Emotional and mental health are in the realm of God’s dominion. Bill Johnson teaches about faith to believe in the impossible and the inheritance of health we have in Him. In His presence, we are thriving and filled with life.

Scripture Reference: Joshua 1:5-9 (NKJV) “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

[Applause]

all right I’ll give thanks okay thank

you

thank you sorry still I’ve gum in my

mouth

careless sorry well good morning it’s

still morning it is 27 minutes left of

morning the drought is over thank you

Jesus I mean it’s really over

anybody in that thunderstorm yesterday

that was like God’s Amen it’s over it’s

like it’s over huh tonight’s gonna be so

much fun I missed last year I made that

the gospel night so many of our

community were able to minister to so

profoundly and and I missed it this I

don’t forget where I was I was somewhere

else besides here and I I begged I

didn’t get pitiful but I begged that

they would do it again and and I’m so

glad they’re gonna do it again tonight

so it’s just gonna be outrageous and

wonderful and I’m just thankful in

advance Sunday school teacher was

discussing the 10 commandments with a

five and six-year-olds after explaining

the commandment to honor thy father and

mother she asked is there a commandment

that teaches us how to treat our

brothers and sisters without missing a

beat one little boy the oldest of the

family answered thou shalt not kill

currently that really touched him so

a kindergarten teacher was observing her

classroom while they were drawing she

would occasionally walk around and see

each child’s work and she got to one

little girl who was working diligently

she asked what she was drawing she

replied I’m drawing God the teacher

pause that’s it but no one knows what

God looks like she said they will in a

moment that sounds like one of the kids

in our schools welcome sounds like oh

yeah they will in a moment the little

girl was talking to her teacher about

whales teacher said it’s physically

impossible for a whale to swallow a

human because even though it was a very

large mammal its throat was very small

the little girl stated Jonah was

swallowed by a whale irritated the

teacher repeated a whale could not

swallow a human it’s physically

impossible the little girl said when I

get to heaven I will ask Jonah teacher

said what if Jonah went to hell

the little girl replied then you asked

him

hmm

oh wow alright that was that was kind of

scary

I want I’d like for you to open your

Bibles to the Gospel of John there we go

sorry I apparently I’ve been in the

gospel so much lately it just

automatically was coming out of my mouth

to the book of Joshua and I don’t know

if if you do this I Joshua chapter one

especially verses 5 to it 2:9 our verses

I review actually very very often it’s

kind of like it’s kind of like Maya it’d

be my cabin in the mountains the place I

go to to find rest and refreshing in and

kill animals no no find rest and

refreshing sorry I had to I started

thinking about a cabin in the mountains

as a place to go to find refreshing and

I have different places throughout

scripture where I go and I will I will

pray and read and meditate I don’t think

about for great periods of time and this

is one of them this is actually probably

one of the top three most important

passages in my life for the last 40 plus

years and so it has that kind of a role

I’ve taught on it before I’ve talked

about it many times through the years

but I I’m not going to take a different

twist but I want to refine my focus for

you this morning because I believe that

there is a tool in here that is

necessary for emotional and mental

health emotional and mental health I’ve

never seen a time in my life where there

was as great a battle over the mind as

in the last few years and and the Lord

has has equipped us with tools that are

not just necessarily useful they’re

edifying there there are wonderful tools

that he gives us about life and one of

the byproducts is it helps us in these

areas so that’s what we’re going to do

Joshua chapter one

this is about Joshua receiving the baton

or the baton if you’re from one of them

other places the baton the baton from

Moses this is where the Lord speaks to

Josh when says Moses my servant is dead

his job is now your job basically and

here’s something to to remind yourself

up Joshua is now leading the descendants

of the people who first received the

promise about the promised land they

didn’t get it although God promised it

to him

Larry Randolph helped me to understand

this much better a number of years ago

he said God fulfills all of his promises

but he’s not obligated to fulfill our

potential and sometimes the Lord gives

us a promise that actually carries with

it an invitation to a potential a

possibility to a realm of maturity

development conquest whatever it might

be and so the kingdom of God in the Old

Testament was a excuse me the Promised

Land in the Old Testament was a type of

the kingdom of God in the new in the Old

Testament of course it was a

geographical area that will Reba read

about in a moment and they drew an

inherit this vast piece of land they

would divide it up according to tribes

then divided up according to family that

was their inheritance it was a land that

was so prosperous so rich so so

wonderful that the Lord described it as

a land filled with flowing with milk and

honey in other words it had abundance

and everything that was right and it was

their inheritance when the 12 spies went

in to check out the land they came back

saying it’s true it’s a land flowing

with milk and honey

but there’s giants that are there

there’s a very well-equipped military

all through this land much more member

these are these are the children of

slaves that are now supposed to go in

and have military conquest they have

zero training whatsoever and so these

folks are very very intimidated they

come back with the port saying yes it’s

a land flowing with milk and honey the

Giants are there and then they said

something is very eye-opening it says

and we are like ground

Hopper’s in our site in other words we

we we are here and they are there and

there’s no way we can measure this

challenge because of their unbelief they

disqualified themself for the very thing

God had promised and there is a part of

the promise over your life and mine that

actually takes active faith to fully

apprehend and step into this notion that

if it’s meant to be it will just happen

is nonsense it’s absolute nonsense its

it’s absolute careless and lazy theology

there is a responsibility in this

relation longjourney to continuously

exercise faith and pursuit of what God

has promised I feel better having said

that alright let’s just get into this

and I’ll fix whatever I break later all

right let’s go verse 1 after the death

of Moses the servant of the Lord it came

to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua

the son of nun Moses is assistant saying

Moses my servant is dead now therefore

arise go over this Jordan you and all

this people to the land which I’m going

which I’m giving to them the children of

Israel every place that the sole of your

foot will tread upon I have given to you

as I said to Moses from the wilderness

and this Lebanon as far as the Great

River the river Euphrates and all the

land of the Hittites to the Great Sea

toward the going down of the Sun shall

be your territory no man shall be able

to stand before you all the days of your

life as I was with Moses so I will be

with you I will not leave you nor

forsake you stop right there let me kind

of connect the dots concerning the

kingdom and then we’ll read verses 5

through 9 is actually the part that I

return to on a regular basis it’s my

cabin alright when we talk about Old

Testament Promised Land it is in the

natural a picture of the New Testament

concept of the kingdom of God it is the

fact that when you enter a realm of

maturity a realm of

Conquest in some cases it’s it’s like a

territory that you inherit when you

experience joy when you experienced

deliverance when the experience feeling

whatever it might be it’s always an

invitation to a realm in God that you

actually inherit kingdom Kings domain

it’s the realms of God’s Dominion that

we step into Jesus announced to us the

kingdom is at hand and then he would say

if I cast a demon out of you by the

Spirit of God then the kingdom of God

has come upon us

so he’s actually describing realms of

personal inheritance here’s somebody

who’s tormented at night they don’t

sleep at night because of abusive

upbringing whatever it might be they

have a rough time with their life Jesus

comes along or you come along and

Minister them and break off that power

some of they sleep at night what does

that call that’s called the kingdom of

God that’s the realm of God’s Dominion

somebody I just got a report this week

of another person that had throat cancer

that was healed here they came and they

were delivered set free of throat cancer

what is that that’s the kingdom of God

the kingdom of God the realm of God’s

Dominion that has no cancer came upon

this person’s throat and drove it from

them

we recently have had five cases that I

know of of Lyme’s disease in the last I

would say five weeks it actually

happened in a three week period five

people with Lyme’s disease that were

healed 138 years 38 years 10 years

mostly in bed for 10 years and I watched

as the Spirit of God it was it was

actually like the Holy Spirit flooded

everything that was wrong

flooded it out of her body if you could

imagine having a vase and it’s got dirt

in the bottom and you just keep pouring

water until all the dirt is flushed out

that’s exactly what happened the Spirit

of God came upon her and I have a video

of her running around her swimming pool

she’s been incapable of doing ten ten

years bedridden and and as a result of

that two little girls that were

bedridden eight and eleven also with

juvenile arthritis were completely

healed I have a video of them doing

jumping jacks with their mom of things

that they were incapable of doing so the

point is is we see the kingdom of the

kingdom that has no affliction come upon

their bodies and literally just flush

out everything that the enemy

tried to do to steal kill and destroy

their life that what is what is the

kingdom it’s all of that it’s all of

that and that is the promised land for

the believer it sometimes includes

financial blessing prosperity in a

business but as we never want to make

the mistake of equating spiritual

maturity with income and possessions

neither do we want to equate spiritual

maturity with poverty yeah let’s let’s

let’s throw up both don’t both stupid

ideas and you know God wants to bless

you more than you can imagine

well let’s leave it there all right I’m

gonna crawl into a hole and make a mess

I can see it all right verse five no man

will be able to stand before you all the

days of your life as I was with Moses so

I will be with you I will not leave you

nor forsake you be strong now here’s

where we have the words of instructions

I want you to pay attention here be

strong and of good courage for this to

this people you would divide as an

inheritance the land which I swore to

their fathers to give them only be very

strong or be strong and very courageous

that you may be able to observe all

according to the law which Moses my

servant commanded you the law of Moses

was the Word of God they had at that

time so we can put in its place that the

Word of God the scriptures that you now

how many of you have your Bibles with

you let me see them

let me hold of my I’m just taking a roll

just just trying to see all right we’re

talking about the Word of God now okay

so the the Word of God in this case the

law it’s Moses my sermon commanded you

do not turn from it to the right or to

the left that you may prosper wherever

you go please notice prosperity and

success are biblical terms we just can’t

let Wall Street’s definition affect our

our position because real prosperity

starts on the inside so the target of

the Lord as he wants everybody in this

room to be ridiculously prosperous but

his target is the inner world

it’s my emotional and mental health

alright verse eight the book this book

of the law shall not depart from your

mouth but you will meditate on it day

and night that you may observe to do

according to all that is written in it

then you will make your way prosperous

and then you will have success then you

will make your way prosperous I thought

the Lord did it now he gave you the

tools

I get the same response of that drama

back there then you won’t make your way

prosperous and then you will have good

success say this with me I am

responsible for my own prosperity I am

responsible for my own success oh Jesus

help us

we need a nation of people right now

that will take responsibility and not

expect some government to do it all

right I have more to say but for all of

our safety I will be quiet verse 9 have

I not commanded you be strong and of

good courage do not be afraid do not be

dismayed for the Lord your God is with

you wherever you go

how many of you have ever become so

anxious over something it kept you up at

night and you just had that thing going

through your brain all night long and

you couldn’t sleep but you’re them

alright so we know that we know how to

meditate

so now we just have to change the

subject matter this passage of scripture

gives us like how many times does he

have to say it be strong be courageous

be very strong be very courageous did

you hear me I said be strong be

courageous

don’t be dismayed don’t be fearful don’t

become anxious he gives all these

commands in there but not one time does

he tell you how he just says be strong

very courageous and then he says you’re

gonna make your own way prosperous

you’re gonna make your own way

successful and then he gives one little

sliver extremely profound sliver of

advice not advice a command a sliver of

instruction that makes everything else

in the verses possible he says but you

shall meditate on this word day and

night I think I think is this is a

biblical meditation is probably the most

neglected area of Christian discipline

in the body of Christ in our country

there’s Western meditation which is

intellectual

there’s Eastern meditation which is to

empty your mind and there’s biblical

meditation that is unlike either of

those two I want to read to you the

definition of this word meditation by

the way if you’re taking notes I don’t

know if we’ll get to it or not but the

first song Psalms number one is a

parallel passage to Joshua chapter one

it runs very very similar themes all

right so let me read this definition to

you it means to reflect to moan to

mutter to ponder to make a quiet sound

such as sign to meditate or contemplate

something as one repeats the words it

represents something quite unlike the

English meditation which may be a mental

exercise only in Hebrew thought to

meditate upon the scriptures is to

quietly repeat them in a soft droning

sound while utterly abandoning outside

distractions from this tradition comes a

specialized type of Jewish prayer called

deafening that is reciting text praying

intense prayers are getting lost in

communion with God while bowing or

rocking back and forth if you’ve seen

people at the Wailing Wall this rocking

that is actually a physical response to

biblical meditation it is repeating a

matter which is what you do in biblical

meditation meditation all right so

rocking back and forth evidently this

dynamic form of meditation prayer goes

back to David’s time thus called davon

II this is from dick mills in his his

work study book

often what we do is well read us we read

scripture we say amen to what we read

we’re encouraged by what we read but the

Lord has actually given us instruction

that in in many ways determines the

measure of our success our impact our

prosperity and again I don’t mind

talking about money in this context but

it’s not my focus today at all it’s it’s

not about you know boats and planes and

mansions

it’s about being as wealthy as Bill

Gates is on the outside you and me being

that wealthy on the inside is that

there’s that kind of an abundance here

that I have to I have to spend my life

trying to figure out how to give all

this encouragement away because I’ve got

so much it’s that place of prosperity is

it possible that God would bless you

more on the inside then somebody like a

Bill Gates or some of these others are

blessed on the outside yes it’s possible

because we tap into an eternal unlimited

kingdom and it is the design of the Lord

that we actually enter into places of

personal victory that are equal to the

kinds of victories that we see by great

corporations etc all right so back to

the point is that the Lord would cause

you and me to be a people that have

triumphed in our personal journey with

the Lord to such an extent that there

are conquests in the same way that

there’d be conquest in military conquest

in business conquest in in other parts

of life sports etc instead what he says

he’s directly directly tying it to this

one tiny little sliver of insight and

command and that is to meditate even

where he says this book of the law shall

not depart from your mouth that’s

actually one of the expressions of

meditation it is the fact that there

there is just I’m not saying you have to

rock but I but I want to illustrate it’s

the fact that there is this repeating

God spoke a word to me let’s just take I

remember times I’ve been in real a

difficult place financially and I needed

a miracle break

and I found this verse in Psalms 127 in

fact for months now I’ve been reading

Psalms 127 to 128 every day because

there are family Psalms and I love to

pray them over my household so let’s go

back to this first so he says he

provides first beloved even while he

sleeps so I will take this verse in a

time of personal great personal need and

up and I will just pray and say God you

said in your word that you provide for

me even while I’m sleeping God I

celebrate the fact that I I do work hard

for you and I give that to you but your

work for me is far greater than my work

for myself you have unlimited resources

you have positive resources you provide

for me out of the riches of your glory

which is vast and uncontainable in any

vessel god I thank you that your

abundance pours towards me that you’ve

actually assigned a measure of

breakthrough into my life my family and

my family line god I confess I declare I

sing before you you provide for me even

while I sleep what is it there’s just

this repeated prayer it’s not just this

ritual of this religious routine what’s

happening is my interaction with what

God has said is now becoming a part of

the fabric of my being last long I would

say it’s become cellular in us it’s it

becomes a something that is so much a

part of us that that it is woven into

our actual personality and it affects

how we think it affects how we live it’s

not a two-minute reciting of a verse

it’s a lifetime of engagement with that

which God has said now the Scriptures

tell us man shall not live by bread

alone but by every word that proceeds

out of the mouth of God

God is saying you’re alive because I

talk you’re alive because I talk

everything about you thrives because I

have spoken everything about you

thrives because I have spoken I have

deposited through word I have

transferred from my world to yours

through a decree and when we take that

word seriously and prayerfully consider

put another I’ve done this put it on

three by five card sticking on the

dashboard of my car if I have

distance to drive and I just have that

to look at just to refresh my mind I

maybe can quote it without the card but

I look at it anyway because I want

everything about me I speak it cuz I

want my ears to hear it I see it with my

eyes cuz I want my eyes to see it I

I speak with my mouth because I want to

participate with God in saying what he

is saying if you want Jesus only said

what his father says if you want to

learn to say what the father sang then

start saying what he has said start

declaring what he has already said oh

thank you that’s probably a very

important oh yeah very important note

all of my notes are scribbling important

notes alright so here we have this

invitation by the Lord on this

relational journey where we we do more

than simply reading a text we are alive

at a time when we are inundated with

words many words ideas concepts

principles that are so Antichrist in

nature sometimes they’re easy to spot

because you know the devil wears a red

rubber suit carries a pitchfork and it’s

not hard to see other times it’s so

interwoven into our culture maybe our

own personal history that we don’t

recognize him at all it’s just become a

part and until you get exposed more than

just on an eye level more than just an

intellectual level but this interaction

with God Himself who is the word

suddenly things start standing out to me

now wait a minute

it’s like that abortion movie is

something that was acceptable and now no

it’s no longer acceptable sudden you

start seeing from a different place

because the interaction of the word in

you actually rewires your capacity to

see and to think it is an on meditation

is an ongoing encounter with God it is

ongoing experience where we harness our

thoughts we harness emotion we put them

in line to what God has sang and

suddenly we began to carry the shape of

that work very word and here Joshua was

told that his own success is on personal

and corporate prosperity as a nation was

dependent upon them not letting this

depart from their mouth not letting it

depart from their mouth is the

expression of biblical meditation I keep

it in front of me everything that is

commanded here be strong be courageous

don’t be dismayed don’t be you know keep

the word in your mouth all these things

are connected to this one simple

assignment meditate on what God has said

it’s the lost art of meditation we are

inundated with words with ideas with

thoughts that are so contrary to the

kingdom and I grieve as I watch people

that I know in the body of Christ that

will adopt things that are so contrary

to the kingdom of God and they’ll not

just adopt them in the sense that they

no longer resist them they will even

begin to promote these things they were

very very much against Christ Antichrist

thoughts and ideas even if you know in

the Internet

I like the internet myself I love you

can find anything I sometimes it says

what could I find today you know I will

I sit there I go oh what can I find I

did this years ago I thought I used to

shop for this I’m not gonna tell you cuz

people tend to buy me stuff I have to be

careful what I say anymore makes me

nervous there was an item I’m not even

say what it was but I used to go in the

mall and watch buy a seat in the window

I go man I wish I could afford a little

is like 60 bucks but 60 look was like a

million to me at that time and I’d look

at that think of more that’s so nice and

I’d walk right past it several years ago

I thought I have $60 I I need to find

that thing so I did I just did a little

research online and I found what I

couldn’t afford forty years ago I can

now afford and if it’s a little more

than 60 now but it’s still alright

that’s that’s whether it might read I

love the I do but there’s so much

garbage and there are ways of thinking

that are so dangerous the TV I mean

Benny now I you know this movies on the

planes and oh Jesus help us with better

movies

yes yes I have what’s a better movies

it’s being done folks it’s being done

bright ones this release anyway I’ll sit

on the play I last about five minutes on

most movies I sit there I watch it yeah

see where this going Dom turn it yeah

garbage turned that I just don’t last

for long there’s so much bombardment on

our minds and our emotions trying to

draw us into emotional weightiness and

heaviness that is not an a reality it’s

not really a part of our life even if

you don’t have the internet if you don’t

have a TV you still have to walk into a

grocery store and there’s stuff

everywhere to prophesy to you the values

of another world the point I’m trying to

make is to be strong in this hour that’s

going to take more than a few verses of

a devotional on a Tuesday morning

you’ve got to interact with God Himself

who is the word have that that is that

is in his heart interwoven to how you

think how you feel how you react how you

respond how you plan everything is

interwoven because I have taken time to

meditate to utter to moan to rehearse to

bring up over and over again to put in

my own words to put in his words to

gather other scriptures put them

together make them prayers make them

confessions sing them as songs just

don’t try this sing a song that Belfer

music could record that causes a lot of

people to not write a good song because

they try to make it recordable listen

it’s probably stinks as a song to be

recorded but it’s one that God will

really value so just let it be honest

authentic and sing I’m serious sing to

him you are the one who provides while I

sleep I can rest the peace because if

your abundance your heart for me is

beyond anything I could imagine

God I celebrate who you are you provide

for me even while I sleep and you just

take this you begin to sing it

throughout your day why because that’s

that’s biblical meditation somehow the

heart the mind the emotions everything

about us becomes trained in the mind of

Christ the missing art a biblical

meditation must be restored I believe

it’s the most essential ingredient for

this season or that we’re living in why

don’t you like with me I’m gonna said

look at me no don’t do that look with me

to Psalms 1 the first song we’re gonna

read just a couple verses of it but I

think hopefully it’ll make sense to you

when I was I had a challenging physical

issue here several years ago and I got

to the place I had a growth in a small

intestine and I got to where I couldn’t

eat and then eventually to where I

couldn’t drink and sat in a recliner for

long four days and finally moved to

hotel Sam Cisco eventually into a

hospital room and and my practice was to

sit with the scripture and or to sit

with my iPad and to watch listen to

prophetic words over my life that this

biblical meditation is what has kept me

alive insane sanity might be

questionable for some of you concerning

me but we’ll just leave that where it is

at least in my version of sanity

honestly it has been my life source is

to take what God has said review it over

and over and over it again I don’t care

if I have read the verse of a thousand

times I need it one more time

and you’ll take that verse and you just

begin to pray he says and he says in his

word and no one is able to remove you

from my hand God I give you thanks I

give you thanks that my life is firmly

in your hand your strength protects me

your grip on my heart keeps me safe god

I honor you as the father who delights

in me as a son

and you just take this you process it

it’s more than a two-minute moment in

the morning it’s a lifestyle that starts

to fit affecting and infecting how we

think how we pray what we declare what

we say and I set there by the hour just

reviewing breathing it again watching

the video again turning to Joshua Wong

which I did again and again reading this

Psalm that has been such a life source

for me again and again I’m telling you

it’s a source of mental health for us

forever but especially in this season

all right Psalms 1 verse 1

blessed is the man or woman who washed

walks not in the counsel of the ungodly

excuse me just second year I need to gag

okay we cast it out and better blessed

is the man who walks not in the counsel

of the ungodly nor stands in the path of

sinners nor sits in the seat of the

scroll my grandma my mom’s mom would

quote this first Psalm all the time I

can hear her sang it as I’m reading I

think she’s a little concerned about me

maybe because she would caught this one

to me a lot

nor sits in the seat of the school yes

grandma yes go I get it yes Graham I’m

telling her right now yes grandma I’m

doing my best

verse to his delight is in the law of

Lord in his law he meditates day and

night he will be like a tree planted by

the rivers of water that brings forth

its fruit in its season whose leaf also

shall not wither whatever he does shall

prosper this is a tandem passage to

Joshua chapter 1 now we’ve heard

recently the drought in all of

California is officially over thank you

Lord Jesus thank you Lord even that I’d

like to suggest you the trees along the

Sacramento River they were never

informed that there was actually a drop

the trees along the river never knew

never knew there was a job and the one

who meditates in the word does not go

through the seasons of drought that

others go through because the roots

start reaching down into these

subterranean streams and taps into the

rivers of God where there is always more

than enough always more than enough the

Word of God flows from his heart towards

you and me continuously it is 24/7 it’s

why David would say I wake in the night

watches and I consider your works i

awaken the night watches while I lie on

my bed I consider your word and he

meditates any praise over these words

that have been spoken over his life

where in bed you wake up at night you

might as well make it useful might as

well make it useful I I do if I ever

verse then I’m part let’s just say the

Psalms 127 verse provides I wake up in

the night God God I just thank you you

are providing for me even right now

while I sleep or whatever verse seems to

fit your situation and you take that you

prayerfully consider you pray it

automatically it’s better to wake up

with a purpose than to wake up in

anxiety and fear I’ve said it many times

we had had better days if we had better

nights and this biblical meditation on

scripture engaging with the presence of

the Spirit of God is a huge part of our

own personal triumph in the victory so

here he says it his delight is in the

law of the Lord in his law his word he

meditates day and night he will be like

a tree planted by rivers of water that

brings forth fruit in its season the

leaf never withers whatever he does he

prospers again I want to connect the

bounty of the soul is connected to

biblical meditation on his word it’s the

it’s the groaning it’s the muttering

it’s the praying

is the quoting it’s the declaring it’s

broadcasting its sing

it’s rehearsing every application of

what God has said over your life

something happens to the heart of faith

in that atmosphere there’s three things

that I’m aware of this morning that we

have been given an invitation in a

command to meditate on one is the Word

of God whatever God says market I can

take you two portions of scripture in

here I’ve got one and the book have

named that the Lord spoke to me in

August of 2009 and I have I have a

little date next to it there’s a passage

there that I will pray I will sing and I

will declare it I will do all those

things to this because he spoke to me he

highlighted have have your history with

God in that word so he meditated on the

word but the second thing as we meditate

on his ways David would talk about

waking in the night and considering the

goodness of God their greatness of God

whatever it might be he would

contemplate the person of God himself

who had chosen him who has chosen you

who has chosen me he would consider for

for example the mercy and the kindness

of God God you are so kind

you could have rejected me a thousand

times time a thousand and you didn’t

instead you showed kindness to me you

were patient towards me when I was

impatient with myself when everybody

around me deserved to be impatient and

you’re a kind and patient with me God

the way he you have treated me it’s like

I’m a treasure and yet I would have been

happy just to be an outcast some

distance from you they could just at

least live and not die and yet your

kindness changed Who I am changed how I

think change what I believe for it was

your kindness that made it possible for

me to actually have a hope filled future

got your ways are beyond measurement

what’s happening there you’re

interacting your soul has become

interwoven with his own world

his own nature’s own heart so we

meditate on the word we meditate on

those ways and then David would say in

the Nightwatch I consider your works

that’s the things that God does it’s the

it’s the pouring in of the presence of

God into this dear one who has suffered

for 38 years

only to watch the crud that had

afflicted her for all those years to no

fault of her own the enemy comes to kill

steal destroy and the Holy Spirit just

poured out upon and we just watched as

he kept pouring and kept pouring and

eventually there was none of the crowd

at the bottom of the vase left in there

it had all been washed it was were the

most simple moments of my life watching

him come and flutter say stop me think

it’s amazing it’s amazing how you do

this it’s amazing it’s amazing that you

could just flutter soul and the end

result is 38 years of affliction is over

you amaze me what’s happening heart mind

emotion everything about us is just

becoming inner woven with this very

fabric of his own nature of his own

being as we interact with a greatness

and the significance of God I’m telling

you biblical meditation that little

sliver of instruction is the key to

making your own way prosperous finding

your own way of success accomplishing

what God has left you on the planet to

accomplish Jesus didn’t go through what

he could went through so we could sit in

a pool and wait for the rapture

he has assigned us to be overcomers and

conquerors but I’m telling you it is not

possible without embracing the tool that

he gave us called biblical meditation

for change in your heart help me Jesus

happy Jesus yes help me not me right now

lord I do pray for an unusual gift of

grace remember part of the word that

dick Mills definition part of that word

meant to rid ourselves of distraction so

that we can actually give herself what

happens is you try to meditate when

we’re in the middle of chaos you know

start with the meditation so it shapes

the remainder of your day father I pray

for this unusual gift to be given a gift

a biblical meditation to be imparted now

through word every person in the word

our online bethel TV family the same

thing in every home every church where

this is viewed that there be an

anointing for biblical meditation that

changes how we think and how we interact

with your word thank you Lord in a crowd

this size there’s always a high

probability that we have people here who

have never been as the Bible called born

again that’s where there’s a moment of

personal surrender to the absolute

lordship of Jesus it’s where we turn

from our life serving our self doing all

that we can do to be right to truly

being a disciple following the Lord

Jesus Christ and if there’s anybody in

the room they would say bill that’s me I

don’t want to leave this building I

don’t leave this property till I know

I’ve been forgiven of God that I know

that I’ve been brought into his family

that I know that I have peace with God

now and forever if there’s anybody in

that position put your hand up right now

by doing so you’re just saying bill I

don’t want to leave until I know I’m

right with God but a hand up real fast

because I’m just going to wait a moment

there maybe those even online that are

doing this I encourage you respond to

Jesus now respond to him now you know we

had two or three this morning

for service anybody at all right that

I’m going to assume you’re all in why

don’t you go ahead and stand