The Ancient Path of Meditation
🌿 Long ago, in the twilight hours, Isaac, the son of promise, walked into the fields to meditate. 📖 He went out to the field to meditate in the evening… (Genesis 24:63, KJV). This ancient, consecrated practice was a way of life, a discipline passed down through generations. Meditation is not merely passive thought; it is a profound and active engagement of the spirit. It is the very soil from which divine progress springs forth.
The Word teaches us that this intentional practice yields a tangible result. 📖 “Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.” (1 Timothy 4:15, KJV). The call is to be so absorbed in these truths that our advancement, our success, becomes evident and undeniable to all who behold our lives. The progress God desires for us is never meant to be hidden. It is a light that is to 📖 “so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16, KJV).
🗝️ The Mind as a Forge of Reality
The Greek word for "meditate" is meletao, which means to premeditate, to devise, to contrive, and to ponder with the purpose of putting into practice. It is to imagine and visualize with the mind, to create pictures in your inner man. This spiritual exercise is not for the faint of heart, for many have unwittingly used their minds as a forge for negative realities, meditating on their fears, their anxieties, their sicknesses, and their lack. They conjure images of failure and danger, wondering why these "bad thoughts" continue to come.
🔥 Your mind is a tool, a sacred instrument given by God to charge your course and decide your destiny. The spirit realm is the place where all of God’s provision resides, and it is through your meditation that you construct what you desire from that realm. You cannot bring into the natural world that which you have not first constructed in the spirit. True, consecrated meditation is a painstaking effort—a slow and deliberate turning of a truth in your mind until it becomes solid, until it is so real within you that nothing can stop it from becoming a reality in your natural world.
A Testimony of Divine Contrivance
A beloved daughter of Zion, frustrated by her daughter's waywardness, sought counsel from her pastor. Her heart was heavy with the visible reality of a misbehaving child. The pastor, a man of profound faith, instructed her to stop seeing her daughter as a problem and to begin creating a new reality with her mind. He told her to write down a new truth: "My daughter is a wonderful girl and she is coming home." The woman struggled, for her reality was different. But the pastor was firm: 👑 if you can't create the picture of what you want, it will never happen.
For weeks, she read her new declaration, fighting the old thoughts with the new Word. She meditated upon this truth until her spirit was filled with joy and her heart was convinced. When she could speak the words without reading, when her countenance changed from sorrow to profound expectation, the pastor knew she had crossed over. They decreed together, and three nights later, the daughter, whose whereabouts had been unknown, knocked at the door. She had come home, broken and ready to be born again. The mother was not surprised; her faith had already made it so.
Our New Environment in Christ
🕊️ This is a profound truth of our new life in the Spirit. As it is written: 📖 “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.” (Colossians 2:6, KJV). The act of receiving Christ is not merely a one-time event; it is an act of association, of joining yourself with Him to become one. You have been born into a new nation, a new environment called Christ.
Just as a person born in one country develops a certain mentality, language, and culture, so too must a Christian learn to live in their new home. You can no longer think or talk like the world, for that is not your environment. You are complete in Him. 📖 “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:9-10, KJV). Never again should you think that something is missing in your life. You have been granted everything required for life and godliness. The Christian has the responsibility to renew their mind, exchanging the world’s way of thinking for God’s way of thinking. This is Christian growth.
The Vision of the Righteous
This truth is powerfully illustrated in the account of the twelve spies. Ten of them saw the giants in the land and allowed their worldly senses to dictate their reality, declaring, "We can't take the land." But Joshua and Caleb saw with the eyes of faith. They saw the same giants, but their vision was different. 📖 “Those giants shall be bread for us.” (Numbers 14:9, KJV). They didn't deny the existence of the giants, but they saw them through the lens of God's promise. They had meditated on God’s Word so deeply that the giants became inconsequential, a mere meal.
This is the divine mentality that we are called to embrace. Poverty is not a congenital condition; it is a taught mentality. Sickness is not an inevitability; it is a result of a worldly way of thinking. The Word of God is our ultimate guide, a sacred blueprint for our thoughts, words, and actions. It teaches us that our status is not measured by what we have or do not have in the natural, but by our reality in Christ, where we possess all things.