How Belief Becomes Experience - Adding Declaration to Your Meditation - 6 - The Power of Remaining Words

Main Post of the Week #1 (week of April 6-12)

Welcome back. Incredible things happening, BTW, truly… but let’s get to it.

One of the greatest battles you and I face in our lives is keeping the Word at the center. It’s one thing to get it there for a week or a month - during a particular season of focus - but quite another to KEEP it there. Declaration is crucial to this effort.

Jn 15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you wish and it will be given to you. This is to my father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

We are not talking about simply a belief that the Bible is God’s Word and the ultimate authority. Yes that is good and correct; yet only a start. Nor are we speaking of general ideas or concepts in the Bible.

Honing In

Specifically what words from the Bible are central to your life right now - today. What words are remaining in you and have done so over a season or even over several seasons? That is the question.

The words that remain through trial, testing, discouragement, doubt and the like - that aren’t dislodged by situations or even simply by time; these are conduits of heavenly blessings into your life - these words that continue to live in you.

Breakthrough isn’t usually immediate but it can be sudden.

It’s one thing to start well; another to keep going. Few people, however seem to finish well. I know it’s a struggle for me sometimes.

What really stinks, though, is when people are right on the verge of breakthrough and they let it slip away. What they were believing for was literally right there, if they had only stayed the course.

Don’t Quit Too Soon

Remember the children of Israel wandering in the desert? Right as they were about to enter the promised land, after pressing on for 40 years, there were those among them who did not even recognize that finally their moment had arrived. Their breakthrough was right at hand- yet most missed it.

You Personal Pattern of Meditation & Declaration

The flow of time and life can rob us of breakthroughs. So can an ineffective pattern of meditation and declaration that doesn’t produce words that remain.

Don’t miss your breakthrough.

Don’t let the words drain. They must remain. They are precious.

If you want to experience the full benefits of meditating and declaring God’s word, plan on contending hard for the ongoing benefit of revelation. Instead of wandering all around the word, living like a mouse nibbling cheese, you must walk more strategically. Building; growing;believing; standing with intentionality over time.

If necessary, GO BACK to re-hook up to Scriptures and things God has shown you in other seasons that may have grown dim. Record them in such a way as you can KEEP them in from of you. (The miscellaneous page of a journal, for example, might not be the way to do this. Perhaps it is.)

The whole point is to meditate and declare the Word like it’s not just the Word for today or tomorrow, but a words intended to remain in your life. Whatever you must do to accomplish that: do it. If your current pattern isn’t leading you there; change it.

To the Advance of the Kingdom of Heaven Through Your Life,

Rick for Ti-MC

PS. We continue to pray regularly for you. Be blessed. Flourish. YOU are an innovative Marketplace Christian!