The Awesome Power Of Meditation

Scripture reveals meditation as a quiet but aggressive power. As believers dwell on God’s Word day and night, their minds transform, divine wisdom flows, negative strongholds break, and prosperity, guidance, peace, and spiritual maturity emerge through attentive stillness before God.

Text: Joshua 1:8, Psalms 1:1-3, 63:6, 1 Timothy 4:14-15*

Today, we are looking at one of the greatest sources of power.

There are only two things that can get you anything you want:

They are power

wisdom.

Those two keys will get you anything you want. Today, we are discussing one of the keys to that power. You will be surprised to see how seriously the Bible takes the matter of meditation. The truth there, is that many people do not discover it.

Joshua 1:8 (KJV) says, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

All as a result of meditating on the Word of God. So one key to obtaining what you want is what you see here. It looks simple and non-aggressive, but it is quietly aggressive.

Day and night, you keep talking about it, reciting it, and keep turning it over in your mind.

Then two things happen when you do that:

Your way will be prosperous.

You shall have good success.

Psalms 1:1-3 (KJV) says: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

The same prosperity that Joshua 1:8 is telling you. Look at this carefully as we enter into another year.

Psalms 63:6 (KJV) says:, “When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.”

You may say, “This is the Old Testament”, let us now go to the New Testament.

1 Timothy 4:14-15 (KJV) says, “Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.”

You can see from these scriptures we read that there is awesome power in meditation. Many Christians pray. Well done. Many believers pray. Well done. But many do not meditate.

In prayer, you speak to God. In meditation, God speaks back to you. The truth is this: when you change your meditation, you will change what you become. You will change who you become.

The trouble is many engage in negative meditation every day. And because of that negative meditation, they do not move to where they should move. Many will meditate on sickness, failure, past problems, offences, bad dreams or any bad vision someone had about them or any bad prophecy someone is giving them.

Whether it is a dream or a vision or prophecy working against you, you have the ability to reverse them by prayer.

Many come to church meditating on their problem; when they get home, they meditate on it; when they want to sleep, they meditate on it, even when they are driving; and as they keep meditating, their blood pressure keeps going up, causing more problems.

They were the ones meditating on the problem, which gave them high blood pressure. Now, they are meditating again on the high blood pressure. Many meditate on how to fornicate, how to pretend and how to deceive.