In this sermon clip, Bill Johnson shares personally how reviewing and meditating on God’s Word has been his life source. Bill shares from personal experience when he was seriously ill how God’s word was his source of life and strength. When our life source is God’s Word, we will not be shaken by the storms and droughts of life. Keeping God’s word in our hearts, our minds, and on our lips until it becomes part of us is key to growing in faith and hope in every season.
honestly it has been my life source is
to take what God has said review it over
over and over again I don’t care if I’ve
read the verse a thousand times I I need
it one more time
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I had a challenging physical issue here
several years ago
and I 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 uh sat in a recliner for long for
days and finally moved to
a hotel in San Francisco and eventually
into a hospital room
and uh 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
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
word is at least in my version of sanity
um 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’ve
read the verse a thousand times I need
it one more time
and I’ll 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
affecting and infecting how we think how
we pray what we declare what we say
and I sat there by the hour just
reviewing reading it again watching the
video again turning to Joshua 1 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 walks not in the Council of the
ungodly nor stands in the path of
sinners you know sits in the seat of the
score my grandma my mom’s mom would
quote this first Psalm all the time I
can hear her saying it as I’m reading I
think she’s a little concerned about me
maybe because she would quote this one
to me a lot
nor sits in the seat of the school yes
Grandma yes Grandma yes Grandma I’m
telling her right now yes Grandma I’m
doing my best verse 2 his Delight is in
the law of the Lord in his law he
meditates day and night he will be like
a tree planted by the rivers of water
that bring forth its fruit in its season
whose Leaf all shall 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
Jesus but I’d like to suggest you the
trees along the Sacramento River they
were never informed that there was
actually a drought
the trees along the river never knew
never knew there was a drought
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 the
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 and he prays 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
you might as well make it useful I I do
if I have a verse that I’m part let’s
just say the Psalms 127 verse provides
I’ll wake up in the night 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’d have 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 and 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 groaning it’s the muttering
it’s the praying it’s the quoting
it’s the declaring
it’s broadcasting it’s singing 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 and a
command to meditate on
one is the word of God
whatever God says
Market I can take you to portions of
scripture in here I’ve got one in the
book of name that the Lord spoke to me
um 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 we meditate 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 the 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 were kind and
patient with me God the way you you have
treated me is like I’m a treasure and
yet I would have been happy just to be
an outcast some distance from you that
could just at least live and not die and
yet your kindness changed who I am
changed how I think changed what I
believe for it was your kindness that
made it possible for me to actually have
a hope-filled future God your ways are
beyond measurement what’s happening
there you’re interacting your soul has
become interwoven with his own word with
his own nature his own heart
so we meditate on the word we meditate
on his ways and then David would say
in the Night Watch
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 still destroy
and the Holy Spirit just poured out upon
and we just watch as he kept pouring and
kept pouring and eventually there was
none of the crud at the bottom of the
vase left in there it had all been
washed out it was one of the most simple
moments of my life watching him come and
flutter so he stopped and you 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 it’s just
becoming interwoven with this very
fabric of his own nature of his own
being as we interact with the 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 Pew
and wait for the rapture
he is a scientist 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
pretend in your heart
help me Jesus
happy Jesus yes help me help me right
now Lord I do pray for an unusual gift
of Grace remember part of the word of
that dick Mills definition part of that
word meant to rid ourselves of
distraction so that we can actually give
ourselves 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 an unusual gift to be
given
a gift
of 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
let there be an anointing for biblical
meditation that changes how we think and
how we interact with your word
thank you Lord yeah I’m so glad that you
watched this video I do pray that it’s a
great great strength and encouragement
to you and I’ve got a verse that it
really is My Cry for all of us and it’s
Psalms 20 it’s verse 4. may he grant you
your heart’s desire and fulfill all your
plans
that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that
this would be the season of rich rich
fulfillment
thanks for joining us