Much has been written and said about meditating, both in the secular and spiritual worlds. First, let’s be clear on what we mean by meditate the world used the word in very ungodly ways. Vine’s Expository Dictionary says that meditate means ponder, imagine, attend to, practice, to care for.” This is the same action as worry—only it reverse!
Hearing the Word constantly is the best way for faith to come into your life.
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17).
God has ordained meditation as a key means for us to constantly hear the Word. When we meditate, we go over and over a thought in our minds. We think it, we say it then we think about it some more and that is how faith comes!
The best way to meditate is to memorize a portion of God’s Word, then several times a day “meditate” or ponder it. Say it over and over again, asking God to reveal truth from it. Personalize it—put the Word into your present situation, then visualize the Word coming to pass in your life.
An elderly man who would sit in his rocker on the front porch, rocking back and forth and repeating, “I wish I had a million dollars, I wish I had a million dollars. I wish I had a million dollars.”
Well, wishing did not get what an elderly man wanted, wishing to prosper will not make it happen, you need to LEARN God’s Word then SPEAK and ACT upon it!
Joshua faced a difficult task. It was his job to get the Israelites into the Promise Land, and he needed great faith in order to accomplish his assignment. God told him to have courage, but He also gave him specific instructions about meditating on the Word:
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…Joshua 1:8
There are three keys to prosperity and success in this scripture: keep the Word in your mouth; meditate on the Word (keep it in your mouth); and obey the Word. Notice that the Lord told Joshua not to let the Word depart from his mouth. In other words, he was to speak it over and over again. Joshua obeyed, and he was able to lead Israel to victory:
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, not sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers…
Psalms 1:1-3
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