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