Battle Cryናሙና

If you want to experience peace, start and end each day with a moment to reflect on the turbulent things that have shaken your soul. Then, through prayer and meditation, allow your soul to release the cares of this world to the Most High so you can reset. Once your soul is stilled, you can experience rest—a byproduct of the Most High’s peace (Ps. 127:2).

To deepen this practice, I created a type of biblical meditation, which I call Shalach (pronounced shä-lakh’). Shalach is a Hebrew word that means to send, let go, or cast away.* It’s active. In that sense, it is not a form of concentration, nor a New Age emptying of your mind. In Shalach meditation, the end goal is to eventually maintain a meditative state while moving, regardless of the stress or situation. My reasoning is that, if I have to sit still to meditate, how useful will it be during my day when I can’t always be sitting still but when I also need meditation’s benefits the most?

To wage and win the war within, we must be able to “shalach” the stress of this world, whether we’re lying down, sitting up, standing, walking, or even fighting. 

* Blue Letter Bible Lexicon, s.v. “shalach,” Strong’s H7971

Prayer:

Father, I come to you now for peace and rest. Gracefully teach me how to be still and know that you are God. I release all my turbulent thoughts and stressful feelings to You, and I ask You to fill me with Your Spirit. In the name of Yahushua (Jesus) I pray, amen.