A Meditation Exercise - 1
How to improve in Biblical meditation, and take faith to the next level (Section 1, Instructions)
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Hi Everyone. This month we’re doing a Plesson on improving with Biblical meditation again. As a review, here is how it will be posted.
Week 1 - Section 1, Instructions - the guide for how make it happen
Week 2 - Section 2, Principles - the Scriptural foundation behind the Plesson
Week 3 - Section 3, Application - the questions to answer that lead you through the exercise
Week 4 - Bringing it all together
(I’ll go back later and add the link to week 2, 3, and 4, so you can click between posts.)
Let me introduce this Plesson with the metaphor of a spiritual gym. I might have mentioned this before, but it bares repeating here. There are many great Biblical books, guides, and sermons that teach how to apply the Bible. We read, listen, learn, and try to apply it in our lives.
I used (and still obviously use) many great resources. But something was missing - demonstrative, transformational results. So I put my military, engineering and socio-analytical experience to work and created Plaitra, with one central focus in mind - results. And so, these Plessons are not only lessons, but also action-oriented exercises that produce results, which I also track for people.
Many of you might go to the gym and expect physical results. It’s the same with Plaitra, but with the things of God.
This Book of the Law (torah: instruction, teaching, guidance, law) shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate (hagah: to moan, growl, utter, speak, muse) on it day and night, so that you may be careful 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. Joshua 1:8 (ESV) (torah and hagah are obviously my additions to the text.)
(1) INSTRUCTIONS
(1.1) Unlocking God's power through meditation
(1.1-a) The purpose of this plesson is to improve your ability to draw power from Biblical meditation by learning to practice it more throughout your day. This plesson serves as a how-to exercise on meditation, working alongside other plessons that teach the content for different meditations.
(1.1-b) Here, you can work to increase your meditation speaking throughout the day, applying it within the context of something you’re striving to achieve. As a result, you’ll enhance your ability to use the Word of God to align your thoughts with how God wants you to think, while also encouraging yourself along the way.
(1.1-c) This can be challenging because it requires a habitual shift in your thinking and speaking patterns. Just take it one step at a time, first by trying to apply these Instructions to your life, learning the Principles next week, and working through the Application.