The Spiritual Fitness Manualናሙና

Meditation on the Word - Part 2

Don Finto, The Caleb Company

1. An aspect of meditation is to agree with what God has said.

Paul says that all the promises of God are “yes” and “amen,” but that we speak the “Amen.” There are promises that God has given that will not be fulfilled for us until we verbalize our agreement with them and speak the “Amen.” When you through His Word; place yourself into position to inherit those promises. 

For years I have prayed Psalm 112. I call it my “family psalm.” 

I’ve prayed this psalm in all kinds of conditions. I choose to trust His Word more than I trust my own feelings. In the end I will triumph, because I am one of those who fear the Lord and delight in His commands! Perfectly? No. Only one is Perfect, but He is in me working out His will for me. As the psalmist says in another place, “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me” (Psalm 138:8).

2. Another form of meditation is to memorize God’s word and then begin to turn it over in your mind by reflecting on what it each word means. 

Here is an example of this: 

“The Lord (the Ruler of the Universe, the King of Kings, the Creator of the Earth) is my shepherd (guide, caregiver, protector). I shall not want. (God will provide for me. God will meet my needs. I do not need to be afraid.) (Psalm 23.1)

3. King David put God’s Word to music and sang it. I encourage you to sing God’s Word back to him. This also is a form of meditating on the scriptures.

His Word is food. And life. 

“May the words of [your] mouth and the meditation of [your] heart, be pleasing in [the Lord’s] sight,” for He indeed is our “LORD [our] Rock and [our] Redeemer” (Ps. 19:14).