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