Is It In You?
You can hear the Word, quote the Word, and agree with the Word. But the real question is: Is it in you? In this message, Pastor DaVon Alexander shows how biblical meditation moves God’s Word from your head to your heart. Discover what it means to continually think on, speak, and focus on Scripture until it transforms the way you think, believe, and live.
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Proverbs 4:20-23 NLT
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
Penetrate - to pierce into
Let the Word penetrate past your mind into your heart
Guard - Monitor what comes in and goes out
Everything in your life flows from what’s happening in your heart.
If it’s not working, it's because it's not in your heart.
Psalms 119:11 NKJV
Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
Psalms 119:11 MSG
I’ve banked your promises in the vault of my heart
Vault - a secure safe place; chamber; designed for safekeeping of valuables
Psalms 1:1-3
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
Meditation produces roots.
The result is you’ll be like a tree planted by rivers, fruitful, stable, and prosperous.
What is biblical meditation?
According to brain imaging research from Queen's University, the average person has about 6,200 thoughts per day.
Biblical Meditation: Fill your mind, Focus on God, Centers on His Word
Eastern Meditation: Empty your mind, focus on breathing, centers on self-awareness
To meditate on something means to ponder, consider, think deeply about, and roll it over in your mind again and again, to imagine, to focus (requires a target) your mind, to chew on.
Chewing creates hunger!
Meditation means to fill your mind with God’s Word until it shapes your thinking, speaking, believing, and living.
Meditate - to ponder by talking to yourself
Meditation is part of the creative ability which God has given you.
Words produce thoughts which influence your self-image.
One purpose of meditation is moving God’s Word from your head to your heart.
Meditation is one of the primary ways truth sinks deeply into the inner person.
Think of it like marinating meat. You don’t dip it for five seconds. You let it soak. Meditation allows God’s Word to soak into your spirit.
Meditation takes information and turns it into revelation
Biblical meditation is audible
The opposite of meditation is to ignore
Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe 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.
Notice the progression: Word in your mouth → Meditation → Obedience → Prosperity → Success
Notice the biblical pattern: Read it. Say it. Think about it. Say it again. Imagine it. Do it.
When you meditate on healing scriptures, you’re not just reading words. You begin to picture yourself healed and whole.
When you meditate on verses about provision, you begin to see yourself free from lack and abundantly supplied.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
If you want to change the way you feel, change what you are thinking about.
Words - Thoughts - Feelings - Action - Habit - Character - Destiny
I Corinthians 2:9 NKJV
But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”