I treasure your Word and want to chew on the truths you reveal to me today. ![]() Even when I feel alone or distant from you, you draw me back into your presence when I purposely slow down and draw close to you. I rehearse your goodness through answered prayer and personal reminders to me daily of your love for me. I remember your great faithfulness in the past and am so grateful that you shower fresh mercy and grace on me each morning. For you are worthy to be praised all the time. I ask for your wisdom to apply these truths to my life morning, noon, and night-literally all through the day. Narrow my thoughts to include only those things that are honorable, truthful, beautiful, pure, and praiseworthy. I simply want you to empty me of self and fill me with your Holy Spirit. I like to imagine you literally sitting here beside me, because of your promise that you are Emmanuel-always “with us.”Īs I think about the truths in your Word, may the meditation of my heart be sweet and honoring to you. You are Spirit, but you are a God who knows us so intimately. For these next few moments, it’s just you and me, God. I want to focus on You, Lord, and to shut out all the distractions of the world. There is no one like you, no other god worthy of honor. All of creation testifies to your awesome and unique works. I recognize you as a holy and majestic God-one who deserves great praise and glory. Lord, quiet my heart and still my soul as I wait on you during these moments alone. When we do that, God’s Word nourishes and strengthens our soul and draws us even closer to Him.Īs you begin to read and reflect about God and His Word, here is a meditation prayer you might offer to Him: Then we apply those truths to our lives, maybe even praying them back to God as we digest them. We spend quiet moments reading His truths, thinking about them, “swallowing” their goodness. That’s what we are to do when we meditate on God and His Word. Then it chews that food again before finally digesting it and allowing the food to nourish its body and produce the milk we drink. While eating, a cow literally regurgitates its food. ![]() Meditation, as used in the Bible, is like “chewing” on the truths in God’s Word: much like a cow chewing on its cud. While we can do that anytime, anywhere, most of us can focus better on God when we plan intentional times alone with Him without distractions. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.Meditating on God’s Word, His character, and His actions involves spending time with Him. When asked in recent interview how does he ‘open up’ to God these days, Neale argued “I am reaching out to touch others with this information. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: "Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?"Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. The succeeding volumes in the trilogy also appeared prominently on the List. ![]() Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch, written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers.The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, appeared on bookshelves in 1995, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks.
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