Notice, it did not say he blinded their eyes.
It said he blinded their minds. We don’t see with our eyes; we see through them. We actually take pictures with our minds. The mind is the lens that gives focus to the picture we are taking. Our perspective is formed in our minds.
Meditation deals with the internal, subconscious mind. The subconscious is like a gauge. It holds down growth and expansion—it holds back redevelopment. It doesn’t want you to stop doing what you are used to doing. Your subconscious sets boundaries—makes decisions whether you want it to or not without your conscious participation. The landmarks it sets prevent you from going either below or above a certain level it will reject any change to keep you in the comfort zone.
God designed us with a subconscious mind that is on automatic pilot to keep us alive and functioning automatically. However, meditation changes all that. It provides you with a spiritual experience that causes your subconscious to look into new information. The Word of God will provide you with a spiritual experience and cause your mind to lock into new information.
Caleb had a different outlook or revelation from the other ten spies, which enabled him to say, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it” (see Numbers 13:30).
Jacob received new information through a dream from God. The dream not only delivered him from years of servitude and financial bondage to Laban but also caused a transfer of great wealth to come into his hands. (See Genesis 31:10-12.)
The subconscious is affected by repetition and pondering the Word—by reading it slowly, hearing the Word, often in quiet and rest until your subconscious receives new information. It has the power to transform you. The devil and his demons try to plant all kinds of ungodly images and thoughts in the minds of people so that when they see the truth they will not recognize it or receive it. We must always remember that the devil and his demons have no truth in them.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it. (See John 8:44)
If our minds are renewed in God’s Word, we will take a godly picture and see as God sees. If our minds are not renewed, or if we reject His Word, we can be deceived and blinded by the devil to see what he wants us to see and the devil is a liar and the father of lies. If we do not keep our minds renewed and continually submit our lives to the Word of God, the enemy can lead us down the path of destruction and even death.
The Way to living the Christian life
One of the things the devil will do is try to complicate everything. But, everything God does is easy enough for a child to understand and accomplish. Take the law of gravity. It is very simple. Everything is pulled to the Earth’s surface because the Earth is spinning on its axis.
Children understand very easily that if they are standing on a chair and jump off of it, they will go down to the ground. They will not fly up into the air.
They don’t need to know the full scientific explanation to accept the truth and live by it, but it is available to them. This is why Jesus said that we must become like children to be born again and live the Christian life.
Matthew 18:3-4; “Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
Little children believe what their parents tell them, and they are totally dependent on their parents for love, provision, and protection. That is the way we are to be with almighty God our Heavenly Father.
We are to believe everything He tells us in His Word and relies completely on Him for everything. Life becomes incredibly simple when we do this, and we understand that everything He asks us to do is simple. Whether it is sowing seeds of faith, abiding in His Word, feeding and clothing the poor, forgiving those who hurt us and offend us, or seeking first the Kingdom—all of His commands are simple. God’s laws are not only simple, but they are also consistent.
When I say consistent, I mean they work the same way every time, and they will work for everyone. If it is a law, it will work the same for you as it will for me. The law of gravity will work whether you are poor or rich, white or black, male or female, old or young. The Law of Meditation is no exception. It is simple. Anyone can do it. And it will work the same for everyone. That is why the devil will take this law and deceive people with it. He knows it will bring results. So he gets people meditating on things other than God’s Word.
Meditation that the devil inspires can bring a season of pleasure and even temporary good into their lives, but ultimately they will find themselves in greater bondage than when they started because they are not meditating in God’s Word. They are meditating on things that are not of God.
In recent years the church has stayed away from meditation because there have been so many cults based on some type of meditation. The Occults and the New Age Movement in all its forms offer numerous ways of meditation, from Transcendental Meditation, Yoga Meditation and Silva Mind Control.
Some minds are blinded by the enemy to meditate on what he wants them to meditate on. He deceives them in their minds. They believe they are doing something good, but they are following the greatest liar in the universe. We must remember that the enemy has never had an original thought. The devil has never created anything.
The Bible says that all things were created by and for Jesus Christ (see Colossians 1:16). The devil and his demons can take only what Jesus created and pervert it for their purposes.
So the enemy has come up with a multitude of ways to get us to meditate on anything but God’s Word. That is how he can keep our minds blinded, keep us from believing, and keep us under his control. Unfortunately, the church has seen all these eastern religions and cults become popular in recent years and many believers have decided that meditation is of the devil.
They forgot that God gave the Law of Meditation and that it is a key to our ability to possess all that Jesus died to give us everything from peace within to financial prosperity without. Therefore, we must look at what the Bible has to say about meditation and practice it as God instructs us.
What is Biblical Meditation?
The Bible was originally written almost entirely in Hebrew and Greek language. A particular word may be translated in one English translation and meditate in another translation, or with similar words such as ponder, consider, imagine or muse.
The point is, in the Bible, meditation is never portrayed as a religious, mental or emotional ritual. It simply is directed thinking, reflection, contemplation or concentration.
Certainly, the quality of our thinking can continue to improve, especially when we regularly pray for God’s guidance. Prayer, Bible study and meditation take time. God wants us to think and speak His Word over and over; pondering it in our hearts like a cow chews its cud. If you are a city person, let me explain this analogy.
A cow will chew grass and swallow it, which is the first time you hear the Word and receive it. Then, the cow will regurgitate what it has just swallowed and chew it some more. This releases more nutrients. Likewise, when you continue to muse on Scripture, to speak it out, ponder it, mutter it, and ask the Holy Spirit about it, you are going to continue to get more and more revelation from it. The cow continues to do this until all the nutrients in the grass are ingested into its system.
This is where meditating the Word differs; because there is no end to the revelation we can glean from God and His Word! Again, it is so simple! We meditate on His Word day and night and we become one with the Living Word. The Word literally transforms us and enables us to be like Jesus and do the works of Jesus. As long as we are meditating on God’s Word, we will do well. And we must always keep in mind that if God’s Word is not transforming us, then whatever else we are meditating on is transforming us.
The law of Meditation will transform Your Life because it is the most powerful yet simple key to living a joyful and successful Christian life. The simpler the truth, the greater its power, this is God’s design. A human being, with the help of the devil, complicates life and messes it up! Understanding and practice the Law of Meditation gives you a confidence that says, “This situation is a real challenge, but I know that if I just meditate in the Word and see this problem the way God sees it, then I will know the truth and be free. I will have His wisdom and be able to make a decision to follow the path that is His will. A special note about meditation will cause you to override sense knowledge.
Summary
The Law of Meditation is good for the soul! Meditating on God’s Holy word will help us and keep us moving in the right direction. Reading the Word and meditating on the Word consistently transforms us and enables us to be as Jesus wants us to be because it’s through meditation that the Word of God will become a part of us.
Also, it is through meditation we will receive a revelation from God. As we continue through meditation we can receive new revelation from the Holy Spirit. You may be surprised of how many Christians are allowing themselves to be pulled out of position because of an old revelation.
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